However, when I encountered the problem I had both cnc net up to date to the latest version as well as red alert 2/yuri and I even double checked for updates.
You know if your servers are encountering lots of load and stress from the significant increase of players in the game then why am I able to login and see the lobby? Perhaps then you shouldn't let me login at all until the stress or load has been reduced at least. Perhaps you need to reconsider a strategy to disallow people from logging in and along that display a message that says login failed or something like try again later there are too many people, you know it is that simple. Why should I login and find myself confused to not see any rooms in lobby and you say it is too many players and servers are being overloaded, this doesn't make sense to players and people. You need to at least inform them of what is happening with at least a message box when they login and servers are overloaded come on man.