Even if you can't get up that early to make a character, try as soon as you can. They're likely to be locked during primetime hours (when everyone is getting home from work/school), but early in the morning and late in the evening, traffic should reduced. As another poster said, they lock if there's too many people playing at the time of log in. If you log on during off-peak hours, you should be able to get in. Make your character in the benchmark/character creator, and you can just pop your character on the server before you head off to work in the morning, and you'll be free to play when you get back during primetime.
I'm a tinker! Tinkerer? Hrm.... I'm an artificer! - Myxie Tryxle | Impressions and Memories
