Beta access, user content submission and forum posting are being affected by a outage over at SOE. Troy 'Aether' Hewitt apologizes on behalf of Flying Lab for the inconvenience in this latest posting on the official POTBS site.

SOE has reported a major network outage that impacts our integrated authentication systems. While technicians are actively working to remedy the situation, our fans may experience challenges submitting User Content, posting to the Pirates of the Burning Sea forums, as well as difficulties logging into beta.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Aether apologizes here.