Thank you CN.
I sure didnt imagine the crash this afternoon and the shard has been running rough, for whatever reason. It sure could have been worse!
I was doing a long series of plant work when the crash happened. Taking seeds and resources... taking plants out, putting new seeds in and so on. I had to do a big section all over again! hehe. Thankfully, I was only crafting when the lag got annoying enough, so I took a break and did some actual work. For me, the shard was running rough until evening. I dont really understand the tech aspect of this game at all... however, sometimes I go on Izumo when the shard just comes up after the nightly reboot work... and its running really laggy. You would figure far less people would be on... if you saw people, so it wouldnt be as bad as the evening, Japan time. Same way we see most traffic about 7pm EST on Atlantic. (Same goes for whatever US shard on whatever time zone.) Its normally never running bad when the most people are on. Afternoon is really mellow, population wise, Atlantic. Could have been a local net issue! No clue. All I know is that we have amazingly dependable connection "normally", these days vs. days of old. I just cant remember the last time we had 2 shard crashes so soon together. Good thing, I guess. Just annoying. I hope they work it out ASAP.