Anytime I host a game I usually get a player within 10 minutes. It helps if you go on the Demigod IRC (see sticky) and actively recruit, but you can usually get a game at any time of day if you have a bit of patience. Right now it's only the hardest of the hard playing, as the netcode discourages matches of more than 2 v 2, and even those are finicky. Hopefully Thursday it will be better, as the devs are planning to patch the netcode.