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Breakfastburrito continuously spread lies and he also motivated some players to exert similar "hostage situation" that you describe above but against me. I didn't felt that he was breaking any therms of uses doing so, and even probably that this was a freedom he should have to express his opinion (even if he had admittedly had 0.000 knowledge about what he was talking about). Therefor I wouldn't even got the idea to call on moderation. Now he calls on moderation against Geriatrix... @Norse_Harold you are likely to take his side on this, but Geriatrix not doing anything that seems to deserve a moderator's attention, and breakfastburrito is only getting a taste of what he was so keen to get me to live anyway... In my opinion @Norse_Harold you shouldn't get too much into the weeds of moderating everything in random game hosts because it's simply impossible and you can't format every behaviors under rules. Well, I already know we disagree on this point but still wanted to write it again in defense of Geriatrix's freedoms.

Appeasement. Players are now doing as Geriatrix wishes in order to not incur his wrath. This is a dangerous path.

Yeah, some quotes might be a bit silly. But they're still worth keeping in my opinion. The only issue I can think of with adding a player table is that bots don't have a connection status and players with 'Random' not even a civ to show. So, while it'd definitely be useful and relevant for multiplayer games, for a causal singleplayer 1v1 such a table could become kind of pointless. Valid concern. How about adding a subtle brown underlay to the buttons' base texture? Something like this:

@Norse_Harold This is what Atrik is referring to. Somehow he didn't like it when people did just as he suggested. ------- In other news, do we really need four pages on Geriatrix? Don't feed the troll.

If other players did a "hostage situation" then that's not breakfastburrito_007 doing that. I am aware that there is a conflict about whether proGUI is considered cheating. What I have perceived has been political action around that issue, public logical argument attempting to convince others to support an opinion, and perhaps organizing of people to take action such as by establishing a voluntary rule on a per-hoster basis about use of performance-enhancing mods. That's different from a hostage situation based on lies. I don't know how you can say this. The lobby terms of use say that defamation is not allowed. Defamation is "false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel". It involves telling a series of lies or spreading rumors. An example is when Geriatrix lied about why ValihrAnt wasn't playing 0ad as much in June. The lobby terms of use say that threatening is not allowed. A threat is "a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course." An example is when Geriatrix threatened to leave a team game if leopard wasn't banned. He later threatened to leave a team game if breakfastburrito_007 wasn't banned. The lobby terms of use also say that pejorative terms are not allowed. A pejorative is "disparaging, derogatory, or belittling, such as bean counter for an accountant". Examples are when Geriatrix called op players 1200, meaning 1200 rated, in public lobby chat several times over the last year, and called leopard p*ssy. The word is censored by the forum, but it's visible if one reads mainlog.html directly. Sources of definitions: defamation, threat, pejorative. I want people to speak the timeless truth, regardless of current friendships or conflicts. I guess that because you didn't answer the question directly, and you didn't make a statement at the time that you started your break from 0ad, that you didn't stop playing 0ad because of breakfastburrito_007.

That's actually laughable that you would contort the truth like that, so I'd like to hear evidence. My only recollection tells me that he encouraged hosts to mandate that you turn the autotrainer off in order to play. I think I did so once too. Only one common host has forced you to turn it off. That's a little bit different than griefing an entire game AFTER it has started, actually even 15 or 20 minutes in. And he tried to do it every time I join a game he is in as spec. One time he literally left and never came back so they had to re. And the grass is blue. Why do you feel the need to defend Geriatrix to the point you will lie like this.

Please stay positive, send evidence publicly or privately, and continue speaking the truth. If you give up then the lies win. If you keep pushing then maybe the lies don't win.

There's still room for quotes on the loading screen if we add something else (like map screenshots and/or player status).