The game servers will be coming down at 6am (pacific) tomorrow morning for a brief hotfix. Estimated downtime is approximately 1 hour and will include the following changes:
Victory Point System·Layout and info changes have been made to the Victory Point Scoreboard on the map screen.
• Alerts now require at least 30 pop on two factions in a zone to start.
• Alerts can now start on multiple continents at once.
• Increased Alert rate, Alerts should fire off 45-90 minutes after last alert ended.
• Linking both warpgates simultaneously no long caps the continent, but instead grants 3 victory points (in addition to the 2 victory points you get for linking the individual warpgates).
• Indar now only requires 8 victory points to lock.
Misc• Removed “External Fuel Tanks” from ESF skill tree since this items max rank is granted by default.
• Added AV Mana Turrets back to Engineers cert lines.
Source: Game Update Notes