Hey rcmaehl, I started playing on this server a year ago (not consistently but that's when I started) and one of the only complains I have is that there's not much communication from the staff when there's downtime. When the server randomly goes down, as it has now, it would be awesome if you could just put up a quick forum post explaining that there will be some downtime, and it will probably be up again in some estimated amount of time. That way normal players like me don't have to check when it's not going to be up for a while, cause that gets frustrating quickly. Just a suggestion, but it would really help.
Also, the farewell link works fine for me.