If in the past several months you have experienced the issue of having to wait on a black screen on launch to log in or even see anything on the client, you aren't alone.

When the servers went funky last year, one of the things that didn't come back was the open and running time server on worlds.net. Worlds uses the time server to sync up it's time to the client, and it waits on the main thread until a response is obtained to move on. You heard that right, your black screen troubles have been caused by a loss of time. How long can you keep patient if time doesn't exist?

Luckily, it's a simple fix: just swap out the time server for a new one. This will require editing a file in your Worlds installation, so make sure you have the permissions set and follow these steps:

1. Make sure any instance of Worlds is not running.
2. Locate your Worlds installation folder. You can get to it by opening the file location of a shortcut.
3. Edit override.ini.
4. Locate the section [Runtime].
5. Create a new value under it with the name 'timeServer' and the value 'time.nist.gov' (or any other public timeserver domain/IP). Your configuration should look something like this:
6. Save and launch Worlds and experience no more long black abyss of timelessness.

This should fix your wait as long as the US governments time servers (or whatever server you used) continue working. Enjoy!