Some maintenance notes from the EQ2 Forums and SOE Operations Team…
The US servers will come down on November 16, 2010, at 6:30 am PDT (3:30pm GMT) for a hotfix. The expected downtime is 1 1/2 hours.
There are no update notes for this hotfix.
This is a notification that UK worlds will be updated at 5:00 AM London Time on 11/17/2010. The estimated downtime will be 2 hours.
Crushbone, Befallen, Permafrost:
On Tuesday, November 16, 2010, the following servers will be coming down at 5:00 AM PST for network maintenance: Befallen, Permafrost, Crushbone.
The servers are expected to be down for about 3 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience and will have the servers back online as quickly as possible.
and we’re keeping our eyes peeled for news of Server Mergers.
Regarding Server Merges, Rothgar posted on the Off Forum:
“We’re doing another QA pass on the merge process tonight, after making some additional changes to the procedure. If all goes well, we would most likely start the first merge early Thursday morning.”
Source: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=440&topic_id=488984�