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    archsimkatA

    Matchmaker Pools March 2025

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  • The real competition starts here.

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    FearghalF

    Congratulations to Team A =
    TheWeakie, FtXCommando, Neytron + BlissfulNoob
    For winning the Rainbow Cup VIII tournament!

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    Also -Congratulations to TheWeakie, FtXCommando, Neytron + BlissfulNoob
    for winning the tournament in only 11 games.
    Tying the record by TheWeakie, FtXCommando + Nuggets in RCVI
    for the fewest number of games played to win.
    Only losing 1 game -1 game more than a perfect 10 game run.

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    D

    You can right click their ground stations with a variety of different weaponry.

  • A place to talk about whatever you want

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    I really don't see the problem this is solving at a high level of play.
    T3 engineers consume 18-20m/s for T4s/nukes/arty, and 24-25m/s (30m/s Scathis) for game enders. So a huge spending of 800m/s requires around 32 engineers in one place to build something meaningful. I don't think 32 engineers is so difficult to manage that we need engineering stations, especially for a one-time thing like an artillery/nuke/game ender rush.

    That covers large projects, so now we can look at smaller projects:

    Economic structures: Mexes build super fast, so no pathfinding issues there. T3 Pgen/Fab grids are a great option if you have to spend lots of mass (as opposed to T2 fabs), and they average out to 20m/s per engi, which is plenty enough for the time when you will be building them: when you are just building up your eco past T3 mex. And late game when you have a huge eco yet still want to expand it the fab grids you can split into just two or three groups. It'll be safer and is easy to do. Also since eco takes up so much space, you'll need an unbalanced amount of buildrange to make the engi stations good here. PD/Defenses: These things are already very strong and fast to build, removing pathfinding will just make that easy to do on a large scale, which is not a good thing since it buffs a boring and already decent strategy. This also nerfs artillery a massive amount because you can pretty much always near-instantly build a shield anywhere in your base as long as an engineer is nearby. I think artillery is already quite weak and easily countered by proper shielding, so this nerf is unnecessary. Factory assistance: This is one thing where engis can be problematic, because units require a ton of buildpower and engis slowly get into a formation around the factory. It's resolved by the "interrupt pathfinding" hotkey, and you can write a UI mod to run that hotkey when giving an assist order (GAF did this)/the engi comes into range. I personally spam the hotkey all the time when assisting/building so I am biased against engi pathfinding issues ("32 engineers is not hard to manage").

    I'll also agree with what FTX said on Discord which is that it makes the game into an all-or-nothing situation because there is no way to run the buildpower away to save it (a nuke would be devastating), but it is also much harder to attack buildpower.

    As for engine limitations, yes it isn't possible to filter nukes/SMD, and I don't think you can make it so you can only reclaim allied units.

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    Sladow-NoobS

    There is no way to reset any ranking. Playing 1v1s in custom lobbies is the best option for you to either gain or lose points, so I recommend you to play some of those until you get the ranking you roughly want

  • For people who want to add more stuff to FAF

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    C

    @famklio
    Hey,
    honestly I don't fully understand what you mean.
    Can you please explain to me in detail what you mean?

    If you mean the Layout:
    The Layout of both Managers is already located on 1 Side which is the Left Side in this Case. Of course this makes the whole thing easier to use for left-handed people. So I can understand that right-handed people have a harder time. I am already aware of this and want to implement the following in the future:

    I Plan to add an alternative Layout which is sperated into the Left and Right Side as following:

    Fire Support Manager on the Left Side
    Reinforcement Manager on the Right Side

    Or do you mean the 4 Techlevel Sections for the Land, Air and Naval Reinforcement Managers?

    There is the Reason why it has been seperated into these 4 Techlevel Sections. First to make the whole thing more Sorted in General, which means Tech 1 Units only in the Tech 1 Section, Tech 2 Units only in the Tech 2 Section and so on. Second I plan to add Support for Units from other Unit Mods as callable Reinforcements in the future such as from CSK Units, Blackops, Brewlan, 4th Dimension and more. A single Techlevel Section Like the previous one in 1.71, which includes all Units from each Techlevel would be overloaded with alot of available Units really fast. Eventually it would make the Icons much smaller, unsorted and the prices unreadable. So as an Result it would make it much Harder for you to indentify them at the End. At Last that is actually a consequence, which I have in Mind.

    It is actually more easier and faster to just click on the Forward and Back Buttons to Switch these Techlevel Sections to the one you want. But of course that is a matter of taste. What I can suggest for an improvement in the future is that the tech level section you are currently on is saved. This means that if you open the respective reinforcement manager again later, you will be on the Techlevel page/section you were on before. At the moment, when you open a reinforcement manager, you always start in the Tech 1 section and have to move forward/back to the section you had. This is probably not practical in the long term, which I understand.

    An another Implementable Solution could be to add an new Lobby Option where you can Set the Techlevel Section to be seperated into the 4, which we have now or to an Single one which includes all available callable Reinforcement Units Independent from their Techlevel.
    The 4 Techlevel Sections, which we have now is what I prefere personally so it will be the Default Value for this new Lobby Option. So If you want the Single Techlevel Section you will be able to Set it in the Lobby directly with this new Lobby Option before you start a Match.

    I think this is probably a better Solution, because it will give you and other people the possibility to set what they prefere more in this aspect.

    It has nothing to do with being hard, but rather a question of how it has been implemented so far. With the 4 tech level sections, I thought it would make more sense to only contain the callable reinforcements units that belong to these tech levels instead of having a single one which includes all of them. But as I Said previously that is an Matter of Taste. Of course, I am open to any suggestions and criticism. As always I will also make sure that the mod is user-friendly and configurable as possible with each Version. For this reason, I have given you the two suggestions above to implement them into a future Version of the Commander Survival Kit.

    I am therefore curious what you say about these. 😉

    See you soon.
    Best regards
    CDRMV

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