Wonderful insight into the issue at hand!

I didn't think of it as splitting the world apart into so many piece and separating them permanently, but then again, I know about as much about intercontinental server communication as I do about... Well... Intercontinental server communication.

The primary reason I thought this up (like a lot of people who are spamming the forums going "wen i get XI bak?") is because I'm earnestly surprised they -didn't- have some manner of back up ready.

Secondarily because we may all be hopeful of the situation in japan, but you don't rebuild a nuclear plant in less than a week, much less two at a time. Likely we're in for the long haul on this one.

But going back to the servers, logically, how many server would it take to set up in order to restore services? I understand they have probably four mainframes for the core of the system and an additional server for roughly 4 regions of the game a piece. Maybe it wouldn't even be far fetched that someone who enjoys the game would donate a temporary super server for their uses. You never know until you poke around, right?