Also try playing with shared armies enabled, which means M28 will assume your units will fight with it (as opposed to assuming it’ll be going alone with any attack)

Please enable the debugger in the FAF client options and reproduce the issue, and post a new game log.

autonoob and i must unfortunately drop out

This is definitely a feature.

@IndexLibrorum i must have been mistaken then, was sure i got blocked from unpausing a few times. That's one problem less ig.

Before making a somewhat lenghty explanation as to what i think the problem is, i'd like to make sure i'm not starting from a wrong assumption: in ladder (and even custom unless people decide to change the setting) everyone has 3 pauses, right? If not, what's the current system like?

@Strydxr said in Proposal for [Challenge Accounts] | Feedback Wanted!:

Also, Challenge accounts don't have to be given out willy nilly, they can have a vetting process done by either mods or a chosen committee, which may help with keeping track of them.

This is one part the moderation team think is critical for this kind of account to work. If we wouldn't limit the accounts to a very low number and allowed whatever challenge, it would just be smurfing with extra steps. And the consequences of that wouldn't weigh up to the potentional benefits.

In any case, I've read all of the responses to this thread and I'm waiting for some free time to properly collate them all and discuss it with the moderation team. I hope to soon be able to share a more fleshed out concept, or maybe even an announcement for a trial run (if our internal discussion concludes with us thinking this could work).

The friend with the problem has reinstalled his graphics drivers and FAF, and that has not solved his problems. I guess we'll try running FAF as admin next. I've also asked him to download the borderless gaming app on steam, since I know for me that at least solved crashing on alt-tabbing by accident...

v213 Update
11 changes, including:

Support for M28 personalities in campaign - to apply M28 personalities to the allied or hostile campaign AI, you can specify in game options (in place of the previous option for applying M28Easy, you now have a selection of the different M28AI personalities). Note that this is likely to be less impactful than in a normal game, since a significant part of the effect of the personalities is how many and what type of factories to build, whereas in campaign missions the AI often has the factories pre-built for it. Support for experimental PD and AA buildings, including where they need building by SACUs (QUIET+LOUD) Added in tracking for AirAA kills and deaths to make M28 more cautious if it has taken bad air fights, along with fixing some bugs with tracking gunship and bomber kills and losses

Acknowledgements

c04spoon replay against v211 M28AI (where it failed to beat restorers with its air force)

v81 Update
Fixed another bug from the navigational mesh changes which resulted in M27's initial build order being messed up (with the ACU not building any mexes)

Acknowledgements

Relent0r - Noticing M27's early game performance was significantly weaker than before