The perennial question: “what changed”? We don’t know because Funcom doesn’t do a great job communicating what it’s up to. Client server apps can be altered in a lot of ways that don’t depend on a live patch or even a server restart, so things can (and probably often do) change right under our noses and we won’t ever know why.

But clearly one can see that falling through the floor is a problem that is happening more frequently and more broadly than at any time since I’ve started playing. I’m on a popular official server with a lot of ingame chat and it’s been obvious to everyone on the server that something has changed recently and no one knows what or why. But we can see it.

I hope the devs are on it. Someone on my server said he read that the devs have a fix but it would “destroy a lot of bases”. Well, that’s not a fix. But the good news is that if they have a fix (and thus know what is causing the problem), I’m betting they will also eventually come to know how to truly fix it without the destruction. So I remain hopeful.