The probelm is mostly in people's heads. Nothing but educating the comminity can fix it. There are two very big and very real problems with that:

o) People are extremely boneheaded, and once an idea is in there it's really hard to remove.
o) Some ISPs in Australia really really suck, so every now and again there's confirmation that /all/ australian's suck.

There's also the FPS experience. Most gamers have seen how much difference a 40ms ping plays to an 80ms ping in FPS, and then they see a 400ms ping in a lobby here and just reject it out of hand.

I've spent over a decade now trying to get people to give aussies a chance, and at least look at them on an individual case by case basis. My campaign wil continue.

I have done some testing on achiefvements

The only two that I have found that aren't working at the moment are:

o) finishing a ranked game in under ten minutes

o) Building Czars.

Curiously, building Czars counts for the experimentals acheivement, just not that specific acheivement

I did also throughly test about 25 other categories, and they were all working perfectly. I couldn't test the rest because by the time I noticed it needed testing, my account had already many acheivements completed.

Is there a way for a player to report it and have their symptom resolved, or does it just have to wait til the next server reboot?

Is it possible to identify the relevent thread on the server and kill it?

Is it possibel to downtick and uptick maps in your client so you have more chance of getting your favourite maps and less chance of getting the maps you don't enjoy playing?

Would you be interested in someone implementing it...? Do you thkn it would be a good thing?

Hrm. I take back what I said abouyt the Windows Firewall. After completely flushing it's config and restarting it, It re-asked for permission to allow faf to the internet and then started working.

Sorry to bother peoples.

Hi THere!

Since the update, (or installing the latest client) I am unable to connect to games.

I get this error:
Client Version: 2024.5.0
java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.WebClientResponseException$GatewayTimeout: 504 Gateway Timeout from GET https://api.faforever.com/featuredMods/0/files/latest
at com.faforever.client.patch.GameUpdaterImpl.lambda$update$5(GameUpdaterImpl.java:93)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniExceptionally(CompletableFuture.java:990)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniExceptionally.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:974)

I can ping the api server..... What port is it trying to use? IS there something more than "double check windows firewall settings" that I could do? (I've already tested that)

Cheers!

So... As the title says, I join the ladder queue, the game launches, goes through much of the process of connecting, then says failed to launch.

After the second I rebooted.

It happened again and gave me a ten minute timeout from the queue.

I waited 15 minutes. It happens yet again.

Now the timeout is 30 minutes!

I am not doing anything except waiting for the client to launch and connect to a match.

Can someone help me undertand what is going on?

And also why this feature exists...?

Cheers!

Given that this thread seem to have derailed into cool colour ideas:

I would like to be able to select the colours of everyone in the lobby for my game, and not affect them. That way, on my screen I can always be pink and so can someone else.

@eternal said in Do not add new colors - discussion:

Lets just stay old and boring

I don't think you have any choice E!!

(ooo burn!!!!)

Surely the losers are going to be more in need of training than the winner?

^_^

Nice!

Thanks everyone on the team for the awesome work!!

With regards to the ten minute ranked thing... Can you differentiate between a game that was played and one where someone just ctrl-k?

I am glad my testing has ben useful.

I have done some testing on achiefvements

The only two that I have found that aren't working at the moment are:

o) finishing a ranked game in under ten minutes

o) Building Czars.

Curiously, building Czars counts for the experimentals acheivement, just not that specific acheivement

I did also throughly test about 25 other categories, and they were all working perfectly. I couldn't test the rest because by the time I noticed it needed testing, my account had already many acheivements completed.