@noc said in Personal/Custom Avatars:

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Then you will forgive me for the fact that 95% of other gaming communities continue to pay Russians even large gaming corporations continue to pay Russians despite sanctions (especially those in Europe) and yet here we are.

Source?
A quick look says the opposite with major companies no longer providing prize winnings to Russian residing players.

Eg:

https://www.fortnite.com/competitive/news/fortnite-competitive-update-russia

All the major esports leagues I researched have banned Russian teams from competing and cancelled any events held in Russia.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/03/esports-leagues-bar-russian-owned-teams-cancel-regional-events/

The closest we get is Team Spirit which was Russian but is now Serbian based.

This is all ignoring the fact that transferring funds to a Russian bank from our Danish one is nearly impossible due to EU's SWIFT ban on Russian banks. Are we forgetting the pain we had (have?) with not being able to access our account in the past? Do we want a repeat of that happening? Even if its only a small chance of happening its not worth risking.

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/3284/mapgen-ladder-week-2-february-1st-through-8th
Thats what happens when its mapgen week.

RO8
Tagada vs Yudi
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Blackheart vs Turbo2
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Nexus vs Jagged
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Tex vs Petric
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Semifinal 1 - Tagada vs Turbo2
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Semifinal 2 - Nexus vs Tex
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Bronze - Turbo vs Tex
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Final - Tagada vs Nexus
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I'd like to see TMM rank icons appearing in more places (eg your highest one appears where an avatar usually does if you don't have one selected)
Should also (hopefully) increase TMM participation

You're mixing up stealth and cloak.
Stealth invisible to radar, requires visual or omni sensor to see.
Cloak is invisible to vision but detected by any form of radar.
The com gets stealth followed by cloak so it requires omni to see.
Strats have stealth.

This has been discussed extensively and what it comes down to is mostly a lack of developers:

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1725/divide-ladder-by-map-size/5

As FAF is a volunteer project what our devs work on is up to them and it relies finding someone willing (and with the free time) to create the code to implement it.

Cheats were enabled in the game by the host.
There is no offence to use this menu when it is enabled as it automatically unranks the game.

If you do find a player using an exploit and the report tool is not working pm a mod either in the client or on discord. The forums are not the correct place.

Gotta get creative with the factory attack move

Commander upgrades stack.
I want my cloak telemazer.
Or even better my t2 gun com.
(also should be able to build with my t3 com while shooting the laser)

C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe
If you launch this^ it runs off of FAF balance.

T3 Mass fab adjacency is amazing. You can get up to ~80% discount on factories making t3 units practically mass free.
T2 fabs only give an ~20% discount when fully ringing a factory.
If we implement your idea then this grid would cost around 1 t3 pgen to run and be 150 mass positive.
Works for cheap strats too.

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/5061/looking-for-help-to-edit-textures-for-pbr-shaders

This thread does not mention anywhere that the factories needed to be redesigned, only retextured. The only place I could find it was an initial idea in modding general which was complaining about the models (nothing about actual plans to change them) and then in the pbr-development (which as I assumed was about shaders development I didn't have any interest or technical skill in)

In addition, the animations on these new factories is by far worse then the old ones. Especially look at the animation for engineers rolling off the cybran t3 air support factory.
https://clipchamp.com/watch/NywNfsXUZiV

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Enjoy a mercy spectacular. Particular note is around 20minutes where static flak and sams are unable to shoot down mercies due to a combination of swifty distraction, slow projectile speed and reloading.

Because weirdly enough its been done and there is feedback:

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/3332/every-ranked-1v1-map-is-generated

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/2328/introducing-mapgen-week-on-ladder

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/2526/map-gen-week-feedback-thread

Not only does it disincentivize mapmakers from creating its not wanted by everyone. The goal needs to be a balance between curated maps and mapgen. Splitting the queue is unlikely to work as has already been pointed out.

If anyone wants a more casual interaction: The ANZFAF server (https://discord.gg/6E2sAHt) has people in voice chats most nights starting around 0900 GMT (usually going until around 1400GMT).
We're a friendly bunch and willing to help those who ask questions.
Also, if you want more direct training on a particular issue hmu (Angelofd347h#1629) and I'll see whether I can help or I'll get one of the ANZ guys to assist.
I'm ~1300 global, ~1030 ladder, primarily willing to help people with replay reviews identifying areas on which to improve. Ideally looking for people who want to improve but can help guide newbies through the starting builds too.

Essentially its the cost out of the factory that is used. Upgrades don't count towards the 'cost' of the unit and therefore aren't factored into the sacrifice.

I actively read the forums and skim most of the discussion in the discord's ~100 channels so for something this big to take me by surprise is something else.

But regardless, we move on and discuss ways we can improve.

So the new HQs are all base FA with the support factories being stripped down. This might work for some of the designs but doesn't for others which have very little to remove to begin with. Is it possible with the new shaders to add parts to increase the distinction (and flare) of the HQs?

The issue is there is no oversight. Its not clear who has access to issue avatars and its not logged (anywhere I can see) who issued/uploaded them. It caused problems last year when someone decided to do a purge, created a discussion about who should control issuing of avatars and resulted in nothing happening.

As the espi avatar was related to tournaments it shouldn't be a personal avatar but a tournament one issuable to anyone who has turned down (voluntarily or not) prize winnings. Though it becomes more complicated with Gieb greenlighting it to some degree.

I have no idea about the 'FAF veteran' one because I wasn't even aware it existed, or where/who was responsible for giving it out. But as its not related to tournaments it is by definition only issuable by the mod team.

The issue lies with how do you define a bad connection? Do you ban all Russians because they sometimes have poor connections to Australians (or vice versa)? Similarly how do you determine a bad cpu?

TMM is supposed to be the place where you can't be kicked for your flag, you can't be kicked for CPU and you can't be kicked for some arbitrary host made decision.

Using the foe system doesn't work because then people are capable of abusing the system by foeing opponents they don't want to fight because they know they'll lose.