Hello everyone. Recently a post about a "balance council" got some attention on the forum.
This isn't the first time it's been brought up. Last year Anjew brought it up to pchote in the IRC but nothing came of it.
In the last few months the OpenRA Discord Server has taken off and now has dozens of active users. As a moderator of the Discord Server and being interested in the balance council idea I have come up with the idea of holding a trial run in a restricted channel on the discord server.
Initialisation
Shortly after this has been posted I will be sending invites and instructions to the following players:
- SoScared
- Omnom
- AoAGeneral
- Frame Limiter
- Christian
Process
Once the council has been formed the discussion process will begin. The council will bring up ideas and discuss them. When an idea is agreed on as being a good change for OpenRA then it will be tested until the council is happy or until the idea is discarded. The idea, now fleshed out and tested, is either submitted as a pr (where it is strongly agreed on) or a forum post where more opinions are wanted.
Future
The aim of this trial is to prove that a balance council is (or is not) a more effective way of balancing OpenRA's mods. If it proves very successful it could lead to a dedicated space here on Sleipnirs Stuff for such a council. Any feedback on the process would be great to have.