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You won't ever create it I'm challanging you, not saying you are not capable of it.

To find out if this is customrating issue you should observe 2 situations: Host of the game have customrating Guest connecting has customrating I only know if you set fixed string and in customrating you will always join with that string to that game. Also make sure you don't use experiemental random numeric setup, which is there only for situation you host game (you cant disconnect). it would generate your random rating every time you connect.

@Norse_Harold Did great analysis. I remember some players were complaining not able to join my hosted games. I noticed that while using VPN, it made troubles while using VPN in and protocol was set to WireGuard I changed to OpenVPN and haven't heard any complains after. I'm assuming it confirms issue is related to that response on github link which posted by @hyperion I can help you with testing if someones describes me what to do. Please have patience I'm smart but not as much as you guys.

When feature is available to EVERYONE it is not cheating but it is game feature. Use your words wisely. Also any new features usually comes from smart people. It is kind of automation (easing manual repetive tasks) and focus more on strategy. Usually this is how game should evolve. It cannot be considered as cheating. Cheating is what gives you advantage and you don't have access to it. - Game modification which are not publicly available and not possible to integrate to future 0ad version to enhance game play - Modification of game stats - Physical hw cheatings / different HW (faster, better mouse, mechanical keyboard...) these nobody considers, but gives huge advantage in response times. Auto-aim, multiclicks... etc..

This might be usefull to you for boosting CPU https://github.com/nbebaw/boostchanger or https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode In the past I had issue with WIFI, either buy external USB wifi with antenna or use hardwired cable. Those are most likely issues

this button really not present also in situation where you would expect it will be there. so contextual mechanism not working correctly

Currently there is mess with basic term what are these changes? No single in-game help to see them (easy - straight-forward), Im not able to digit out on forum, gihlabs and everywhere else (it is so much time consuming activity and just imagine everyone should follow it?). My suggestion is the person who is signing this mod @Stan` ? he should also check these details are provided and implementd in-game (no other channels) for particular "version". The code to show such readme when new version is delivered can be taken from autociv or similar mods.

Today many players using their own "tools" to get edge (advantage) and they keep it secret. This way making macros public let players not having programming skill to get to similar level. This cannot be considered as cheating or anything else. This should be a MUST in the game to make games more competitive. Once autociv was considered as such "cheating tool", today is is basic tool most players can't imagine play without [I even rememmber nani was removing feature to see how many idle unit you have in minimap - he considered this too strong but fact is if this is publicly available no issues] (and 0ad team slowly adding these features to 0ad - but very slow - and main reason is they dont want to manintain it = funny, but fact) So nobody complains if other player have own tools and they are not aware of them, but now critique comes when someone makes public effort? Kindly wake up! The activity mentula is doing is great and he already deserve at least some of these tools to be "default" 0ad tools. One more feature I would like to see and call it cheat but it is your problem Auto-attack targeting hero | Auto-retreat hero (already used by some players) Auto-adding default groups when game starts (it is never ending repeating activity and trully boring) Set default stance per unit type Auto-sent infra units to towers (nothing kill your keybord more if you try protect against Hans sword rush and you will definitely lose your eco cycle to handle all these units moving there and back and many times commands you gave are ignored and you have to re-click 2times or more - fact!) Evenly distribute women on farm build Barracks production to be auto-adjusted if not resources for all selected (sometimes you are not able to even product 1 soldier coz of multiple baracks selection or it will produce only in few barracks if higher batch and rest of baracks are idling - but could be producing if some resource availalbe in lower limits) Further you talk of cheating, most advantage today is strongest CPU&GPU to get UI responses better than opponent => leads to micro skill gap, it is reason why some "light version of 0ad exist" without heavy 3D objects to address this at least to few ms.

What about all the time rating + current alfa "rating" - both would be updated at the same time, but in-game visible only "current alfa" rating + in user profile would be "all the time rating" if you like this idea give it like - many people just read and dont act.. Be better!

I'm personally against 100% blocking of user to play. It is simple, if you are raising your kids they make many mistakes, but they deserve to get punsihed but also rewarded if they improve. At the end we all want better world. Even I'm not having great experience with this player, ultimate solution usually leads to worseining situation. The only thing what works is survilance (up to some level) [translate it to source code improvement]- trust but check and act. It is also true that 0ad team is not effective enough (probably many reason and one would be this is not money making activity and we all have to make living somehow) Simply said, 0ad needs more devs but also very friendly approarch to "possible" contributors (which honestly is not current status)

Still there is no easy way to see what are current changes, why this is not available in-game via menu? Please make it priority or people got confused with so many releases and not utilize all changes. Even looking for them here or some git or whatever is so diffucult.

There is explanation text so read it accordingly. Well imitation or similar topic is probably not an issue if you consider how many dupe stuff we can buy on the market. it only express my opinion and if you like it just join

sorry I'm not that technically strong how to enforce it, but I guess simply enforce that VPN provider would do the job. Or find another solution like new created accounts would not go to real lobby but some introdoction lobby for newbies... there is many smart guys who can find solution.

@vinmeyou are smartest of all, no one else even comes close and you have taught us all many things, most important things, great things and we all thank you for this. (any1 who agrees, please upvote)

System wide solution could be: - Act fast no delays! - Mute user from lobby by system and disallow to create a hosted game via lobby. - Players who host would simply not assign or auto-ban him (HostEnhanced mod has such feature) - To avoid another account creation simply ban IP for a day/week Apply to any account with similar behaviour. Only strong enforcement is the way how to threat with toxic. None of above followed = dont waste your time to even resolve it and to contribute - this player is banned from any my hosted game since today.