I was plunking around the internet lloking for a way to send VU Games / Sierra a nastygram when i stumbled upon this...
http://www.dynamix1.com/There are three different ways to join the new master servers... i dont endorse any one of them... but here they are... good luck and god speed...
Just make sure that you have copies of the players list and your pw's becasue it returns your basic v1.11 back to it's original configuration, plus you must reinstall then patch from 1.8 to 1.11... just so the base tribes functions normally... then the master server lisis are finctioning normally...
good luck