Look, the server performance has been poor at best since the beginning of this product. The process to connect is clunky (Search, Provider, Search, wait at least 30 seconds [sometimes a couple of minutes], select session, Use Selection, Search for IP, wait 30 seconds, [at this point, 50% of the time the session is not found (gone?), if so START OVER], select connection, join Session, wait another 30 seconds, pray), when you are connected there are bugs (someone leans on the space bar and we all get kicked out, no way to turn down heli sounds, competition events are basically non-functional, etc. etc.), and in general the experience in not what it could be. It's not great, but it's the only resource of it's kind, so people still use it.

Don't try to tell me the problems are on my end, as I have a 3.2Ghz P4 with 1G memory, NVidia GForce4 video, and a cable modem connected through an ultra-high speed ethernet link, so performance on this end is not the problem. And don't tell me two years with no fixes for all the bugs, and a month with dead server is the best you can do. I've been a software developer for over twenty years and I know better.

Oh, and by the way, the servers seem to be completely gone right now.