It would be great if igrik and (but that's unlikely) RoseKavalier read this post...
And I haven't accumulated many bug fixes during this time. Almost all of them go to Era (which I don't actually play. I don't play SoD at all. HotA already has fixes) and I always post them somewhere in the source code. But I will gather what I have into one place and pass it on.
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Also, after N years, I have come to the conclusion that only the second path is the right one. This is clearly seen in the example of Wog/Era. The huge variety of mods and scripts (especially those written haphazardly) creates enormous complexity in bringing the game to stability, and the process of fixing errors caused by this optionality is a rather laborious task. And multiplayer is out of the question here.