I agree with shortlived. For christ sake, let the community know when stuff like this is happening. New installers will have no idea wtf is going on and just assume it's a problem with the game itself, rather than the multiplayer server (like me.)
Also, It lets me log in, but than it says "logged in as" in the lower left hand side of the screen. Why does it pretend like I can log in when I obviously can't because the servers are down? This is the stardock second game that has had issues where stardock has not posted any information in the actual game and I had to go hunt it down in the forums. Bad form.