No problems last night, but tonight I can't get past the "Entering Universe..." message. Music plays, and I can click "Cancel" to get back to the login screen, but I can't actually get into the game. Any suggestions?

No, but it seems some other people have problems accessing not only the game but the website as well.

This can happen when the server is down as well.
Just one bit of information.

I'm having the same issue. I died, got a black screen where the only thing I could see or use was the chat window. I finally managed to disconnect from the game. Now when I try to log in I get stuck at the 'Entering Universe' screen.

I'm getting this now. Stuck on "Entering Universe..." forever. I hear ships passing by, I hear music. But nothing visual :(

And other people are logged in...

I thought the server was going to be down only 5 minutes after the update? :S

I can get past "Entering Universe", however I get stuck at Entering Station"...

Yeah, we're working on the problems. Some of the new distributed back-end code isn't working correctly.

Still workin on this? I can't get in either. I'm running this on a G4 Powerbook with OS X 10.3.9, does that matter?

still working on it. I'll post here when it is working.

i think stuff is working now.