In both my ladder and team games I've gotten the feeling that Chrono Dampener can be quite oppressive to play against, while also providing little feedback. I've written a mod (called "Chrono Expand" in the vault) to try to address these shortcomings.

Default Chrono Dampener:

There is a small effect around the ACU which causes units in a huge area to get immediately stunned for 2.5 seconds. The last titan is actually at the edge of the range, but there's no way to tell that.

Chrono Expand:

The effect now covers the entire area in a wave which stuns units. All units lose the stun effect at the same time, which means that the closer the unit is to the ACU, the longer it gets stunned for. At present, units right next to the ACU get stunned for 3.5 seconds, while units at the edge get stunned for only 1 second.

The values above aren't set in stone, and are actually mostly the result of my lackluster modding ability. I'd love to get a stun shorter than a second at the edge but for some reason that starts to shrink the radius of the effect instead.

What are your thoughts?

Make radar selection not make the exact same sound as a ping

There's little to no point making any judgment on Sanctuary until people not involved with the project can play it.

I did some testing and managed to determine that the formula used is
Speed Multiplier = 2^(Simspeed/3)

In other words, every +3 difference in simspeed is a doubling of the simulation tick rate. Here's a handy dandy table for those curious:

Simspeed	Time Factor*	*For positive sim speeds the time factor is times faster, for negative sim speeds it is times slower
0	1×
1	1.25×
2	1.59×
3	2×
4	2.52×
5	3.17×
6	4×
7	5×
8	6.35×
9	8×
10	10×

Can't say this is the most useful information, but I found it interesting.

Instead of focusing on what I would do if elected, I'll focus on how I've already been doing many of these duties.

• Being a communication relay between players and contributors
  • Compiled a loooooooot of data on the small suggestions topic: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/3206/small-suggestions-topic/291?_=1649658115116
• Collecting data related to the player experience
  • Ran an experimental survey on people's opinions on the state of naval balance https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1597/naval-balance-survey?_=1649658115124 (as well as the above)
• Being present for the players and answering questions
  • Hard to provide a simple link to that, but I'm pretty active on both Discord and forums, as well as the many PMs I get being a moderator.
• Organization of regular games
  • A little old, but I organized this thread on a forum: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/supreme-commander-gaming-thread.323817/, which ran for 2,879 posts over several years before finally running out of steam. I've also organized many games among my Discord friends but again, can't just link that
• Other Community Management-esque items
  • Trying to lead the Balance Discussions subforum by example: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/759/balance-thread-guidelines
  • Supcom "fun fact" kind of posts: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/3413/what-each-simspeed-value-means?_=1649658115138
  • Occasional meme-making:
    • https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/849681991111934002/952114017487446066,
    • https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/849681991111934002/930825385443196948
  • Wrote an April Fool's mod that sadly couldn't be implemented this year but perhaps could be next year
  • Activity on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/supremecommander/search/?q=author%3Au%2FDeribus&restrict_sr=1&sr_nsfw=&type=link (as well as dozens of comments answering questions)
  • Many private training sessions with players
  • Responsible for the single most important Discord channel, #cute-animals

Hopefully the above demonstrate both my experience with and willingness to do many of the tasks that might be asked of the community manager. Oh, and also I'm a Russian speaker so I can engage with astro players.

What are my actual plans if I were elected?

A lot more of the same, additional data compilation, updates on the state of development, I like the regular games idea. Might look into running a successor to "this week in slack" but Zulip is so active in so many channels I frankly don't know if I have the time to catch up on that many messages. I have a few other ideas but I'm not committing to anything at this point until I consult with the board post-election.

Will I remain a moderator?

I too had this question, as I was hesitant to retain the moderator role while also being the community manager. I felt this would make me less approachable as a community member. However after posing this question to the board they recommended I keep my role as a moderator, so that I will do.

Trying to make a more convenient list of suggestions, as this thread has grown enormous:

Being worked on/looked into:

• Easy to interpret lag information (Coming soon)
• Change radar selection sound (Being worked on)
• Give friendly/enemy nuke launches different sounds (Being worked on)
• Display total score of each team in lobby (Being worked on)
• Repeat hotkey improvements (Being worked on)
• See friendly radar bubbles (May not be possible, being investigated)
• Full share unit gift prompt/notification (Being worked on)
• Button to notify players to ready up (Being worked on)
• Enable many "proplayer features" by default (Being looked into)
• Global unit toggle (May not be possible, being investigated)
• Force rainbow cup colors (Not possible in custom games, but being worked on for matchmaking)
• Better CPU test (Being worked on)
• Audible low power warning (Being worked on)
• Display whether maps are rated (Being investigated)
• Matchmaking menu improvements (Being worked on)

Probably not possible

• Add unit to beginning of build queue (May not be possible)
• Fix stereo sound issues (May not be possible)

Feature already exists or was purposefully removed

• Ship FAF with PD + Walls template by default (Rejected/similar feature already exists)
• Prevent pause button spam (Feature already exists)
• Target prioritization improvements (Rejected/old feature that was reworked)
• Allow reduced disconnection timer (Feature already exists)
• View share condition in-game (Feature already exists)
• Ability to name templates (Feature already exists)
• Shift-g reclaim orders (Rejected, purposefully removed)

Suggestion outside the scope of the thread

• Clear client search field (Client issue)
• A variety of UI improvements (Client issue)
• Toggle option for UI mods when watching a replay (Client issue)
• Highlight alternative game modes (Client issue)
• Merge all ladder queue chats (Client issue)
• Option to hide games by specific mod (Client issue)
• Portal/teleportation building (Rejected, better as a mod)
• Chat history (Client issue)
• Wyvern mod fix (Rejected, mod issue)
• Encourage optimal balance games; discourage leaving the game early (First is a large feature but may be looked into later; second rejected)
• AI improvements (Rejected, large issue)

Rejected for other reasons

• Lobby voting system (Rejected)
• Gain rating for each player kill (Rejected)
• GC claw inconsistency (Rejected/no issue)

Miscellaneous

• Hotkey of build closest mex for engies
• Announce when players lose connection to one another
• Infinite build experimentals
• Chat beep lite integration
• Spread build
• A variety of changes from KonjikiNoYami
• Filter maps by size
• A variety of changes from WillowsDuality:
• Make air units bounce off map edges like wrecks do against shields
• Custom template images
• Allow premade teams in optimal balance
• Separate nuke load bar for nuke subs and battleships

One of the things requested in the Call for Community managers is setting up regular community game. I've spent some time figuring out how best to do this, but eventually decided the best way to find out is to attempt one and see what happens.

First weekly game will be on Diversity on Sunday, June 12th, at 4PM UTC -4

Here is a link to let you know when it will be in your local time zone

Why this date/time?
Sunday because I work Saturdays, and that time because that is when daily FAF peak player count is. It won't necessarily be at this time every week.

Why this map?
I thought it was a relatively straightforward 10x10 map that most players should be comfortable on.

This first game will be largely experimental, so don't take it as a definite sign of how these will play out in the future.

Also depending on how many people join I may need volunteers to host parallel lobbies so we may split up by rating.

Did you know?

Transports assisting a land factory will automatically carry units to the factory's rally point

Whenever you fire at something, you have a choice of two firing angles. A high arc (red) and a low arc (green)

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The high arc is above 45° while the low arc is below 45°.

Unlike every other artillery piece in the game which uses high firing arcs, T2 artillery uses low firing arcs for some reason.

These two are firing at the same target, but look where the T2 arty is pointing and where the T3 mobile arty is pointing.

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So I'm proposing we do a bit of a...

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Benefits

• Longer time to impact
  • In my testing a high firing arc at max range gives an 8 second time to impact while a low firing arc gives one around 4.5 seconds.
  • This nerfs it against mobile units as it has to predict their movement further ahead and also gives them more time to dodge.
  • It can even be extended further by increasing the projectile speed, so that it fires even more vertically.
• Fixes inability to fire at certain elevations
  • Currently T2 arty can have issues aiming at higher ground. See this thread for an example
• Consistency with other artillery pieces

Ship FAF with PD + walls template by default

One of the most common pieces of advice I see for new players is to make a template of PD surrounded by walls. It's by far the most used template and even some more experienced players can be annoyed if they lose access to it for one reason or another.

Why not have FAF add the 4 (one for each faction) templates automatically? It'd be a QoL feature like mex assist for storage and should be fairly low impact to everyone who doesn't want it.

Cool story bro

Better late than never!

@deribus said in Ideas for Mercy changes:

Mass cost: 300 => 250

• This makes it equal in mass cost to a TML missile for consistency and ease of remembering.

Universal scale: 0.15 => 0.2

• Makes the Mercy a little bigger as it was always tiny, especially for a T2 air unit

Health: 10 => 55

• This is still a pitiful amount of health, for reference the Aeon interceptor has 285. However it can now survive a single interceptor hit or 1-2 T1 MAA hits instead of disappearing with the slightest AA presence.

Movement changes were scrapped

Weapons!

This sped up gif shows 2 Mercies:

The first does a mere 500 damage over 10 seconds, but on a massive radius of 15. Could be useful for taking out chunks of T1 armies, softening T2, or maybe some T1 power or engineer killing in the base.

The second does 3000 damage over 10 seconds, but on a radius of 3.5. This does slightly more than the current Mercy's 2,500, but isn't as useful on mobile targets. Can be used on upgrading ACUs or sniping high value structures, kinda like a TML but with a little more control. 3k damage is comfortably enough to snipe UEF T2 mexes and pgens.

All the values above are meant to be a starting point for the balance team. I didn't feel a need to fine tune them myself and I'll leave that to those more qualified.

Anyway, mod is live now.

With the help of Spikey I have compiled a table of all 201 current avatars. The categories are my personal best guess and aren't meant to be taken as fact, since they aren't formally categorized in any way.

Post cut in half because of character limit

	Tournament	Contributor	Personal	Other
1	TMM Gold Champion 1	FAF Donator	Looking Down	ACU sniper
2	TMM Gold Champion 2	Moderator	Pizza !	Seraphim
3	TMM Silver Champion 1	I'm a FAF caster	Sin..	Cybran
4	TMM Silver Champion 2	Mod Author	Grrrrr !	Aeon
5	IMBA Cup Champion	Map Author	Voodoo personal avatar	UEF
6	IMBA Cup Finalist	Tournament Director	Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Unive	Brackman
7	King of Open Palms	Galactic War Donator	The Boot	Cool Princess
8	Prince Of Open Palms	Personal Trainer	Masters Of The Universe	Liberate !
9	Tournament winner	Theme Creator	I'm watching you!	Cleanse !
10	King of Seraphim	FAF Wiki Editor	The Voice of Reason	Unite !
11	Blitz Champion	I'm a FAF streamer	Fluffy Tails	Destroy !
12	2vs2 Tournament Champion	Stack Wizard	speed2's avatar	Strategic Genius
13	King of UEF	Trainer Team Lead	LTT	Son of Shagrat
14	Tournament Champion	Balance Team Lead	Phoenix	President Riley
15	King of Cybran	Game Team Lead	Espiranto Personal Compensation	Cool Seth-Iavow
16	LABwars Champion	Creative Team Lead		Cool Brackman
17	King of Setons Clutch	Moderation Team Lead		Cool Clarke
18	Tournament Participant	Community Manager		Son of Shagrat xmas
19	Winner of Hearts	Promotions Team Lead		Happy Holidays !
20	King of Aeon	DevOps Team Lead		Princess Rhianne Burke
21	Nomads Tournament Champion	Game Code Tester		Core for ever!
22	Clan War Challenger	FAF Moderator		Cool Riley
23	Clan War Champion	FAF Developer		Dostya
24	The Galaxy Cup Champion	ICE Tester		Rhiza
25	2V2 WWPC U3400 Champion	M like moderator		Zan-Aishahesh
26	Prime Commander Finalist	FAF Discord Administrator		Seth-Iavow
27	Survival Champion	Grand Sculptor		Ladder Warrior
28	Average Joes Champion	Tournament Donator		Kael
29	Prince of Aeon	Patreon Donator		Ultimate Assimilator
30	Prince of Cybran	Content Creator		I'm a special snowflake!
31	Holy Trinity Winner	Patreon T3		I'm special
32	Prince of Seraphim	Patreon T4		Nomads
33	Eco Emperor	Campaign Team Lead		Vendetta
34	3v3 Spring Champion	Moderator (2023)		Galactic Conqueror
35	Minons and Legends winner	Moderator (2023) red		Puppetmaster
36	2v2 Fixed In Equilibrium	FAF Live Team		Nomads
37	3v3 Summer Champion	BalanceTeam		ARM
38	3v3 Trident Of Power	CreativeTeam		CORE
39	LotS Qualifier Champion	GameDevTeam		Ladder Knight
40	Heart of Black Champion	DevOpsTeam		Warrior of TMM

Came across this comment on a Gyle video:

Basically, it's like assassination except players don't lose once their ACU dies. The whole team loses when all of their ACUs die.

This almost certainly wouldn't be ranked, but might be an improvement over Full Share. Would people be interested if development time was put into this?

@Brutus5000 See this is why the forum needs a dislike button

Screw you my mapping tourney is gonna have a rating cap

Idea stolen from here

Weekly discussions are something I plan to run as a fun, low-intensity way for the community to get together and share their thoughts on various bits about the game.

Feel free to contribute no matter your experience level with the game, from complete newbies to players from the GPG days!

This isn't the place to complain about Novax balance, it's a bug report thread.

Make your own balance thread if you'd like, but don't complain here.

Do I want to know what you'll be using them for?

I think there might be a naming issue. People see "Brigadier Fletcher Tournament" and think "oh that's the mapping tournament, I already read about that". Not noticing that this is a separate (albeit related) gameplay tournament