Well this makes no sense.
From: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/EA-Maintenance-Schedule/m-p/1527113
Wednesday 18th September to Thursday 19th September
There will be ongoing EA network maintenance starting at 10pm PDT/05:00 UTC until Thursday 19th September 3am PDT/10:00 UTC.
Between 1am PDT/08:00 UTC and 2am PDT/09:00 UTC on Thursday 19th September there may be some impact for players which includes:
- Being unable to log in to Origin
- Existing SimCity (and other EA titles) players may drop connection to EA, Origin and SimCity
I was actually playing last night between 10pm-2am PDT. No problems at all. So today when expected maintenance is over that's when I can't log in? Maybe they're just late >_>; I find this one weird cause I usualy get "Unable to connect to EA" or "Failed to connect to EA servers," something similar like that. I've never seen "Failed to login soldier" before O.o
Also, I'm using a copy that's not Steam or Origin (but I can launch with Origin, I just don't). I've looked around the "Popular" PC servers on Gametracker:
https://www.gametracker.com/server_info/216.157.84.134:19567/ - Says 5/32 for me right now.
https://www.gametracker.com/server_info/74.91.119.197:19567/ - Says 30/32 for me right now.
Looks like not everyone is affected.