I think the only way it will ever get the treatment it deserves is from a sequal. Hopefully Chris Taylor will do it after Kings & Castles. The bottom line is the multiplayer connection system is flawed and I don't think this can be fixed by a patch. It would be great to see the uber fix mod incorperated in to the game as this, i've heard fixes a lot of the issues (still get priests stuck in citadel) grrrrr. GPG wouldn't even need to do any work for this mod as it's already up and running, just bolt it on as a patch. A portion of the people playing the game also only play on Vent and I can understand this but it reduces the pool of players in the bog standard lobby even further. I would play on vent but i'm just not in to the voice communication thing.

Hope Elemental is going a bit smoother for you Brad. I bought it anyway!

Thankyou Awuflle thats what I needed. Has anyone tried the AI improvement mod for Demigods?

GPG should give the sourcecode to Stardock. GPG abandoned the game a long time ago. Maybe you Stardock guys would find some time between the Elemental (I like E:WoM very much) patches and addons to give demigod some love.

Yup - AI Skirmish mod.  Its certainly much better than the vanilla AI.  Give it a go if you haven't tried it yet. 

I'll be jumping on again to see if I can get in soem newb games. 
Haven't played in awhile and I was never quite up to the clan level...  but the game is still a blast.

The big problem is that you need to have some time to devote to getting a game going.  I know this is just what it is but when I wanto to get on and play a game I don't always have the patience to sit through the lobby and wait.

I want to give it a go again though.  Hopefully Tobear and company, and sahd (among others) will be on looking for games as well

Check out here if you haven't yet, Mauxe - http://forums.impulsedriven.com/396231/page/23

if someone wanna try new habilities come here without play is a simulator

http://www.demigoddb.com/#2:1::::news-1

is nice and we learn alot to new peoples and old peoples to:or better player´s ehehehe

http://www.pctunerup.com/up/image.php?src=_201010/20101015004629_Demigod2010-10-1500-39-56-11.jpg

Not many people play in pantheon. At least I think so (I played it only once to test... and didn't like it)

Custom games are much much better and you can create your own rules, form teams, etc. Instead of killing some random new player with closed eyes in pantheon.

pantheon has been abandoned entirely except for the stray people who walk it's deserted streets by accident, wondering wtf could have happened to so utterly and completely destroy the thriving .. barely surviving town that pantheon used to be in the good ole days.

Yeah - pantheon is quite done - but for some good reasons. 

Pros of pantheon

• Its a tournament of sorts that allows players to pick 1 side and try to get the most points for your team
• There's a dedicated web page for tracking the stats.  Its a nice way to show some recognition to players that are getting alot of wins for their side
• You are stuck with whatever characters are on light or dark for the duration of the epoch (tournament) - this could be a con, i suppose
• Its possible for Stardock to tweak the allowable demigods by side (so they could balance things out as they saw fit)

Cons of pantheon

• It balances teams based on the side they are on (light or dark).  This tended to lead to some big mismatches where you'd have a newer team on one side and a very experienced team on another side.  In short, there was no real balancing that would ensure a decent game.
• the system allowed for people to ruin the games for others very easily.  There's a little dialog box showing who is connecting to the game.  If people saw folks they didn't want to play with or against, they'd just drop.  This would often leave the game in limbo or result in the player on the team that had someone drop quitting immediately once the game finished loading - which wasted everyone's time.
• At one point, the pantheon had AI in it. 

1. The AI would grant experience for the ladder - so people could just whoop up on the AI to move up the ladder quickly
2. The AI isn't exactly good.  If you ended up in a match vs 2 human opponents and you were paired with an AI, you very likely lost

And I've just gone a rant... sorry bout that. 

Anyway, I think Stardock's sale and the tournament is bringing in some new folks to the game.