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Not sure if it counts as balance change, but I'm currently working on a pull request that will change the way artilleries behave when shooting through the fog. Currently, when arties shoot a building, they magically know when it is destroyed. My patch changes the logic so that they continue to shoot...

From what I know, in 1v1 competitive games, it is very rare to someone winning by moving his mcv that early. It works as a surprise, but if someone scouted it, it will usually fail. No need to punish it further imho.

I'm the only one to miss patches?

Dynamite cliff - resource.openra.net/maps/22168/

People in the league fight mostly against people in their own division. Therefore I would guess these scores are only accurate within a division, aren't they? This seems like a really problematic method, since it give the person who is 4th place a higher ELO than the guy who is 7th in masters. Also,...

I remember asking in the past about whether we can get all view modes that are supported in spec mode. I was told that it's not trivial to enable it for normal game play as well. Please note that if you are running on linux you can use the OPENRA_DISPLAY_SCALE environment variable to get a crazy zoo...

Crazy idea - change hospital from a neutral building into a building that everyone can build. Also change its effect from healing everyone into a healing aura. Have it cost roughly the same as service depot.

If these bugs are fixed than using engineers to take buildings in an enemy's base may also become more viable, requiring people to be fast on the "sell" button.

Can't hijacker be patched by giving it a very short ranged "freeze weapon"? The weapon will have a very low rate of fire, and will freeze the vehicle that it hits for enough time for the hijacker to enter it. I remember that I saw a freeze ray in Noit's mod, so it should be possible.

No one is forcing you to concentrate your army in one spot all the time.

I don't know discord very well, but I really recommend something which is easily searchable. At some point you will want to be able to read past discussions about things. Maybe discord is good for this, but if it depended on me, I would prefer a forum. (Then again, it doesn't depend on me, which is ...

If you think that a 4k display is not a cheat, why not allow everyone to get access to all zoom levels and/or make the scale variable accessible via a UI. Is it just a matter of "somebody should implement that and we lack resources"? Or are there also balancing issues?

Another option could be for the lobby to report the resolution of each player, or for it to be saved in replays. This would allow knowing if resolution really gives an advantage, and would allow players to decide accordingly.