Posts made by Dorset

@Kilatamoro said in Wish-A-Mod Foundation:

A mod that draws a radius for every known enemy SMD when you press launch on your SML to choose a target. And maybe also draws a wide line from your SML to where your cursor is that becomes red when it obviously crosses an enemy SMD's radius.

There is a mod called SMD ring that I use religiously both for marking all the SMDs on my team and the enemy team. I also use a straight edge to make sure I can thread the needle between smds. You can also see the line the launch order makes to ensure it doesn't cross over an SMD ring and move the target to bring the line away from a ring ... This is how to do it. I think having a mod that automates this is not good for FAF but that's my opinion.

I personally don't mind waiting several minutes or more for another player who has to deal with an IRL situation and I find it so annoying when others refuse to have the game paused. We're all just human beings on the world playing a video game and sometimes stuff comes up.

It's not like we're playing a first person shooter where we can die and just not respawn to deal with stuff. Once we start a match we're committing 45 minutes plus if it comes down to it and we're all in the same boat so why some people refuse to have the game paused is just toxic in my opinion.

I think it should be something that is punishable. It would deter people from being the ones who spam the unpause button and those who grief it like that could be reported and punished accordingly.

@maudlin27
I appreciate that but my logic is as follows.

• Ban evasion, meaning people can get away with bad behavior that wrecks the FAF experience for others, leading to an increase in such behavior

Yes this is true but if someone makes a new account and then never act out of line again the net affect is we have 1 more person in the community. I think it would be very rare for someone to repeatedly be toxic and make a new account over and over. These types probably do it anyway.

• Rating becomes less reliable, meaning fewer balanced games - generally a closely fought game where either team could potentially win is more likely to be fun than a completely 1-sided game where one team never had a chance. The more reliable rating is, the easier it is to come up with teams that are a similar level of skill.

In my opinion this isn't a concern because the "smurf effect" only lasts what?...100 games? I just dont think people can outrun their rank and it will quickly settle to what they are. I dont see pro level players wanting to pretend they are a 1200 and blend in a game and pile up losses just to be a smurf. I am a 1300 level and cant stand playing in games where everyone is a 600. Anyone who wants to do this is probably doing it anyway.

• New player experience is likely to be worse if you have a much higher chance of fighting against someone who based on their rating should be a new player but turns out to actually be a smurf that completely destroys you (leading to fewer people playing FAF longer term)

I am curious how many new players are onboarded each month to know if this would be a legit reason. If multiple accounts were allowed there may be an initial rush as players made new accounts but once that equalized I think it would be the same experience as it is now.

It's also not that much effort to create multiple accounts, and with people often enjoying winning more than losing there'd be a strong incentive to do it (since it'd increase your chances of winning a game).

I think its a rare type of person who wants to go through the effort multiple times over any meaningfully short duration. Anyone who wants to go through the trouble every time they get a few losses is probably doing it already anyway. I think most people probably don't even make a second account if it were legal and if they do its for a specific purpose such as playing only GAP with one account and playing only mapgen with another. Or maybe one where I am only ever UEF.

I personally would love a second account to grind but I wouldn't want a third or 4th or 5th lol. Multiple email accounts multiple steam accounts, keeping track of it all hurts my low apm brain. I have a few other games I play and have 3 accounts on each and each one is for a different playstyle but those are different genres so its not apples to apples I admit.

I'm not trying to suggest we should change the rules because FAF is great as is but since the topic was raise I wanted to point out that I think there is an argument for not governing multiple accounts.

Personally I don't think there should be any restrictions on having multiple accounts for any reason across the board. If people want to go through the effort of having multiple accounts what does it really matter? I think most people wont even bother and those that do aren't going to really affect anyone else.

I finally got matched in a 4v4 and it now shows 1 of 10 games played to get classified. 3v3 shows 6 of 10 and I haven't been matched in a 2v2 or 1v1 game yet to know if those sections are asking for 10 games or the 3 it should be. 3 games would be so much better than 10 that's for sure....other than that its skill issue on my part but maybe that helped find a bug so there's that lol

Can you rephrase the question?

@BlackYps Thanks for the clarification. I don't want to make work for people trying to weed out any bugs if they are only really affecting me (I can stop crying and try to be better lol) but yes all 4 ladder scenarios reset for me so now I have 10 games to play for each one and I had all 4 into rank as I played a lot of ladder last season compared to what I normally do.

I played 6, 3v3 matches so far this season, lost all 6 and I would say at least 4 of those matches if not all felt like I was placed with Bronze/Silver/Gold players rather than the higher level gold and lower level diamond players.

It may not be as noticeable with other leagues and skill levels but I tell ya the difference between playing in a game that is more like a 1.3k+compared to a game that is more like a 600-1200 is like playing an entirely different game all together.

I can jump in 1.3k+ games knowing that any typical opponent in that match is going to do things a certain way and there is an expected pace and there are things that players just don't do. That's why you see many 2k+ players host 1.2k+ games and very rarely see them host anything that allows less ranking.

These past few weeks I have hit another level in my gameplay and a lot of the regulars I play with have complimented me on that but dang it I still cant overcome playing in a game where a random guy makes a million t1 bombers at min 5 for some reason while another guy somehow has a t3 mex at min 8 and nothing else. Some random 600 level player who can make a mavor in 32 mins and nothing else so thats what they do here in ladder while the team dies around them lol....Its complete madness at this level lol

I find these games I spend more time figuring out how to defend myself against the madness rather than playing FAF the way I should be LOL...

Anyway. I appreciate the responses and I'll just try to stop crying and realize I just have serious skill issues. :)....but I already knew that lol

I thought so but wasn't sure. I think its just the stage I am at in my noob level. I am a global 1300 that typically plays in pretty intense 1.2k+ mapgen customs. In 3v3/4v4 ladder I was Gold 1 and only a few points from Diamond 5 just before the end of season so I was playing the last few weeks against all diamond league players and playing at the level I do best at. Now in this new season I seem to be getting matched against lower level Gold players along with silver and bronze. Its a completely different pace and I find it much harder to play at a high level inside a low ranked game than I do inside a high ranked game as ironic as that sounds lol.

Like I said in my OP, skill issue... but I do wonder why such a big change in matchups from one season to the next.

For the first time last season I got into ladder and really enjoyed it. I got myself established and was really enjoying striving toward getting up the ladder to the next league. I almost got myself into diamond league on 3v3 and 4v4 and made considerable progress on my 1v1 and 2v2 gameplay....then I noticed that near the end of the season I stopped playing. What's the point in playing and trying to progress to the next tier when its all going to be reset on Jan 1....so I stopped playing and found myself just waiting until Jan 1st which makes me wonder does ladder player count drop off in the last weeks of the season or is it just me.

Now we have a new season and I am so disheartened that I need to play 10 games each to figure out what type of player I am....4500 games and I still need 10 games each league in order for FAF to know what I am about?? I have tried but I am not doing it....Id rather just abandon ladder. Why do we have to play these 10 games at the start of every season? Can we just not get our ranks carried over?

At my level I have to go backwards now and play with a bunch of lower ranked players where as just a few days ago I would be placed with my rank or higher....

Forcing players to play with lower ranks is not how you get people to improve especially at this level where I am not good enough to over come it in larger games but I am good enough to step up as the lower rank player in a 1.2k+ type game.
I know.......skill issue.

Its tough at this level because we are being forced to play with a lot of players that don't know how to play and are learning. Maybe I should be able to carry but if only it were that easy.

Is there a good reason why we cant just start a new season with carried over rankings?

It just seems like such a waste that all the hard work I was doing, and progress I was making in my gameplay is now suddenly interrupted with a much different experience.

If I lose all 10 games then I am placed in a lower tier and its even harder to get out.....by the time I do its the end of the season again and I have to do it all over. I would much rather start a season knowing I am being placed with the same types of players that I was just getting days ago......Id much rather just stick to custom games then to stay with ladder that has no feeling that you are working towards something because its all reset every quarter

I know.......skill issue.

@funkoff if this is what you bring to ladder than please just stick to custom games where you can host your own map the way you like. Quitting on people after they have waited in que is selfish and toxic.

I started my FAF career as a -700 after a half dozen games. It was pretty scary but didn't take long to turn it around. I would argue that people who quit FAF after losing their first half dozen or so games didn't really have their heart in it and were going to quit whether their rank said -700 or 300 after such a stretch.

@cocainediesel that would be cool actually in my opinion. If you could order it straight out of the gate the way you want.

@cheerios what do you suggest?

I personally think the game is already too fast. I'd like it slowed down even more if it were up to me. Good thing it's not lol.

@sainserow Thank you. Actually pretty much exclusively only play map gen for the last 2,000 or so games. I hit Astro every now and again because I like the arcade aspect of it. I think you're right though playing some 3v3 would be better than the 6v6 + I usually play.

Not trying to get off topic because I feel it's related so apologies if it leads that way.

I would love it if FAF allowed the option of not having artillery/game enders/novax in a ranked match. That way we could have amazing back and forth battles that would result with such changes to sacu's. I feel like by the time any typical 40-minute plus long match gets to the point where such T3.5 to T4 battles occur at any scale they are overshadowed by multiple t3 artilleries, novax spam and game enders concluding the match. These types of changes that make sacus more viable and allow for the epic battles we all yearn for will be very short-lived because people will always resort to building game enders, artillery and Novax spam so is there really a point in changing anything?

I love the idea of the changes but I just wonder how practical they are considering what typically occurs from the 40-minute mark onward.

I think if everyone is consenting to a ranked match that doesn't include artillery, game enders and novax then it should be allowed as long as land, sea and air and all other units are enabled. I wouldn't want ranked matches that didn't include one or more of the three theaters of war.

Aside from that I think ras sacu should be introduced into Sera... Anytime I'm Sera at the point I want to get ras sacu I end up getting a different engineer off a teammate which isn't the end of the world but we might as well have ras for sera.

These are the thoughts of an under ranked noob with 4,000 games.

I think this might be a hot key combination similar to the cheat menu. Oftentimes in games you'll see it says that a certain player is trying to cheat but all it means is that they're accidentally hitting the key combination that's trying to open the cheat menu for when a person's in sandbox mode playing around. Pretty sure this is similar but don't quote me lol

@thewreck You're still here?.... Why?

And I stand by everything I said. You guys should all sign out and never sign back in again. You would be doing the 99% a huge favor. I guess it's a matter of perspective but in my mind cleaning out the trash isn't toxic. It might be from your perspective but from the cleaners perspective it's the exact opposite of toxicity.

@thewreck I'm not having a tantrum just sick and tired of you and your little group. You're going to try and twist my words because that's all you guys do. You've been doing it for years. I'm not the only one who's tired of you guys.

@thewreck sign out and never sign back in!