i havent played as much demigod as i usually do, simply because im lazy to use impulse (takes too long to open and honestly i dont like to have impulse opened consuming pc resources), im pretty sure that there are a lot of ppl like me also.

good for u, now... how about a response from stardock?

I just think it deserves a response one way or the other.

it's like kicking a dead hobo in the sack

Cleese was in Sydney for the first time last weekend but I didn't realise. Dammit....

I'm a bit surprised here... anyway, I've opened a ticket with SD support (and received the confirmation ticket #), gave kryo a shout in IRC, and pm'd frogboy.  Perhaps their really busy, but they haven't bother to respond in any of those routes (which is strange to me anyway).  I can probably pester someone a wee bit in irc soon until we get an answer... silence is an answer as well

Maybe implementing more informations at the impulse side (there is space for more bars, so all the informations at the original side could be shown there) could be an solution?

Or just install the old side again? Can't be that server load, I think.

I smell something bad is going to happen to the community then... I personally am not playing it for past days only, because I cannot see if any games are open and when they were started. Using impulse is a partial solution, however. Before that, I never used Impulse. Nor any other lots of resources consuming program (my computer is quite weak), when playing demigod. Browser with one very simple link was enough. but now... Impulse takes few minutes to start (just because of that I don't even want to check if anyone is online). Impulse has lots of things, which I completely don't need, when I want only to check open games. And it causes additional (not so much, but enough to feel) lags for me while playing. Yeah, I can close it, but after game I won't see open games again, so I'd have to wait few minutes again, and again and again. In other words - better not to even start bothering with all this...

I'm not sure if I'll continue playing this game... or at least not here... (really took lots of effort to push me out of this...) 

And this post is not negative. It's just how I feel about this change and how it impacts me.

It's one of the best games for me at the moment. But I agree that it is very disappointing to see that stardock does no more support.

There are still new players (maybe just downloaded the demo?) who get disappointed easily by realizing that, for stardock, the game seems to be dead.

Why no turorial at all? A friend of mine told me he downloaded the demo but didn't played it seriously because he was not in the mood to discover all the things in the game for himself. So, why thinking of really buying the game when the demo don't wake up curiousity for more?

Another thing is that new players don't get a warm welcome... Ok, but that is our faul, not Stardocks.

But still seeing that the game is more and more abandoned by its publisher is the last kick somebody wants to get. There are many other games to play, why bother here with all the bugs? Host leaves game and *boom* you've lost the game... That is real crap.

Still, I've never seen before members of a community done so much for a game. I mean a mod that fixes bugs? What the hell... Would be Stardocks job!But that is really a point why I will stay with this game because of all the people who have done cool stuff for the game and are still doing.

Stardock should from time to time think about their image. When I worked in hospital we were told that one person who felt treated badly will influence 80 other. So, with this experience somebody might think twice to get a game from Stardock again.

And still, they're selling it... So it fells is some kind of ripoff to me. A "dead" game should be for free to polish the own image at least a bit.

But, hopefully, I'm wrong...

Well, was a little bit off-topic, sorry! But I just was in the mood for that.

I'll stay with this game as long as the important things in this community (for me) are still going on.

I see. Thanks, kryo.

Anyway, guys, half of you are programmers, while the second half is... well, software engineers. How about making an online page that will display the same info Impulse does? Is it complicated? If it's not, I think that'll do as a replacement (while I'm aware some people want to see game start time, etc., most of us just want a web-based ongoing games listing, I suppose). 

Thanks for the update, kryo!  Appreciate it. 

If the situation changes or you folks can see an easy way to offer us the opengames.asp website again, I think I speak for everyone in saying that we'd appreciate it.  That said, glad that the impulse method will continue to work for some time anyway.  Thanks for checking on that!

edit - I did get a reply from stardock support today basically saying the same thing as kryo.  I've locked this thread.  Kryo - if we have any super exciting news, please unlock and bump.  At any rate, thanks again for looking into this for us.