Engine failed

So I start a long a long flight this morning, Singapore - Zurich (WSSS-LSZH). A flight I have personally taken in a 777-300ER and have been waiting a long time to replicate (200LR would have to do for now), even down to careful planning in PFPX to the exact minute.

I was happily cruising around 9:30hrs into the flight, I come and go as I am not sitting at my PC for almost 13 hours, and I cancel a pilot response EICAS message. Start checking my time and fuel schedule to see how well the flight is doing (was 6 minutes early) and I get a Warning alarm and EICAS message ENG L fail.. This was a shock as I didn't have it programmed and don't even have a random failure interval set at all. At the first moment it was almost disbelief, could it be I got a engine failure due to service based failures!? This couldn't be, no way! It is..

I did a quick check over everything and followed the mighty handy ECL and quickly prepared a drift down descent to a lower level, attempted a [futile] restart attempt before diverting to URSS (Sochi, Russia) which was only a tad over 100NM away. The aircraft trimmed out the asymmetrical thrust beautifully and made the approach and landing comfortable.

I just had to make a thread about it because I never expected anything this interesting from service based failures, in all the time I used it in the NGX I got nothing but small niggling problems which I expected nothing but the same in the 777 even though I did speed it's rate up 10 times...

One curiosity I do have, does service based failure remember how the aircraft has been treated? Not long ago I did extensive "performance" testing to this very air frame which included some... EEC ALTN modes and very heavy strain and limit exceedences on the engines, I just wonder if this might have played a part?