Thank you for this! I am going to try it as soon as I can after work. This does seem a little troubling though, it certainly isn't widespread, otherwise the forums would be exploding (even if antiquity wasn't very popular) but why some people have this.. are our accounts perhaps permanently flagged or something? Could it be because of addons such as TTC or ATT? These are the ones (maybe) that tend to spam to get info all the time. No matter, it doesn't seem to be our fault, so, please @ZOS_Kevin please give us some info about this.. we are in the dark.I'm not alone!
I've had this problem for a while now. I would consistently get the 318 server boot. Every. Single. Time.
No, it's not related to addons, as I too have been able to reliably reproduce the problem even with all addons uninstalled.
However, fear not, there is a workaround for this, @Shagreth !
After you interact with the dirt pile and the screen shifts into excavation mode, take your hands off your keyboard and mouse and do nothing. Wait about 15 seconds. And then proceed.
I haven't been disconnected since I started doing that (though I will occasionally forget to wait, in which case I will be greeted by a disconnect in short order).
So it would seem that the problem is that starting to immediately work on the excavation causes the server to erroneously flag your activity. Waiting a short period of time after entering the excavation screen and before doing anything will reliably avoid this disconnect.