Quote Originally Posted by barocca View Post
then one era with shogun units,

and one with mongols and monks,

all other era's i would like deleted during the install process,


frankly given the number of players this mod has lost waiting for the desync to be diagnosed and fixed we cannot hang our hat on 100% balanced gameplay.

what we need to do is attract as many players as we can and THEN start balancing.
Gameplay is never 100% balanced; neither Puzz nor I said anything about "100%." The balance of beta5 is exceptional. That has been accepted by many experienced players who have played it online at length.

I think it is a pipe dream to think that very many players will come and play this consistently, no matter how good it gets. Experienced players won't hang around and wait for the mod to be balanced. We've seen this already. They will come and check it out, and if it doesn't fly to their tastes, they will go. There are too many other fine choices out there on which to spend our leisure time.

Releasing a mod that has significant balance problems is a mistake.