I agree that it sucks when maint times always fall when you have the time to play, especially when it's so many of them. It would be nice if they could rotate some of the "emergency" maint times so it's not always screwing the same people over. Mind, I'm currently sitting in EST, so maint times are not at all in my way.. (1am - 4am).

I'm personally a fan of consistent weekly maint (when they have to do weekly maint).. so I know what time it's going to be and therefore don't plan time to play around that. Not that I actually plan time to play.. I'm a no-lifer and play whenever I can XD. I would hope they look at when the least amount of people are active in game, as well as the schedule they can adhere to (when their people actually are at work), and schedule accordingly for the planned stuff.