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No they are not. Norse Harold has no evidence, only intuition and assumptions, but he claims he knows everything. He cannot produce a single log extract or screenshot to prove any transgressions from these people or their link to me. It's time to stop fuelling this troll thread. The author has not replied to the topic. He was not active in the lobby while I am there, so I don't know what inspired him to come up with this topic.

Firstly, Geriatrix is French and I am Brit. You can verify this by IP, language etc Secondly, the UK has ~65 million population. That is more than enough for a few 0ad players emerge. I and Shyft are not from the same city, and again you can verify that by IP. There are replays where we did an op teamwork to beat Geri on the flank (so all 3 appeared in one game) and another one where I played against him and knight. I find it insulting to be equated to that guy, even though his behaviour has improved. You wouldn't be happy if I claimed that you are a smurf of Jagsus and 0AD_BOSS and Groot just because you are all from India.

@Atrik, experimenting in many games, I find that changing the attack types in unit_actions.js does not automatically achieve sniping effect. The edit will allow you to kill off the most threatening units first, then the support unit. It also makes you less susceptible to people dancing with rams. However, you still have to do clicking repetitively if you want to snipe. This is not a workaround. If you want to automate that, maybe we should look elsewhere. If you set attack type to only ranged, after the death of the first target, your army descends into the general attack command and that hurts you more because your formation breaks. You can try to select all ranged units then queue up attack-ranged, but that just means spam pressing the keyboard 100 times, not sure if that is an improvement. You'd also have to press 3 keys down simultaneously: shift + ctrl + Q

Furthmore, Norse Harold, you created this thread not for improving 0ad, but to target me personally. You have named AInur, so we can all look at that user's posts: it's mostly programming and technical discussion, with a few suggestions on changing gameplay. There is no sign of malice. You have a record of driving helpful users away: I still remember NitroVicky and Inzhu. No matter whether Vicky is actually me or not, they were helping 0ad with developing a superior AI. If you didn't ban her from the forum, all of the single-players could be enjoying a more advanced AI right now. Same for Inzhu. They claimed they can implement parallel processing to 0ad. If you had encouraged him on that instead of stalking him around in the lobby delisting games, we could have said farewell to CPU lag since long time. All 3 of the users are positively contributing to the 0ad community, and all you can do is ban them based on your subjective suspicions. Now I ask: How have you improved the AI? How far did you nudge the engine towards multiprocessing? How many bugs have you found workarounds for? who is the real threat to the community that's constantly pushing players and contributors away? You created this thread to drive me away once again and prevent me from contributing. For what? What are you trying to defend, and against what? You can survey the lobby userbase's opinion towards Ricci-Curvature and you will see. Meanwhile, Shyft has also returned. He is a reasonable person now and I could get along with him, despite the occasional inappropriate language from him. You have made no effort to hunt him down, you only target me. I do not oppose the other lobby users challenging me, nor am I manipulating anyone into anything. I just play a few TGs and test out the historical patch with Leif. Simple life. When you were moderator, you had the absolute power to delete people's posts so that nobody could speak against you. You blamed many things on me and I was denied the right to speech. Now you have lost that power and it's time for you to be held accountable for your transgressions. However, as I said, the past is past and I don't want more mess. Let's put the history aside and seek for coexistence in the community. That's my proposal. If you decide to still take on unreasonable measures such as harassing manhunts, IP monitors, enslaving restitution, unjustified sanctions and bye-laws, etc against me, then I will simply leave. P.S. your topic ruined my weekend, thanks for that.

I think this topic has attracted enough unnecessary attention and should be locked. The nature of the topic has already violated the TOS by inciting public harassment towards an user and spreading false accusations with the intent of defame. Not all of Norse Harold's claims about me have been verified, especially regarding the YouTube part where it is off-WFG and someone has already admitted to owning the 0ad expert channel. I quote Norse Harold himself: """ your post contains numerous possibly inaccurate claims, possibly defamatory statements (claims without evidence), and statements that incite the player base to harass a user. Please read the forum terms of use here. And, you left out some important information. """ Source: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/119412-boycott-declaration-against-sanafur-in-0-ad/?do=findComment&comment=577093 The nature of this topic suits his own description perfectly. Everything (or mostly) was calm until you started this drama. I don't want drama, but I also don't want to be insulted or have trolls / spammers ruining my games. I just wanted to play and enjoy a few games with my new and old friends. I'm not planning to nor willing to do any kind of attacks or be toxic ( and I haven't). The entire lobby has been watching me closely in the past month of my active time. I've had 0 arguments, not even directly with Geri. If anything, I have diffused a few quarrels before they got serious. Yet Norse and Geri still won't leave me alone. So who is the problem here?

No! I'm not going to distribute questionable features, as it won't be welcomed. Atrik, you are the one who first proposed changes to unit_actions.js, I think the auto snipe topic has explained quite clearly how to edit the file, so no need for such a "cheat mod" @ffm2 I don't know what is walk custom, but I remember that game very well. I and aslaug did an early p3 push on ijavadev and there was huge lag (for me). The likely cause is dancing. At the end of the game I came under archer fire so I danced my pikeman to buy slingers time to chase up to archers.

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.

Hold up, Since I have made no attempt to disguise my identity both in the lobby and the forum, why does this topic exist? Those of you who have played with Ricci-Curvature, you have seen me proudly announcing myself. I think this is universal to all players who have interacted with me in the lobby. I have even told Dunedan my list of accounts that I made in the past just so that he can guarantee that they are banned. Therefore this topic's very existence might be an attempt to smear me again, but also to instigate a sense of insecurity amongst the current players. The author of the topic is rarely active in the lobby (I don't recall seeing him active since I returned). But he is trying to create much fear and an imaginary enemy from nothing. Why?

That's right. When I attack, I always use ctrl + Q. This only attacks units and not buildings. To make it more efficient, I changed the attack classes to {"Ranged", "Cavalry", "Infantry"} This change prevents the attack move from attacking women or siege. However, it does not last long; as soon as the first targets die, the unit actions return to normal attack. It's does not make visible change in large scale battles on empty ground. Good question, I don't know neither. It's been too long. Evidently this is something carried forward from many years ago. As ffm correctly pointed out, I declared immediately who I am and stated my rating accurately. I made no attempt to hide. I even busted imposters who try to pretend to be me for whatever reason. Some of the accusations from Norse Harold are invalid and unbased; no evidence has ever been presented to anyone. He claims that he has sufficient proof but he fails to show anything against me. Not a single IP correlation. Not a single access log. Regarding the cheat video on YouTube, if I was the owner of that channel, why would I allow Getriatrix and other trolls to use it against me? I would have taken it down since a long time ago! Even Norse Harold threatened me to take them down. I deleted Helicity, I deleted Kate0AD, but the ownership of that 0ad expert is not in my hands! I cannot do anything!

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.

I came back 1 and half year later hoping to make some positive changes, by helping new players in the lobby, fixing broken mods for people, testing out new features and explaining 0ad mechanics to everyone... I also made some new friends in the Discord server. Most people were very nice to me, so everything was smooth in the first 2 months and I thought this could be the beginning of some enjoyable time for everybody. It was all going well until Getriatrix (who is also known as may other accounts) recognised me and decided to harass me and troll me non-stop. I don't remember why he hated me so much, so I tried to respond politely to his false accusations and harassment initially. But he decides to do it at random times during games. I have reported his actions back to Dunedan, but he bypassed bans and made more accounts that were a total headache to me and many other players. It is important to note that I have never insulted him back or be toxic to anybody. I didn't even ban him from my games because I feared escalated aggression from him. My solution was to show everyone the reveal chat and stat mods so that people could detect him immediately and act accordingly. But after Dunedan warned me not to do so, so I deleted every trace of these potential cheat mods, including the github repo. Regarding Astra-, I don't want to say much apart from I have some replays featuring both of us simultaneously, including a 1v1 where I beat them. IP trace and eye witnesses will tell everything. So, @Norse_Harold, what is your intention now? I don't know why you created this topic, 1 year and half after all that has ended? You must admit, you did overstep your moderator role and monitored me outside of WFG platforms and used intrusive measures that are not a part of WFG terms. All of my complaints were true on my behalf. If you want to ban me again, good news for you, I have already uninstalled 0ad completely because I don't want to be trolled again by Getriatrix. You can ask Dunedan about the details; I accidentally saw your topic when I was writing to him. If you attempt to "enslave" me using some restitution scheme, I'm not going to fall for it a second time. I will not submit Timesheet records to you! I will not have to report to you all of my forum visit times and reading content! I will not allow you to scrap my work as you wish! I will only adhere to the official TOS and not to your clandestine bye-laws! My time is valuable! I am in a free country, not a slave kingdom of yours!

It would only be less boring, because then a game won't have to end at min 18:00 because one dude spammed some uncounterable unit for another team. Another example is Ptol vs Ptol camel rush. Ptols have 0 way to defend against camels in P1 apart from spamming more. So whoever spams the most camels win. Given the current champ spam meta of A26, Brits do seem weaker than Gauls. That's primarily due to chariots instead of spear cav and missing the naked fanatic, which can counter champ cav. If Brits can have more diverse units then that would be better.

Problem is, nobody can agree on exactly what counts and cheating and what doesn't. We have a huge spectrum to tolerances from outlawing Ptolemies to allowing anything less than an Engine recompilation. There are hot debates about whether these are cheating: - Ptolemies - Using Roman and Macedonian spear cav to harass early - Using autotrain - Quickstart, ProGUI and other automations - Sniping - Dancing - AbstractGUI - Teleportation through buildings - Having better hardware and OS than other players

Who needs unit silhouettes when your Mainland looks like this? Leopard, download this mod at: https://github.com/xavaran-0ad/hyper0ad

We ended up in this position because of the need for balance and diversity. Some civs were OP. The solution was to delete units from the OP civs to make them weaker. More and more content was removed from the game and eventually the civs are broken like now. We've lost the Cardakes Mercenaries for Persians, the Stoa, the black cloaks, the rotary mill and god knows how much stuff before them. The better way to achieve balance and diversity is to give every civ some basic units (jav + sling or equivalent + archer) so that it's not fatally vulnerable, then add more faction specific bonus units on top of that. If a civ is weak, give it more units to strengthen it instead of cutting down everyone else. Leif has solved this problem by giving Kushites a slinger unit, a slave Archer to Spartans, axe to celts... now every civ in his mod is complete.