Please note: A while back PokerStars made a change to Home Games; the minimum buyin we can set for a tournament is now 20k chips (instead of 1 chip).
Free refills are now 12.5k chips instead of 1k, and no longer have a requirement of "You can only refill if you have under 1000 chips", which somewhat helps offset this. However, it's limited to use once per 4 hours. As such - if you're interested in playing, it may pay to log in every now and again and just use this refill option, so you have plenty for when the games are on.
Alternatively, for those who have the option and don't mind it, we could consider some micro-stakes real money games; the minimum deposit allowed is $10, but the minimum buyin we can set for a tournament is merely 11 cents so such a deposit would last a very long time. The biggest downside (apart from that many people simply wouldn't want to get real money involved) is that this would exclude anyone from the US, except New Jersey.
We have a game starting in about 10 minutes (with an extra 10 mins of late reg available) if anyone's interested.