I was referring to the fortress. I agree that more points would be good. On the last point, I don't recommend adding an additional point of complication to a mechanic that is already complicated, as you mention in your OP. I agree with the other stuff, especially the need to nerf the high volume capturing scenario and not the small volume. To clear up some confusion about the nerfs that I introduced ahead of R28: by increasing the default regen rate, we essentially increase the number of units needed to achieve the "high volume" capturing scenario. At the same time, you are punished less for having an empty CC, giving you time to garrison it. I don't say that its perfect, but its better now, and in my games I see people go for siege more often.

Probably something to do per-case. Backlogging seems to be worse case to me. Maybe if the issue seems important we could add arbitrary milestones. Also I don't know if it's somewhat impolite but maybe assigning members that have skillset and bear interest in the area that the issue touches, could nudge some to pick up the issue.

Like some people might have noticed I worked on some janitor tasks in the last weeks. Now every open Issue has a Type label (some 35 closed ones are still lacking: current state), a Priority label (some 24 closed ones are still lacking: current state) and countless tickets have gotten a Theme label. As of today we have 112 open and 181 closed Issues lacking a Theme label (current state). I probably opened everyone of them, but have no more clue on how to label the last ones. Therefore I call for support! I you have the corresponding user rights on our bug tracker, please consider working on before mentioned list - and when opening a new Issue, please remember to use at least the three important label categories and a milestone. Why is this label important? If bug reports arise on the forums, it's not always possible to check on Gitea for the existance of already opened Issues by using the search function. We have no semantic search function, so it's sometimes just luck to find something if the words are matching. Then the search by Theme labels really helps. But if tickets haven't such label, we might open duplicate Issues which leads to problems in the future like redundant work etc.

Currently we have 97 Issues without a Milestone listed on Gitea. The oldest one has been opened 4 years ago, but it seems to me that new Issues without a Milestone increased since the migration from Trac to Gitea. Shall all Issues without a Milestone be backlogged? If yes, I'd proceed.  

Thanks to everybody who voted and participated. I think the trend was already identifiable by the vote so I went ahead and made the PR. Current key changes (might be amended by balancing members). Make some techs add capture points to associated building. Sentries add +50% to towers Professional Garrison add +100% to forts Add +500 base capture points to CC and +1000 capture point to Forts. Colonies almost unchanged. Support diminishing capture rates for CC and Forts See https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8892