FAF Officaly Supports GOG

It's Been a long time coming but I can finally say FAF will support the GOG Verison of SupcomFA.

Ever since FAF enable the Steam link for us to verify that you own a copy of the game and the requirements were laid out here for why.

Next Leap

The work on the API side has been completed as you can see here if you are interested. As of the 11th of May, I finalise the frontend implementation that was provided by Geoserchef with a few minor text and link changes that need to be made.

The New release of the Website is ready and should be deployed Within the next week (I will Provide an Update here when live!). With this, it is time to welcome with open arm's new player who owns SupcomFA on GOG. With these changes you will only need to have the SupcomFA game on either platform to play faf Steam will no longer be the only Option!

Mentions

Thanks to Geoserchef for starting the process with Brutus & Sheikah on the Sever side.

Would also like to thank you for the help in testing that the linking process works:

• Sprouto
• P4Block

After Being a part of the FAF Community and going on 13 Years of being here pretty much from the start of FAFs existence, it's time for me to part ways for a while. Throughout my journey here I've met and talked with many people which has helped me grow in times where FAF has been an escape from stuff going on in my Person life.

Throughout the year, I've worked on many parts of FAF from becoming a Tournament Director and Mod maker to eventually Being on the FirstBoardd of the FAF Association and where my last few years have been spent on the Promotions team and Game team for faf and most recently the Balance Team with the latest patch.

I've Learnt So much with the infrastructures and technologies that we use at FAF which has helped me in my studies and future Career and aspirations.

As of today, I will be leaving FAF and all of the teams I was a part of as I now need a break to focus on my Final Year of Uni and Goals and projects I want to focus on.

You may see me around here and there in games when I feel like it but for now, this is Good Bye for a while.

For those who still would like to stay in contact with me, you can add me at mrrowey on Discord.

Thanks

Rowey

Hi It’s Rowey

You may have noticed over the last Month and half I have been absent and things in the Promotions have seemed to have slowed down / Grinded to a halt in some places. This has been one of the hardest directions I've had to make in a while, August of this year I’ve thought long and hard, at the the end of September I gave The FAF Board My Notice of Stepping down as Promo Lead which will be effective as of Dec 24th, I will no longer hold that role and my successor will take over as well as i will also be taking a break from faf as a whole.

My time as the Promotions Lead me and the team have accomplished a lot, From the increased content that was going up on the FAF YouTube channel which when i started only had 1.2k Sub and we grew that to 2.3k+ Subs as of writing this. We implemented the upgraded version of the client newshub with a more modern look and are working on a revamp of the FAF Website with a new look and feel.

After being a part of the FAF Community for 13 Years it was a huge part of my life at a point in time where I needed it, it became a Safe Haven for me where I could forget about the outside world. I will be moving to focus on other things in my life which will involve some personal stuff and trying out more development stuff I want to pursue. I will not be leaving the Team is Disarrays, Once I officially gave my notice to the board I worked with Javi to make sure he had everything he needed to take over as the new Promotions Lead.

Over the years being on FAF I've dipped my toes in much every area from Tournament Director, Mod and map creator, Was a part of the Initial FAF Association Board and to my final post The Promotions Lead.

With this said i will also be leaving FAF for sometime as it comes to the time where I'm looking forward to what’s next and the next steps i need to step away from what i know and take that leap. I'm sure you will probably see me here and there in some games or on the discord / forum. It has been a blast on all the stuff I've done and achieved throughout my time at FAF, As well as all the friends I've made along the way.

Finally before I finish up this post I would like to announce that Javi will be the Person who will be taking the seat as Promotions Lead and I wish him all the best in the post for all the hard work he has also put in over the years in the background that you may not have known about !

This is Rowey gating out one last time !

GOG Link is Now Available on the website

Its that time of year when the Promotion Team is at work prepping all the materials for the Legends of the Stars Tournament and to kick thing off id like to extend the credit of the work to Promotions Team Associate Member Phong for using the style of older lots images to create a new and clean logo which we will be able to use beyond this years tournament.

Here are the Assets that have been created. If you have any feedback I'm sure @phong would appreciate it.

Icons and Banners

YouTube Thumbnail

Stream Splash Art

Current System

Ever since the new Leauge system was implemented and replace the standard leaderboards in the client the first few season people were proactivly playing to rise up thoght the ranks and more recently ve sen that for the 1v1 & 2v2 matchmaker space this has significaly droped of.

Aim of this post

The Aim of this posting it to preset My idea to update the leauge system into 4 Distiguised seasonal events thoughout the year were thier are some small insentives to actlault wanting to play.

• Give a reason to want to play 1v1 & 2v2
• Give a Goal to reach with custom avatars & prize pool
• More people playing the matchmaker

New Approach

For now the aim would be to trial this out with 1v1 and if it something the community like we can expand this to the 2v2 system in the new year.

The New approach to the league system will be to have 4 season:

• Winter : 1st January - 28/29th February
• Spring : 1st April - 31st may
• Summer : 1st July - 31st August
• Autumn : 1st October - 30th November

Each season would happen around the same time each year. Each Season would be a 2 month period with a 1 Month Grace period in-between were other bespoke tournament can take place and give players a breck from the grid over the last 2 months.

Avatars & Prize pool

Thanks to @Fichom we have custom avatars for the top 4 brackets of the league being

• Grandmaster
• Master I
• Diamond I
• Gold I

Winter

Spring

Summer

Autumn

And I've also spoke to the new Treasure of the association( @Deribus ) about using some FAF funds for a small prise pot for each event which would be $50 per event

Feedback

Were open to any feedback you can provide us on the setup as id like to start the first seasonal event on the 1st of July so see if it will bring people back to playing on the 1v1 matchmaker more if their is a goal to work towards

In my Free Time I am slowly working On Adding Improvements to the FAF Website and all Changes I have made are on the FAF Git Page.

Any Update / Changes I make will be list here as well as a Link to the GitHub Pull Request I have made.
I will Put in Square Brackets if the Change is Merged in the current version of the website or is a Pending Pull Request.

Trello Board to Manage New Feature/Update i would like to add to the Current FAF Website
https://trello.com/b/tbuvEoL8/faf-website

Improvements/Updates:

• Update News Link on website to NewsHub #258 [Merged]
  Change the Href Link to link to /newshub instead of /news as people are missing out on what is going on in the community as the old news page had no postings since Aug 2020

• Add Twitch Link to Top Navigation Bar #259 [Merged]
  Added Twitch Icon to link to the Supcom FA Category of Twitch

• Update to Contribution Page #260 [Merged]
  Update Streamer & Caster List & Add link to FAF Creative Discord

• Add Link to FAF IssuseHunt & Discord Links on Contribute Page #261 [Merged]
  Added Link to FAF IssuseHunt page : https://issuehunt.io/r/FAForever
  Added Links to FAF Related Discords :

  • Official Russian
  • Official French
  • ANZ #263[Merged]
  • Nomads Development
  • Ai-Development
  • FAF Promotions

Taking over as Promotions Councilor

It has been a year since Fury took over as the Promotions Councilor. He has now decided to step down after his term has come to an end.

With the blessing of the association and the other member of the Promotions Team, I will now be taking his place as the Promotions Councillor.

Over the year this transition has been slowly taking place. In the last few months, I’ve spearheaded the official FAF Twitter account, the new FAF wiki, populating the FAF YouTube channel with content and updating the website to create a better impression of what the project is about for potential new players that are unaware of this project.

Current state of affairs

As a team, we now have a solid foundation to work with. There are various systems in place that assist us in our work. As an example, The Google form for news submissions, and role selection for current projects on the promotions discord. There won’t be any major changes to these systems that are in place.

Ongoing Projects

One of the primary projects is the translation and localization of the new FAF wiki. Some languages we’re working on are Dutch, English, French, German and Russian. A lot of work has been put into improving the website. An example of these changes would be the replacement of all the images on the landing page with more updated images and better compression. With the support of Javi for his work on the Concept for the new FAF website which can be seen here to be able to create a hub for all interested in Supreme Commander.

The team

We’re actively looking for people to join the team. You’ll be able to have a direct impact on the community. Whether that is with the creation of graphics, collecting news, or managing projects surrounding the promotions team. It is an excellent place to start contributing towards FAF.

Vision for 2022

We are creating an archive on the forum of the news we post each week. This may appear redundant as we’re archiving it in various places already, but as the topic grows each week we hope it becomes a beacon of inspiration to show how active and vibrant we are as a community.

We’ll keep the YouTube channel alive with additional content. This can be original content, modified snippets from various Twitch streams or new tutorials on making mods and maps. As an example, when the new graphics are available they will be accompanied with tutorials by Jip that shows you how to make a basic map and use these new graphics.
We’re aiming to have an initial version of the rewrite of the website ready by the winter of 2022. You can find the progress on Github

Closing thoughts

I will strive to keep pushing the Promotions of FAF. I’m open to any questions and I will answer them to the best of my ability. Thanks to Fury for bringing me onto the team and allowing me to improve upon what was available to me at the time I joined. Good luck on to where his endeavours take him IRL and to the battlefield on setons or to the swamps on map-gen. Thanks for all the work you have put in and for giving me the freedom to improve the promotions while under your guidance.

i have asked for Global to be re-added to the leaderboard on the website

Internal Promotions Team Restructure

The Promotions team lately has been hard at work with an Internal Restructure.

• The Newshub is now back to a weekly news section. Google Form & Google Sheet for Organists the weekly news & for News Requests!

• The FAF Patreon will be getting an Overhall in the new few weeks with a new Tier System for you to be able to pick how you want faf to allocate your donations.

• FAF Youtube has been cleaned up and has had a few updates with the logo and banner images. As well as the FAF Casts Playlist adding as many faf casts to the list from all contributors.

• For FAFLive we Just recently got a hold of the Overlays for the faf Live account and will be looking into how to make them a bit more user friendly and for the Promo Team to update any banners/images on the overlay for X tournament that is using the FAFLive account.

• The FAF Facebook Will receive an overall and update once a few of the bigger projects have been completed first as it is not a big priory at the moment but it will not just be a gyle highlight channel !

• The FAF Twitter Currently nobody seems to have access to any of the twitter's that have been created over the years, So I will be Requesting a new one to be set up using the FAF Admin email so that we have a Twitter account as another form of communication outside of the client & discord.

• The FAF Wiki The Current wiki is so old and outdated nobody has put the time in to fix it as it is just not easy to work with as it uses an outdated version of MediaWiki from like 2016. Rowey and p4block have been working on setting up a new wiki with a lot more features built-in with more coming soon. This will allow us to have a wiki that has the most relevant and up to date information available to all the players.

Help/Contribution needed

We are looking for some help with some of the projects that were discussed in the section above.

• Patreon - We are looking for someone to be able to create 3 Special Avatars in the FAF Chat when you support a Tier with this perk. This would be an Avatar for the Following: Patreon Free to use, Patreon Tournaments, Patreon Infrastructure. All avatar sizing is 40px X 20px

• FAF Website - We are looking for a new Image/s to replace the current Supcom 2 Image that's on our website & any of the other images that you think should be updated as well.

• New FAF Wiki - We are looking for people to go over the current wiki that is available and read an of the written guides/ posts/ tutorials and let us know if they are all still fine or could do with an update. if they need to be updated and you are willing to take the time to help re-write stuff Message me and we can work out how to get the correction information on the new wiki

• Graphic Artists - We are also looking to add more people to be able to create posters for events/Article images for the new hub page & for posts on any of the other platforms we have control over.

Many Thanks

Rowey Promotions Team

Update: 29/10/21

Internal Updates

• Newshub is continuing with the weekly updates along with the Google Form for requesting news posting is working well saving us time searching for news to post.

• FAF Patreon new Tier System was Implemented and going some perks based on the tier you supported us on!

• FAF Youtube has seen considerable growth since the promotions team took control over it and posted content on their weekly for the time being. if you have any idea on what other content we could have on there please let me know.

• FAFLive as of yet noting changes on the FAFLive front from the promotions team at this moment in time.

• FAF Facebook page has been getting updated posts on The weekly news and some extra video links to the FAFLive VoD on the Youtube channel.

• FAF Twitter as of yet we still don't have a new Offical Twitter handle when this happens we will let you know.

• The New FAF Wiki is making strides I would say it is about 45% done on the refactoring.

Help/Contribution wanted

We are still in demand of people who would like to help out with the following

• FAF Website - We are looking for a new Image/s to replace the current Supcom 2 Image that's on our website & any of the other images that you think should be updated as well.

• New FAF Wiki - We are looking for people to go over the current wiki that is available and read an of the written guides/ posts/ tutorials and let us know if they are all still fine or could do with an update. if they need to be updated and you are willing to take the time to help re-write stuff Message me and we can work out how to get the correction information on the new wiki

• Graphic Artists - We are also looking to add more people to be able to create posters for events/Article images for the new hub page & for posts on any of the other platforms we have control over.

Update: 10/11/21

Updates

• FAF Twitter We have recent now set up a new official Twitter alongside the infrastructure to pass this on between Promo councillors so login credentials arent lost and have to create new Twitter every time.

if its a mod issue best easy thing to do is start disabling them one at a time

@Balthazar

@flankker the map list in the client is defined by the server not your local file, like Maggie said if you host one of the other coop maps in the list and then select the coop map you want to play in the map drop-down menu

After Being a part of the FAF Community and going on 13 Years of being here pretty much from the start of FAFs existence, it's time for me to part ways for a while. Throughout my journey here I've met and talked with many people which has helped me grow in times where FAF has been an escape from stuff going on in my Person life.

Throughout the year, I've worked on many parts of FAF from becoming a Tournament Director and Mod maker to eventually Being on the FirstBoardd of the FAF Association and where my last few years have been spent on the Promotions team and Game team for faf and most recently the Balance Team with the latest patch.

I've Learnt So much with the infrastructures and technologies that we use at FAF which has helped me in my studies and future Career and aspirations.

As of today, I will be leaving FAF and all of the teams I was a part of as I now need a break to focus on my Final Year of Uni and Goals and projects I want to focus on.

You may see me around here and there in games when I feel like it but for now, this is Good Bye for a while.

For those who still would like to stay in contact with me, you can add me at mrrowey on Discord.

Thanks

Rowey

@Rezy-Noob

https://wiki.faforever.com/en/Development/AI/Custom-AIs list of all the custom AIs

@SpikeyNoob I would assume 2 pm UTC, right?

@snowy801 No crazy mex that was just the next option that is off

@SpikeyNoob
For Adaptive Point of Reason, we will use the following Reclaim settings

@s_soulreaver Harzer is BalanceSlaveNoob