Data Center Redistribution for Crystal (Two Weeks without being able to log in?)

[Anger]

No, the servers will likely be down for a day or two at most while they do maintenance and switch around cables. The two weeks mentioned is the period during which players may redistribute themselves through the free transfers.

It was a quite different situation when they moved the Chaos servers from NA to Europe. In that case they either had to move the physical servers across the Atlantic, or (more likely) copy all the data over a cross-atlanic link. Either of those take time.
For the upcoming data center split all servers will remain in the same room they are in. Only things that will need to change is how cables are connected between switches and routers, and some configuration settings. If it has all been properly prepared it shouldn't take more than a few hours to set things up.

I think it will be longer than a day especially given the wording.

[Kazrah]

I think it will be longer than a day especially given the wording.

Primary maintenance will likely take 24 consecutive hours tops since it's predominantly in-house shuffling in the server room, and then maybe some intermittent emergency maintenance periods for whenever one of the hamster wheels malfunction.

Also have to bear in mind that this is something happening for all three datacenter groups, not just NA, meaning that it'd be less likely for them to do excessive nonstop downtime.