Welcome to the official post of the ReUI (AI) Slop department!

Built on top of ReUI (huge thanks to 4z0t for making this possible), this collection brings a bunch of minigames and chaos to FAF. All mods are UI-only unless noted.

Bingo (UI-only, Singleplayer / Multiplayer):

A synched 5x5 Bingo-field is generated (out of currently 84 tasks). When you tick a task, it lights up in your color and others cannot click it aswell. You can go for lines, but the main idea was "whoever has the most, wins". No limit on how many people play. You only need to have the bingo mod.

(Yes the x-button does not work. It was kind of a joke at the time, maybe I will fix it at some point!)
There is no "control" if you actually did the task. It is based on trust and fun.

Disclaimer: This mod is not made with AI, it was purely by 4z0t !

Battleship (UI-only, Multiplayer or Singleplayer):

Classic Battleship against another player. Challenge someone with a hotkey, place your ships, and sink theirs. Upon pressing the hotkey, all other players with this UI mod get a popup where they can accept or decline the challenge to play battleship. The window automatically closes and declines after 3 seconds of not pressing anything. If no other player accepted (or noone else in that game has the mod) a game against a Bot is started).

Chess (UI-Only, Multiplayer Only):

Full chess against another player, played inside the game! Play by pressing the hotkey or accepting a challenge. (Currently there are some chess rules regarding check still missing, but the game itself is playable. Resign and Draw button also currently do not work. Fix: soon-ish). Currently there is a 10 seconds turn timer to not make it too boring.

Minesweeper (UI-Only, Singleplayer Only):

Classic Minesweeper with a resizable grid. Configure the size and mine density via ReUI options. First click is always safe. Opened via Hotkey.

Name or Death: (UI only, mostly Singleplayer):

Three minigames in one, all triggered by different hotkeys with your current selected units at stake (that means they will die if you fail):

• Trivia: answer a question correctly or your units get self destructed (currently about 100 questions in the pool)
  

• 2 Truths, 1 Lie: Find the LIE between 3 statements, guess wrong and you lose your selection:
  

• Higher or Lower: guess whether the right unit costs more or less mass than the left one. Get 4 in a row correct (amount configurable via options) or lose your units
  

Additional info for Name or Death:

• Trivia can be configured to auto-start every X-minutes via options
• 2 Truthts, 1 Lie currently has about 60 True statements and 40 False
• Required wins in a row for Higher or Lower can be configured via options.
• Some exclusions configurable via ReUI options
• The intended use case of this mod is for twitch. Me and farms for example have the third party software "Mix it up" running on our pc, which is logged in with the twitch account. On redemption of a channel point reward it presses a specific key, which is the hotkey ingame. For more info, pm me.

Disclaimer: Started of with only the trivia purely made by 4z0t. Then expanded with AI to include the other modes.

Additional Info for multiplayer mods:

All of the mods have an entry in ReUI Options to disable receiving requests in case you dont want that or someone spams them.

Example:

This is what a popup looks like when you are challenged to any of the games:

Guess Elo (Sim mod):

And last but not least is the only sim mod in this list (ranked mod!). Hides all player names and shuffles colors at the start of the game. Players are assigned random names from a configurable list (currently about 18 names). Names and true colors can only be revealed as observer when clicking the reveal button. (Not really a ReUI mod, but it kinda fit into this post)

There is a UI-only version in the vault, but it has many limitations. I recommend using the SIM-mod if you are interested in this.

All mods, except Guess Elo SIM, require ReUI. Guess Elo has incompatibilities with mods that affect the chat, such as the emoji mod. If you have a mod that conflicts with Guess Elo, you will not be able to chat.

@Caliber said:

Cost of that damage = zero no mass no energy cost just free dps.

Thats insane. From now on i will build the storms instead of the chicken!

Well, i think the reason everything seems worse is quite obvious.. the connection issues. It's as simple as: there are connection issues > games is not fun > am not motivated to play that much (or at all) > incapable of finding games (at least high rank games).

There are a bunch of complaints regarding this change or that change (which do have an impact), but i still firmly believe that the main issue is that i can't just start a game and know it will be a good game (connection wise).

If walls die when no share is enabled, why do they stay with the dead player on full share? Its an annoying mechanic if nobody can self destruct them anymore.
And then if you reclaim allied walls you get banned...

FAF rules, or rather, their application has gone downhill for quite some time. I keep hearing about more and more completely ridiculous bans based on some very ridiculous rules (or how they are written).
I completely understand that rules have to be written rather broad to not have someone go around them. But improving on the current ruleset is imo the best first step to fixing this.
(FYI: this is a different and more broad topic compared to my overwork of the exploit-rules)

Here is the rules page: https://faforever.com/rules

So here are some rules and my recommended changes, including reasoning (going from top the bottom according to the rules page):

1. 
   -> Friendly fire — Do not maliciously reclaim allied units or purposefully fire on allies

Reasoning is quite simple. Units are in the way of me building something (doesn’t have to be on the front, can literally be anywhere) – for example a random T1 air unit. In theory I get banned because I reclaim this if he doesn’t respond to pings. Not always can you just build somewhere else.
(Check rule-wording on the rule of “Helping enemy team” -> here the word maliciously is used, so I think its appropriate here aswell)

2. 
   ->

Not quite sure how to formulate a better rule here, because this rule shouldn’t even exist. A simple chat message like “Make Torps!!!” (based on a recent ban) can be bannable. You should be allowed to tell someone how to play, BUT not be toxic about it or spam it. Telling someone how to play, even if they didn’t ask for it, is completely normal, just like in any other game.

3. 
   ->

Another rule where I am not 100% sure how to formulate it correctly. But I think this is pretty nonsense, because 1) try to tell this to anyone on Dual Gap, Setons or Astro (literally the most played maps). If I take a mex which DOES belong to someone else, you can 95% of the time see him reclaiming it to get it back.
Or lets take a different example where there actually are no “reserved” mass extractors: Mapgen. So in theory I can get a spawn with 3 mex and try to rush some air with it, meanwhile the guy next to me takes every mex around me and doesn’t want to give me any. So how is this not game ruining for the player who doesn’t get any?
Tons of example more here but I think you get the point.

Here the point of lagging games or connection issues are missing. I have had games where the lag (for me) was horrible, and I did not want to play that. But apparently nobody else in this game shared this opinion and wanted to continue. So according to these rules I am forced to play, or I can get banned upon report. So, I think we can add:

• Leaving in case of very noticeable connection issues is allowed.

5. 
    Do not self-destruct, also known as or “CTRL-K”, your base or significant quantities of units, unless your team agrees.
   This was a big topic for me and others because of, shockingly, some more bans. My intention of changing the rule is that if the game is over the team can ctrl k their bases as they wish, as long as they all agree. Yes, that includes 1 person ctrl-k-ing his base and the rest continues playing, because the team should be able to do whatever they want with their bases as a team. The enemy team should have no say whatsoever on this, because why would they? How is self destructing a base more game ruining than recalling? In both cases you “take the fun of destroying the enemy base”.

6. Exploits

I don’t think I need to mention it here, because there is an entire thread of this, which will (hopefully) at some point made into a proposal by me. Just wanted to have this here on the list to get an overview of what I’d like to get changed.

This rule is fine, but I just wanted to post this here for context for the actual rule I think needs changing:

So the first rule allows me to insult people if its not based on the reasons mentioned. But this rule means I must always be respectful. So, respectfully, fuck off (a joke).
I don’t want to imply here that I would like everyone to go mental and insult. But I would like some more leeway here.

Here is the chat-log of a recent ban. Now I don’t know if its because of toxicity or “controlling behaviour”:

Player 1 to allies: DO SOMETHYING
Player 1 to allies: STOP SLURPING AND PLAY
Player 1 to allies: YOU CLOWN
Player 1 to allies: YOUR OPPONENT IS NORTHH
Player 2 to allies: relax, we're doing fine
Player 1 to allies: no we are not
Player 1 to allies: he's drooling over his keyboard
Player 1 to allies: TORP NOW OR I QUIT
Player 1 to allies: 10 seconds to comply
Player 1 to allies: WALK THEM UP MID
Player 1 to all: can't play this with drool zone

But in my opinion even this should not be bannable for multiple reasons:

1. whoever got “flamed” here did not reply or say anything (as in “stop” or something like that)
2. There is a mute function

There are no direct insults anywhere in this (I sure hope we can at least call people a clown...) so I think the way to go about this is not moderation->ban but rather the mute function ingame. But if you disagree I’d love to hear why exactly, because this doesn’t even haven an insult (yes, its not necessarily respectful, but still “normal”).

8. And here we have the biggest of them all:
   

The discussion of bans. The foe of all moderators (for some reason).
Jokes aside I don’t even know how or where to start here. Why is this not allowed? Is the reason to not have spam on the forum / chat that discusses bans? Basically this means bans are discussed everywhere but the FAF discord / forum. I get that the moderators don’t want to publicly reply everywhere something is posted regarding a ban, but this rule could simply be changed to moderators won’t do public statements regarding bans. This way moderators themselves can discuss it (if they want), but don’t need to and also don’t need to reply.
For these kind of discussions (and the exploit-thread) it is quite annoying to not be allowed to talk about the specific bans.
I don’t know if in other similar sized communities this kind of rule exists, but I can’t imagine so (feel free to prove me wrong though, this is just my opinion). I know this is not the intention, but what it actually feels like is that we have tons of ridiculous bans and then can’t talk about them (this is not just my opinion / feeling).

So I posted this specifically in the general chat and not association forum to get responses / ideas from all. I just hope it doesn't escalate into something again and then locked.

Hello everyone, head of the ReUI slop department here.

I have been switching some of my focus to SIM mods and have recently made a new mod called "random events", which triggers, as the name says, random events during the game!
Basically every set interval (configurable via the lobby, default is 2 minutes) it triggers an event for everyone in the game. The event is the same for everyone. It can be a one time thing of "Get 5000 mass" or a duration event of "+50% Damage" (for all units). Each event has a popup like this:

With the current version 5, which I just released, we are at 111 events, each weighed the same (completely random). What is also (since version 5) included, is a visual indicator of what event is currently active and when the next event will trigger:

Each event is active until the next event (except the one-time events, which are... one time), but this is configurable via the lobby options to last longer, shorter or even the entire game so they stack, but the default is until the next event.
A "no event" timer for the start of the game can also be configured to have more "peace" at the start. Default is 0, so the first event will trigger when the first timer runs out (default 2min).

Overall I'd say this is a mod to really mix games up and have some chaotic gameplay. Feel free to give ideas for events!

In addition to that I have created the mod "Roguelike Mode"!

The TLDR is you get to pick 1 of 3 buffs every minute (or whatever lobby option you use)!

The buffs stack until the end of the game and can be viewed at any time via the stats-panel.

(dont worry, the panel can be resized or also completely hidden)

There are tons of customization options in the lobby for this mod. Heres a quick info regarding what options there even are:

• How buffs are earned (based on time -default- / buy with mass / based on mass killed / loot trucks only)
• Pick interval (for the time-based mode): default 1 min
• How many options are offered (default 3)
• Buy price (for the mass cost mode): default 2000 mass
• Navy buffs: possibility to disable naval buffs if its a land map.
• Loot trucks: Have loot trucks spawn every x minutes on random places of the map (mirrored). Killing loot trucks give the buff they have in their name.
• Buff power: possibility to decrease / increase for more crazy games
• Rarity odds: Possibility to increase odds for higher tier upgrades for more crazy games

Hello Everyone, I will keep this short! Recently I have been working on the new faf tournament website https://tournaments.doodlepros.com (the link is the domain I own of my clan)

I am in constant contact with hybrid (td lead) and wilson (td member and dojo tourney organizer) with improvements, adjustments and additions to the website. The main goal is to include everything into it (over time all challonge tourney will be imported to the website. This feature already exists and was tested with "Spring Mapgen 2v2 Tournament). Everything means:

• Overview of the event (such as info about livestreams, rewards, sponsors, game setup, FAQ, rules and so on...)
• Sign ups
• Team forming
• Map veto
• Score reporting
• Tourney chat
• Bracket
• Map-Overview

It even has an automatic rating fetch from faf. Which means that if the TD sets rating to 01.01.2025, it will take the ratings of players of that day when signing up automatically! The website uses your faf-login.

Essentially it is supposed to include everything that in the ideal world a TD isnt even needed (not really realistic with faf, but it needs a goal to work towards!). Its supposed to remove as much workload as possible from TDs, so its easier to host tourney. And with this I do not mean the members of the TD team of faf, but any person wanting to host a tourney.

So while I am constantly improving QoL and feature on the website based on what I am told and what I see myself, there can never be enough feedback. I would appreciate it if people take a look and comment on what is horrible / needs changing / doesnt work as expected and so on.

And for those wanting to host tourneys yourself with the website just click on "Host Tournament" at the top! You will have to "request permission" to host, but I'm basically accepting anyone, just write what you want to do.

You can also host tourneys that are only for you and your friends, which no-one else can join. I mainly implemented this feature so I don't have a random person joining the website and creating 1000 troll tourneys.

(not sure if i should have posted this in the tournaments category, but i decided for general since its a discussion!)

Remove novax laser instead

This post? Fantastic. Clearly addresses each of our concerns, points out problems our solution has, and describes where our communication has failed.

The situation is: mod team comes out with a (ridiculous) change. Now WE have to take the time to formulaten an article on why this is bad. You are saying it is not acceptable to just write "bad change, reverse". You want an entire article with pro, cons, examples and whatever.
How about YOU (mod team) post a 'proposal' and not a change that might be reversed if enough people complain (obviously this is not appicable to every change, but it clearly is here).

I don't even know how to say how ridiculous it is that a rule is getting an insanly strict update (not sure how to formulate that), and you expect people to go "Yeah ok, it helps moderation".

Maybe a bit of an exaggeration but this is what it feels like to me.

As far as i understand this mod is completely graphic and no balance change? Can this be flagged as ranked? As dumb as it sounds, i have no interest in playing it if its unranked, as also most people wont join

@cychwa_klaymberg said:

Is it possible to make the "Air" bonuses category in the lobby settings bannable, just like the "Navy" category?

Sure its possible to add an option but by removing air AND navy (im assuming for land spam maps) the land buffs are going to get way out of control as there is only structure and land buffs left.

Since I have been asked how the rarities work. I thought I post this table as to how the DEFAULT values work.
2 things to know before hand:

• there is a lobby setting to decrease or increase the rarities
• there is a lobby setting to equalize rarities among all players (which means if one player sees a legendary in slot 1, everyone will see a legendary in that slot)

So as you can see in that ai generated picture, the odds increase over time to stay relevant.

@wilson_ said:

We are going to give Nuggets' new tournament page a go. Find detailed information and registration here: Super-Noob Olympics #8 - 2v2

@thorkan there

A mod perfectly fitting your request doesnt exist (yet). The closest would be "All factions" which spawns you the ACU of every faction if you turn prebuild (lobbysetting) on.

Updated this thread to include the "Roguelike Mode" Mod!

Any questions or bug reports regarding that mod can be posted here aswell

June 2027

The problem is right now the only people who know voted what are the people who can look into the log file. In that case dont log anything so noone can see, and not only a specific group of people

Who won

To clarify: Economic overlay can be enabled and does not need a mod

@Printer The game log in your log folder. You can open it while being in the game and see who voted what