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Well said, leopard. I also want Yekaterina to stay in the game. And, accusations without proof are not cool. That said, Yekaterina has some apologizing to do, and opportunity for restitution of those wronged, for tricking us about duplicate accounts (Sevda, Helicity, etc.), making countless unauthorized duplicate accounts, sharing accounts with others, disruptive behavior with third party XMPP clients (encouraging nickname changes to impersonate people, suspected orchestration of spam attacks on the lobby), and attempts to teach people how to bypass bans. But, the bottom line is that Yekaterina is a valued participant of the WFG community, and we can sort out trust issues by doing the right thing. Yekaterina isn't the only one who needs to improve here. There are players who are doing low-level bullying, insults, racism, uncooperative behavior in team games, etc. weirdJokes, it's basically bullying to call someone something that they're not without proof.

Yekaterina, you recently sent me a copy of a similar "goodbye" message that you wrote to weirdJokes in 2021. It clearly wasn't the truth. I think it's not the truth in this case either. I think that you will try to create duplicate accounts with different names. You said that you were found out in the past, and the longest you went without being found out was a month. New duplicate accounts will just be merged with Yekaterina again. So yes, you're here forever. In order to correct the real problem (lack of trust of Yekaterina) I recommend that you do restorative justice, which involves apologizing, accepting responsibility for, and righting all of the wrongs that you have done through restitution, community service, etc. We will then celebrate Yekaterina's new, strong moral code. We ensure that accusations that you're Shyft are irrelevant because the new Yekaterina has such a strong moral code that there's no question that Yekaterina is a pillar of the community and definitely not Shyft. Eventually we will figure this out together with everyone and the truth will float. After the process of restorative justice is complete, I advise that you stick to the name Yekaterina. Restorative Justice - Why Do We Need it • BRAVE NEW FILMS (BNF) The habit of "Oh, I messed up and made people angry. They found out that I lied and they don't trust me now. I'll just create a new identity and hope they don't know it's me" DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE. People can sniff you out a mile away. Stop doing it. Just play under Yekaterina and face the bleeping consequences of what you did, and apologize to people and engage in restorative justice, so that they no longer are angry at you and you can play as a reputable and upstanding community member. Meanwhile we will invite the others to engage in restorative justice for the wrongs that they committed...

GG Firstly I would like to thank Stan and all developers who put their time and effort into building a game that I was able to enjoy for 3 years, spanning across 3 alphas. It has been a major part of my life in these years and has changed me significantly. I learnt much and invested much into 0ad, at the same time enjoyed all the battles and booms. Due to many reasons, I have concluded that it's in the best interest of everyone for me to quit 0ad completely. I have been a flagrant violator of Lobby TOS and a top smurfer, so I do deserve a ban at least. Inside the lobby, nz. has listed me alongside JC, basiliskos and sanafur as the 4 most hated players of 0ad. In addition, there is the spreading false rumour that I am Shyft. Many people actually buy into that and harass me in TGs to retaliate on Shyft. Sadly they have been attacking the wrong person all the time. If you think I am as horrible as Shyft ...I should just disappear from your lives to stop agonizing you... On forums, I have been proposing the same 4 points for 2 years and in the end my ideas were remarked as "strange " and "exaggerated". My proposals to game mechanics changes such as disable unit pushing, instant turn +acceleration and light speed projectile projectile to eliminate dancing were met with heavy resistance. My attempt to contribute to lag reduction was abstractGUI, but that is mocked everywhere for its too abstract appearance. Few use it. Since I am not welcome anywhere in the community, it's time for me to disappear... I will apologize for any unfinished mods and patches. @leopard I'm afraid A27 abstractGUI mod wont exist, but I'm sure you will find other ways of reducing lag like disable eye candy. Finally, a big thank you to all the friends who have taught me gameplay skills and spent your valuable time with me. I wish you all the best and farewell. It's time for all of us to move on. Please forget me then live long and prosper! Vergisst mich! @Stan`you can delete me now, if it pleases you Kate/ Yekaterina

IIRC that breaks attack move which is why it wasn't used. EDIT: I think @Freagarach created a ticket for the default behavior to be optional

you are right @Norse_Harold if people could trust yekaterina they wouldn't have done accusations. also exposing vulnerabilities in public and encouraging others to exploit that by publishing on youtube is not justifiable. also @Yekaterina me and everyone should respect the people who are investing time for this project.

This is not a justification for disruptive behavior. Spam attacks are basically denial of service attacks because no one can talk during that time. And, threatening messages were included in the spam like overthrow of the US government, you can't stop us, etc. This surely scared everyone in the lobby, because they didn't know what other hacking might be taking place. The correct procedure for making software more secure is responsible disclosure. That means private disclosure of security vulnerabilities and exploits to the WFG core team, setting deadlines for WFG solving the problems (typically 90 days), then public disclosure, but NEVER actual exploitation of the vulnerabilities. What made the lobby more secure was Dunedan, Norse_Harold, and others interrupting their own lives, and staying up late for several days, in order to diagnose and improve the ModerationBot software, and monitor and ban bad actor lobby accounts. That could have been done with no drama by a responsible disclosure process. Leopard, the exact reason that Yekaterina is suggesting (hasn't actually made an effective request because it was phrased as a conditional statement "if it pleases you") request for deletion of the account is in order to avoid the consequences of bad behavior. This is Yekaterina's pattern. I'm trying to help Yekaterina see the value in not doing that again. Creating a new name does not solve the real problem, which is a lack of trust of the person behind Yekaterina. Accusations that Yekaterina is Shyft are totally impossible if people trust Yekaterina, so the accusations are a symptom of the deeper problem of a lack of trust. Restorative Justice is a way to solve those trust problems. Talk to me privately about it if you want to get involved. That means everyone involved, not just Yekaterina: victims, co-conspirators, low-level bullies of Yekaterina, etc. Victims help decide what restitution is expected of Yekaterina and other perpetrators. Other perpetrators have an opportunity to apologize to the community and those harmed and right the wrongs.

The core arguments have been presented, and Sun Wukong has resorted to insults instead of continuing to try to make a persuasive argument. Locking this thread.

Here is the first 'Release Candidate' of Alpha 27 - Agni Downloads - Current bundles are for SVN revision r27645/bbae4080acaf09e2716cde8027c7a3c2cd3eaff4 Linux data and build Windows MacOS Builds currently unavailable due to signing issues. You can only test the installer but the game will not run. macOS (x64) macOS (ARM) Things to note: Mind your mods -> they might introduce issues or Out Of Sync. Save your A26 config file somewhere, ideally. or use -writableRoot. What changed: Alpha27 – Wildfire Games How to port my mod PortA26ToA27 – Wildfire Games What to do if I have an error or notice something weird? Post your commands.txt (replay) and the interestinglog.html file from your folder. You can also reply to this thread. What to do if the game crashes? Upload your crashlog.dmp and crashlog.txt see https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths What to do if I have an Out Of Sync? You should go in your logs folder, find the replay (commands.txt at least), the mainlog/interestinglog and find the OOS dump folder. Zip all these files and upload them here. We need the reports from two players to compare them: One OOS and one non-OOS players at least should upload their oos_dump files. Things you may want to test (non-exhaustive) Test Vulkan performance. Enable feedback and see if it works (Main menu) See this video Launch a random game Launch a skirmish. Connect to the lobby Play on the lobby with someone Play in LAN Launch Atlas and try things out there Open Unit tests demo (To see if there any breakage in displaying entities) (It's in scenarios) Connect to and use mod.io Test replaying new games Test multiple game modes (e.g. Regicide) Test Atlas terrain previews. Test Screenshots (F2) Test deleting all saved games Test Big Screenshots (Maj+F2) Test hotkeys Test Saving and loading a game. Test Quickload/Quicksave And of course playing games.

Yekaterina is obviously extremely smart so most of us can't think at her level and some people get annoyed at her or jealous. She is also hyperactive and impulsive witch sometimes manifests in her many great contributions and sometimes in erratic behavior. Anyways, she should really focus on being the best scientist and occasionally waste some time playing 0ad or whatever, but never lose sleep over some lame toxic haters.

I agree that the game should have this. In AOE2, the "random" movement of the farmers is actually not random, just looks that way to the player. There are 4 designated positions on the farm field and the farmer moves between those positions after gathering 20% of its food capacity, then at 100% it goes and drops off the food at the dropsite. Then the farmer randomly chooses one of the 4 positions and the cycle begins again. It looks random enough to the player to keep it from looking monotonous. It's too late for A27 though.

I was thinking about a generic change: Champions cost -25% resources, but take 2 population. That would turn champions into affordable elite fighters to break the current system where CS soldiers are dominant. Sparta then could have a differentiation of -10% population, but Spartiates only require 1 population. They also get other benefits for their champions, like a team bonus that also affects champion spear infantry.

That is true technically, but wouldn't there be a workaround: Give a unit two classes A and B. The initial limit for classes A and B are 5 and respectively 10. Since limit for class A is 5, initially only 5 units can be produced. Tech 1 raises the limit for class A to 20. Then after researching tech 1, B is the lowest limit and only 10 units can be produced. Tech 2 raises the limit for class B to 20. Since now both limits are 20, 20 units can be produced. @wowgetoffyourcellphone Wouldn't this work?

You in Europe take for granted that the supremacy of law and equality is given in all countries. That thought predominates more in Protestant Europe, in other cultures we are more relaxed with that norm (that's bad). But it is the reality, in hospic cultures it is normal, then this generates corruption and preferential treatment.

Or you can use this mod I just made to restore the old behavior where you press the attack key to attack a building, and otherwise capture it by default. oldcapturebehavior.zip

You can put "capture = Ctrl" in your local.cfg under hotkey.session, and delete "attack = Ctrl" there. Then you can capture by pressing Ctrl instead of c.

sounds a lot like ChatGPT to be honest

I personally don't agree that you leave 0AD if some people believe that you are shyft. I don't want you to leave this game as a player or as a developer, you are young and things that you achieved in 0AD as a gamer and as a dev until now is some thing that I will not be able to dream at your age. I strongly believe you can help the new players and developers in the future, I see great potential in you. If anyone in this forum think that yeketerina is shyft, please try to talk to him personally and find the truth of it, please stop accusing him directly and make him angry and frustrated just because you don't care about others feelings. please try to care about people playing this game, I see @Yekaterina is a teenager and is emotionally vulnerable. And you guys are accusing him as the same person who mentally harassed him for a long time. I am a witness of what that player and others in reza-maths server talked about him. If you think @Yekaterina is overacting on this situation, you are wrong. It's been more than a month since people started accusing him as shyft and this is enough for anyone to lose cool. I believed them a bit and talked yeketerina about it and after talking with him for more than a week I am convinced he is not shyft and he can never become anything like shyft ever. If you don't believe me try to talk with him personally without accusations and if you don't care to talk then stop bothering him by accusations. If you don't care who is behind the account then stop insults just play if you don't want to play with him just leave or spec. its not unnecessary dram atrik, people are causing him too much trouble whenever he plays. Yeketerina is one of the few OP players who cares about weaker players and tried to make their gameplay more competitive. I think your contributions are valuable and you can contribute more. But If you think people are not accepting you and they are too stubborn against your opinions and every effort you put is wasted because of lack of peoples support, and you think its a wastage of time if you continue further and you have better things to do ( you sure do, you have to take care of your future) and don't want to continue further I will not force you to stay in 0AD. It's your life you get to decide what you do with it. also I think 0AD developers are also not getting anything in return other than hard work and blame of people, so your contributions when compared to them has only started. you can stay and learn and contribute or you can say goodbye to everyone and never show up. I would like to see you around in games and discord and in forum, because I do care about you.

Disable the formation. Or you could go to Options -> Game Session and turn the "Battalion-style formations" option off.

@Sun Wukong A new Mauryan palace is coming for A28.

I'm sticking with this idea. More loyalty from that would make the buildings harder to capture. @real_tabasco_sauce @borg- I mention you because you wanted to keep differentiating the Spartans.

Specifically the saying goes that Sparta's men were its walls, and historically, there was no threat to Sparta up until the war with Thebes following the Battle of Leuktra. In theory the game is supposed to represent civilisations at their pinnacle, and thus, Sparta does not have any walls. It is supposed to have better loyalty with its buildings and hardier women to compensate for that fact (at least going off of the original design document).