Umm I would have to agree, if this was not 12 years and how many expansions. You would think they might know what they are doing by now.
Bugs and loss of service are inevitable.
Usually they don't strike this hard, but we got really unlucky.
The fact they're running an emergency fix on all shards says to me that they've been working their arses off trying to work on a general fix for this.
I agree, though. It does suck.
I had stuff I wanted to be doing this evening, player events and bits, but obviously that wasn't going to happen.
Although, I do recognise that this affecting Europa indtead of any other shard was something like a 1-in-25 chance. with the remaining 24-in-25 chances, I'd be training imbuing, probably only vaguely aware that another shard was having downtime.