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I also don’t think pre-building energy storages to deal with an unworking game system is an intended game mechanic. I would support some extra storage to compensate.
@broken said in 2 weeks + Notice of Succession:
Expected this. You and FTX were pretty close.
Hello, thanks for your message.
I just wanted to mention that as bad as it was (for you guys), I'm not leaving just because FtX wasn't voted in.
Hello.
I'm going to do better things with my time, so in two weeks from now i'll be leaving my role as Creative Councilor, and FAF contribution as a whole.
All my current ongoing work is squared away, meaning you'll get our work on new props whenever the new game patch releases.
After a few days worth of discussions with my team. We've decided to hand off the position to Balthazar. He is a competent professional for this field of work, and I have no doubts that he will be able to handle the position and it's duties. You may know Balth from his own BrewLAN mod, and I also commissioned him to recreate the gate model on the Gateway and Rose map. That model will also arrive in the game patch.
Feel free to ask any questions in PM. I expect Balth to introduce himself publicly when he is able.
Thanks for your time.
ensure your map is just a folder upon upload, and not a compressed folder
You need to look at your own replays before making such wild accusations.
I'm watching a game of yours, you're 5k mass down (one and a over-half T3 mexes) at minute 10.
You make a Galactic Colossus instead of planes like you're supposed to be doing. So you're of course going to be down planes.
You engage enemy air while down on planes by roughly 20. You move your planes right past his, allowing him to shoot down your bombers for free. And after idling for a couple of seconds, try to run away while he is in the process of shooting your planes down.
You'll find that fighter jets are not capable of shooting backwards.
After this loss, you decide to make AA gunships. AA gunships are not as good as ASF for damage vs other planes and thus you shouldn't be making them unless you actually won the fight.
Also, despite being on two bases, your inability to follow basic eco steps is letting your single base mirror get close to out-ecoing you again. I don't know what happened to that GC but i'm assuming you fed it.
Your second airfight, after idling over five cruisers and two flak guns for a couple seconds, puts you at 50 asf to 216. That's not "out number my opponents air on units". That's a complete and total air loss.
You get smoked, as only someone with a quarter of their units can.
I'm going to be straight with you. You're not an ok air player. At best, you're attempting to mimic better players without any of the desicion making or understanding of why the better players play the way they do. You have a long way to go before anyone would consider you "ok" at the game. If you want to get better, focus on reviewing your play and handling losses with more tact. Attempt to incorporate better ideas into your play each lobby instead of mindlessly sitting on autopilot for another 6000 games.
And don't accuse people of cheating unless you watch the replay yourself and prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Good luck!
Aurora not needing scouts would end up in aeon having the most brutal raids ever concieved
People choosing aeon because they're not overpowered isn't a fault of the balance itself, but people spreading word that aeon now gives you free rating for playing it
@keene said in Why would you have left FAF?:
To many gap/astro maps seems to be a recurring answer in this thread. I wonder if de-ranking all gap/astro maps would ultimately be a positive and long term gain for FAF.
It’s not a feasible solution with our current map distribution method. (Vault rules like that are stupid easy to evade)
That aside, if we took away something you enjoyed, and asked you to instead do something you fundamentally didn’t want to do; would you do it or would you go and play something else?
I’m not accusing anyone in this thread, but there have been countless people who claim “they would play X other thing if only…” and for a lot of them, they’re never going to have the confidence to do so. There are probably a lot more gap/astro slaves than you think exist, it’s just that a lot of them are in the closet.
zappazapper said in Game analysis - Replay #14886292:
What's different about playing this game and playing a musical instrument is that playing this game for the first time is a little like picking up a guitar for the very first time and trying to learn "Flight of the Bumblebee". You really should just try and learn "Louie Louie" first or some other dumb schlockey song that you'll never want to be caught dead playing in front of humans (I would) because you're not ready to attempt "Flight of the Bumblebee", just like I'm not really ready to learn how to micro Inties at this point.
It's fine to think this way, but let me use another guitar analogy for you here. When you're learning to play a new song, you learn to play it at a very slow speed, but correctly. You don't play the song incorrectly in order to try and match the tempo right away. Once you commit the correct chord/fret/etc changes to your muscle memory, you can work through them faster and faster until you're doing it at speed. If you commit the incorrect notes/etc to memory. You'll definetly know that it's tough to work them back out of your playing when you are doing them subconciously.
If you do the right things now at a poor speed. It will be much more beneficial for you overall. I'm not expecting you to go into a game and spam out 100 move orders to do perfect circle micro in your game. I only expect basic moves to shoot down threats and fighting enemy planes when you know you're ahead.
I can honestly say that reclaim is at the very top of the list of things I would like to improve on.
Reclaim is something you'll be working on thoughout your entire time playing this game. Right now you don't need to make it overly complicated. Ensure you get as much reclaim as possible by any means possible. Lots of people just end up taking engineers and doing attack moves to the other side of the map, for example..
"You shouldn't focus on your army movements or stuff like that so early on" Mmm, that's a little bit of a contradiction there. If I don't need to focus on army movements at this point, why do I have to focus on micro'ing air?
You should practice it in your games, but you do not need to focus on it in your post game analysis.
A tank that didn't die because another type of unit gave me a slight advantage in one aspect over an opposing force of pure tanks is a tank that I don't have to build again.
Thinking this way is fine for other units, but a lot of the game and your choices within it often revolve around comparing your "X" to the "X" of the enemy. For example, you might count the number of land factories you have to see if you'll eventually have enough tanks to take map control.
While arty and aa are both:
Engineers are something else entirely. When your factories are essentially not making land units one 5th of the time, your ability to scout and make choices in the game become obfuscated.
I would suggest making factories exclusively for engineers if you need them. If you end up not needing the engineers later (it's hard to make "too many" engineers), you can always make more tanks instead. Or just reclaim them.
Anyway, like I said, I hope you don't take these comments to mean anything other than I just want to keep having these discussions and learning. Thanks again for taking the time to watch my replay, read my post, and offer your own insights.
No problem mate. I'm always around to answer questions
made the "noob team i played epic" joke one too many times and now I don't have enough FAF social credit score to ride the bus, what should I do?
Putting in the effort to analyse your games is already a show of promise that the majority of newer (or, bad) players lack, so i'll try to give you some good advice here. I've watched your game and read your analysis, and there are two major points of interest that I felt needed commenting on.
First:
because it's another good price to pay for attention/APM. It's not something a 2k player is ever going to do, and I realize that air combat is something I will have to get better at going forward.
at some point, we all will need to figure out how to upgrade to higher tech levels to compete
At this point in my "career", I don't have the attention/APM to be that exacting with such things
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to justify bad play to yourself in a developmental stage. I don't think it's a good idea to justify anything to yourself at all, you're trying to learn and thus you must accept your mistakes so you can correct them.
Higher rated players are not doing anything particularly different that is out of your reach, they've just committed the correct things into muscle memory. If you allow yourself to continue to do something badly by justifying it with talk about your APM level and your current skill, you'll form a bad habit that will take a long time to revert; If reverting it is even possible to begin with.
After all, you'll default to your training under any form of pressure, and you'll be stuck doing something terrible like the air patrol when a higher rated player appears, or you get a new map you don't know. I've trained new players for many years here now, and I would be confident in claiming that most of that training was beating bad habits out of people. It doesnt matter if you spend some time now doing the right thing poorly, it's much faster than trying to un-learn something later after you create a habit.
The very basic of air micro is that planes cannot shoot backwards, so it's all based around getting behind your enemy and shooting him down for free. Don't you think that would be a bit easy to do if your enemy is flying his planes around in a preset path and not reacting to you? Air patrol has negative consequences from something as small as no fuel to something as large as a complete wipe. You were not punished here because your enemy didn't even bother to make any planes to try and fight you, but be careful to not draw conclusions. You WILL be punished for doing this before you get as high as a paltry 600 rating. Learn the correct basics now.
There's a lot here, but if I can give any advice from one noob to another... you don't need Tech2, and you certainly don't need Tech3
You've drawn this conculsion without looking at any of the factors that might have caused him to lose here. This is a game focused around macromanagement, and it seems you've only looked at micromanagement related issues.
There is more behind why he died while he made tech, and why you've made an incorrect conclusion.
When you look at your games, there are a couple things for you to pay attention to in order to get the most out of it. First would be your factory counts, because if you make the same number every game, you'll win/lose depending on how much your enemy makes.
Second is your total mass collected, which you might need the Supreme Scoreboard mod to see. It's not the end all mark of why you win/lose games, but it's a stat that will help you diagnose your games in 99 percent of cases.
Third would be your reclaim count. You'll progress faster if you can quickly learn to suck up all the reclaim you possibly can and then spend it. Compare your total reclaim to the reclaim of your enemy and you can figure out why you beat/get beat by people.
You shouldn't focus on your army movements or stuff like that so early on, and its also why strange stuff like adding engineers to your army or whatever also don't matter. The bigger picture stuff is more important.
I'll stop there, one last thing though, our learning content is all made by individuals and thus I can't assure you the quality of information in each post. I could go over Arma's post you linked and point out about 100 different things I think are wrong, but someone could come to anything I make and easily do the same. Don't treat any one material as gospel; not only will you be a blasphemer, but you'll hinder your learning.
I have more I could rip you on but it's best if you don't try to internalise everything at once. Incorporate new things into your play and then come back after you do, and make sure not to force yourself into bad habits. Good luck,
@zukko said in Why would you have left FAF?:
the question was why would you leave FAF, the answer for me would be that it is not an easy game to just pick up and play,
Hey, I did a rough poll of the responses in this thread and you are indeed correct. Most of the responses in this thread mention the learning curve of the game as one of the biggest reasons why people leave FAF.
While i'm not going to suggest any massive changes to the game that defy the mission of FAF (to maintain the mutiplayer service of the orIginal game) I would recommend making a second thread to discuss learning-curve ideas seperate from here. I think this thread has served it's purpose.
It is possible to make a balance mod with an "easier" balance. It would be on you to make one though.
I made a guide for doing just that: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/739/guide-creating-a-basic-balance-mod-with-a-merge-blueprint
same dudes who sit in discord training channel saying they have no apm
thinking randomly getting double your current unit count is not a big deal
stay classy faf
post replays
I've finally been able to add this list to the client.
I haven't looked through the new suggestions yet, but now that I can actually add them, please feel free to recommend more maps.
Dude don't derail your own threads, tone has a point in conversations and his is used to imply he doesnt see this as ever being worth adding. Your changes would make a sentence that that implies he is asking for more infomation, which he clearly doesnt care about. yours is not a change in tone, its a change to remove dissent.
I assume the carrier and the tractor beam run off the same code. You'll probably see a set range and also a trigger to only work when a plane is at a certain velocity (so asf don't enter the carrier at high speeds.) So i'ts probably possible, but that doesnt mean you should suggest changing it.
This ability is probably more something for the air stations that one would turn on for short periods with a toggle.
thats tha plan already dawg
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/347/m-m-team-top-picks-map-submissions/5
Hey, I just want to let you know that we (the council) have heard your request to keep drama out of the client.
I would like to personally apologise for the unsightly display, and I agree with you that it should be left out. But in my doing so, please realise that:
This was not an intentional move on our end but a mistake, and moves will be taken to ensure it doesn't happen again.
As for the election posts, Jip has guessed correctly:
Make 15km the official 4th category.
There hasn't been any form of official "you may proceed" from the council. As far as I know this is a lie.
FtX has set up the in-council inquiry literally just now. Pretty sure the board is doing stuff as well?