8 of us are trying for about 1 hour now.. And experienced the following scenarios:

1. Lobby wont create. ("Cannot create game" error)
2. Lobby created, but only few us can see it. ( can join with game id sometimes, so we have to copy and share game id )
3. The few that can see, only fewer can join. ( "Unable to join" error)
4. We can see old games that we cancelled to create new.. the cancelled games wont disappear in the lobby list.
5. Restarted Steam, Restarted windows, Restartef game, only thing not tried is to format the entire hard disk, and it won't fix. Obviously since its network issue,. But who really knows with microsoft? 6.Lobby create, all joined Haallelujah Amen, the game count down from 5 to 0, then wont start. Stuck in lobby.
6. Ping is green in all server

HONESTLY THE WAY MICROSOFT MANAGES THIS IS HORRITERRIBLE IT SUCKS REALLY... Cant even complain in forum the post message is behind a wall of multiple FAQ and login screen. GG WP.. AAArgh microsoft im about to send for refunds

how on earth are the mulitplayer services not working proberly for 1 month (also was disgusting before)? i unterstand if there are bugs in the game due to the old 1995 game engine, but the lobby browser? again? come on microsoft, you are not a small indie company, you can do it better... give the people the change to play and enjoy your game :(

Would it be technically possible to make a toggle button that would make the terrain flat, but only visually? This would really help tremendously when building on hills.

Basically, make all tiles "Elevation 1" visually, like in the scenario editor.

So the lobby issues seemed pretty ok but since the update last night I can't get past the "Creating party" wheel of death, it just times out and says "AdvertisementJoinEvent" and doesn't allow me to join a game. Anyone else?

EDIT: Didn't mean update, just meant server maintenance.