Well, everything has an end. And after 15 years of Supreme Commander and many years of FAF, I decided to leave the community without any plans of coming back. I'm proud of the guides and other content I / we have created in collaboration with the Trainer Team over the years. I hope these resources will continue to be helpful for new players getting into the game (@Trainers, I'm proud of you, bois. Keep up the activity).
Thanks for the great time, even though I've had some disagreements and conflicts with people in the community from time to time, I hope you didn't take anything personal. Terarii, Yew (and probably 10 more people) I may have been rude or sarcastic towards in the past - I apologize, and I hope you can forgive me.

And for the trainees I've had over the past years reading this: Please keep me up to date with your improvements from time to time! Ofc I'm still open for questions in the future, just not on the FAF Discord anymore.

I know this part is probably not interesting for anyone, but I aim for achieving the same "career" in a different RTS game. If you happen to know good ones, feel free to tell me.

Thank you for the kind Discord DMs, they do mean a lot to me!
Cya,

~Sladow

@sainserow
I do not have the knowledge if you can just re-create maps with spawns or if there are problems with the permissions to do that;

Overall usually the technical things are not the limit, the manpower is.
If you have any map suggestions, you can always reach out to me via Discord (Or another Matchmaker Team member), I'll take a look and if something seems good, I'll post it in the MM team channel. Applying is also always an option.
I'll stop posting here for now as I want to wait until someone with more knowledge than I do responds, just FYI so it doesn't seem like I'd just ignore you.

There are already quite some lobby settings, so it's not really recommended to add even more options "just because idea XY seems neat" (Without the intention of sounding rude here). As a mod sure, but I doubt that it'll get added as an option due to overwhelming people (keep in mind there are a lot of requests to add stuff as options).

@sainserow MatchMaker always only uses the first spawns and not specific ones. Adaptive maps won't spawn additional mexes.

@lin960 said in Username rules updates:

If I was TheProperWheelie, I'd be feeling irked at someone using my name, or such a close resemblance to my name.
So I can understand the reasoning behind limiting

If he wasn't fine with it he could literally just report it and we'd have had to change names, which is completely fine and understandable. But he was okay with that and found it funny as you can see from his posts and reaction.

@lowki said in Novax needs to be nerfed, here's why.:

I just played a game where the opponent build 8 novax then just whent around the map executing coms at will.

Me when my opponent invests nearly 300k mass (30-35% more than a mavor) into novaxes and actually wins the game by being allowed to do that

@jip said in Username rules updates:

since when is renaming such a vital feature of the FAForever experience that the first comment (with 14 up votes, what (!)) in this topic states that it helps the author decide whether the author wants to stay or leave?

I recommend you checking the Discord, general chat after this rule got announced. This rule is only the last droplet which lead to my response. I'm both tired and sick from the actions and I wasn't happy to be in the community for a while now, yet I stayed with the hope it might change and continued to contribute in several teams and discords. All these nonsense rules simply show me what direction FAF goes towards to, and I do not want to be a part of that if it continues aka. I do not support these changes at all.
Same for other players with things like "Area Reclaim" which causes the current mood, but I will not even start a debate here as you can check Discord again.

See these reactions not as a "this rule in specific is trash and it's the cause", see it as a "we are tired of every nonsense change and all of them together lead up to this" (Again, for more details, discord general chat)

@jip cool that you think checking the name history or posts is too much effort, I think otherwise.

"There are also no 'higher' FAF community members."

A member of the board is pretty much higher in the FAF scene than e.g. a trainer. That's what I was referring to. As in "higher instance".

@jip said in Username rules updates:

I don't even know what team you're a lead of (something name change something) but you like all the other team leads know that you can't possibly discuss every change with every community member.

Ye I'm Sladow, which you can quite easily tell by 1) my profile pic as it's unique and 2) by simply clicking on my posts for a second. There are projects like the FAQ or tables from the Trainer Team which should make it pretty clear. Also the tag should also do its thing.
Besides that, using me as an example for that is not the best idea because I'm quite literally the guy asking on several Discords about changes to get opinions of different players, basically representing every rating range from complete beginner to high ranked from different parts of the community. So yes. Before doing any change I discuss it with the team like other Team Leads, but I also discuss it with a lot of different people.

Also as I spoke with other "higher" FAF community members, FAF built in polls are a thing which just noone uses. So it's possible to ask a majority of people.

Also if a name history on the Forum is possible, that's also a fix to "who just wrote XY" so you don't have to check in FAF which is extra effort. Just a short note though as it shouldn't be the main focus.

I also dislike the "we're gonna do change XY and THEN wait for 10 user pages of good reasoning in order to revert them" mentality. As stated here and the Discord multiple times, the reasons are simply not good except for the tourney one, but there you can just not allow ppl with similar names to play.
This is not only the case for this specific name rule change as I'm speaking as a representative for multiple high ranks.

@ocelotfist After we've changed our usernames to "TheWeakie"-variants

With each recent action of the mod team, you're making the decision whether to stay or leave the community easier.

Men. Downvote the man above me for what he said. That's what we got Tryth for!

What Snoog does is not optimal imo;

There is no way around Auroras in 1v1s. Ik it's easier said than done, but you'll have to get used to proper micro the entire game and push your opponent enough so he can't get gun (otherwise your Auroras are ded). Same with air, make sure to scout eventually, at some point air is recommended so your opponent can't just stack up multiple bombers and onepass your whole army.
Now that the gun range ACU isn't straight up busted anymore, I'm not even sure if picking Aeon is smth you want to do when playing e.g. ThetaPassage. I do remember some games against a strong 1v1 player where I picked Cybran and he rolled Aeon and it was basically a gg for me bc of that one. So just maining Aeon on any 5x5 / smaller 10x10 maps is smth you have to think about for a while.

My comment above is referring to high ranked 1v1 scene. For mid rank it's enough to use your mass efficient, get reclaim fast enough, pressure etc.

@firv There is no other way to balance it really besides "just stay in your base if you know your opponent has billy".

@jusbeginning Regardless of missile count, the amount of reclaim remains the same.

Well, if you had, let's say 20 arties in group 2
And want to bind a tank to group 1 so you only select that tank. But you hit 2 by accident. Then your new whole group 2 is only the tank you selected when accidentally binding a group.

Let's assume you had group 2 selected, selected the tank on top of it with shift and then binded it. So now your group consists out of the 20 arties and the single tank, right?
What you can do then is to select your whole group 2, then simply hit shift+left click the tank to unselect it (At least I hope it was that combination. Hmu if not and I'll take a closer look). Then you can rebind group 2 as only your original group 2 is selected.

There is no "undo" button in FAF, so if you accidentally only binded the tank to group 2, then that's your whole new group 2. Meaning you indeed have to manually rebind the old one.

If you have nothing else in your group 2, select nothing and hit the hotkey to bind smth to group 2
If you have smth in group 2 already, then you overwrote it with that action -> You have to manually select the 'old' group 2 and reassign them without the accidental tank

@firv At least you can shoot down your own billy now though. Also Cybran needs it as their army has no shields so you'd always kill 15k+ mass with each shot the moment they push out of TMD / static shields.

Originally the idea was to move the Absolver from Aeon to Cybran units.
ppl voted / wanted to keep the absolver though. Therefore an addition instead of a swap.

Faction diversity stops when there is a clear problem with the faction's strength aka. "just accept you're dead when opponent has XY". This was the case with both the nano upgrade and the cybran absolver.