Character cannot zone in (Virtue)

Character: Col. Gregor Aktaybr
Shard: Virtue

After the announcement of the Hamidon Seedling invasion on Virtue this afternoon, I attempted to go to Talos Island. Talos Island was full, but Talos Island 2 was not, so I selected Talos Island 2.

The screen went black then went to the Statesman/Warworks loading screen and would not load. After 5 minutes, the game closed out to the login screen saying "No mapserver connection. Please try again."

Now I cannot load that character at all. He shows on the character select screen as being in Talos Island, but if I attempt to load him, it just locks at the character list until it times out with the same error message.

I have completely closed out the client and tried again, but that did not work. It is as if the character went to Talos Island 2 and then that map got shut down because Talos Island 1 was no longer full, but he didn't get moved to the other version of Talos.

Edit: This has happened on a couple occasions with world maps, specifically Atlas Park and Steel Canyon, but never for this long. Also, since i21, I have had this issue come up with door missions on a nearly daily basis, where attempting to load into a door mission hangs at the load screen until I have to force crash the client. It then takes several reload attempts to be able to get into the mission itself.

Log in on another character and file a /petition about the Stuck character. Give the character name, server name, and even the zone name might help. They'll move the character to a different zone. You could even skip the /petition and file the report from the Support page.

Please note that CoH Support now has it's own page at https://support.cityofheroes.com/