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When I first played with Ricci-Curvature she immediately said shes Yekaterina and I didn't knew her or of the ban. After the tip from Feldfeld I looked in to it and found Ricci-Curvature uses cmd 1 {"type":"attack-walk","entities":[188,189 ...],"x":923.1084594726562,"z":780.8538208007812,"targetClasses":{"attack":["Ranged","Cavalry","Infantry"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} (see targets "Ranged","Cavalry","Infantry") This can't be produced by the vanilla gui. Attack-walks that can be produced are cmd 5 {"type":"attack-walk","entities":[287,6315,...],"x":354.727294921875,"z":857.03466796875,"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit","Structure"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} ("Unit","Structure") or cmd 5 {"type":"attack-walk","entities":[287,6315,...],"x":354.727294921875,"z":857.03466796875,"targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit"]},"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} ("Unit") One can detect this easy by checking for a line that includes attack-walk and not "targetClasses":{"attack":["Unit I played and spectated a lot of games recently. The last replay of Astra- that I have is from 17.11.24. The first game of Ricci-Curvature I have is from 15.11.24 and they were not in one game together (in my records). Only Ricci-Curvature had this method of attack-walk after 01.12.24. If she desires to have a benefit over vanilla players, I don't understand why she don't uses proGUI/quickstart then, because it's a easy way. I didn't have problems myself with her or geriatrix that's worth mentioning. Geriatrix is very hard against cheating and Yekaterina is definitely "testing boundarys" of the game without the consent of others so I can see why they fight so hard in the lobby. I like some ideas of the abstraction mod to reduce lag, but it's hard to trust her. I'd need to triple check the code from her before I run it. And to use multiple accounts to promote ideas is also annoying. E.g. I also share some of the frustration @strat0spheric mentioned and one seems to be in the minority for wanting to have a fair competition. Sometimes it seems some of the players rather have cheaters than noobs, as my skill has dropped hard after 4 years of break. It's a very weird atmosphere here. game_analyzer5.py 2024-12-07_0002.zip

His voice sounds male and he didnt really react when we referred to him as "he". Im not sure, but I dont think Astra and Yeka are the same person (Lets not be hasty with assumptions). When he expressed his opinion, he sounded like he truly wanted to improve the community, rather than destroy it (I could just be gullible, but I'd like to see the good in people). I do not agree with some of his methods, but I dont think @Norse_Harolds evaluation of his situation is entirely objective. As far as I understand, you have quite the history? He expressed very high animosity towards you, even going so far as to say he'll only play as long as you arent around. He proclaimed that he felt treated unfairly, being harrassed greatly for minor misdemeanors. He also said @Norse_Harold tried to pressure him into working for 0ad, I cite "he tried to enslave me to do dev work for 0ad." (I don't believe this is true, btw. But I deem it very possible that he misunderstood Norse' intentions) He actually shared a link to various cheats, the reason being, according to him, to "provoke Geriatrix" as "The moderators have failed again" (in his opinion, more must be done against Geriatrix bad behaviour) and "it's time to take things into your own hands and defend yourselves" (against Geri). Why am I posting this? I do not know. Probably because I talked a bit with yeka and had a good time, but I also believe that Norse is doing good work and his contribution to 0ad is extremely important, and I would like to see both of you getting along. Also, yeka could do a lot of good things for 0ad, if he set his mind to it... Maybe thats just wishful thinking. Edit: I realized this might be off topic? Im not sure if thats a big problem, should I delete this?

Yes I plan to get active again once A27 releases.

I do want to help out. However, clearly nobody can reach consensus on how to fix things. Take the very simple example: what should we do about champion cavs? What about broken civs? I am not interested in lobby spam or smurfing. I have been sticking to this Ricci-Curvature alone in the lobby. The only exception is Qadam, but I already apologised to Dunedan about having to use it to avoid Geriatrx attacks, and he has banned it. I think Norse is bringing up old things. Furthermore, it is not against forum rules to use multiple forum accounts. The old account Yekaterina is banned and I cannot use it to post anything, so I just register a new one.

Let me just say, that some of those who are the loudest accusing others of cheating are at the same time publishing private ingame chats aswell as well as other users operating system user names. Also there is a player who has admitted to administrate "0ad expert" youtube channel, and, its btw not yekaterina, just saying. Otherwise, i suggest you start lurking around in the lobby yet again aswell, you are beeing missed

Someone can please explain what happened with yekaterina and geriatrix? Whatever happened, I think it's better to calm down to preserve the community, that is already small.

I know Yeka purposefully caused harm and (attempts) to reputation damage to some, especially to Norse_Harold. But please consider not holding grudges as he's not a fundamentally bad person...

I have been lurking the forum for a very long time, and I found it very inorganic how many new accounts, all seemingly well acquainted with the multiplayer "pro" community (who knows who they actually are?) generate discussions about cheats, the only effect of leaving a very bad impression about the project to any other forum lurker, any potential new people to the project. I think this is a very bad thing and it has to stop. I also saw for myself the public disclosure of cheats. I looked a little bit at these, and found the usual suspects, but also a fairly novel cheat method baked in which should be, in my opinion, very easy to detect and prove from replay files. Since @ffm2 has done work about this, I will contact him to see if he can find usages in replays. This could potentially give answers about which lobby accounts Yekaterina has been using, or simply reveal which player would not hesitate using hidden cheats.

Pella

In the past year, I played some BeyondAllReason where I saw some features that 0ad can really benefit from. That's why I actively created many new forum topics suggesting the implementation of these features and tried to push forward the historical-rebalance mod because I see that as a revolutionary fix to many of 0ad's fatal flaws. Those players who stick to 0ad all the time may not be able to step back and see the grand picture of source of problems and their appropriate solutions. I also studied the engine source code extensively to look for possible solutions to multiprocessing and performance optimisations. 0ad will be able to say farewell to lagging if we could take advantage of all CPU cores, not just one. This is a difficult task. As you can see, I came with some innovative ideas and hopes for a positive change. I was actually planning to submit a patch to gitea to add new fixed mainland and selection bug, then share my new very fast boom on Youtube. But if you do not want my contribution, fine, I guess I will leave you guys in peace. Kate out.