I'll not make any customizations to this forum, as this will always cause trouble in the long run. This theme already causes enough trouble (e.g. look at the mark all unread messages as read button)

Depends on map. If you're in a big team and eco slot, you pretty much always ras instead of t3 pgen, because especially if the mex are closely packed. Dual Gap is a clear example of this.

If its a smaller team map with no eco spot then just copy top builds in Setons.

If its a 1v1 then look at 1v1 play.

As a general rule, if it's showing a gray icon, that means you don't know what kind of unit it is. You might know whether it's an air unit or a surface unit or under-the-water unit. But you don't get any more info than that. If it flagged the ACU for you, that would defeat the purpose of having gray icons.

I think until the league system is implemented it's best to keep it as is. I am a level 1000 ranked player with 850 games and will get kicked too after waiting in lobbies for a while. The sub-1000, non-grey crowd kicks me because they fear my games played and think I'm going to be better than my rank suggests and the semi-pro to pro crowd will kick me because I'm a noob who can't get my rank up after so many games and don't want their team dragged down lol. To me, it's part of it and I don't let it bother me anymore. I take it as a challenge to rank up the right way and play well when I do get in the 1200+ games. My advice is play with people in your own "league" so to speak until your rank and games count is more palatable for the higher level lobbies. Keep playing and you'll have 100+ games soon enough and will be enjoying it more the way you want. Welcome back btw.

As a follow up, I wanted to write a quick reply and let everyone know that a 3 month ban from events is not the standard penalty for breaking the Code of Conduct. Like all moderation actions, cases are reviewed in detail before a decision is made, and for this particular instance a lengthy ban history for the player subject to penalty was a strong point.

To be clear, the 5th point in the Code of Conduct “Be careful in the words that we choose” was the reasoning for the ban. Again, this was done on a live stream in front of many viewers, and people who give support for the community.

I just wanted to clarify folks should not assume this is a standard level punishment. My apologies for any confusion.

Hello. This two week period is now over. You can now see Balthazar's introduction here:
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/2354/biass-successor-an-introduction

I assume everything else will be transferred over shortly.
I don't have the power to do this on my own, but in typical FAF fashion i've not been contacted in any way about my stepping down yet.

I'll still be lurking around in my usual spots incase you still have something you want to ask.

Good luck.

@cheeseberry said in Give me suggestions:

Btw., have you checked out the FAF discord?
https://discord.gg/vVmGB2kygS
Especially in the channel "gameplay_and_training" you'll probably find gameplay advice much sooner than here in the forums.

yes,ok

The problem with your current strategy is that any "high level player" will see what you are doing and counter it. The way air works is that your opponent can just rush out a T3 strat bomber by minute 9-10, and then kill all your teams mexes. All the while you only have T1 air, which is too slow to ever kill a decently microed strat bomber. Many games in the 800-1200 rating bracket end by one air player getting his first strat out before the opposing player can build his first ASF. The sad reality is that the only counter to a T3 air rush on a map like sentons is to rush T3 air yourself. Any mass spent on T1 air is just delaying you from getting to T3.

If you like to play more aggressive, try smaller maps.

@sprouto said in Questions about performance: Ambient sounds:

You could also tie the ambient sound processing to the SIM speed, turning it off when it falls below 0. We do this with a number of subsystems in LOUD (primarily ancillary video effects such as contrails, flying debris particles) but for the same purpose - maintaining SIM performance.

This might be practical, since the ambient audio effects, and the direct audio effects are handled by different functions.

This seems like the most practical approach and could be carried over to other performance sinks.

You can make best formating with google docs and share link.

@speed2 Awesome! thank you

"Better to be a fruit than a vegetable"
What a nice ending of interview 😆

When a game desync you should first fix the desync.
Desync means one of the players has different files for the game or mods installed.

Sadly i can't view replay 14997979, so i can't see who was desyncing.

If you nerf the lighting tanks and mobile sheilds

the only game I can remember doing it and it working. https://replay.faforever.com/12876767

Mobile shields, my friends. Makes t2 and t3 subs kill them with few losses.
And floaty arty can ground fire them to.