I like the idea. I'm still trying to learn the game, so I'm not ready for online play, but when I am, I'm sure I'd love something.

Why not put together something on YouTube, until an expansion is released?

I think your assertion that "Sins's online player counts aren't real high for a game that has supposedly sold a couple hundred thousand copies" is probably mistaken. People play all the time, they just don't show up when they're in-game. ICO is just a match-making service, it's not a huge online chat room where people hang out for hours at a time. And I suspect many people, like me, play exclusively with their friends and just use ICO to create a game and get going.

well If i'm not mistaken theres a glitch that disconnects you from ICO while your sill online so that you don't show up. its happened to me about 7 times now. so it could be very possible that there are more people online and you just don't see them cause ICO doesn't recognize them.

While I compltely agree that this game needs an online encouragement thing desperately. Age of Mythology was released how many years ago even Age of Empires 1 and 2 and Warcraft series? Those games have thriving online communities and most that I've listed are older games. I know Age of Mythology usually has 10-30 games still waiting for players and sometimes over 50 or so people in the chatrooms. Age2 has lot's also through gamespy (last time I checked since gamespy stopped working all of a sudden:( This game is really fun but takes lot's of time to finish also which is why I also think it needs a new speed level since setting it to fast takes around 2-3 hours online on average to complete for me with multi stars 30-1.5 hours to complete single star. If a new speed setting was added like fastest or extreme so we could finish a game on a multi-star within an hour and a half I think more people would play the game including the ones who already bought it leading them to everyonce and a while going online. Come on stardock add a new speed setting soon and the new graphics would help hard-core gamers to play more too I guess, even though I can only go up to high settings as it is now.

I agree with Windexglow. People online refuse to surrender with Honor infact I doubt half the people there play for fun. when beaten they would rather scuttle everything and quit then surrender. but hey to each his own. Its actually really starting to piss me off how people care about there records when they quit so much yet they don't want any losses. A person with more loses is a more appealing player to me since he's had more time to learn from them.

It hasn't happened to me very often, so I don't think too many people are going uncounted as a result. I more or less agree with Adama. During prime time you would hope to see at least 500 people on at once if not 1000. This just strengthens my point--the game could use something to encourage folks to come online.