Why would I say something like this you might ask?
During downtime I get very creative thinking of things to do, activities, events, roleplay stuff.
Seems I am not the only one, lots of people get creative when they are not distracted by harvesting, planting, donating.
Also, I think many people will mostly check forums or their own home page or groups pages when the game is down.
So I say some regular downtime is good.
A few questions regarding maintenance.
1.) Will there be regular maintenance?
2.) What will be the time between maintenance? (a week, 2 weeks, month)
2.) Any idea how long a maintenance window will be?
3.) Which day do you prefer for maintenance? (May I suggest: Not on a day that competing games have maintenance, and preferably in the beginning of the week, tuesday?
And as I said, I think some regular downtime is good for the community, makes them more active on the forums and makes more players active on the forums (and groups, homepage, planning events etc..)