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Well, now everything is clear. The goal is to avoid downsides and take the upsides, incorporating them into SOD.
The game will be great.

The main downside of SOD is the lack of balance. How to fix it without affecting the gameplay – only Chuck Norris knows. Therefore, during the development of the TE, the question of preserving the SOD gameplay was not even raised.

But the problem here is not even in the gameplay and other things. Let's say a miracle happened, and some version that satisfies everyone in terms of gameplay emerged. And everyone started playing it, even Rebel. What will happen?

That's right – Rebel will start dominating everyone, simply because there are many players among the VT players who are more skilled than him. In terms of overall hero skill, not tied to the version. And since this hurts his ego, he will start inventing reasons why he shouldn't play this version, but instead go back to playing SOD with newbies.

As the unforgettable Professor Savelyev taught us, the human brain resists stress on its own, and one way to overcome this resistance is the desire to assert oneself, to show off, which leads to the release of certain hormones into the brain that stimulate its work, the famous enthusiasm. It is clear that these hormones are released mainly during successes (or the expectation of successes). And they make people addicted to situations where they once achieved success.

That is, the main plus of SOD is not the gameplay, but the community. The principle "it is better to be the first in the village than the second in Rome" has not been canceled. It is better to be the champion of uryupinskportal.net in SOD than to be on the sidelines of VT-MM6; there will be something to remember in old age, about what glorious times there were.

This position is perfectly understandable to me; I cannot say that I strongly criticize it; I myself have done this more than once. Everyone realizes themselves in their own way.

It's just that things need to be called by their names. And not invent excuses for yourself that I play SOD because it is better than VT. Because this is simply not true; VT, as a competitive game, surpasses it by a head in almost all respects.

This is exactly what I am arguing about, and not about people's right to choose a version.