TMM is the controlled fusion of faf

Today I had an idea. With all the data in the replay vault you could do so many more big data shenanigans. For instance log the total mass (energy, score) acumulated at a point in time for each player. By looking at many ladder games you could first of all sort by avrg rating of the game and see how much acumulated mass at a point in time differs depending on the rating of the players. A question which also interest me is: Where is a 2k player better than a 1.5k player. I suppose the difference will rather show past the 5 min mark because most 1.5k player should be able to learn and perform a BO very similar to a 2k player. Also you should be able to see meta changes over the years on certain maps. Questions like that might be answerable with that additional data.

Now to the small hinderence of actually implementing it. If I am correct the replays would need to be re run. Also the data would need to be logged. I guess that would be done in lua game internally. But then the data would also need to be exported. Not sure if that is possible at the current stage. I suppose the replays could be analyzed in parallel (anyone got a threadripper? ^^)

I think something similar was done in that paper. Unfortunately I did not get accsess to it. Maybe someone knows who wrote it. Pretty sure the author did play quite a bit of FAF:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Simplifying-an-Infinitely-Complex-State-Space%3A-in-Cornell/97ec5d4cccb977b278a34d3cb48fa491c4a9ec66

Another way for panning the camera is holding middle mouse button and dragging it around. Can be quite nice for cinematics if you know how to move your mouse smoothly.

For me it was windows notifications. Very certain.

I can live with people playing astrogap but I would prefer not to see those lobbies. A checkbox like "show private games" and "show modded games" would be nice. Guess it would be enough to store the blacklist locally. And maybe some people would be up to creating one to copy. (I think @Resistance has a good list :P) Not sure how easy it would be to implement. I don't think it is too crazy. That feature would definitely improve my mood until TMM is realeased.

I am helping Dragun with balancing his SCTA project so that it can be played against FAF factions. When the project is finished I would quite like to write a tutorial on how to balance a mod with the existing factions. Of course not to the degree FAF is currently balanced within itself but rather that it can be played with/against faf factions in a semi competitive manner. I am talking about a sub 1.5k global players that spent like 30 games playing the mod who should not be able to find balance breaking tactics.

Does a tutorial like that already exist?

For the first base line we are taking quite a mathematical approach. Comparing eco efficiencies, build times and combat strength via basically lanchesters laws. Unfortunately, for that to work, a lot of mirroring with faf units is required. You need a t1 tank, t2 navy, t3 air etc. . So the gameplay of the original TA gets quite butchered.

This approach is a lot less work than gameplay testing to get down the baseline but is limited to comparable units.

open for suggestions

@FULL-POWER-BENIS said in 2020 Fall Invitational:

I donate a free 1-month subscription to my stream to the top three players. They have to be redeemed by approaching me personally after the tourney ends.

Bennis our first proper business faf streamer. Time to start the sellout.

Today I had an idea. With all the data in the replay vault you could do so many more big data shenanigans. For instance log the total mass (energy, score) acumulated at a point in time for each player. By looking at many ladder games you could first of all sort by avrg rating of the game and see how much acumulated mass at a point in time differs depending on the rating of the players. A question which also interest me is: Where is a 2k player better than a 1.5k player. I suppose the difference will rather show past the 5 min mark because most 1.5k player should be able to learn and perform a BO very similar to a 2k player. Also you should be able to see meta changes over the years on certain maps. Questions like that might be answerable with that additional data.

Now to the small hinderence of actually implementing it. If I am correct the replays would need to be re run. Also the data would need to be logged. I guess that would be done in lua game internally. But then the data would also need to be exported. Not sure if that is possible at the current stage. I suppose the replays could be analyzed in parallel (anyone got a threadripper? ^^)

I think something similar was done in that paper. Unfortunately I did not get accsess to it. Maybe someone knows who wrote it. Pretty sure the author did play quite a bit of FAF:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Simplifying-an-Infinitely-Complex-State-Space%3A-in-Cornell/97ec5d4cccb977b278a34d3cb48fa491c4a9ec66

maybe I get to play this time. Boost me ladder pls.

For me it was windows notifications. Very certain.

I am quite certain I will qualify for the qualifier.

Signing in. Will also cast after I get crushed.

@Jip isn't there an issue when dividing by a non multiple of 2? Not sure how smart you can make your scaling algorithm. But 1440p would be an issue then.
Regarding screen ratios. I think a 4:3 monitor would be perfect for playing and you could fill out the sidebars with chat and or minimap in obs when resizing to 16:9 for stream output. But where do you get a modern 4:3 monitor?

I haven't found anything on the new forum how the subtiers will be assigned to the league system. Am I assuming correctly that they will be assigned by the number of points gained as in the current league system? Maybe the top 2 subtiers (Example Gold 1 and 2) could be a fixed number depending on the rating bracket. For example there will be 100 Bronze 1 players and 300 Bronze 2. But smth like 50 gold 1 and 150 gold 2 and the rest could get distributed via a proportion of the playerbase in that division/rating bracket. Also I think some of the score should make it into the next month. You could make it with each new moth the score of each player gets multiplied by 0.3-0.5 so you still get rewarded for being active for multiple months.

I am also up.

Another way for panning the camera is holding middle mouse button and dragging it around. Can be quite nice for cinematics if you know how to move your mouse smoothly.

@FULL-POWER-BENIS said in 2020 Fall Invitational:

I donate a free 1-month subscription to my stream to the top three players. They have to be redeemed by approaching me personally after the tourney ends.

Bennis our first proper business faf streamer. Time to start the sellout.