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).

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.

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...

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

This is a pretty bad idea. Recall is the option for the team to vote if they want to continue the game. By disabling this, you are "forcing" play a game they might not want to continue.
Otherwise players will just randomly quit and that is even more frustrating / confusing for the team. In most of my games if I vote to recall, and my team votes no, i continue to play (even in a brutally crushed position) because apparently my team sees a way to win. If this feature didn't exist I would just leave.

Maybe some players don't "fully understand the impact of their choice" but they will do so after the first (or maybe only at the 2nd) recall. If they don't.. well, we can't change game mechanics because people are incapable of learning.

The first seasonal Mapgen Tournament is divided into four distinct seasons, each representing 1-2 unique biomes from Mapgen. As players advance through the tournament, they will progressively experience the biomes of later seasons, showcasing the diversity of Mapgen.

Tournament Dates:
11.01.2025, 14 UTC for the Main Tourney
18.01.2025, 14 UTC for the semifinal + final

Tournament Director: Nuggets
Tournament Organiser: Sainse
Challonge: https://challonge.com/3v3seasonalmapgen
Communication: A Channel in the official FAF discord: https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/1323688978922213517
Captains-Channel: https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/1326590378949742622
Coverage: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive

Rewards:

200$ - Sponsored by FAF.

1st place: 150$
2nd place: 50$

(All payments must follow FAF official payment guidelines: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/7161/faf-official-tournament-payout-guidelines)
1st place avatar:
2nd place avatar:
3rd place avatar:

If you would like to contribute please contact Nuggets (discord: nuggets3858) directly.

Signup / Team setup:

This 3 vs 3 tourney is open to everyone, single signups only with captains pick system (highest rated players pick out of the other signed up players). Captain amount depends on sign ups, but a minimum of 6 and maximum of 8.
Lowest rated to highest rated captain for first AND second pick.
Signups will close on the 8.01.2025 for the captains pick to then commence. Team-name can be sent after the pick is done.

Tournament Format:

This 3v3 tournament will be a Double Elimination with BO3s for each round in the top bracket leading up to a BO5 in the final. Loser’s round will be BO1, except for Round 3 and 4. Teams consist of 3 players.
For every game the lower rated captain picks the first map (and then alternating) which cannot be used again. There are no Vetoes.
See example here (Line showcasing the first and second day):

Tournament rules:

• If one team member cannot participate, the player can get replaced by other registered participants
• Rating of the player replacing the missing team member cannot be over 100 rating higher.
• Be online at least 20 minutes before tourney start (in FAF)
• and of course the official FAF tourney rules: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6167/official-tournament-rules

Map Pool:

Pre-generated Mapgens ranging from 13.75km to 15km. Here are the maps sorted by biome (check challonge to see what biome applies).
Prayer (Spring):
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Wonder (Spring):
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Desert (Summer):
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Stones (Summer):
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Sunset (Autumn):
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Frithen (Winter):
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Crystalline (Winter - FINAL):
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Currently signed up / picked :

Rule update.

In order to provide more equal opportunities for both teams:

Map pick rules for Bo3 (and only Bo3)

"Lower rated captain picks first map, highest rated second map. After that the team who lost 2nd game choses 3rd map"
Map pick rules for Bo3 (and only Bo5):

For Bo5 the rule is still the same as before:

"For every game the lower rated captain picks the first map (and then alternating) which cannot be used again. There are no Vetoes"

This change is actually insane. Aswell as the reasoning behind the decisions. Imagine creating rules based on the size of the community. Say faf suddenly grows by 100k people. Are we now changing rules because of that?

The real question is "who asked" (as in who asked to check / control usernames). I do not mean this as a joke. Up to now literally no moderator cared until there was a report. So it literally did not matter unless someone is annoyed about you and wanted to pay you back. Now I'm supposed to stick to username from myself and i better not rename to somebody else (even by accident)!

You (moderation team) are now saying EVERY player must know the other players. There can be no confusion on usernames. Do I even have to talk more about this?

The example with the confusion regarding screenshots also has little relevance in my opinion. Surely chat logs must be saved somewhere, so reports should only be possible with a timestamp. Just like when reporting something ingame.

Also, when is the discord username purge coming?
Apparently there is a guy on FAF since 2013 or something called Nugget, so i guess i'm not allowed to have my username anymore - gg (also getting ready to report anyone with Nugget in their name).

Hello.

I propose to remove the game.
This is not a secret and everyone plays it. Therefore, it is not needed at all.
It only forces you to play for no good reason at all.
There will be no need to write and maintain any code. You can just remove it all.

I hope at least this proposal will pass.

@bugiman said in DDOS russian players FAF:

With such a policy, FAF is doomed. We have already seen this online for 2 months now, it has been falling, and there are fewer and fewer games. And all because the administration thinks that they are gods, but any student with the Internet breaks their client. Apparently, yes, the information will not reach you that only a strong administration team can afford to ban anyone, alas, the faf is not even close, as time has shown.

How do you know its a "student" or beginner doing this? Are you responsible? Clearly you know more than me. While FAF has many issues you are going around here saying nobody is doing anything and some random guy is using his phone to DDOS people.. Clearly you have no idea what's going on or how this even works.

Earlier you basically said we should let everyone play, now you are saying some people are not allowed to do what they do? As in you are not allowed to prevent people from joining your games (in this case some lobbies preventing russians), but earlier you mention that its up to the host to decide if they want to allow in cheaters or whatever.

This is, obviously, beyond any reasonable complaint and just going around hate/shit-talking FAF.

Problem was already reported on the discord. It got introduced with the most recent update. Fix is already made, but we are not yet worthy to receive it.
https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/1472311711846629512

Signing up, 1293

@jip said in Discussing the "rename rule":

@ftxcommando said in Discussing the "rename rule":

Does it contribute to a healthy environment to ban people that are having fun having impersonating names and not being toxic within the rules? Because currently like 10-15% of the active 1800+ players have taken each other’s names and are impersonating each other. Do we stop that?

Do you need to impersonate others to have fun?

What kind of question is that. Of course you can have fun without. Doens't change the fact that you can also have fun with the name changes.
It's like asking if you need to have ingame chat to have fun.

@Skrat said in Footage of the deaths of real people on the official FAF broadcast of the tournament. Is this normal?:

What's next? Will we use the footage of September 11 and the fall of Ahwassa on the air grid? Sounds like fun!

It does actually. Do you not realize this meme is used everywhere and all the time?

8000 energy per second is pretty insane. I think energy cost while shooting is a good change, but this is a bit much.

Not sure if it was your idea or someone else's, but what happened to the different satellite types?

@Dim-A-miD said:

Okay, we're waiting for the moderators' opinion on this idea... I really hope that it will be implemented, in the proposed form or in some other form.

This is not really something to be approved or denied by the moderation team, but balance team.
For something like this to uave any chance it would have to exist as a mod first. Me and AI could look into this but there will always be something not balanced right or declined, so i dont have any big hopes.

Regardless, the main issue will be the strong singular units will become even more powerful. Take tele-laser acu for example. It teleports into a base and gets vet like crazy, same for almost any experimental or billy nuke. I wouldnt even know how to balance this

Not a huge fan of this. Having novax being able to target each other would create a 4th category where u its fight in. Instead imo novax should be reworked to be vision only and cheaper

So is this tourney one where 2 insanely strong setons team register and the rest are side characters? Isnt captain pick kind of good for this kind of tourney?