Originally Posted by
Scaevacas
I'm guessing your chat tabs look something like
GUILD / GROUP / RAID / TELL / GLOBAL
and that you're very active in all those chats.
The same is for my guard, I have all those tabs and am active in all, so the "chat history" that gets stored in the XML file grows really quick (and too big for funcom to save, hence the error).
Yes it has returned for me too (failed to connect to character server + settings not saving again), but at least I can apply my own fix quickly now when I want things saved, just as you have found out. It sure beats deleting all the chat tabs, and the problem doesn't come back as quickly on toons that I'm not as chatty on.
It's not a permanent fix, just a much cleaner work-around than before :(
Whenever I apply the fix, I don't get the "failed to connect to character server" until I'm very active in chat in all chat tabs again. Are you seeing the same?