"Your guild card is already online"

[sCI]

I was finishing a quest and when returning to Altimura it froze at the ship select screen before any popup window came up.

To keep from losing my stuff/exp, I simply unplugged the Pi, a window notifying me of disconnect came up, I pressed enter and it saved my game.

When I tried logging on again, it gives me a notice that my guild card is already online and won't let me on. Did it for another character too.

What happened and what do I do about it?

[Aleron Ives]

You have to wait two minutes for the server to disconnect your ghost before you can connect again. Resetting doesn't transmit the quit game packet, so the server thinks you're still online until it can't contact you for two minutes, at which point it assumes you're gone and removes you from the active player list.

[sCI]

Ok, thank you, guess I could try patience next time. :/

[Sega1Dream]

Some good info though. Will have to remember that if something similar happens to me.