"round paused so people can play their hearts since the site was down etc etc we go thru this every round at least once now"
do you ever think when you type???? the round lasts 10 days max, the worst that can happen if you veg hearts is you miss out on a 10 day run that you can start over. not only that - hearts can be played on the next day (5 + 5). If the player didnt play his hearts for full 24 hours, chances are he does not care about the current run. this is the dumbest reason to pause the round, it pisses off 95% of the players while you try to please the 5%. demod the idiots who keep pausing rounds for this stupid reason.
suspiciously the people who complain about round being paused are the same people who are not at all playing mafia games or trying to play 5 hearts a day. wonder what's up with THAT lol.
why do people care. like it's genuinely not that big of a deal and i hate to always bust out the "this is a website people choose to use for entertainment so it doesn't matter" argument but like. it doesn't matter. it's 24 hours of your life you can spend doing anything else, if i'm not mistaken. don't quote me on any of this but i hear there's more to life than javamafia
also, it might only affect 5% (it probably doesnt even affect that much), but it doesn't mean that the remaining % are going to be distraught over the round being paused
bottom line basically is users lost time to play hearts so the round is paused to help alleviate that
the current system lets a user play 5 hearts a day in a competitive round; the site being down for a significant duration sounds like a good reason to pause the round so that users aren't "forced" to have to play more
