One hour wait and counting...

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For the past week I cannot seem to join any games after midnight. I am a night owl and do most of my gaming late at night. Am I the only one on at that time? Is there nobody in the U.S. within acceptable ping range that is online?

I queue up and just let my computer wait. After an hour I usually give up. I seem to be lucky to get in one game per night. I do occasionally connect, but it is more common to just sit in terminal queue. Anyone know if I am missing something? Or am I just out of luck?

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

If you've upgraded to the Beta, you'll have a smaller pool of players to play with which might have something to do with it. Also, might I suggest trying Custom Games as well? A lot of people like to set up their own matches as opposed to let the Match System, which is a work in progress, do the decision making.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Um, there are plenty of custom games after midnight.  Play that.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

True, as of this writing there are three custom games online. I was in the lobby with one other guy fo 1/2 an hour. then a third entered the lobby and I got disconnected. BTW, the other two games were password protected.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

You mean there are 3 non-full, unstarted custom games online.  The list doesn't show full games.

http://www.demigodthegame.com/opengames.aspx (and I've been told this isn't the full list either, just 1 of 8 NAT facilitators or something)

I see 5 open (including full) 0113 games there.  It is also 2:30AM right now on the west coast, 5:30AM on the east coast.

Now if you can't connect to anyone, the problem's probably your ports/firewall.

Also, most people simply aren't night owls, especially on weeknights where they have to go to work.