This isn't Frogboy's fault, or Stardock's. The blame here is on GPG. As Frogboy said, "this is the game that GPG intended to make." Thats great, now we know whose fault it is that Demigod does not have basic game features! If there is an ounce of accountability around here, its obvious what should be done. Replace the DG project leaders at GPG. It is beyond obvious that their judgement is severely impaired, that they would dare be satisfied with such a broken half-game. I forget who said this earlier but DG feels like a game still in beta. No replays, no team automatch, no clan system, broken friends system, broken stats... 

This is the game GPG wanted? Is it? Well, if this is the standard that GPG thinks is acceptable, I doubt very many people will buy another one of their games. I don't know if its within SD's power to do so, but if it is then SD would be wise to take SupCom2 away from GPG and hand it to another developer whose judgment can actually be trusted. 

Woe betide any man who tries to get inbetween Chris Taylor and his Supcom 2 mistress, he would set the Cybranzilla's on you (as would I!)

quick off topic 2 cents... I started as a PUGer.  I made a bunch of forum posts.  People from the forum eventually joined my games and I now regularly play with them.  They look for me online and I look for them now.  Or I just play Pugs again from time to time.  A better communication system would be great, but there are still plenty of ways for hook up with good players and get better yourself as is.

All that said, better chat with pop ups or something like that could go a long way.  At least you can fairly accurately tell if 1 of your buddies is online if you add them to your friend list. 

It would simply lead to buddies either not joining those games or not playing DG at all.  Shuffling teams is not a solution!

Besides it's not different at all from current Pantheon except for allowing Dark and Light side to mix.  Why not just ditch the concept of Light and Dark in Pantheon, ditch Scirmish and just have one random matched (and random team assigned) ladder.  Provide all the in-game and out of game support for stopping abuses of this ladder.

I think the game concept and population require a bit more radical thinking - for example I think the friends list teaming for the arranged ladder is a very interesting idea.  It caters to both the hardcore premades and the semi-permanent groups.  Allow us to check people in our friends lists and team us with them when going arranged ladder.  We definitely would need a fucntional chat/msging system for this!

Offcourse, both ladders should attempt to match by ranking with matching criteria expanding as wait time goes on.

So basically, maybe there should be only 2 ranked game play modes - random and arranged ladder.  Custom should not be counted in ranking, but games should be counted in total record (though maybe only count games where there is a human player on both sides).  In-game stats info should be something like this:

Hi Guys, Hi SD/GPG

This is my frist Post on this Forum and I'm quit new to DG but allready bit curious about some things. I think this fits in this Topic so I'm just replying.

At first I'd like to say that DG is a VERY fun game and i think it's having the Potential to become one of the greates MP-Games. (once the Bugs are fixed and a working Ladder-System is given)

The first thing i don't understand, why are customgames ranked, and why (how ever this is calculated) Is it possible that someone with 6w/8L is a lot higher ranked then someone with e.g. 100W/80L. So how ever this was suppose to work, i think it doesnt. Why don't just add the GameType "Ladder" or "Ranked" to the MP menu und let the guys who want the Competition with there teams Play the Ladder (when i remember it right most games use this method,,, i think even Supreme Commander did and it was good) and make custom games not ranked. Because they are good for getting practice and stuff.... once skirmish is working i think this my be getting an own ladder and it would be a perfect place for people to play without a team.

And to the Comment from Frogboy about the guys that want premade teams and the "Casuals"... I am 100% sure that

1) the percentage of Gamers playing this game with teams is higher than u may think

2) The "casuals" that just want to have some fun time playing DG are just happy with unranked matches where they can have fun

AND 3) the most important thing..: the Guys that make a MP-Game big and let it remain over years are the Players that stick together in Clans and searching the competition with other good players, NOT the casuals! The just 4 Fun gamer will play another game "just 4 fun" soon, but the real community is comming from the guys that invest in the game, and these are the Guys SD/GPG should pay the most attention to. Well u should not fergett the casuals, but don't desing the game for them, this will just cause the community breakdown somewhere in the future and nobody will talk anymore about "just another casual game".

Hopefully SD/GPG will think about that, because DemiGod is having a LOT potential and is a realy fun game, bring it up to the E-Sports and it will become GREAT and remain a very long Time, bring it to the casuals... and waist it.

BR

Solo

technically speak we are suppost to give frogboy the crap because  he is a leader of SD and SD is a publisher who is in charge off the community the chat and i believe the multiplayer