I hate depressing map textures ( and lightning ), i wish i could filter
the MMaker so i don´t need to play these maps.
Please let me filter muddy red Mars surface and Ice/snow maps, especially dark red
chrome maps. Some ice maps looks better then others, with better lightning is´t
ok for me to play them now and then.
Give us some option to force different textures / lightning. I mean, the maps
are very primitive, should be not impossible.
Or make ctr-k legal, so i don´t need to play them 
I play many 3v3 TMM games, there are so many terrible generated maps, and some are very nice and fun.
My suggestion, there could be a contest who everybody can vote from a pool of 100-200 generated maps. The winner maps ( 20-30 or so ) will be active for the next month.
In general, i hope there will be a change in the map generation, just to much
horrible maps.
Me personal i hate maps with dark red color or heavily scattered mass. I don´t
want to play a Roomba simulator, where you have to clean every dirty corner of the map.
Heavily Asymetric map kinda sucks too, where one player gets like 20 mex close
and teammate gets just like 6-7 close to his base.
I recently played another RTS game with commander robots.
The rules are there a little bit different, you can lose your com and keep playing until all
com units in your team are dead.
After some minutes my mate lost his com "voice msg: Your team lost a commander" and i got a ugly "PTSD" feeling, then some seconds later i realise, my teammate can still keep playing, i don´t inherite his base, what a relief.
I just play faf for fun and a gg, this is my goal here. Inhereting a teambase was and is
my biggest stress factor in faf, destroying fun and giving me unwanted stress.
The com system maybe fits faf, but in my opinion it´s a stress factor for ppl just wanting
a nice battle and fun.
In tournaments ( or another competive situation ) i´m 100% in favor of the current system, but I don´t want make millions of $ as a faf pro gamer.
My idea -> after a player loses his com he can still keep play for some more seconds.
Could be like this:
20 sec. base + 1 sec for every minute game is running.
The player who lost his com could do/finish a last move or prepare
his heritage. Inheriting player can mental prepare for the new task.
If you like my idea or not, i just wanted share my "PTSD" story 
It´s not about the mex problem only, but the asymetric/mex thing occures very often.
A very weak player gets the mex rich side and then you are screwed.
Like i said, ugly maps, bad colors, asymetric, plain boring, weird style, scattered mass ( Roomba simulator ), depressing lighting.
When everything comes together you just want ctr-k and end this.
Why human made 2v2/4v4 maps are better looking, variations of desert/terran/carribean are so nice for the eyes, share of eyebleeding Mars/Ice maps
are overrepresented in 3v3, they could just change the config, this should take just minutes, less ugly colors would definitely help.
Share of Mars maps/ice maps should be 5%-10%, not more.
I don´t want play 4v4 just because 3v3 maps looks like shit.
Generally i like generated map, it´s like a slot machine, you lose like 99% times and 1% you get lucky
Jokes aside, i´m in favor of generated maps, but there should be more quality or selection options.
@Black_Wriggler
Haha, you actually favors my idea even if you not intended to.
You right, storages is kind of a substep, i don´t even thought about this, but tanky ass hell and the opponent can see them.
All Gentlemen above should´t build mass storage around mex, because of all arguments they gave or be at least in favor removing mass storage bonus.
Now i´m in favor to remove the adjecency bonus for mass storages haha.
edit:
My favorite counter argument is "you don´t need to careful consider upgrading",
thats the one argument i fully agree.
My "crazy" idea to generate revenue for the FAF project:
The Team Match Maker (TMM) could introduce a premium feature allowing players to use real money to customize specific game options. In the lobby, players can still do whatever they want without needing premium; this feature would be exclusive to the TMM.
Players could set the fee themselves, which should only amount to a few euro cents.
Here are some possible options, though more ideas are welcome:
No-Share / Full-Share
Custom Map Generator settings
Favorite team color
Prebuilt units
"Decapitation" mod
Premium players could also choose to enforce vanilla settings, simply to support the FAF project or flaunt their financial dominance. Premium players might receive a premium icon or awards as a perk.
If there are multiple premium players in a match, the one who contributes the highest amount determines the settings and pays the fees. There could also be an option for a player to only participate if they are the sole premium player in the match.
I predict this idea will provoke outrage, but I'm posting it anyway.
This is about revenue and money, and small sacrifices from players are necessary to keep the project alive.
FAF is a free project, and I don’t see a human right to play in the TMM for free.
If someone is adamant about playing with vanilla settings, they could load up premium currency to enforce those settings or host a lobby game. There’s also a high likelihood that no premium players will be present in a match, which would result in vanilla settings being used.
Sorry for the players in countries with a criminal goverment, where these criminals started a bad thing and the whole country got cut off the international payment system and then the currency went down to hell. but the FAF project should not account for that. I assume and expect that 90% of players who would complain about such a premium feature would continue playing regardless.
This isn’t about making radical changes. A few prebuilt units here, a different team color there – the world won’t end.
At the end of the day, the better team always wins.
I want mexes be on top of the priority because i don´t want a slowed down mex upgrade even if i go unter 100% mass efficency ( and empty storage ), right now i have to pause other mass consumers ( if there are any ) so the maxes can get more mass. Priority is investing mass to get more mass. I want be relaxed when i spend all my mass und go under 100% mass efficency. No worry mex upgrades gets slowed down ( can ofc. still be the case when you have not enought mass for upgrading).
My intention was to reduce actions/clicks and focus on mexes, not to make a detailed well crafted mass allocation system with a GUI panel who controls every aspect of the game economy
I thought about a dropdown button in the game settings menu. Players could just choose one priority they prefer or stay vanilla.
For me it would be enough to have mexes/vanilla option, this alone would reduce so much clicks. Factories and Engineers would be nice to have though.
I have not mentioned other consumers like SML, SMD, TML ... because it´s enought to hit the common stuff.
"adding/reducing engineers and pausing" -> literally the hussle i ment.
It´s about reducing the hussle, not removing it totally. If you want prio mexes you don´t need to pause something else because mexes get mass first. If you want build units urgent ( but some mexes are upgrading at the same time ) you still have pause the upgrading mexes like always.
If you want prio mexes, you don´t need to pause anything ( less hussle ).
If you want prio something else, you still need to manually pause it.
Now you could say "but I want factories be prio and get mass first".
I would prio the mexes by default because they are an invesment and the game ist build around them, they are not just some consumer.
And this could be an option in the settings
Mass flow:
default [ x ]
prio mexes [ ]
prio factories [ ]
prio engineers [ ]
Simple idea: Mass should flow to upgrading mexes first, then to everything else.
Right now, you start upgrading a mex, but then you might have too low mass income for some reason. You then have to select a factory (or whatever) to pause it. After the mex is finished, you have to go back to the factory to unpause it.
This would reduce the hassle of pausing and unpausing upgrades and construction sites.
That’s it, this is the whole suggestion!
@Ctrl-K i followed your advice and changed that sentense to not insult someone.
@IndexLibrorum
Ok, i will take a look at this Post.
To be honest it´s not all about the faf financial situation, i would totally pay to not having ice maps with blue icons or always get the orange color, sometimes not in a mood for a navy map.
Ok, this line was just 4 fun added, don´t take it serious man.
I thought some money would help to improve the client, money will not help?
My "crazy" idea to generate revenue for the FAF project:
The Team Match Maker (TMM) could introduce a premium feature allowing players to use real money to customize specific game options. In the lobby, players can still do whatever they want without needing premium; this feature would be exclusive to the TMM.
Players could set the fee themselves, which should only amount to a few euro cents.
Here are some possible options, though more ideas are welcome:
No-Share / Full-Share
Custom Map Generator settings
Favorite team color
Prebuilt units
"Decapitation" mod
Premium players could also choose to enforce vanilla settings, simply to support the FAF project or flaunt their financial dominance. Premium players might receive a premium icon or awards as a perk.
If there are multiple premium players in a match, the one who contributes the highest amount determines the settings and pays the fees. There could also be an option for a player to only participate if they are the sole premium player in the match.
I predict this idea will provoke outrage, but I'm posting it anyway.
This is about revenue and money, and small sacrifices from players are necessary to keep the project alive.
FAF is a free project, and I don’t see a human right to play in the TMM for free.
If someone is adamant about playing with vanilla settings, they could load up premium currency to enforce those settings or host a lobby game. There’s also a high likelihood that no premium players will be present in a match, which would result in vanilla settings being used.
Sorry for the players in countries with a criminal goverment, where these criminals started a bad thing and the whole country got cut off the international payment system and then the currency went down to hell. but the FAF project should not account for that. I assume and expect that 90% of players who would complain about such a premium feature would continue playing regardless.
This isn’t about making radical changes. A few prebuilt units here, a different team color there – the world won’t end.
At the end of the day, the better team always wins.
@arma473 said in My faf PTSD story:
It breaks immersion to let someone play for 20 seconds but not longer
Who is controlling their army? A ghost? The ghost is being called up to heaven?
You never saw these ghost movies where the main character gets time to correct his failures? Let´s call it afterlife mode.
Crazy alternative idea:
gamespeed will be automaticaly reduced ( 30sec 20% gamespeed or something),
then everybody is equally annoyed. Com explosion caused a schockwave slowing down the time.