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    Suggestion: FAF menu bar items should stay visible Offline

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    • Manimal_M Offline
      Manimal_
      last edited by Manimal_

      Hi,
      I'm wondering what's the point of getting an empty FAF window when I want to play Offline...

      Given I need sometimes to change some options, among others, the FAF menu bar items should stay visible while being Offline IMHO.

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      • MarcSpectorM Offline
        MarcSpector @Manimal_
        last edited by

        @manimal_ said in Suggestion: FAF menu bar items should stay visible Offline:

        Given I need sometimes to change some options

        For example?

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        • Manimal_M Offline
          Manimal_ @MarcSpector
          last edited by Manimal_

          @marcspector said in Suggestion: FAF menu bar items should stay visible Offline:

          @manimal_ said in Suggestion: FAF menu bar items should stay visible Offline:

          Given I need sometimes to change some options

          For example?

          Examples :

          • uninstall a mod offilne.
          • newbies might want to access Tutorials.
          • start a game in a private LAN with all useful feature available.
          • other operations that should be possible offline.
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          • RoweyR Offline
            Rowey
            last edited by

            close Aeolus now your offline to all

            "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - Spock

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            • Manimal_M Offline
              Manimal_ @Rowey
              last edited by

              @rowey said in Suggestion: FAF menu bar items should stay visible Offline:

              close Aeolus now your offline to all

              What do you mean ?

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              • RoweyR Offline
                Rowey
                last edited by

                What are you classing as offline as the client is online due to needing to communicate with the server

                "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" - Spock

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                • Manimal_M Offline
                  Manimal_
                  last edited by Manimal_

                  I still don't get it...
                  Is my english is that awful, no to say terrible

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                  • S Offline
                    Sheikah
                    last edited by

                    You need to be online in order to access mods and maps and the tutorials. It doesn't make sense to show any of that because it won't work when you are offline.

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                    • Manimal_M Offline
                      Manimal_
                      last edited by Manimal_

                      @sheikah said in Suggestion: FAF menu bar items should stay visible Offline:

                      You need to be online in order to access mods and maps and the tutorials. It doesn't make sense to show any of that because it won't work when you are offline.

                      Sorry but No... Not to delete Mods for instance...

                      I've had to delete my mods by hand while being offline !.

                      It would 've been much more convenient to be able to delete them in a single click while being offline...

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                      • S Offline
                        Sheikah
                        last edited by

                        FAF and the client are built for the purpose of online multiplayer. It just doesn't make much sense to build a separate screen and maintain it for the very limited things you can do offline and make it look good and functional.

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                        • Brutus5000B Offline
                          Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                          last edited by

                          Also deleting mods isn't really an important use case, that can't wait until you are back online...

                          He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                          Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                          And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                          Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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                          • Manimal_M Offline
                            Manimal_ @Brutus5000
                            last edited by Manimal_

                            @brutus5000 said in Suggestion: FAF menu bar items should stay visible Offline:

                            Also deleting mods isn't really an important use case, that can't wait until you are back online...

                            So you don't care about new modders that would need to perform some tests offline and to do some cleansing from times to times...

                            the modder who'd switch back online once he feels ready ...

                            'it happened to me to stay offline for a few days for developing and testing

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                            • Brutus5000B Offline
                              Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                              last edited by

                              I'd expect them to wait until they are back online or do it manually by hand, yes.

                              He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                              Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                              And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                              Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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                              • Manimal_M Offline
                                Manimal_
                                last edited by

                                sterile chat...

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                                • Brutus5000B Offline
                                  Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                                  last edited by

                                  As someone who is involved with client development I can tell you there are a lot of reasons, why people asked for offline support in the past. And we're not denying it because we are all evil, but because we are realistically seeing that this is not going to be implemented as other things are more important and offline mode is an edge case that only affects very few people.

                                  He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                                  Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                                  And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                                  Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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                                  • JipJ Offline
                                    Jip
                                    last edited by

                                    There are better ways to do mod development, that entirely excludes the client. You can launch the game directly. Best to get on the official discord, give yourself the modding role and ask about it in #modding-general

                                    A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                                    • Eternal-E Offline
                                      Eternal-
                                      last edited by Eternal-

                                      The reason is simple, they are avoiding "unlegal" access to faf infrastructure without "required" access with registered account

                                      Profile | Eternal MOD pack | Check new client

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                                      • Manimal_M Offline
                                        Manimal_
                                        last edited by

                                        I'm an old school coder, with little knowledge of coding.

                                        This is how I'm working my programs 👨‍💻 :
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                                        If you know a better way, I'd be glad to hear from you. 👨‍🏫 👨‍🎓

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