Quote Originally Posted by Ayerinn View Post
Hard to say how they decided to calculate it, exactly - there were multiple reports of people getting 3 day notices that stated 11 AM PST - and the actual demolitions took place 1-3 hours after that depending on server...so I would say it was close to what the 3 day warning stated + maintenance.
It's not hard to decide how they calculated it at all. The word used to describe it is, very simply, "wrong".

According to their own email: "Days related to maintenance, server outages, or other times when the server is not operational (“Maintenance Events”) do not count towards the total inactivity time period. As a result, the actual removal date may be subject to delay due to such Maintenance Events. (The demolition will never occur before the aforementioned demolition date.)".

Using the above description there had been just shy of 27 hours of server downtime on Balmung since the server came online with patch 3.1. That should have pushed the demolition timer into the morning hours of December 26th in North America. The demolitions were, according to the caveat in SE's email, premature. If you can think of a way where 27 hours of recorded downtime magically turns into 14 hours, I'm all ears.