I don't remember it being discussed as a privacy concern, but there was an update a few years ago that removed them from everyone and people were... unhappy.

@DeivisJenkins said:

Prevent tracking for privacy/personal reasons
i.e: Personal targetting

Streamer/content creator safety
i.e: Targeted harassment, tracking, or doxxing

I don't see how country flags allow tracking or doxxing. Outside of the Vatican (which doesn't fit the typical FAF demographic) even the smallest country narrows you down to tens of thousands of people. That's not doxxing territory.

@DeivisJenkins said:

I really think is a no-brainer to let it be optional and let users agree to share their information

Mandatory flags do have some benefits. People who host custom lobbies may not want to play with countries which tend to have poor connections or which are actively at war with their own. It can also help team organization and communication by giving a decent idea who speaks what language(s).

@CpaHb said:

This does not apply to mapgens or other options, only for dual gap type maps.

No, there are no plans to implement special rules for specific map types.

T1 land scouts are built with just about every army for portable radar and don't have a higher tier equivalent

Here's the full list of bonuses

does that mean that I need to spend less mass, and with the same build power, will I finish producing of an expensive unit faster?

You will spend less mass but the build time is unaffected. A factory which usually would draw 4 mass/s with a 25% mass discount will instead draw 3 mass/s building the same unit.

Also note that these discounts are for the factory build power only. Any engineers assisting the factory will not receive any benefits.

I am not aware of any recent effects changes

Please attach logs

@Sheppy I think it would be incredibly helpful to have that feature. As someone who plays a lot of 1v1, you win or lose 1v1 games because of something different you did from your opponent. Being able to compare 1v1 data would be immensely helpful for "well my opponent won because he did X instead of what I did"

@Sheppy said:
I pushed the reference functionality to master now:

Oh I misunderstood what these show. I thought it'd be a comparison between two people in the same match. Would that require both players to upload separately? It can't pull data on multiple players from a single replay?

Cool tool! Got one minor bug report and one question

Bug: These aren't %

Question: Does each player need to be using this tool to get the comparative graphs you had? I can only see my own charts

Could be any number of things. Press F9 to see the log and any errors you get. Also good to reference the guides here: https://wiki.faforever.com/en/Development/Modding

Side note, since SC2 models are under copyright this mod won't be allowed to be uploaded to the Vault.

Let's keep this thread focused on the HQs. If you have issues with the pace of updates or FAF leadership please make a separate thread.

Please make a report through the client or Discord, we do not allow reports to be publicly posted.

Because it's an advantage that comes with an even bigger downside: if those subs get ground fired they ALL die.

My opponent attempting to sub stack has even single handedly won me a game, because I made 2 Corsairs, ground fired the stack, and he went from a slight advantage in navy to being able to do nothing but watch as I right click his HQ.

@Defiant said:

For non serious games.. An all upgrades mod, which let's ACUs get conflicting upgrades simultaneously at some expensive rate. Shielded, Billy, Tele UEF ACU. Cloaked, Mazer, Tele Cybran ACU. Etc.

HoreyYT has been working on such a thing in the #modding-general Discord channel

Yeah this is an interaction that has been known for years. There were even balance mods which gave all torpedoes tiny aoe to prevent this. I won't speak for the balance team as I am not a member, but this would be trivial to fix if it were considered an issue.

No, they will be rebuilt automatically 100 mass per drone. This also means they take longer to be replaced if you're stalled.

That question was answered in my first response, and as you keep using this thread to report players despite specific instruction not to do so I'll be locking it.

Insulting countries, nationalities, races, religions, and sexualities are all against FAF rules and will be met with moderation action.

However making a public forum post is not an appropriate way to file a report. You can do that in the client or a ticket in Discord. I've forwarded along your image through the proper channels.

@Defiant said:

All units grow in size as the vet

Has some technical limitations. You can check you my W I D E ACUs mod (I think that's what it's called) for something similar to this.

The problem is there's no way to adjust the bones of a unit. So you are either stuck with units firing out of where their weapons used to be (like in the mod) or you'd have to completely replace the unit every time it vets, which would reset its orders as well as anything told to attack it.

If you click on "FAF Game Lobby" here you'll be prompted to change the lobby title