Eiko-chan

Servers are not officially back up. Mapservers are still down.

It means the bulk of the PvP players have decided as a group to play on that server instead of others. It's not official because there are no server changes or policies from the admins to support it - it is just a community decision, so that PvPers can find each other easier.

There was a problem discovered with the mapservers while doing the update. They are working on resolving the issue; servers are still down. The Discord will have updates when they're up. I understand that AE runs on a separate Mapserver from the rest of the game. So all AE is piled together on a single server, while the rest of the game has the content spread out over several mapservers. This is a technological limitation and they HAVE to disincentivise it until demand lowers. These people are running these servers for free at great personal cost to themselves. Try to be less of a dick about the free stuff they're giving you. You are not a paying customer.

The bonuses are additive, not multiplicative. +100% + 50% = +150%, for a total of 250%.

While there are no server transfers, I just wanted to post to let people know, to ease the pain of transferring to another server, that you CAN send items (inf, salvage, merits, enhancements, recipes) between servers. It is, unfortunately, limited to one item at a time (yes, that means mailing 50 reward merits requires 50 emails), but it's possible. Just use the Email tab above the chat box, and send the email to your global handle (including the @). If you just turn everything to inf, you can send that all in one big chunk if you want. You can find your global handle by going to the Menu and picking the option that is "Chat Handle". You're still starting at level 1, but at least you don't have to start at 0.