> I think that we should act to leverage the experience of these players > -- who each probably play far more competitive multiplayer than any > developers -- and involve them in the development process.
I think it would be good to involve them deper into balancing mp. I think it is easziest to balance Wesnoth with playing mp-mode. In campaigns you only play against ai, that is fairly stupid. So it should be tested against humans :) > One possible way we could do this is open a sub-forum on multiplayer > discussions. Another way is to invite the players who we think have > valuable feedback to this mailing list. Yet another way would be to open > a new mailing list specifically for discussion of multiplayer balancing > and invite them to that (since they might not be interested in technical > discussions). I'd say there should be some things: 1) an extra "balancing-forum": there could be extra threads per fraction so that it becomes comparable which fractions are overpowered and which are too weak. I think it would be good to have a comparison between the fractions. It seems to me that undead (especially ghosts) are hard to kill with every fraction beside drakes. I would really welcome it, if all fractions would be balanced against each other. 2) i think an extra ml only for balancing would be nice. There could be some more mp-players be involved. 3) i think it is verz important to provide a cvs-snapshot or a good howto so that more mp-players will play cvs. We can only decide if the changes are good or not, if it is excessivly tested. I think it would be great to have something like a daily windows-snapshot. Linux users should be able to compile the cvs version theiselfs but it is not this easy for windows only users. And for the mac users out there there should either be a good howto with xcode (sanna please help us :) ) or a compiled version like for windows. We could split up the files. One tarball for all the datafiles and one for the binary. I don't think we need to provide the editor and so on. It would then be enough to update the "datatarball" everytime when we have changes at the units. And there should be another tarball that you only have to get once for the images and sounds. For balancing there is no need to update that tarball very often :) Sorry that this mail became this long... CU Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic -- DSL Komplett von GMX +++ Supergünstig und stressfrei einsteigen! AKTION "Kein Einrichtungspreis" nutzen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
