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Hello everyone, This is an update on the progress of the Alpha 27 release. After extensive deliberation, the team has decided to abort the release process for the foreseeable future. As some of you know, we've been in a "feature freeze" for the past 3 months. This period, during which we halt all new code merging except for crucial bug fixes, is typically a final step before a release. Unfortunately, progress on the release has been slower than anticipated, and Alpha 27 is still several weeks away. Some of the outstanding issues include: Acquiring the necessary macOS certificates for signing the packages Completing the trailer for the announcement, and finishing the announcement itself More testing is potentially needed, and some important bug fixes are not yet merged. The balance of A27 has not been extensively tested and refined. The time it takes to actually release (uploading packages, informing maintainers, etc.) is potentially more than any of the team can commit to right now. Our current pace on these matters is unsustainable. Following a vote, we have chosen to abort the release and refocus. This decision wasn't made lightly, but we believe it's in the best interest of 0 A.D.'s long-term health. We will use this time to: Merge improvements that have been developed during the feature freeze, such as optimizations and further fixes. Identify and address the issues that have hindered the current release process, as we cannot hope to release in the future without fixing them. We will likely come back to the community with more information on this last point and potentially requests for help. We realize that this news may be disappointing. We thank you for your patience, understanding, and ongoing support. On behalf of everyone at Wildfire Games, Wraitii

I already knew the "quirk" but working as expected. In fact, if I remember correctly I did it this way on purpose so you can type as separator whatever you want. The teams separator can be anything. Regex: text.match(/(\d+)/g);

Option/alt: individually task units. This can make you win any fair fight in a26, as well as gather resources and build buildings more efficiently.

Hey @nani, I noticed a little quirk in the code when handling decimal values for team sizes with the /team command. Right now, if users enter decimal numbers like 1.1 or 1.2, the code doesn't handle them as expected, assuming only whole numbers. /team 1.1 matches the regular expression which treats the period (.) as equivalent to (v), causing this confusion. Although decimal teams are not a common scenario, I believe it's important to bring this to your attention. To make things smoother, hope you could tweak the code to handle these decimals correctly. A simple update to the regular expression used for matching team sizes should do the trick!

I just tested it and seems you're right. From the description I would expect him to, tho. @Freagarach

Can you explain this ? Uses and name please?

Faster pikemen. From Wikipedia: "All of the armor and weaponry a phalangite would carry totaled about 40 pounds, which was close to 10 pounds less than the weight of Greek hoplite equipment.[1]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_phalanx

Hello Stev. As a software developer, one thing that people have the misconception is that you can just ask ChatGPT to solve any kind of programming problem. This is not the case. ChatGPT is designed as a language model, this makes it's response very believable. Yet it doesn't actually do any reasoning behind the scenes, it just tries to predict what is your desired response. For most cases this works wonderfully, specially when you are learning a technology and don't want to be going through countless post on how to make an HTTP request or how to search in a binary tree. When you ask it to actually solve a logical problem it falls apart pretty easily: I am using ChatGPT and generative AI for voices for my voice actors mod, but honestly. I try to double check it's results and see if it adjusts to what I can understand from my almost non existing knowledge of other languages than english and spanish ( I do have pretty low standards for the mod since it's an immersion thing I'm doing for myself). If you were to ask chatgpt to help you solve a bug, it might to some extent, but it wouldn't have the context that is needed to actually find a bug. And if you don't have the knowledge working with C++ or Javascript you could end up producing more bugs. Some of these could be extremely troublesome (specially with C++ and it's memory management). There is also this tendency of ChatGPT to just plainly lie about some things, for example I work with the language Elixir, I asked some help with some problems in the past, and ChatGPT basically always responded with a solution, inventing functions that didn't exist in the language. When pointed out, ChatGPT would write a slightly different code and invent a slightly different function (this is another thing dangerous and a sign that there is no reasoning behind ChatGPT, it will never tell you it doesn't know the response, except for the notice of the unavailability of data past 2021 ) That being said as other forum poster said, you can do a lot of things without knowing how to code. Testing mods, bug reporting, content writing, map making, etc. Even mod making doesn't really need programming knowledge in some cases, unless you consider XML programming.

Thanks for clarifying. It's better to postpone than a bad release.