And they had it scheduled way before whatever is going on today. Clearly they didn't change their scheduled maintenance for it, so...
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It's not just a UK holiday, also many players from many different countries play on NA (it's not just for NA people), don't use the EU servers are up card.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday
When would be a good choice, really? There's always someone, a group of specific friends, blablabla that gets affected. At least it wasn't on the weekend. Plus the maint was warned months ago.
Down for maint?
Guess I'll continue playing Starbound for a bit longer and continue to build my planet-city.