[edited out: I think I might have been digressing too much here (I can't delete this post).]

FAF will always stay here and you are always invited to come back. Maybe we're more stable in a year or so.

I like the flags. I like meeting people from our worldwide and getting a hint on language and location. I hope it comes back

@cheeseberry Thanks for helping. My problem, it turned out, was that after initial syntax (or perhaps field order, if that matters) the game renamed my game.prefs file after the crash and made a new one without me realising!

I'm up and running fine now!
(although I am curious what exactly triggers the game to auto-create that UserKeyActions field; it could be important if new players see these threads and wonder why they, too, don't have it.)

Captcha is not used to prevent a DDOS attack. It is used to prevent access to bots. You can read up about it here:

@slam Here's the direct download link: https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/releases/download/v2023.10.0/faf_windows-x64_2023_10_0.exe

Once that's downloaded, double-click to open the installer & when prompted, select "Update current installation".

@lolthedestroyer Try temporarily changing your default browser in Windows Settings.

If you're still not able to loging, please open Run (Windows-R), then copy/paste: %Appdata%\Forged Alliance Forever\logs. When the logs folder opens, sort by Date Modified. From there, drag/drop your client.log file (the Text Document file, not the .gz compressed files) into here so those that can help (not me) have that data to look at.

It was removed but added into the game again a week later cuz 4z0t managed to fix the performance issue

average gamer wearing sunglasses in his dark room

@nex

I don't know, kind of feels like we're exiting the vampire castle.

A rigorous analytical solution for a better team rating is beyond my mathematical ability without some heavy research, but that doesn't mean there isn't one floating around out there.

Also, given the setup we have, it's also possible to silently test alternative systems (TrueSkill was tested in the same way against Elo, graded based on their percent of wins predicted correctly).

Mathematically the metric we want is the players ability to play the game and cooperate with their team well

I would refer to that as a goal/outcome--but now I know where you're coming from. And I agree, that is the outcome I'm looking for.

I can spitball about what metrics would be good for FAF (in game score? mass efficiency? kills?) but can't confidently say that using any of them wouldn't be abused/go sideways.

@FtXCommando

A meta-level correction would be to incorporate map statistics. Map gen maps have a larger effect, maps that other people play a lot have a larger effect (and vice versa), playing the same map over and over has a smaller effect*.

*Could grade this based on size, terrain, and distribution of mass spots to catch all the gap clones.

EDIT: After asking my friend Mr. GPT-4, looks like TrueSkill2 is a good starting point for all the above.

who?

That is sad.

damn at least link my profile when using my screenshots smh!

You got my vote for that lol