can anyone even get on maple after the sc..

sometimes i get a server check notice when i launch maple and sometimes when i try again, i can log on maple, get to my character select screen, but after that i cant even get my PIC screen up =.=. lags for 5 minutes then i get kicked off.

Just that after the long SC, summer time with people having more free time to play, Dual Blader hype, SP reset, etc. there are people flooding to connect to the servers right now. I know it took me quite a while to connect just once, but you can either keep trying or wait until later to connect when there is less people also trying to connect.

If afterwards and it is still the same, then start to panic and look for solutions.

I'm on perfectly fine. Just either wait or keep trying.