Wasn't what you said but how you said it, your attitude.Your attitude bugs me that you simply can't wait, you simply have to play the game.
Yeah... I think Melric expressed my sentiments on this already. We customers should learn not to embrace superior match-making systems - they only spoil us by letting us play as intended.
As for using it doesn't matter if lets me play with pirates or not.
That's good, change your stance when your ignorance shows. It sure seemed to be damned important to you when you brought it up earlier.
people who it doesn't work for, I ask you. Have you tried everything to get the offcial system to work or did you simply stop trying because you had one error?
Well, I obviously stopped trying after that 1 error I got back on April 16. That's the correct answer, right?
If you have tried to fix it and still didn't work then by all means go use game ranger. Just remember that stardock can only fix problems on their end, not yours.
By and large, the problem isn't on our end. Frogboy said last night in chat that the problem was the volume of people trying to make connections at that time. The Impulse infrastructure couldn't handle it. I had many, many successful games on .0105 and the two betas leading up to last night, and once yesterday's release was out, all that went out the window. Right now, the system is the metaphorical little girl with a curl right in the middle of her forehead.
That being said, I had a successful game today around 12:00 CST (GMT -6) over the Impulse system. What was different between it and last night? The number of people online. I hope I'm wrong, but I fully expect it to be a nightmare again tonight between 20:00 CST and 23:00 CST when prime time hits, and I'll end up loading up GameRanger and waiting for a game.
Why do people take exception, seemingly even offense, to the very mention of a better system than Impulse to play this game? No one wants to use an alternative matchmaking system forever, and no one is advocating that notion; everyone wants the in-game multiplayer to work better than it does now. In the mean time, GameRanger works better than the existing system when there are many connections trying to be made.