Alright, first of all; hello! Yes, I'm new here. I mainly joined because I've been to the IRC chat a few times and have been unable to play because no one ever is. Thus, I came up with this thought...
Since no one wants this game to die. I mean, come on, it's awesome, right?! When you get that itch to play...you just have to play! I don't know if this was that of before (I'm sure it has) or has even been done already (which it may be), but how about making it possible (for one) to make/join a game only needing one person and be able to play an AI within that map. This would eliminate the need to try and scrape up people to play and if people just want to brush up on the game, they can.
Getting the AI to work wouldn't be hard at all. In fact, they already did it in some of the maps in the orginal game, just kept them on defense (you all know what map I'm talking about). The hardest, obviously, would be to start a game needing only one person. I guess a flip side to this would be a bot that you can make join a game and therefore they would stay motionless while you play the AI.
So, what do you think???