Here are two of the pledges that a councillor makes upon assuming their duties:

• I will communicate professionally and avoid bringing FAF into disrepute.
• I understand that if I am unable to perform these duties, I will resign or be replaced.

Due to the messages made by nine2 in this thread:
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1695/council-of-setons-exposed-part-1/

and due to an overreach of power as promo councillor shown in this thread:
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1712/curbing-toxicity-in-faf/

I believe that nine2 has demonstrated that he is no longer capable of upholding the councillor pledges. I am therefore asking for the resignation of @nine2 as Promotions Councillor.

Edit: This thread is dedicated to nine2's actions and the call for his resignation. The moderation team will ensure that existing comments discussing other topics be removed or moved to a new thread, and that future comments are on-topic.

Hey, you!

• Are you interested in putting your FAF skills to the test on the most level playing field?

Whether you are someone who refuses to play any map that's not mapgen unless it's LoTS, or you are someone who has never played ladder at all, this is the event for you!

The first week of September will be the first ever Mapgen Week on ladder, where the 1v1 ladder map pool is only 5x5, 10x10, and 20x20 mapgen for those 7 days (Sep 1 through Sep 7). A regular pool resumes as normal afterwards.

I plan to make Mapgen Week a semi-regular thing and the precise frequency will be determined based on feedback from you guys and what I see. As of right now I plan to run it every month or every other month. Also, depending on feedback and other factors, I may make it an event only for particular rating brackets only, e.g. 1300+ or 1800+. Feel free to post any feedback here or message me on discord/FAF.

As the title says, my suggestion would be to show mass reclaimed by engineers in the same way you can see mass killed by combat units.

This feature alone would be a nice quality of life feature for both playing and viewing. It would:

• help especially lower level players see the impact of reclaim and the value from investing into reclaiming engineers.
• provide more information for coaches in their training sessions.
• help higher level players refine their build orders.
• create these exciting moments for casters where you can see the impact of a "hero engineer".

One potential downside is the impact on sim speed, due to having do these arithmetic calculations on the fly, but a different thread has concluded that the mass-killed calculation for determining veterancy has a negligible effect on sim speed.

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/1986/about-the-veterancy-system

I would like someone more knowledgeable to weigh in on this issue, but it seems to me that this mass-reclaimed system would be implemented in a similar fashion to the mass-killed system and likely have the same order of magnitude impact on the sim speed—which would be negligible.

The other "downside" (that is, barrier to implementation) is the development work required to implement such a system. Once again, I am not knowledgeable on this topic and would like someone to weigh in, but considering the mass-killed veterancy system was implemented in 2017, I assume this suggestion is reasonable to implement as well.

It seems to be the benefits far outweigh the downsides. Let me know what you guys think! Would people like such a feature or are there other arguments against such a feature that I haven't covered?

This is the Active Trainers Contact Page, a place for students to find trainers and a for trainers to advertise themselves.

If you are a student:
This is a page for you to find a trainer that best suits you. Regardless of your rating or any reason you may have to not look for a trainer, as long as you have a mindset of improvement, you can use this page to reach out to an active trainer. You may either message a trainer directly, or post a reply below. Please tell the trainer a little about yourself, the areas you would like to improve in, and your ultimate goals for the training.

If you are a trainer:
This is a page for you to advertise your availability. Trainers please give me a short blurb about the type of student you are looking for and your training style, your desired student rating range, your availability, and your discord contact. There is no rating requirement to be a trainer. If you would would like to be added to the list or taken off, please contact me on FAF, Discord, or the forum.

Active Trainers Contact Page

Tex [Global: 1929 | Ladder: 2100]

Teaching Ladder 1v1 for players [rated 1.2K+]
I won't teach you 'standard faf' - that is, build orders or how to eco, but I will teach you when to push and when not to push, how to identify the game state find your win condition, even from a losing position. Please already have a basic understanding of FAF gameplay and macro. Teaching will primarily be in the form of replay analysis and questioning decision making. This can not be done unless there is a basic understanding of FA gameplay mechanics.

Teaching all game modes for any players (All rating)
I will go over your replays and help you figure out the most important aspects of your gameplay that needs improvement, and point you in the right direction to fix these.

Please contact me on FAF primarily.
Discord: Voiceoftex#9399

F-Odin [Global: 1971 | Ladder: 1832]

"Experienced Trainer who has taught anyone from complete beginners to decent players, uses Discord religiously and will even whack out a twitch stream with recorded commentary now and then to help analysis. Happy to teach anyone who can speak English. Will be hosting/has newbie (under 100 games) group sessions on Fridays 2000 GMT"."

Desired student: [played >5 games and speaks English]
Discord: F-Odin#0791

cocAurico [Global: 1612 | Ladder: 1636]

"In just about 15 days, with a 12 steps program, get rid of your firebase addiction, and even better, learn to break your opponent firebase with a 97% success ratio! 5 first day are free, why don't you try it!"

Availability: UK afternoon/evening time.
Discord: @Auriko5386

CheeseBerry [Setons: 1700 | like 1200 anywhere else]

"If you are below 1.4k and interested in the map Seton's Clutch pm me!
This includes experienced Setoners trying to become better, Astro and Gap players wanting to try out a new map and ladder players switching it up with some team games."

"I'll also gladly show you the ropes on any map if you are completely new to FAF (< 50 games).
The basics translate between all game modes and there are quite a few unintuitive tips and tricks you just gotta be shown when starting out."

Desired Student: See above, speaking English/German
Availability: Typically German Evening
Discord: Cheeseberry#1965 (or pm me in FAF)

arma473 [Global: 1265 | Ladder: 1173]

"I have no minimum rating requirement and you don’t have to be particularly motivated. If you are playing ladder matches, or you want to play ladder matches, that’s good enough. For active players: I would watch your replays and give feedback. For anyone who feels like they’re not ready for the ladder: I will teach you the tools that you need to get started. You won’t learn them by playing against the AI or by playing in team games.

I also wrote a guide to 1v1s. You might find it useful: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/766/ladder-1v1-beginner-intermediate-and-advanced-topics-by-arma473. "

Availability: I'm available most of the time, but my work schedule is irregular.
Discord: 4rma473#4558

Wainan [Global: 1018 | Ladder: 750]

"Looking at helping to optimise basic build orders and help to get people into the mindset of playing aggressive 1v1."

Desired student: [Speaks English]
Availability: UK afternoon/evening time.

Last updated: June 22nd, 2021.

Whilst I personally grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of the words with which you used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to provoke laughter or mirth; for what cause, reason, or purpose are you not applying your limited energy, motivation, and time towards a different endeavour or enterprise which more effectively maximizes resultant purpose, significance, fulfillment, and satisfaction of life?

I too would like to see mapgen as one of the maps that could be put in the ladder rotation...

@blodir

@blodir said in About Neroxis map generator...:

It's simply astouding. Most of the 1v1 10x10 maps generated with the "tournament" setting are better than most ladder maps. It feels a lot like AoE2. Definitely wouldn't mind seeing generated maps on ladder.

Would it be possible to have some 10% chance of getting a brand new mapgen map on ladder?

Thanks to the work of our amazing devs behind the scenes, Mapgen is now available as a map to be added to ladder. As a result, 1v1 Ladder now includes Mapgen as one of the maps in each of the map sizes: 5x5, 10x10, and 20x20. Get laddering!

Mapgen Week is now live on Ladder!

The 1v1 ladder map pool is only 5x5 and 10x10 Mapgen for under 1000 rated players and only 5x5, 10x10, and 20x20 Mapgen for over 1000 rated players for the duration of the next week. Get laddering!

@Swkoll your time has come.

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. Even a top player could learn some things from this. Personally, even though I had internalized a lot of these concepts, hearing it summarized in this fashion is very useful and helped me identify some areas where my decision making is not as strong.

no reshaffle pls

Nice, looks like as a member of group D I am in solid contention for the Wooden Spoon Award.

Swkoll really enjoyed his game there last time he played so he wanted all the players to share in the glorious experience

One specific thing you mention, strat bombs exploding because they touch enemy ASF, that doesn't happen any more, since a balance patch in the last year or so.

Yeah, that's why I specifically said a strat bombing an intie. Strats can still bomb every other air units except ASF afaik.

Personally, it's mainly because I don't like the Aeon unit selection sounds.

Thanks for the tip, there was indeed a duplicate version in ladder and it has been removed.

Just here to point out that this also has the consequence of making flaks and other AA with splash damage far less effective vs units in transports, and making air to ground far more effective when it accidentally splashes against air. The latter effect is likely undesirable - imagine a Czar with 7k hp dying to the splash from 3 strat bombers impacting on inties.

@valki said

1. 15-30 minutes is most tempting for me to watch

You want a 15-30 minute stream?

October 2021

1v1 Map Pool

Starting from this pool onwards, the 1300-1800 bracket will have an additional 20x20 map in their pool. All other pool map ratios are unchanged.

Did you mean destroying the Seraphim T4 bombers in Red Flag instead? During our speedrun attempts about half of the attempts on Red Flag were bugged and we weren't able to complete the mission. We weren't able to figure out what actually caused it since we basically did the same thing every run.