To all players affected, looks like all the servers crashed, Justin will already be on the case, he gets alerted by pager/sms message when they crash so dont panic, they will be back online soon.
A network issue :-D I feel bad for whoever is getting verbally abused for what will probably be random hardware failure.
I blame zombie llamas for running over our servers slowly taking it down, running it to a dry useless pulp. I beleive we need juice!
Only for those players who were lucky enough to not be online when they crashed, we just get a 'one server at a time' message
That is how we roll in the Empire, 24x7 MEANS 24x7 I actually wasn't in bed this time, working on the next set of updates for chat, and before everyone asks: http://empireminecraft.com/threads/proposal-chat-changes.1601/