Isn't there a mechanic to rebuild a structure if it's destroyed while assisting it? How similar is that to this?

You should make a Github issue for this, I agree it's silly that readying up redraws the quality. At the same time... This is what the kick button is for, and if more hosts kicked people who were being disruptive the community would be a better place.

Didn't see it as a joke due to the amount of posts I read on the discord :imfine: That's on me then; I have no clue how hard it is to put this whole thing into a mod, but if you want to let ppl test it out, feel free to do so. Maybe it'll get played, maybe not; Can't promise anything

@sylph_ said in Posting Restriction for Balance Discussion: What I've found about rating as I've been playing and chatting more, though, is that many of the players who I've been listening to quite avidly don't even play certain game types, and it takes time to learn which voices are relevant to the game types we personally play. This 'required rating' metric for discussing balance would have to ensure that a player was versed in all areas of the game, I imagine; so that they know all the implications of their suggestions? Or is that not the suggestion, and as long as someone is good at something, their opinion is valued? I am a high level player but I don't have a great understanding on what t3 navy balance is like, so I know my place and do not talk about it. I will only comment on things where I actually know what I'm talking about. On the other hand, there's people who don't know what they're saying at all, yet insist they are correct (thinking of certain dualgappers complaining about nukes and t2-t3 navy) and these types of people are the most annoying to deal with. Another example is low rated players believing the aeon range gun nerf was stupid "because it's hard to use that range anyway". It's a waste of time to discuss with them because their way of thinking is wrong. What if someone is capable of using that extra range? That's the scenario you want to look at, not one where the range gun user doesn't know how to properly use the range (works the same way with dualgappers poorly microing navy and concluding their navy unit is bad). Yes it's elitist but it's required to maintain the sanity of people who know what they're doing In truth even some high rated players can be seriously wrong, so ideally for sladow the players would be handpicked, but then the community would see this as a biased circlejerk of people who are gatekeeping balance

It´s not about the mex problem only, but the asymetric/mex thing occures very often. A very weak player gets the mex rich side and then you are screwed. Like i said, ugly maps, bad colors, asymetric, plain boring, weird style, scattered mass ( Roomba simulator ), depressing lighting. When everything comes together you just want ctr-k and end this. Why human made 2v2/4v4 maps are better looking, variations of desert/terran/carribean are so nice for the eyes, share of eyebleeding Mars/Ice maps are overrepresented in 3v3, they could just change the config, this should take just minutes, less ugly colors would definitely help. Share of Mars maps/ice maps should be 5%-10%, not more. I don´t want play 4v4 just because 3v3 maps looks like shit. Generally i like generated map, it´s like a slot machine, you lose like 99% times and 1% you get lucky Jokes aside, i´m in favor of generated maps, but there should be more quality or selection options.

4z0t's ECO UI Tools also has that ability via the "Auto T2 capped mex upgrade" setting.

While we appreciate and make use of our Patreon funding, Brutus has already written a very good post about how the issues FAF is experiencing are largely independent of funding and more money wouldn't do much to solve them.

I'm a programmer. People are welcome to contribute by trying to make more readable patch notes or by experimenting with alternative media. But I'm not going to spent more time on it then I already do; a dozen or so of hours just to make something representative for the Github release pages is what my primary aim is at the moment.

it's ui-party bro

I understand the importance of timely moderation, but that is simply not doable with the current volunteer manpower and the daily number of incoming reports. The moderation system is designed to effectively eliminate the most harmful and toxic elements. Processing all one-time reports is impossible, but Moderators are aware of them. Usually, cases involving extremely offensive one-time reports are given higher priority as well. The role of a Moderator requires an investment of personal free time, effort, experience, and a controlled temperament. Addressing reports effectively goes beyond merely recruiting a handful of loosely interested individuals to join the Moderator team. However, if someone is curious and really interested, the team would be happy to see them apply, and the application form can always be found here. https://forum.faforever.com/topic/433/moderator

@redx I always just remind myself that engineering stations exist for the sole purpose of avoiding the clumsy nature of engineers! With that in mind, I treat engineer micro with the same respect a player would treat combat micro. Mastering badass engineer micro for macro wins!

Well, the issue is still available here to follow https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/issues/2943 When the feature depends on server changes then it will probably take much more time than usual and with all the backlog with much more important stuff, I do not see it happen in the next time, unless a developer has cherrypicked it for personal reasons.

The blips are managed by the engine. There are Lua alternatives, such as temporarily (300ms ticks or so) giving vision on the location in question so that the intel system knows what changed. But this can also show units or upgrades that were previously not known to you.

It will be part of the next developers release, set for the 26th of August at the moment. That is in less than three weeks

Agree, the stealth upgrade on Cybran com is much less useful now, it’s basically more for HP which is a further homogenization of the factions. The “problem” of units not immediately appearing at the edge of vision in fog of war never seemed like a huge issue to me

Reasons not to do this: Longer queue times People that bad should be banned anyway This would essentially allow the community to shadowban people from TMM without moderator input Massive potential for match fixing and/or rating manipulation

Oh wow I forgot I made this topic XD I am going to read all the replies now, I already see some great ideas and counter-points here.

If everyone's losing points because everyone's experiencing disconnects, everyone's rating is fine, right?

See also this pull request on Github. The delay should be sufficient to accommodate this suggestion