=Lizard=
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As harsh reality shows, the VT project is dead. You can throw tomatoes at me, but there is clear evidence of this, apart from my personal opinion: there is a slow outflow of players from VT. Almost none of the innovations announced at the project's launch have been implemented.
As a regular participant in tournaments, I can state that the only thing that keeps VT as the main tournament version is the presence of symmetrical maps (at the last CIS tournament, as far as I remember, it was the leader in the number of games played). And even here there is a problem: Ivor has long made a good built-in generator for symmetrical maps, and asm has not been able to integrate it into VT for 2 years; as a result, Cobra and I played a buggy generation with one secondary resource and either 12 or 16 sides in Odessa. You could say we were idiots, but the situation, for example, was repeated in a game between Bayazet and Valenok as part of a team tournament on heroeswt.
The conclusion is simple: I propose that for the Minsk 2014, in addition to games on symmetrical maps, we declare SoD with the XD mod as the base version. And we will all together ask the Bara team to go against their principles and slightly influence the gameplay: to make an optional ability to rebuild the Guildhall - in my opinion, this is the only critical drawback of SoD. In a recent game with Mizrael: I had a Town Portal right away in the tavern library, and he had 4 built Guildhalls and Sosso Pavliashvili.
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Everything will be done by New Year's. There was a serious private conversation between me and Mee, during which it was decided: if "everything promised" is implemented and tested by New Year's, then CIS-2014 will be held on full-VT. If not, I will look for (of course, collegially - with the participation of many opinions) - "compromise options". Thank you for your attention.