mercies in their current form are fine. zero need to fundamentally rework it.

@jip ok, fair point and well made.
My hat goes off to all you do, I have enormous respect for all of your contributions.

very nice

What would nomads need to be worthy? Some said nomads would never become ranked. As many of us may be aware, most of the FAF userbase plays campaign and solo skirmish. With all Nomads has going for it after 15 years of development, including extensive co-op campaign missions, it's time to embrace Nomads as FAF's official 5th faction.

I am in no way attached to any specific aspect of the nomads faction, every single unit could get reworked and I would personally be happy simply that there is a 5th faction. An amazing job has already been done, and every bit of polish that continues to be added is a massive boon. I'd like to see nomads campaign at the very least integrated, as needing to jump through hoops to play it greatly reduces it's exposure, and thus potential to become better.

I wouldn't dream of suggesting that nomads in it's current state should be simply thrust into ladder, it clearly needs work, but maybe it wont get that without a drastic change of circumstances. Whilst an additional side brings balance challenges, it also brings opportunities to enhance balance, given more room to work with. Considering a mod to play vanilla supcom balance on FAF exists, im suprised a vanilla 1v1 ladder doesn't exist. Integrating nomads into FAF does not require changing any existing ladders. A dedicated 5 faction ladder could exist when Nomads is ready.

The vast number of Youtube videos coverying Nomads suggests that this move could be well recieved by the casual community.
Gyle's 2020 interview with exotic retard is especially noteworthy and a must see. Gyle sure would be pleased with Nomads as FAF's 5th faction.

I look foward to everyone sharing their opinions and perspectives.
Live long and prosper, and may the Force be with you, always.
Please be as critical and passionate as possible.
Thank you for your time and consideration.

Generations ago, the Earth Empire deported a group of separatists across the galaxy. After what seemed like an endless amount of time, the huge transports reached a remote desert planet in a spiral arm far away from the old Empire. Removed from their home, they became a legend and the last remaining records of their existence were lost in the Infinite War. While the UEF, Aeon, and Cybran fought over the remains of the Earth Empire, the separatists adapted and regained their strength. Resources were scarce on their new homeworld, and the deported began to build a large fleet to seek out more. The Nomads were born.

The Nomads used their fleet to conquer neighboring species, and forced them into submission. Scavenging the technology and resources of their victims, the Nomads learned to manipulate time and space on a level far superior to anything the Earth Empire and its descendants had ever seen. When the first prototype of a quantum fluctuation drive was successfully tested, the Nomads knew the time of their return was close.

The new FTL drive allowed them to strike at will and without warning; they were no longer forced to rely on Quantum Gates to travel long distances. The Nomads kept raiding the systems in their spiral arm of the galaxy increasing their numbers and strength and nurturing their wrath on the successors of the old Earth Empire. After traveling a millennia the Nomads are at the doorstep of their old foes. They have only one objective: Exterminate!

no. but i hope it goes well for them.

Lovers of this subgenre tend to appreciate new entries. Planetary annihilation and BAR are still going strong. We need another RTS Triathlon. or maybe an olympics with Total Annihilation, Balanced Annihilation, Sanctuary, and Rusted Warfare added to the lineup.

i've been enjoying Rusted Warfare a lot recently with it's crossplay pixel art. Very accessible.

@deribus said in Do you think Sanctuary will replace FAF?:

There's little to no point making any judgment on Sanctuary until people not involved with the project can play it.

a thousand times this. it's vaporware until then.

@mach im not asking for mandatory nomads, just tigher integration, which at the very least would eliminate any hoop jumping currently required to play the nomads campaigns. no changes to ladder would occur, and disabling/enabling nomads would remain as easy as it currently is.

@Zeldafanboy i 2nd your motion to put the xbox units in the game. And yes, buggy and unpolished/unoptimized does seem to be the main problems.

@speed2 here's to another 15 years of improvements. maybe this thread will inspire new contributors to join the project. fingers crossed.

Clearly there should be a rule forbidding intentionally offmapping reclaim

i suggest conducting it on discord and streaming the resulting QA live on twitch https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005513722-Stage-Channels-FAQ

i've always thought more upgrades on more body parts would be neat.

blackops has a nice amount

frequent surrendering is one of the many reasons i refuse to play league of legends. there is nothing more demoralizing than members of your team repeatedly announcing that they have given up. @CheeseBerry 9 minutes in is shocking, im glad to hear it went well after that, definitely not unusual in my experience.

its a fair point though, both options have their pros and cons.
more lobby options are always appreciated.

a failed vote to surrender is a clear indication of your teammates' confidence that continuing is likely to result in victory. when skills are relatively matched, it is often the team with the greater will to win who ultimately prevails. just gotta stick around and make it happen.

@blackyps whilst a great idea, a list of popular seeds would certainly have great value in it's own right, especially if integrated into the vault. it requires vault integration to get adequate attention and traction.

why are mapgen maps on the vault against the rules, who's idea was that?

obviously flooding the vault with mapgen maps would not be a good situation to get into,

however the rules seem to explicitly forbid using mapgen as the basis for a new map.

AI is a powerful tool when used creatively, instead of shoveling out what amounts to a list of seeds.

chatGPT maps when?

official integration of these features would be very nice indeed.

eta on inclusion in the official faf package?

and it's not even entirely alphabetical...

@uveso said in Don't ask again. [running client as admin]:

you can't"

oh no

please, it'd really be nice.

more regional coturn servers for the ICE adapter could be good.

one in each active region would be good. Australia, North America, South America, Africa, India and South East Asia could each have connectivity significantly improved.

otherwise anything improving the new player experience and continuing to grow FAF's playerbase is probably the optimal direction

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I for one welcome our feet washing overlords.

In the original game when you die all your units explode, except what you've given to your allies, which they keep.
FAF has introduced several new sharing settings, and in the process depreciated the original mode.
I suggest returning it, along with even more modes.

Here are the existing options followed by my suggestions.

• Full Share
  Your units will be transferred to your highest rated ally when you die. Previously transferred units will stay where they are.

• Share Until Death (default)
  All units you have built this game will be destroyed when you die, except those captured by the enemy.

• Partial Share
  Your buildings and engineers will be transferred to you highest rated ally when you die, Your other units will be destroyed when you die, except those captured by the enemy

• Traitors
  You units swill be transferred to the control of your killer.

• Defectors
  Your units will be transferred to the enemy with the highest score when you die

• Civilian Desertion
  Your units will be transferred to the civilian AI, if there is one, when you die.

• Share After Death (legacy)
  All units you have built this game will be destroyed when you die, except previously transferred units, and any captured by the enemy.

• No Share
  Sharing is disabled. All units you have built this game will be destroyed when you die, except those captured by the enemy.

• Chaotic dispersion
  All uniuts you have built this game will be transferred to random players when you die.

• Losers advantage
  All units you have built this game will be transferred to the player with the lowest score when you die.

i''m sure someone will appreciate them.