Yes I agree that the game itself is amazing.

I'm still quite puzzled by why they went with P2P connections instead of through a server. Most of the people that I'm connected with have a ping of 150+ and it makes me lag horribly bad in game. 

If it was client/server, the lag would be 300.  Client/server doubles ping. That's why it's peer.

I couldnt get a game going with anyone. Lots of crashes.

But I did have a lot of fun playing with the AI.

My biggest problem right now, aside from the connection issues, is that playing against the AI (I tried both normal and hard), the cpu players were just not at all respectful of monitoring their life. Rarely did they retreat. They'd run in and fight me in front of my towers and creeps all by themselves until they died. And I think they also maxed out respawn time at their citidel, which only meant they fed me more often.

Pretty noobish, even for the Normal level.

But I suppose that if multiplayer gets fixed I won't need to worry about it

I know this is going to sound crazy but the connectivity problems are pretty fun to debug.  I am actually quite anxious to get in on Monday and figure it out.

See, in Beta 2, the architecture was only being put in.  In beta 3, the architecture is plumbed in, now we just have to debug it. 

I've seen some people talk about how there's only 2 months until release. Pish.  That's an eternity for these kinds of things.

Since brad is the ceo, when he is pushing and deems it necessary everyone also has to push.  Guess that must be the nice part of being the boss.

There's a ton of people at Stardock and GPG testing this stuff.

Up until Beta 3, we had our hands tied because it had to first be implemented really. 

Now we can get down to it.

Anyone who has connectivity issues should be hanging out on #demigod. We'll be looking for people to test with.

Thank God Demigod isn't using GameSpy.  The thought is just painful  .  We've had lots of rough times with the connectivity but I've done surprisingly well in beta 3 so far.

I thought Relic had their own servers and their own "nat trasnservlskdjthing." At least for CoH. I believe DoW I used gamespy.

Well then it sucks to be you, slurple23.  If beta 3 is a 1 for you then you better be ready to spend some quality time on #demigod if you want it to meet your needs.

Since we can get 5 on 5 games going in a mixed network environment with people from around the country, you may want to seriously look at your network configuration and work with us.

Nevertheless, there is no magic bullet here for users who can't connect to ANY games in Beta 3. Those people will need to work with us or hope someone like them works with us.

For most users, based on the logs and what we've been seeing can get games going but are often frustrated/thwarted by the poison pill users. 

In the final version, the poison pill users won't be an issue and that'll cause it to work fine on 95% of connections.

But those 5% will need to work with us to find out what we can do to make sure we can work with their systems (or provide instructions for users to help themselves).

I read "poison pill" very often... what exactly is meant with it?

Well, i just so happen to be perm-banned from #demigod.

Mr. Zoomba said I will be permitted re-entrance when DG is released. So I guess if you want slurple's help fixing these connectivity issues on IRC YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT.