Thanks for the overview Jip, some very cool changes coming up, maps looking better than ever and very excited to see the mobile factories in action-- one very small gripe though, although this is less "development" related and more "balance" related-- won't reducing the BP of aircraft carriers make them not worth building? According to the current unit DB, carriers are roughly 3x the price of a T3 air fac... I think it will de-incentivize building carriers as mobile factories if it gives the same BP for 3x the price, mobile or not, having 1.5x BP seems like a fairer middle ground since that means you're still paying more for the BP but it's not quite so steep.

So whoever's played Planetary Annihilation is familiar with the auto-ping system, every time a group of units are attacked, or a sometimes if a certain building has finished being constructed IIRC, a ping is sent to the player with a camera position.

Would it possible to implement something like this into FAF? And perhaps for its "sensitivity" to be adjustable? Since different players may want more or less pings.

100% agree that the Fattie needs a buff, I'd say just up the HP by 5k or so, maybe up the speed just barely a touch, and it'd be good, but these are definitely interesting suggestions.

@derpfaf said in are there 40+ years old FAF players ?:

Its one of the few RTS where speed clicking isn't so important.

Bullshit

@derpfaf said in are there 40+ years old FAF players ?:

Its one of the few RTS where speed clicking isn't so important.

Bullshit

Thanks for the overview Jip, some very cool changes coming up, maps looking better than ever and very excited to see the mobile factories in action-- one very small gripe though, although this is less "development" related and more "balance" related-- won't reducing the BP of aircraft carriers make them not worth building? According to the current unit DB, carriers are roughly 3x the price of a T3 air fac... I think it will de-incentivize building carriers as mobile factories if it gives the same BP for 3x the price, mobile or not, having 1.5x BP seems like a fairer middle ground since that means you're still paying more for the BP but it's not quite so steep.

Oh wow I forgot I made this topic XD I am going to read all the replies now, I already see some great ideas and counter-points here.

So whoever's played Planetary Annihilation is familiar with the auto-ping system, every time a group of units are attacked, or a sometimes if a certain building has finished being constructed IIRC, a ping is sent to the player with a camera position.

Would it possible to implement something like this into FAF? And perhaps for its "sensitivity" to be adjustable? Since different players may want more or less pings.

I like the idea of letting the Fattie be able to build structures, build units on the move, and a slight bump to HP and speed.

100% agree that the Fattie needs a buff, I'd say just up the HP by 5k or so, maybe up the speed just barely a touch, and it'd be good, but these are definitely interesting suggestions.

I'd love to see a 5v5 mode instated sometime... B)

@maudlin27 said in THE ENGIE SYNDROME: "GIVE ENGIE" / "ДАЙ ИНЖА":

Well they did say read at your own risk!

More for the benefit of newer players who read this, if a teammate asks you for an engineer, you aren't obliged to provide it (although it's often a good idea since what also often happens, as described here, is they can get very angry about not receiving the engineer). If they then ctrl-K their ACU in response to your refusal (as described here) they're breaching the FAF rules and you can report them.

The above is a big reason why for a long time I liked playing Astro craters out of the 3 maps that seemed to be played on FAF (Setons, Gap, Astro), since at the time 4v4 TMM wasn't a thing and I really dislike maps where your team expects/demands you to play a particular way and you dont have the freedom to experiment with your own battle plans.
Fortunately now I have TMM and while a few maps there might be an expected air or navy slot it's fairly rare to get pings as described in the OP.

I can't speak to the role-designating (I do play Gap but generally try to avoid it as it's too stale for me) beyond that there are some cases where if everyone is expecting you to focus say on air units because you're in the most protected slot, and you then flaunt their requests and leave the team with no air, they will justly be quite upset, but as far as sharing engineers and the like goes, I'm not sure it's a good idea to encourage people to be uncommunicative assholes and work against their team, just because it's not technically against the rules... I have played too many games with people "just doing their own thing" that happened to involve entirely ignoring teammates, communication, and the general situation of the game (who sometimes then have the sheer gall to call you "toxic" for being vehemently displeased with such infantile behavior).

@stlng said in Nukes should explode in the air:

If the nuke damage is spherical the player would sacrifice some nuke damage area by detonating the nuke early, i.e., in the air, perhaps to catch a unit that moved.

Can just give it a larger AOE

I concur with the idea of buffing the shell speed and allowing it to move while building units. Personally also like the idea of giving it a personal shield and buffing its general HP but those might be too much. Maybe ever so slightly buff its movement speed as well?