Change in voice behavior since recent patches?

[kdmorse]

(It's not just me, others have complained of the same thing)

Before the most recent round of patches, my startup routine was like this:

1) Start Station Launcher, login to launcher.  (Not Friends or Station Voice in any way)

2) Press Everquest II,  Press Launch

3) Select character in game, characted logs in

4) I am in voice

At this point, if I /camp othertoon, then during the camping process my station login holds, I can chat while camping, all is well.  Also, if the game client crashes (rare, but it does happen), I am left in voice so I can tell folks I've crashed out, am relaunching the client, etc...  At all times the toon name in voice is the first toon I logged in with (unless I change it).  And it's worked this way for nearly forever.

Now however, when performing the exact same steps, none of the above happens.   When doing a /camp othertoon, I drop out of voice when the first toon logs out, am out of voice for the camping, and return (under the new toon name).  And if I crash out of the client, I'm out of voice.   It's as if the station launcher login isn't holding me in voice like it used to.  Did something change (In the past 2-3 weeks?), and is there any way to get the old behavior back?

Several other guildies have complained about the same problem.  One logs in to station launcher voice before starting the game and can chat while the game is loading.  But is booted out on a /camp othertoon or crash.   And of course there's one who doesn't seem to be having the problem at all.

Any explenation for the change, or fix?

-Ken