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Hi Great big thanks from me too. You guys are brilliant!

I would say the biggest hurdles would be the technical issues. If it were easy to detect laggers and prevent them from playing matchmaker I think we’d be happy to add that. There are some GPGNet messages called Bottleneck and BottleneckCleared that the server can see. I don’t know what they do but judging by their names they sound like they could possibly be used to detect at least when a game is lagging, and maybe that could be correlated to a particular player? I don’t really have the time to investigate that sort of thing at the moment though.

@rowey said in Community Manager Candidate Q&A: @kazuya Thanks for the answers. Few other questions based on the answers I assume the Dev Diary's would be forum based? What do you mean by the following statement I think especially in the sectors of development maintenance so like paying for servers id include in that, that'll allow maybe better Client Services in the future. what do you see being the easiest part of what you set out as your main point to be achievable from the get go and other that may take some work from others? do you indented to do this role solo or if people are interested to help out delegate out tasks ? Yes, most likely Basically, making sure Maintenance in which I see as improving existing infrastructure is focused on (maybe GW too ) By far, Dev Dairies are the easiest just because I already have good connections in that area to be able to establish that. The hardest, I think is probably creating a more connected and cohesive FAF Community that heavily supports Tournaments, Development, and other things through fundraising. This is just an extremely difficult task as engagement in my eyes isn't very high from the average player. It depends on how large my job is/becomes. I think Community Manager has a lot of potential to be an outreach to the general population. I think i'll definitely be looking for help and ideas!

@phong said in Lags lags lags: I'm also a random map fan. Until these issues are resolved I'd love to play with more gap lag refugees like you, so you're officially invited. gladly

I decided to pull up the water settings for some biomes in the editor, and compared to the default, it looks like the values for lerp/sky reflections/sun strength are generally higher, and the surface colors are generally blackened. I might make a pr that makes some adjustments... Default: [image: 1682772636207-5dcc46b0-3201-4b81-8eec-0b06e6f2055c-image.png] Mars: [image: 1682772598560-33029a63-2a66-4067-86e1-c757bcf9ceb5-image.png] Syrtis: [image: 1682772735110-a54b7b88-0ade-412a-be95-b804bc4638a4-image.png] Stones: [image: 1682772926294-faf7f39f-fae9-401d-a5d3-a62fb89ea406-image.png]

this mod may help.

If someone could make a mod that maa can fire in transports it certainly would be fun. If this would be a serious considered balance patch one nerf could be tech level that can fire

They boost to almost the same frequency, and as the load is single threaded very short time, the laptop power & thermal constraint doesn't play that big of a role in the test.

@jip i mean I will always stick for the website, no matter what position or lack of I have, I just want someone that has a bigger passion and is known to the community to lead the promo team

I've also made these a while back: Two Step Shuffle: https://youtu.be/VI6KDQJRveA Adaptive Moon: https://youtu.be/Q3AGp1Zw7ps Archsimkats Valley: https://youtu.be/S3fvUrhhMsE Rainmakers Survival 1: https://youtu.be/1zPusXvOIxk Rainmakers Survival 2: https://youtu.be/fup7l7H8CQ8

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There's no point at all. Whole thing just seems like trolling or something a lazy american would say to not have to move mouse lmao

@magge This is an encoding issue. It seems that the GPGnet messages don’t get converted to UTF-8. As a result when the server tries to decode them it will encounter invalid bytes which causes it to kill the connection. I’m not sure if it’s the client or the ice adapters responsibility to make sure that the GPGNet messages are reencoded to utf8 before being forwarded to the server, but one of them should be doing it. I noticed this issue by looking at the errors in the server logs. Feel free to message me on zulip/discord if you want to try and fix this. For anyone else looking for a workaround… in theory you should be able to set your system encoding to utf8. I have not tried this though.