The FAF leadership team
Also it's not that "I need it", I don't have access to the mod client. But I know a couple of folks, who usually come with the pools, have complained about the lack of options in the past.
I was under the assumption you have access. Then just forward my message to the people complaining please.
It'd be great if you had a separate sub-site, where you can give it a seed (if you like the map), but let it iterate through different settings for mex and reclaim.
Unfortunately due to a lack of time and manpower we are unable to host Macro Mania on the selected dates. We haven't decided on a new date yet but we will hope to announce the date adjustments alongside some format changes before the end of June.
Raise a feature request in the github repo then and explain what you need. Nothing will be done if a feature request only exists in someone's head...
Hello, there is a "Tester" role in the discord currently, but not sure how it's being used. I would say, balance changes could be released towards the FAFDEV Game mode for a few weeks to gain feedback before they are actually pushed to the regular game.
@ipconfig-release Yes but that doesn't explain why we now have an Aeon Factory that looks nothing like an HQ. More or so a generic supplementary factory.
I'm sorry, but what was the purpose of this change?
Welcome to the first edition of Macro Mania! As it says in the title, this will be a tournament which somewhat tests your ability to play macro in the most chaotic of ways. There are quite a few different features of this tournament, so please read thoroughly through the post.
Dates:
Group Stage: 6th of June, 14 UTC
Playoffs: 13th of June, 14 UTC
Coverage: [https://www.twitch.tv/faflive]
Bracket:
Chat: #MacroMania
Tournament Organiser: hybrid_
Tournament Director: TBA
If there are 2 groups, 2 teams from both groups will advance.
OR
If there are 4 groups, only 1 team will advance from each group.
The final stage will be a single elimination bracket of 4 teams, the Semi-Final will be BO3 and the Final will be BO5.
TBA 1 week before each stage.
1st - $250, Custom Macro Maniac avatar 
2nd - $150, Faction face avatar
3rd - $100, Faction logo avatar
Prizes are from the FAF Tournament fund.
If you would like to donate towards the tournament and receive a cool avatar, please contact me on discord (hyb/tbounce).
Reminder that all payments of official FAF fund prizes are subject to the official FAF tournament payout guidelines.
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7161/faf-official-tournament-payout-guidelines
The official FAF Tournament Rules apply.
Some of the most important of these rules are:
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You could do it with that + manual blur effects, but that's a lot of work - even the given example in the link is not very well made. There are trees and pillars that have 3 levels of blur, which wouldn't happen with tilt shift (you'd essentially get Z-axis dependent blur, while in the example image it's Y-axis).
