@Joe: Something probably just crashed or fried - I'm guessing they're getting a lot of traffic; maybe they just have to reboot the servers. It probably doesn't mean the test is over, since I can't even access the skills page =(
the test was planned to end just a few minutes later and would have been done by now anyway .. but who knows, maybe they'll want to try turning it on and then back off again.
you know, to figure out how to "properly" shut down the new storage servers or whatever is causing the problem.
Ugh, I had my skills perfectly set up-one was going to finish right before the game timed out, and then I could train a long one. Plus, there was going to be a party in the subway of gfj.
I would like to get a special shout out to the devs for keeping the servers up for an extra 30 minutes (or thereabouts) after the crash that preceded the closing of this alpha test. That enabled some of the more fanatic of us :-) to switch which skill we were learning over the break, and hightail it to our houses.
Ha, I'm so glad I sneaked in for 10 mins to take a look at the subway system! Unfortunately that's as long as I could stay. But! Big test coming... soon? Yay!