Why I can't wait for the PTE to go public...

Ladders, yeah yeah that is great and all except I don't play 1v1s.

The reason I am really psyched?

Because we'll finally have modded servers showing as default! This means it will be much much easier to get modded server games going with randoms. And in case you didn't know, the modding scene is improving every day. We're starting to see all kinds of exciting conversion and gameplay mods. It's basically the only thing keeping me interested in PA.

So make sure to join some modded servers once it is out!!

edit: title poo, public = standard build. PTE is public already

You have no idea how excited I am to get some randoms into the CUB and see how they like it.

Or hate it.





I just want feedback. Who cares lol.

I'm going to lay traps all over the place with balance mods that all they do is change the names of the units. And it's still vanilla and see if people notice

I will join you in your Troll-foolery.

Statera is coming!

The only issue guys is... I believe they still need to fix the issue of icons on server mods... D:

Yeah it was Sorian who was pushing hard for this. I'm not super keen on using it myself but for the good of the game and the modding community I think this is excellent.

I'll make balance mods that are almost identical to popular balance mods and my mods will have the same name, but the optimal strategy will be to spam fabbers and use the uber cannons that I will secretly put on them for only people using my commander of choice!

Actually yeah. Make a balance mod that replaces some paid commander by an avatar builder.

Possibly we need a way to verify the mod checksum to prevent this from happening.

I don't think that many trolls like that exist. Like it never has been a problem anywhere else?

You underestimate my neptunio's skills.

Agree. I think mods will help satisfy a lot of the people who want things the Devs don't want to support. We're already seeing all kinds of crazy mods with experimental and such. A little more love from the devs in this area could help ensure PA doesn't fizzle out.

Plenty of trolls exist. It doesn't matter if you are just playing random games but I wouldn't be comfortable playing a tournament with mods as they stand unless someone independent hosted each match.

gotta wait 24 hours for ladders going stable now

I just can't wait for the balance to be fixed.

don't put your hopes to high ...

Nah, you missed @mered4's point - once the PTE launches, balance will be fixed because we'll be able to easily populate modded servers with randoms. We officially won't need vanilla balance anymore - it will just be a reference point.

Sidequestion: which gameplay mods are effected by the icon bug?

why should i be intrested in that?

RCBM and Statera. RCBM pretty severely and Statera is pretty bad as well. Possibly ModX?

this opens up a lot more playability for those of us who prefer mods to Uber's crappy balance.