Everything seems to be working. The last few fights have had no bugs at all; although there has been no word on the forums from the developers who are busy doing motion-capture at the moment.
I can assure you that any suspicion of attacks made because of this bug is misplaced. If you don't believe me, think about this. Say we sent a large army to one of your cities and took it back because it was determined that defenders were consistently more bugged. What the fuck would stop you from taking it IMMEDIATELY BACK because we would be the new defenders of that city? It's strategically unsound.
Your strategus enemies are very well organized, Aztek. We meet frequently and for extended periods of time. I promise you that not once did we decide to attack because the defenders would be presumably glitched out.
As far as I can tell, many of your problems stem from not treating your mercenaries with respect. I can't make concrete statements since I've not merc'd for you guys in ages (and when I did the experience was a positive one), but from what people have said to me, you should consider making your faction more appealing to fight for.
Us loosing thousands of troops and gear due to no armor spawning from a bug is us being reckless? We have made some moves in strat knowing it would not turn out well, but did so for the fun of fighting. We did not count on loosing as much as we did from huge errors in the game code (Bugs)
So your saying if we attack other armies that are better geared, and we lose, its our fault from any further loses regardless of bugs causing mass depletion of troops/gear?
We accept the loses we took, I just think when a faction looses that much from a glitch that diminish's any hope of winning by 99.9% when they should have had a fair playing ground, something should be done, or at least the problem looked into and fixed. I am not just talking about us (Hospitaller) We all know LCO lost a lot and I'm sure there were many more. even the duped gear, I think any time something like that happens the devs should be on top of it, rather than just saying "Oh well, shit happens". All this does is turns any action into russian roulette, rather than engaging in a strategy platform.
You misunderstood him greatly. He was NOT speaking of FCC's attack on Tash that was beyond fucked up. If it were my faction, I'd give back every troop and every piece of gear. That's just me.
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=2991The above battle is what he was referring to.
In addition; I would advice that you refrain from assuming or putting any faith in the developers rolling back strategus or replacing gear. They have bigger things on their plate at the moment, and in the past when they (at least publicly) did not, never rolled strategus back or replaced anything.
What Daruvian was attempting to convey is that he feels that you did not take that specific fight (posted above) seriously because you expected it to be bugged, and perhaps were relying on a strategus rollback. That's all.
Furthermore, I personally feel that you are expecting too much from a smallish developer team that created a SECONDARY mode to an already free mod. A mode that hadn't been done by any other modding crew, and still hasn't really been done. To say that the devs should be on top of strategus bugs at all times is bordering on disrespectful, in my opinion.