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    What is the biggest issue that plagues FAF in your opinion?

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    • TheVVheelboyT Offline
      TheVVheelboy
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      Custom games are dead unless you wanna spend 1h doing nothing. 4v4 died for even worse game mode.

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        PopSniper @Azraaa
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        @kazuya I think the MOST important problem right now is player disconnects that, in my opinion, are caused by the server. In almost EVERY game for the past month, at least one player experienced a disconnect. The game I played last night was the worst EVER. it was a 6 V 6 on dual gap. One by one, five players experienced disconnects until we were down to 3 vs 4. I had completed my yolo and was reining nukes down on the other team. My second nuke killed two more players on the other team, so now it was 3 VS 2. Right after my fourth nuke, I disconnected. We would have won and both teams were calling me the MVP of the game. But when I logged on today, my rank had decreased indicating that my team had lost the game. This is INFURIATING. Several players are ready to stop playing in disgust. PLEASE fix this server problem or FAF will lose a lot of players.

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        • TheVVheelboyT Offline
          TheVVheelboy @PopSniper
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          @popsniper said in What is the biggest issue that plagues FAF in your opinion?:

          @kazuya I think the MOST important problem right now is player disconnects that, in my opinion, are caused by the server. In almost EVERY game for the past month, at least one player experienced a disconnect. The game I played last night was the worst EVER. it was a 6 V 6 on dual gap. One by one, five players experienced disconnects until we were down to 3 vs 4. I had completed my yolo and was reining nukes down on the other team. My second nuke killed two more players on the other team, so now it was 3 VS 2. Right after my fourth nuke, I disconnected. We would have won and both teams were calling me the MVP of the game. But when I logged on today, my rank had decreased indicating that my team had lost the game. This is INFURIATING. Several players are ready to stop playing in disgust. PLEASE fix this server problem or FAF will lose a lot of players.

          https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6182/addressing-severe-connectivity-issues-what-has-happened
          Long story short, we are experiencing DDOS on our coturn servers making the connection of players relying on them quite iffy.

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            PopSniper
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            I am not a programming Geek! What the hell is DDOS on our coturn servers????

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              Exselsior
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              The servers managing networking are experiencing heavy load for an unknown reason. I might have simplified that to the point of being wrong but it’s close enough to get the point across.

              It’s not easy to fix and everyone working on this project is a volunteer who gets no money from FAF and has their day jobs and personal lives to contend with. It will take time.

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              • MadMaxM Offline
                MadMax @PopSniper
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                @popsniper said in What is the biggest issue that plagues FAF in your opinion?:

                What the hell is DDOS

                "digital denial of service" a form of attack that involves sending increased traffic to disrupt services

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                  Exselsior @MadMax
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                  @madmax said in What is the biggest issue that plagues FAF in your opinion?:

                  "digital denial of service" a form of attack that involves sending increased traffic to disrupt services

                  Distributed* denial of service but yes

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                  • SpikeyNoobS Offline
                    SpikeyNoob Global Moderator
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                    @kazuya said in Addressing Severe Connectivity Issues - What has happened!:

                    the coturn servers are being DOS-ed

                    In this case DDOS is not the correct term. DOS fits better.

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                      clyf
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                      Would it be a massive task to add a "report a problem" button to the client?

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                      • Brutus5000B Offline
                        Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
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                        What should that button do? Point you to the GitHub issues list? Or what do you expect? (Serious question)

                        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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                          clyf @Brutus5000
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                          @brutus5000

                          Link to a place to report an issue sounds like a good easy start.

                          A strong follow-up would be some kind of automatic logging, but I don't know what that would entail to be either implemented or useful.

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                          • Brutus5000B Offline
                            Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
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                            The automatic logging was discussed, but eventually nobody will really go through all the errors. It's too many kind of errors in depth and breadth.

                            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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                              clyf
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                              *Automatic in the sense that the "report a problem" button automatically gathers information from the client and attaches it to the manual report, instead of relying entirely on reportee input.

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