This happened a lot last valentines. It's not a big update but the servers can never handle it. Maybe because it's so easy to visit friends and collect hearts more people are playing all the time? Plus the constant checking and clearing valentines cards from your own town?
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Seems to be happening most evenings (gmt) at the moment, oh we'll there's always tomorrow!
It's 5:30 in the Easter Time (ET) Zone of the US and the ET is the most populated time zone in the US. The Central Time Zone is the second largest time zone in the US and it's 1 hour behind the ET time zone. Most people are getting off work and makes sense it would be peak hours for game play, hence server overload.
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EA should pay their electric bill maybe....or perhaps even hire a techie or two?
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It's 5:30 in the Easter Time (ET) Zone of the US and the ET is the most populated time zone in the US. The Central Time Zone is the second largest time zone in the US and it's 1 hour behind the ET time zone. Most people are getting off work and makes sense it would be peak hours for game play, hence server overload.