US EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 7:00AM PDT* for an update. Estimated downtime is approximately one hour. EU EverQuest II Live Servers will be brought offline on Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 9:00PM PDT* for an update. (Approx. 5:00AM London Time on August 14, 2015). Estimated downtime is one hour. Alle deutschsprachigen Server werden um 6:00 CET am 14.08.2015 zwecks einer Serveraktualisierung heruntergefahren. Die vorgesehene Stillstandszeit wird etwa 1 Stunde(n) betragen. Le serveur de langue française sera arrêté à 6:00 CET le 14-08-2015 pour une mise à jour du serveur. Le temps d'arrêt sera d'environ 1 heure. *Time Zone Converter Update notes for this downtime can be found in the Game Update Notes forum once they're available. Keep an eye on the EverQuest II forums for news if additional downtime is needed.
Traduction française des notes de mise à jour disponible sur http://www.guerrier-celeste.fr/notes-mise-a-jour/2015/notes-du-13-aout-2015.html
Today's patch gives me the friendly message in the chat window: requires Time-Locked Servers requires Time-Locked Servers requires Time-Locked Servers requires Time-Locked Servers requires Time-Locked Servers requires Time-Locked Servers requires Time-Locked Servers requires Time-Locked Servers Yes, that many times, on Butcherblock, whenever I got the Token rewards from the Tradeskill Daily & Weekly quests in Tranquil Sea and Phantom Sea on 3 toons from same account.
You can turn off the TLE spam by turning off "status" messages in your options (you'll miss some warnings about things through). What's really curious is that there was no mention that there'e some kind of big month long world event that's started. Don't know what it's called, I only heard about it in general chat. Edit: Sure hope this time it isn't a secret, I don't want a reputation for spoiling things anymore than I already have.