I've said this before and I still beleive that Pantheon would be better if in the case of 3 vs 1 in queue the game would set up a 1 vs 1 and let the other two play against AIs. That ensures that if there are players on both sides the game is balanced. For a good player, 3 vs 1 means auto drop which frustrates everyone and delays everyone from getting into a game. Pantheon should never do 3 vs 1. 3 vs 0 is ok, so is 1 vs 1 but never 3 vs 1.

Thank you for responding, Froger.

I'd think just re-enabling skirmish would be easy, but the population is really low.  Remember, they dropped it in the first place to have the community less segmented and because it wasn't being utilized all that much. 

I don't think just removing pantheon is going to be a viable option... it pretty much would break the pantheon website (or at least no data would be populated, which would look unprofessional IMO on their main website).  And that would require a web developer to make some changes, etc.

If Frogboy says its too expensive, then the best we can do is make suggestions that might not be all that costly... but apparently everything we've suggested already is far too costly.  If we really don't have any options or have to get really minimalistic, I'd say just turn skimirsh back on.  People would still probably make nuisances of themselves, but those of us that want to use a viable auto-match system could.  But, again, Frogboy wanted to turn it off in the 1st place.  Not sure he'll want to turn it back on.

Anyway - thanks for chiming in here, Brad.  Much appreciated. 

or you could do what 95% of the demigod population did, wise up, realise all the lies, and play another game? i did long long ago and have had very few problems on my other games, yes, it's LoL and soon MW2 and dragon age ill get tomorrow, omg omg omg.

Its funny reading your OP Pacov, now whos left to defend SD and GPG?

when they asked to deactivate skirmish we had the chance to say: no! not skirmish! its pantheon that should be deactivated. i guess now its too late.

Always be someone, Ryan.  Pretty soon I'll start lobbying for single player content.  I really wish demigod wasn't fun when things work right. 

Ah, it seems that DG has pretty much been abandoned by developers/SD/GPG-whoever, ANY suggestion will be too costly I bet, so far we've seen all suggestions pretty much ingnored anyway.

The game is actually far from dead and I'm pretty confident will generate revenue for quite some time.  Take for instance this post from 2 days ago (nov 4)  from SD_rosco P http://forums.demigodthegame.com/368048/page/1/#replies:

So, its not like there's no money to be made with the game as is.  The business decision is how much money do I put into this game outside of scheduled versions (1.1, 1.2, 1.3).  I don't mean this next statement as a shot at SD, but its fairly evident that other projects have a much higher priority than improving demigod.  Its reasonable to assume that, while the game will continue to receive updates over time, they won't come quickly.  They will eventually be made (at least through 1.3).  The painful part to me is that Demigod could have been a AAA game in my opinion.  It could have been a game that I'd still be playing in 2 years.  But the features that have been added have slowly been removing my ability to play the game and bugs aren't getting weeded out at a rapid pace.  So, I'm glad this game has been a commercial success or at least it sounds like it has been.  I'm glad to see SD adapting and offering the new Dg's as DLC (these 2 are free, btw) which could open up potential revenue for DG if they want to go that route.  Anyway - I really hope we see some changes for the better whenever 1.2 goes live. 

There's no need to show who one is going to play against in pantheon. This would reduce early quitting.
One of the biggest problems I have is that it takes forever to get a game sometimes. Often I get set up with 1-2 aussie players, which as you might or might not know have around 350-400ms pings to EU players. This was like a 3v3 game. The system could have made a 1v1 and a 2v2 here, which would have worked better in this case.

Some of the decisions made in the past with respect to Pantheon and skirmish suggest the devs had their heads in the sand.

One feature isn't very popular so let's remove another feature? People quit Pantheon early because they don't want to play certain people?

Why not address the real, GLARINGLY obvious issues, like AI in Pantheon games or uneven teams? Thats why people quit early.

We might as well face it, the horse bolted a long time ago - custom game is the only way to play Demigod anymore.

Nope Horse is still here and playing