I like this idea as well, especially for players with hearing disabilities - it would make a nice QoL improvement.

I wanted to come back and update this thread for others who may have this issue. I was only able to log in by downloading Firefox and setting it as my default browser. Once I did that, it successfully authenticated me. Things to note:

• Chrome did not work (Chrome already existed on my machine)
• Edge did not work (Edge already existed on my machine)
• Firefox worked; Firefox was not previously installed on my machine; it was a fresh install (no idea if this being a fresh install mattered)
• Uninstalling/reinstalling FAF did not help
• Other FAF clients did not work (only tried Ethereal - not sure if there are others out there)

If you are talking about Neroxis generated maps, I worked through this the other day with the help of Arma and a handful of other folks (thanks guys!). I have a bat file that renames the folder/files, find/replaces the file content references, and hex edits the scmap all in one go. It does everything Arma listed for you. MadMax, you have to edit the scmap or the map doesn't load correctly once you launch a game on it. Textures do not load.

If you follow Arma's steps, you should be good to go.

If you are talking about Neroxis generated maps, I worked through this the other day with the help of Arma and a handful of other folks (thanks guys!). I have a bat file that renames the folder/files, find/replaces the file content references, and hex edits the scmap all in one go. It does everything Arma listed for you. MadMax, you have to edit the scmap or the map doesn't load correctly once you launch a game on it. Textures do not load.

If you follow Arma's steps, you should be good to go.

@arma473 Ah, thanks! I was missing step 9 since I was too lazy to open the file in a hex editor.

I don't want anyone to go out of their way to really do anything about this. I think I am a pretty fringe case in my desire to play sandbox on generated maps. Thanks for all the info though as it is pretty interesting to know how the map files, lua files, and .scmap files all work together.

@sheikah In my use case, I don't want to keep a document of map names and have to launch the faf client to re-generate a map simply to play solo in sandbox mode. It is way easier to keep the local files and bypass the faf client completely, launching the game executable and loading a map in skirmish.

The client did zap it the next time it was closed after it was renamed back. At least now I know it is the client that is removing the folders, so I can work around it. Thanks everyone!

Ah, okay - thanks guys. I tried renaming the files (first just the folder name, then all files in the folder) but the client cannot correctly load the map after renaming things. But, I think I have a few permutations of renaming that I could try. Worse case, I could copy the files to some place safe and then move them back when wanting to play them in sandbox mode. I could write a quick bat file to handle it.

Tangentially related to "saving Neroxis maps": Is there a way to prevent the Mapgen maps from being "purged" from the local map folder? They seem to stick around for a while and then vanish.

This thread may help: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4093/can-t-autorizate/7?_=1688673862482

I like this idea as well, especially for players with hearing disabilities - it would make a nice QoL improvement.

I wanted to come back and update this thread for others who may have this issue. I was only able to log in by downloading Firefox and setting it as my default browser. Once I did that, it successfully authenticated me. Things to note:

• Chrome did not work (Chrome already existed on my machine)
• Edge did not work (Edge already existed on my machine)
• Firefox worked; Firefox was not previously installed on my machine; it was a fresh install (no idea if this being a fresh install mattered)
• Uninstalling/reinstalling FAF did not help
• Other FAF clients did not work (only tried Ethereal - not sure if there are others out there)

Hey Blackfox, what is in the error details?