Silly question: Why NA servers will go into a big maint if only europe will move?

[Alahra]

I'm pretty sure the initial announcement for the extended maintenance mentioned improvements to the World Transfer system, which require all of the servers to be offline. They're more than likely doing these at the same time for expediency's sake.

[Airget]

It's not even NA, it's ALL SERVERS. Most likely all servers are going down to implement the world transfer alterations they been working on since they pulled that service down, hence the 10hr maint.

Then of course for the EU servers they are going down longer cause the amount of data moving from point A to point B is more than just character data, it's the whole infrastructure of data, FC, housing, linkshells, friendlist, aka all the data on server is being moved to a new server. Whereas the 10hr maint is just a prep phase to have the newly altered World Transfer implementation ready for all servers.

[Limecat]

They might be turning on the Halloween event too, though I don't recall seeing any announcements about that yet.

[BreathlessTao]

Well, like others have said. Probably making sure that everything works well together after the change, as well as cleaning up things - y'know, general maintenance stuff. They probably figured they might as well do it - not a bad idea, considering the changes, either.

I do wonder what "improvements to the World Transfer system" implies though. Dunno how much of that can be improved from the technical side (it's essentially a Ctrl+X & Ctrl+V), soooo... let's hope they maybe increase that ridiculous gil cap?

[EdgeFayth]

EU servers (Chaos) have a 34 hours maintenance. It makes sense cause they move the servers.
Other data centers have a maintenance of 10 hours. I guess it is the opportunity to implement Hallowe'en event stuffs (and maybe a part of 3.1?). Kinda 3.08 yes.

[Nadirah]

Now if only they were moving the NA servers to the west coast like every other game worth a damn.

[Nadirah]

And no, its not a copy paste.

If its anything like WoWs recent...ish AU server move, they pulled the blades and moved them physically and will be transferring it that way.

[wicked-one]

Well, as NA/EU share a Infrastructure, guess for a clean migration, this is just needed.

Now if only they were moving the NA servers to the west coast like every other game worth a damn.

East Coasters would love you for that ^^

[Twilite]

I wouldn't.

[Pomelo]

It's also because we run on weekly lockouts of tomes, loot and so on. Having Maint for NA as well ensures that all servers are still equal in terms of all this stuff