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Thanks Kip for the prompt and thorough reply.

I would love to have a public facing issue tracker but it is difficult to find a good one that fits our hosting requirements and does not add to our costs.  We are currently using Axosoft internally and might be able to create a public interface to it using their api but that would draw time away from working on the game itself.  We are also using GIT internally but keep in mind that this is not an open source mod.

That's good to hear. Release notes or product roadmaps would go a long way to informing the player base, and can be accomplished without sharing the repo.

As has been discussed countless times before, a random loot system is the fairest system available at the moment.  No, it does not directly reward players for putting in more effort but effort is still required to keep the team alive to reach later waves.  There is no way to gauge the effort put forth by shielders and medics.

From my understanding, shields do not have a property for damage taken, but it can be reverse engineered by calculating damage done by bots. The same with medic healing, you can calculate the damage done by bots, excluding friendly fire and falling damage. And to circumvent abuse of the shield and healing system, implement a cap of damage per bot per shield and player, so you can't spam to inflate contribution. Systems like this have existed in games for well over a decade in far larger scale, so it's certainly possible.

While technically there is no "true" randomness for computers, what is available is good enough for our purposes.  Also remember that to properly gauge the spread of the results, you must look at a very large sample of data - not just a few runs.  With regards to the lottery analogy, instead of buying more tickets, you need to spend more time playing.

Yes, the sample size I am using from my personal experience is hundreds of Odin kills alone per person. And the time spent by these people is in the thousands of hours.

I would argue that retaining players and gaining new players are both difficult, especially for a game as old as Warband.  There is only so much that can be done to keep the game fresh and we will continue to do our best to achieve this.

It is, but retention comes at a much reduced cost in effort to keep players rather than outreach.