How is anyone to know that no one is hiding it? lol   If you are so ethical, why don't you support features that allow everyone to know what mods you are using? lol

another weird thing that seems to be happening in a27 is that units in aggressive stance dont obey orders under fire, acting as if they were in violent stance

Almost all hosts, I play with, I'm 100% certain they know it exist and that i use. Absolutely nothing is made in attempt to hide it's existence, even the contrary. So that point is totally made up. As for the game-play impacts, sure it have a impact. It's negligible on the scale of a game as there is much more important stuff, especially in complex games like 4v4, so the priority, as i see it, would actually be user experience, and prize players decision making over them being good clicky clickers. I have this thoughts because you mention the autociv active pause that is the perfect example of wanting to @#$% on great UX improvement feature for some imaginary competitive standards rules. It's a free game, goal is fun, nobody have stake on game outcomes. There will never be 0AD Esports in the foreseeable future. But if you feel you cannot bear that someone is using any feature, then you should host with rules that prevent its use, or any other rule you want. Basically same conclusion then the billions debates before this one. And it's a great way to have a middle ground for disagreeing people.

Wait a minute! Where is the one-boob armor in female form? I feel cheated. 

If someone were to make some mods isolating some of the features (and people can enable whichever features they'd like to see via mods), that would be super cool. Doing so might also create a basis for some pull requests down the line. 

It would be interesting if we could have a discussion about the linothorax. I'm of the view that it was white-washed leather rather than linen, where the quilted linen corselet came later. The term "linothorax" is so cool though that I'd still want to use it.  

I was thinking it would be helpful if players could use multiple names or "tags" attached to their main name to indicate the kind of assistance mods they're using. Concept: Imagine being able to add tags to your player name like <MyName> + <BotEco> or even add multiple tags like <MyName> + <BotEco> + <Micro>. This would instantly tell other players what kind of support you're employing during the game. <MyName> + <AutoCiv> + <kateMod> + ....