Recommended turn order based on play times:

@all:
As you know, there is currently several balance discussions ongoing, some dedicated to Conversion, others to Necro, others to balance issues outside conversion & Necro, a last one to XP farming. There is also a more general discussion about the settings of the next PBEM tournament.
On the "other balance issues" discussion, I checked the opinions of everyone so far and here are the changes that get at least 3 approvals and no disagreement. I flagged them as “Priority changes” and highlighted them in yellow in the table.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1flsHncpzAmJa_2xMHZ6Tlp-mf69ej2mYrSGNc4V3_QA/edit?usp=sharing

Could you please give your opinion on them so that we accept them or reject them for a balance mod? You can write in the discussion on the official forum (no need to read the whole thread, just comments these changes): http://aow.triumph.net/forums... or directly here and I'll repost for you there (to save your time).

Ha03d
Jesters get High Morale on Veteran, Solace on Elite (was Scorching projectile and Explosive Death on Elite)
Ha06
Give a lesser version of Mighty Meek (+1 def, +1 dmg by tier level difference) to Halfling T1
Ha08
Halfling cities get +75% on “Produce merchandise”
Ha09b
Brew Brothers’ Nourishing Meal resets the counter on Farmers’ Throw Chicken.
Brew Brothers have Inflict Crippling Wounds
Ha09d
Brew Brothers ignore ranged penalty
Ha09e
Brew Brothers’s Nourishing Meal has an effect similar to Bolster on its target
Ha15
Halfling Assassins get Pass Wall on Veteran (was on Elite)
Ha15a
Halfling Assassins get a new ability Shoot Poisonous Darts, short range, 1 physical damage, 4 poison damage, Inflict Noxious Vulnerability, Inflict Enfeebling Fever, Inflict Exhausting Fatigue, Inflict Severely Poisoned, and costs 10 gold more
Ha24a
Halfling economic RG3 also provides bonus for haste berries, clover, flowers, melons

@16 players tournament: ok it was quick... got killed stupidly without my throne... on turn 14. So we can resume for round 5.
I'm going to do the reporting soon, need to confirm how we do it with Markymark.
So Lightform, Eskild, gabthegab, please resend your class / race to judges in case you want to change (or if you hadn't done it yet).
We're going to randomly choose host too. Then, as usual, please post the settings screenshots for the host. EDIT: actually hosts had already been chosen last time so you can post the settings and start immediately EDIT2:

mauvebutterfly

ehall20

hatifnat

We still do not have your class / race. Please send them so that your match can start (+ settings of the match for the host).

marcuspers joined !!

@2nd 8 players tournament: round 2 is started

@1st 8 players tournament: currently on hold, sorry.
Blackcat will play against badborre to see who replace NoLife.
We are waiting for the answer of Castaneda, to see who replace Pothead Pixie.

@16 players tournament: my rematch against Lightform is ongoing, turn 13. When it's finished, we can resume.

@all: here is the judges' decision regarding NoLife and Pothead Pixie:
In the 1st 8 players tournament, Pothead Pixie disappeared and NoLife quitted.
NoLife had 1 victory, 1 loss and Pothead had 2 victories.

So they have the same number of victories as Gilafron, Castaneda, olschenstein for NoLife and Blackcat and badborre for Pothead (we looked at all the 32 players involved in the 3 sessions of the PBEM tournament).

After discussion among the judges, we propose that one of these 3 players and one of the 2 other players thus replace the missing players. We asked for their interest by PM. We will see how we do according to their answer.


Reminder: there is currently a balance discussion to prepare a mod for next tournament http://aow.triumph.net/forums...

@EarL and Gladis: please wait until the host is selected to start (Markymark will do that soon). It needs to be the 1st player. I know you're brothers but that's a not a reason to not send your class / race to the judges (necessary for next round) + respect the host rule. Ok if you don't want to post the screenshots of the settings (even if I think it would be a good idea, you can make mistakes and we could help you spot them).

@all: we are waiting for Fistandantilus's opinion regarding the proposition to replace NoLife and Pothead (but the players who would replace them are not those cited by Skuns).

@Lightform: also waiting for Fistandantilus's feedback to continue our game (I had a reload due to failed upload due to internet disconnection, due to Windows 10 upgrade....... -_-)

@2nd tournament players: round 1 just finished. Please send your class / race to the judges (to the opponent of Fistandantilus: obviously do not send it to him). The host will be chosen soon, then will be able to start your match after the host post the screenshots somewhere. EDIT: so official date of the start of round 2 is probably 30/03/2016

Good thoughts Skuns, but I'm not interested in rejoining the duel tournament. Duel isn't my thing

I really do like the thoughts of xlnt, but since I'm no duellist it doesn't really matter.

Maybe at some point I consider organising a 2 vs 2 tournament, but right now I just don't have the time for it.

Discussion on race / class balance (for next tournament) started here: http://aow.triumph.net/forums...

Mmh, ok let's discuss that in the topic opened to discuss settings for the next tournament then: http://aow.triumph.net/forums...

Personally, I don't like the idea. I prefer to be able to replay the same race / class. I don't think it's a big issue. Actually, if you do, your opponent can anticipate it and counter your class / race.

Yes - you start some random generator and sent the results to both players and one has to be goblin sorc and the other a tygran dreathnougt.

Or at least we get to choose the same race/class only once, not every other round. I have to pick Orcs only once in the tournament and i can be a Necromancer only once. (well... at the finals - haha)

I don't get how that would work? The judges choose the class / race for the players?

For the next tournament: could we switch the race/class, so that the judge/s mail the combo to the players - not the other way around?

Ok, that's an interesting idea, we'll discuss it.

Hi. A few words about 2-nd PBEM tournament. It looks like that at the end of the tournament is no longer any struggle due to lack of Pothead and Nolife's sabotage. It is unfair to those active players as Bethrezen, xlnt and, maybe, Kwibus. I understand that the shuffle of players is now no sense. But maybe if the other tournament participants do not mind, you may give another chance to the participation/victory for listed players. And we may to replace Pothead at semifinal in the Winner bracket.
If you will agree, I see two ways for this. First way is some kind of lottery where only one player will be chosen by random selection. Second way is a mini-battle by tournament rules between players with minimum number of played games during all tournament: Bethrezen and xlnt.

Redil quitted!

Fair enough Hiliadan, but then again it will atleast get the peoples attention when posting here.

Also nice work cbower. 

Ok, I think it's better if we can continue the discussion here: http://aow.triumph.net/forums...
Otherwise, we are spamming a bit players who may not want to read that much about it.

Also, regarding mod, I think we need to work with Zaskow and not start creating a new mod. We can start the discussion about balances on the topic I opened on the official forum, and then when it takes more shape, maybe move to a specific topic.
You can also directly discuss here: http://aow.triumph.net/forums...

Forgot changes are listed on the mod page. Also it just showed up on the main page, so you should be able to see it by filtered most recent mods.

Well I put together quick a PBEM No Hero Conversion mod. For some reason it hasn't populated on the workshop page yet, but I was able to download it and run it. It check out with previous test. Since it is not on the main board yet, try following me on steam at cbower and search by authors you follow. This sort of mod is very easy and I don't really care what we decide to replace things with or if we want to further modify heroes. Playing around with the existing, take some notes and we can put a better copy out there soon. I don't do icon work, so any suggestions will have to use existing icons, I can make new abilities, but it's best that they template off of existing abilities. I put this together in like an 90 minutes including testing each hero so be gentle. If we want to talk more about this stuff I suggest we put together a skype group to chat or talk. But for now I will take suggestions and info here.

for test you may want to use cheats in single player:
ctrl+alt+c will bring up the cheat menu. If you select your hero first, bring up the cheat menu and type hauer you will level the hero.

url:
http://steamcommunity.com/sha...

Some good stuff here.
I have to agree with xlnt that less sites is maybe not a good idea, because it greatly reduces the things to do a turn.

Removing mind control completely completely rebalances the game and is extremely tricky.
Personally I think a Necro can't like without ghouling since it's economy is crippled. Not really thought too deeply about it, but I would restrict ghouling to death bringers, but that would make Necros extremely weak early game. 
Keep in mind that all others won't be able to mindcontrol though.