So apparently, Ultima Online’s Europa shard had some issues during its last maintenance cycle:

The problem that caused Europa not to return after their normal maintenance is currently resolved. We appreciate your patience during this down time.

Well, as it happens, the issue turned out to be…not as resolved as Broadsword Online Games had thought:

We wanted to keep all the player up to date with the issues we are having on Europa. We have found another hardware storage issue that we are working with Amazon to resolve. The backup process is taking longer than intended which is resulting in loss time after server maintenance. We will keep you informed of our progress with this issue.

Although it would also seem that they have identified the issue:

Europa will have an extended maintenance Tuesday March 24th and will be down from 11pm to 2am EST to resolve the hardware issue.

So for all you European Ultima Online players…hopefully they’ll have the issue fixed tomorrow evening.