AspireMining, I am extremely sorry for this and I am completely stressed out as well. My droplets do have connections now... However, it frustrates me that they didn't come up with working pools at launch time as it was promised. I consider their launch to be chaotic.

Have you added all the nodes posted in the thread to your config? If so, did you double check whether you saved the config with those nodes? If you have them added, properly killed and relaunched maxcoind, it has to work! The network is apparently indeed under heavy load atm.

My 3 droplets:
1.    "connections" : 29,
2.    "connections" : 34,
3.    "connections" : 16,