I initially stated out playing a character I started last beta on the NA server as the EU copy was taking far too long to down load. Then after I found a work around for this and was eventually able to log on to the EU server I found that the character I had played on the NA server was a level below and had lost all progress. But switching back to NA that char was the same. It seems that characters are separate copies on each server and progress on one does not get updated on the other.

So my question is this - is this just an issue with how the servers are set up for beta or is this how its going to work on the live version?

Thanks

As far as I know the NA and EU megaservers are totally seperate entities. The only reason you have the same characters on both are because they were copied across from the NA server when the EU server went live, this was purely to allow beta testers to continue development and testing from where they were.

This is pretty standar MMO stuff, different server = different characters etc.