^^ This, the way mods were handled in demigod are god awful.  FPS games learned a long time ago that you have autodownload mods when the person tried to connect to the game.  Hell even starcraft did this and that game is over 10 years old!   Some days I wonder what game developers have been smoking, its like they forgot the last 10 years of advances in games.

I think probably they had planned to release Demigod for their own and use GPG.Net like for Supreme Commander. AFAIR Stardock got late into the game as GPG was lack of money to finish Demigod (something like that) and therefore the Impulse stuff was added quite at the end. GPG.Net had a Vault where it is quite easy to search and download maps and mods. So there would have been an easy possability to manage these things. The only problem was that it is buggy, so some things like versioning of the mods do not work. Though the system worked much better than searching the mods in the forum and then install them by hand. The vault downloaded and installed everything for you.