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Thank you, soloooyo. I have a list of reported rated 1v1 cheaters to hand to Hannibal eventually. He reported Slawek quitting host after being overpowered.

borg(?000) claimed to be DaDracula yesterday. I believe he speaks french or spanish. Borg says the one playing as chrtgtr was quite strong. (maybe top 20?) Anyhow someone is retrieving host ips to do this. Joining by ip as free as it is right now presents some challenges. You can make funny games as above but it's potentially dangerous when trolls steal identities. You can spot these trolls when seen from lobby, they are in a game but not in lobby. But is it possible to fake any account in another game when real person is afk in lobby or playing? A slight change in rating can fool most. A coutry flag next to name could help identifying these trolls. I had a couple of reports of people claiming Ratings bot didn't gave points after they won rated 1v1 and joining by ip could be the reason. Some people have referred to games I supposedly played but it wasn't me, I was no where near 0ad at that time.

Thank you for the uploads, Feldfeld

Isn't the game state in one of these objects? https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/9c792c327af49702eb146d8551235ebc650fd561/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/ai/common-api/shared.js baseAI uses it like this this.gameState = sharedAI.gameState[this.player]; I think its a pretty elaborate js object with many nested dictionaries and somewhere in the simulation code gets updated each player's turn.

You can kill a very hard AI very easily. Just make a couple of horses very early and run around the perimeter of the enemy base. All its soldiers will start following. Bring then some men and kill chasing units and capture and destroy buildings. Don't stop moving cav in circles. The AI will stop trying soon. It gets pretty boring playing vs AI.

Please do, Alekusu. Thanks. There are some funny tricks there like the mysterious horse dance.

If you can sort the players in order of strength, then you use the following algorithm to make fair teams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_problem#The_greedy_algorithm I used the quickest partition 1 22 11 22 1 that Feldfeld mentioned and it works pretty well unless there are 3 consecutive equally good players.

Dizaka and temple did it in less than 12 using ptos. Try them.

sphyrth: Here are some games I hosted for butcher=benny. He used to be the best player and still is top 5. wwbutcher.zip

Also, batch size 1 popular but since I can't handle so much clicking i go with bs 2, wich is good and i think borg uses that.

Some commonly used armies, massed Athens: Phase 2 sword champs + slingers. Phase 2 sword cav. Phase 3 archer + citizen spears Brits: Phase 2 sword cav or slingers. Hero Cunobelin (OP healer) non aggressive + slingers and/or sword cav. Carth: Archers + eles. Sword iberian cav + Marhabal. Gauls: Sword cav + fanatics. Slingers. Iberia: Fire cav + spear cav to block. Fire ships. Slingers + rams. Mace: P1 spear cav. Spear champs + hero Philip. Rams + hero Demetrius + citizens Maurya: Archers + eles. Sword cav. Charriots (hard to get). Persia: Archers + eles. Sword cav and/or charriots + hero Cyrus. Pto: Range units + Cleopatra + eles. Rome: Phase 1 spear cav. Citizens + hero Marcus + rams. Champion sword cav Sele: Archer cav (+ Antiochus + charriots). Sparta: Skiritai + skirms (+ spears). Leonidas + champs + champ skirms (+ skiris). All civs strong but some (pto, sele) might run into trouble (no good army early). OPiest civ: Persia, if you can mass charriots very fast (min 10-12). Then brit: slinger + cunobelin. Late mace: full champion army. Best player by far: upgraded borg-, when he started harrasing early with cav. Strongest players: (borg), (defenderbenny=ww_butcher, vercingetorix, liberty, zoro), (feldfeld, JC, arcadius, physic, temple) Early phase 2 (3-4) only for sword cav or fanatic rush. Big citizen army to defend more important than early phase 3. Capture faster but destroy garrisoned buildings. Cav rush is very effective now. Hope to see you fighting for the highest ranks soon.