Zone Unreachable

[ChaiHal]

A friend and I ran into a strange issue yesterday. We decided to run around Blightfire Moors, a zone we'd never done before. Whilst I could zone in, he couldn't with the EQ Client (ROF2) giving the message

You are not experienced enough to pass through an inter-planar portal

We are both using the same client, as he has a copy of my EQ folder. The only difference I could see is that my account has status 250, whilst his is 0. Changing his account to 250 allowed him access.

Now, whilst this is a workaround, I'd like to at least try to understand why and fix it for this zone and any others which may have the same issue.

The zone log states

[12-15-2025 21:41:31] [Zone] [Info] Character [Chunky] does not meet minimum status requirement ([0] < [80])!
[12-15-2025 21:41:31] [Zone] [Info] Kicking character [Chunky] from zone, not allowed here (missing requirements)
[12-15-2025 21:41:31] [Zone] [Info] Routed player to public static instance [6] of zone [poknowledge] (202) version [0] long_name [The Plane of Knowledge] notes [Plane of Knowledge Unused]
[12-15-2025 21:41:31] [Zone] [Info] Client [Chunky] zone_id [202] instance_id [6] x [0] y [0] z [0] heading [0] ignorerestrictions [1] zone_mode [6]
[12-15-2025 21:41:32] [Zone] [Info] Routed player to public static instance [6] of zone [poknowledge] (202) version [0] long_name [The Plane of Knowledge] notes [Plane of Knowledge Unused]
[12-15-2025 21:41:32] [Zone] [Info] Reset to [1 Hour] from original remaining time [59 Minutes and 23 Seconds] duration [1 Hour] zone [PID (9289) Blightfire Moors (395)]
[12-15-2025 21:41:32] [Zone] [Info] Save for [Chunky] took [0.013430276]
[12-15-2025 21:41:32] [Zone] [Info] Save for [Chunky] took [0.069274329]
[12-15-2025 21:41:32] [Zone] [Info] Zone will go into an idle state after [60] seconds.