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failed to authenticate - 15 minute locked out of game - happened to me last night again, when simply trying to log out and re-log in. Extremely annoying, gave up playing for the night.

I'm sure it would only take 2-3 lines of code to fix this silly problem.

PSEUDOCODE:

If player.status == Game.Status.LoggingIn && Game.Status.CharacterSelectScreen == true
Then ...

The problem is that the game gets out of sync with Funcoms server after a character is selected on the character select screen. If your internet connection becomes unstable or if your game crashes...

They most likely forgot to simulate a lossy network environment in their QA tests. Using software that throttles their connection to the servers and simulates packet loss would allow them to...

if your problem is the box popping up while changing toons, and NOT the 15 minute bug where you can't log into your account for 15 minutes, then there is a temporary fix/workaround here.
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