So... my wife and I were playing merrily on our characters - like any other weekend since work enables us to only play together at this time... and boom... booted from servers because the "mega" servers just aren't very "mega".. then had to requeue to get back in - now can't get back online at all.
This homestead patch has been more trouble than it was worth... just like every patch so far - dropped a bunch of trash on my more trash and now we are overwhelmed with stinky 18 month old rubbish.