Posts made by RedX

Are you located in Russia? Several players have recently started reporting that they can't connect, it is probably nothing within the control of FAF.

@zeldafanboy said in Pending Balance Changes Feedback Thread:

The T3 MAA becoming cheaper and more spammable + HP normalization is good. Flak all have the same HP, which is good, although T1 MAA have slightly different HP (And Aeon has the lowest, not Cybran). I guess air gets so much more important the longer the game goes on its only fair for every faction to have identical HP on their land AA.

My understanding is that they are lowering the HP of all the AA, not giving them all the same HP.

Check out these threads, but the TL;DR is just wait. Or just... play smaller games? Not sure why people insist on playing 6v6 and being surprised it's unstable.

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6182/addressing-severe-connectivity-issues-what-has-happened

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4918/status-report-and-new-roadmap-for-the-ice-adapter

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6482/ice-adapter-status-report-2

Honestly this is not the first time I've heard of an issue with too many open file handles. I'm barely even a Linux admin but occasionally babysit an appliance at work and I've had to increase the max file handles before.

@nflanders said in Why would you have left FAF?:

Please tell me in which topic can I ask a question about modding (lua scripts)? I did not find...

https://forum.faforever.com/category/11/modding-tools

Why would it only affect one player though?

If it's pathfinding that's the issue, would selecting everything and clicking stop help?

New exploit: Get a selen to 1hp and let it cloak up then reclaim it for 20,000x the energy value

I'm not entirely sure how the icons are rendered, is it possible that the lines could be made white for some darker colors? Or is that hardcoded/part of the engine?

Woah I didn't know about the right-clicking on the team colors button. I probably won't use it, but it's really cool that it's there for those that may need it!

Presumably the other thread is the friend mentioned.

My complaint with dark blue/purple is not so much that they're close together (although I can see how that would be a problem) but rather that there's unsufficient contrast to quickly identify what a given unit type is. The unit type icon needs to use white lines instead of black for dark colors.

Dark purple is awful, especially trying to find AA in an opponent's army. But yeah I genuinely don't see how you'd have a hard time differentiating the 2 red colors. That said, perhaps you'd benefit from switching to team colors mode? That just shows all enemies as the same color and all allies as the same color.

I don't this this game had particularly large unit counts honestly, nothing more than the average setons or gap game. Does this usually affect only one player? I had no issues moving my units and ACU while Cortana was complaining about not being able to move his.

This was on a 20x20 map called Direct Fire, I was in the game too.

@nflanders said in Why would you have left FAF?:

@redx said in [Why would you have left FAF?]

I'm so confused. What problem are you trying to solve here? You keep making suggestions that seem aimed at bringing in money, but to what end?

Can I solve the problem? Of course not. If there was a person who would try to negotiate cooperation with Nordic Games.
Success largely depends on the character of the negotiator.
This can help solve a very wide range of problems.

Here is the maximum program:

1. Completely solve the problem of lags and disconnections during the game. Ideally, a system like in Beyond All Reason RTS, where only those with a poor connection to the server lag, everyone else enjoys the game. (more details: https://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=37637)

2. The game can become free on Steam. Will solve the problem with "funnel".

@ftxcommando said in Why would you have left FAF?:

the problems FAF has always had with regards for players isn't retention related, it's funnel related.

Does the negotiator achieve success or not, if someone wants to try why not? The main thing is that the person is competent.

Even if you could somehow convince Nordic to care about FAF, you would have to completely rewrite the game to completely solve lag and connection issues. The reason the game is so susceptible to connection issues is literally the very core of how the game's simulation engine works. You'd literally be better off porting all of the game mechanics and units to Spring or something than trying to change SC:FA into a client/server game.

To be frank, none of the problems you are trying to solve are problems that are a fundamental barrier to playing FAF for pretty much anyone. The only people for whom SC:FA not being free is a real barrier to entry is people who are blocked from Steam because of political reasons. Can people in that country even download free games from Steam? Even if you got your pipe dream, it wouldn't affect player retention. You're pushing super hard for something that is irrelevant to everyone except you.

Can you point me in direction of "good" air players whose replays I can watch? Every game I've played I see people in the upper 1k range circling ASFs still and I don't pay enough attention to the top level of players to even know who to watch.

@nflanders said in Why would you have left FAF?:

@brutus5000 said in [Why would you have left FAF?]

Sucks, but what is the alternative?

What if we start negotiations with Nordic Games?
But who will negotiate? Is there an excellent diplomat in the FAF structure who is capable of such a task?

For example, you can offer joint development of a battle pass. In-game cosmetics for ACU. In exchange, they will make SC:FA free.

If you don’t know where to start, you can consult Chris Taylor. He has extensive experience interacting with publishers. I think he will not refuse help and will tell you how best to negotiate.

I'm so confused. What problem are you trying to solve here? You keep making suggestions that seem aimed at bringing in money, but to what end?

I'm still not sure I understand why stop micro is better, tbh. What changed to make stop micro better?

I found this thread describing the same issue, try the fix they found and see if it works. https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/10dyt4h/newb_trying_to_install_you_need_to_install_an_app/