While this idea has been around many people's minds, the way CC works now is a little akward to build anything just for a custom game. You have to modify and create self made activity files and then disable any clashing ones and then remember to turn them off if they referenced something that doesnt exist anymore because the user deleted it or deactivated the mod.

If anyone is actually willing to do missions that require certain factions, you are free to use any of my content I've created. BW, AAL and others.

The faction that had Sparkle Magic! guns would obviously win against other, less sparkle, less magic factions, wielding puny ini tricks.

We're already supposed to have balance between mods. They're all supposed to be vanilla balanced.

The pure factions, yes. The random ones, no.

Anyway, Sparkle Magic! fights end up turning into who can use the most hackish things, but offensive uses win in the long term.
For an example, hacking can be countered by team tracking, controller jamming can be countered by manual key scans or specificly designed AI. But then you detach their limbs. The defenders check for limbs and reconturct them selves. Simple, constantly detach the weapon... And then you eventually get to the ultimate tool:

Enjoy breaking Sparkle Magic!, as the game calls Tox(mo) on all scripted MOs.
Hope you rewrote activity functions to hide some code.
EDIT:
Whoops, CrazyMLC made a good point.

I demand you, at some point in time, create a code that does exactly that.

I will take it and apply it to a gun.

The Magic Unsparkler.

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How did you say Sparkle Magic! without it changing it? =P

It does now... *Evil laughter*

LUA Lua lua

You can just do this yourself with activities

As with all fights between more than one person/group, Chuck Norris would win!

No, Mr. Rogers would.

I think the obvious problem with mod vs mod combat is lack of standardized balancing. But I guess even my own mod isn't as balanced as I'd like it, since right now the shinobi is clearly the most powerful unit.

I suppose clever application of resources could win out in the end, regardless of faction. Assuming the factions involved each have a plethora of interesting features. Vanilla-style "some dudes with some guns" is probably going to get beat out by any faction with even a few unique attributes.

But then there could evolve dynamics where certain factions are specifically designed to trump other factions or are otherwise especially proficient at defeating certain factions. Then it gets sort of screwy.
For example, the oft referred to as invincible Darklones get beaten to a pulp by Darkstorm; the oft referred to as ridiculous DSTech can be defeated by something with cheap weapons, fast actors and grenades - cutting off the gold sources needed for the higher up weapons.

And then I teleport into your brain room and annihilate you.

As I said previously, Grif wins.

I copy MovableMan, and set the original to nil.
All Lua for my faction is ran off a global B22 style emulator going though the copy of MovableMan.

It ends up being a fight of who get's to run their Lua first.

And RPS style strategy for entire factions might pose problems.

AAL has the benift of having items costing -1000oz and rogue soldiers...

You're too dangerous to be a society member!
are you a society member?

I don't think AAL would win the war, they rock but currently aren't the most strong faction
in the constant try to balance with vanilla, numgun have made them too weak even for common
infantry, I vote fot crobotech, unstopable, even darlos must fear them.