Late yesterday,I read a forum message that suggested that there had been a maintenance shutdown, if so this might explain why I couldn't log back in after logging out to switch kingdoms.

When, much later on, I eventually reconnected to the game, which took ages to complete,I found no shut down  gift.

Did either of these events occur, or was it another reason I couldn't log back into the game?

Edit.

Seems I can't get in again, at least this time I got as far as a enough to see the maintenance notification