I think the best version of any game is the pro version. Just like how I play my sports. I am never going to be pro level but I prefer to play on their fields with their rules and their standard equipment. That's what it means to be a casual....that and using mods and custom game modes but never altering the core for the sake of the casuals. That is wrong thinking if you ask me.

I hate staying in "lost" games too but FAF is an incredible animal. Yesterday I was in a TMM and everyone on our team dies except BRNK . I watched the game for a few mins after I died and then left because it was only a matter of time. He was 1v4 and the enemy was in his base. He was basically playing survival and had no chance of winning. 20 mins later he messages one of the guys in our party and says he won the game. Couldn't fathom how he could have won that but the replay shows it clear...he never gave up. So yeah moral of the story is keep it for TMM and also FAF is a game where the impossible can happen.

@swkoll said in 2023 Spring Invitational Qualifier:

@fichom Yep, nobody is not allowed

my ex wife said I am a nobody so I guess that means I will sit this one out.

I dint read the whole thread before I wrote this so apologies if its been covered already.

I think funds should be used to fund any infrastructure improvements that are deemed to be currently inadequate or that could be considerably improved, as an example the servers themselves (not sure if FAF owns them but if it does then perhaps a nice upgrade or if we rent a hosted server then improving our service provider or moving it to a better location ect)

I'm just a dumb carpenter so I don't know the ins and outs off all this stuff but you see the point. I am in the early stages of making a tutorial and would never want to be paid for something like that...I think when a game like this is kept going by volunteers then more people have to be willing to volunteer to make it better without the expectation of getting money. The best FPS game in the history of the world was BF 2142 and it was kept alive for a while but it soon died (after bf3 released) because so few in the community were willing to donate their time to play/promote/develop it... We are lucky that FAF is still so strong and better than ever (despite what the haters say when they cant find a lobby) and the best way to keep it alive is for the people who love this game to help out where and when they can and to have as good of an infrastructure platform as we possibly can. If the development team is aware of a glaring need that would be solved with financial investments than that should be the focus imo.

I vote No to all of this and Yes to FAF being really dang great the way it is....Modded games are a thing for a reason.

There is a mod called UI Party that helps with this. Open the client, go to the mods tab and search for it there. Not sure how it works for 3 displays but for 2 it works alright.

@just_norm micro is the answer. A few tricks I use to negate this is I will spam attack move orders across the map with engies rather than patrol them, If upgrading an acu I will have that group of engies ordered to assist a pgen or something like that right after or an attack move for reclaiming so they dont start a repair or follow my acu and if I ever have hives or kennels I have them assist a shield (or pgen if I dont have a shield) right after the main task I had them on so that cant do things on their own.

Same here once again. I have a hunch that it is a problem with the 2023.3.0 client because this all seemed to have started with it. If anyone has the link to the most recent alpha client please let me know as I cant seem to find it anywhere.

As someone who plays 99% custom mapgen team games on random faction at the 1.2k+ level I have no issues with the shields as is. Very rarely do shields even make sense in a main base and that rare time where arty/novax are coming online they have typically been scouted already and bases are then shielded in time. Even more rarely they aren't scouted and then one player might lose his base but the others are able to get their shields up no problem. I have seen games won and lost going both ways in these rare scenarios but like I say in most of the games base shields are not worth building because they are not required.

I vote No to all of this and Yes to FAF being really dang great the way it is....Modded games are a thing for a reason.

@alexxx said in Can't login:

Who will save us ?

The FAF Gods will save us just give them time.

Same error here for me too. Played yesterday without issue (other than my skill issue) and logged off last night and shut down my PC. This morning, because I am an addict, I tried to login first thing while I am making my morning tea and no dice, get the same error as Rikki

Seems like something is up because as I am getting the same error many are reporting here. Pretty sure if you get banned there will be e message that says as much just like the error message for technical reasons.

I get this same error today all of the sudden for some unknown reason. I play all day yesterday with no problems. After my last game last night I shut of my PC, wake up this morning and turn it on and open FAF and this error prevents me from logging in......what could have possibly changed during the night while my PC was off?....

after trying 20 different ways to login I came to the forum and wrote this post and then tried again right after and I can login again....not sure what happened or how it resolved itself but ill take the win.

@rowey Like I said dude Im a dumb carpenter...in my mind the "dev team" is anyone who does anything official with FAF. I dont know how all this works and what each specific team is called and who does what...I kinda said that in my OP...dont overthink it. My point is just that I think the money should be spent on physical things and not time doing things people in a volunteer community should do anyway such as tutorials or advertising.

@swkoll said in 2023 Spring Invitational Qualifier:

@fichom Yep, nobody is not allowed

my ex wife said I am a nobody so I guess that means I will sit this one out.