@ff03k64 It is a work-in-progress map. I have had a little pause in developing it, but I think that I am about ready to begin working on it again. I have not released a playable beta version yet, but it will come out eventually. Look for it in the maps and mods category.

@Cernel Any reason why not? Should you be forced to create a new account if you want to update your username? There were technical reasons why it was not possible before, so it was not 'originally' included because it was actually difficult to update.

@Frostion I'm quite sure that will result only in you virtually always maxing out the number of towers you send (so virtually always sending 1 on small, 2 on medium and 3 on large), if sending any, as when you remove power from your opponent, each additional power removal is more advantageous than the previous one. However, sorry forget what I said on removing rolls. The stack limit is per unit, so you cannot remove rolls from a same unit with a same type of support more than once, anyways. I see what you are getting at is that more advanced defences should require increasingly huge besieging efforts, but yeah you cannot have it the way you are going.

Thanks for the quick thoughts/feedback. We'd have to work out some issues for the blank map. It could be that we start off with an empty map that can be loaded, or there is a quick wizard process that gets a map maker to that point. TBD exactly, main idea though is that the tools would be moved to in-game rather than be completely external. Glad the idea of map configuration hosting sounds good. Implicit to that idea, is that the entire map would be stored on the server, in DB!! No more github manipulation or uploads. Hence the asset split is particularly useful. If the UI tools are good, then map makers will have a UI to select their assets by image and it will be written into the configuration properly without anyone dealing with IDs. Part of the goal would be to decrease the manual file editing. I suspect a fallback to file system will almost always be there to support offline map making. I was thinking that the potential new map database could write out to a github repository and check in the contents, largely to serve as a backup. That's a detail for now that is less important compared to the other main ideas.

Transferred to bug tracker: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/5216 DanVanAtta created this issue in triplea-game/triplea open UI Freeze Problem vs AI #5216

@redrum @LaFayette I agree with Red. Gitter was only nec when we did not have the forum stable yet. Also the Warclub/Lobby server has not been crashing every once in a while like the old days -"Knock's on wood!" I would like to possibly keep the error notification part if that is easy to continue?

@RoiEX I am working on a system to randomly assign nations to alliances and I am using a small map for testing. I hope this gets fixed soon.