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    FAF Webiste Updates/Improvements

    In my Free Time I am slowly working On Adding Improvements to the FAF Website and all Changes I have made are on the FAF Git Page.

    Any Update / Changes I make will be list here as well as a Link to the GitHub Pull Request I have made.
    I will Put in Square Brackets if the Change is Merged in the current version of the website or is a Pending Pull Request.

    Trello Board to Manage New Feature/Update i would like to add to the Current FAF Website
    https://trello.com/b/tbuvEoL8/faf-website

    Improvements/Updates:

    • Update News Link on website to NewsHub #258 [Merged]
      Change the Href Link to link to /newshub instead of /news as people are missing out on what is going on in the community as the old news page had no postings since Aug 2020

    • Add Twitch Link to Top Navigation Bar #259 [Merged]
      Added Twitch Icon to link to the Supcom FA Category of Twitch

    • Update to Contribution Page #260 [Merged]
      Update Streamer & Caster List & Add link to FAF Creative Discord

    • Add Link to FAF IssuseHunt & Discord Links on Contribute Page #261 [Merged]
      Added Link to FAF IssuseHunt page : https://issuehunt.io/r/FAForever
      Added Links to FAF Related Discords :

      • Official Russian
      • Official French
      • ANZ #263[Merged]
      • Nomads Development
      • Ai-Development
      • FAF Promotions

    Changes/Improvement Under Development

    • Rebrand Live Streams Tab to a Community Tab
    • Add in 2v2 Leaderboard
    • Update 1v1 & Global Leaderboard to New Leaderboard
    • Investigate the ability to have the Website Available in Different Languages
    posted in Contribution •
    New Map Veto System for Tournaments.

    New Map Veto System for Tournaments

    After Recent Discussions On Zulip I'm now going to Bring this to the attention of the community. Back in October I contacted a Site Called MapBan https://www.mapban.gg/en .
    This site Specialised in a Map Veto System. After seeing the way the veto system was being done in the Legends of the Stars Tourney i thought this would be the next logical step in make the FAF tournaments New and Refreshing as well as bringing it more upto day with how Most Current games do this. If you have just looked at the site you can see there is another RTS on this site “Starcraft 2” which was a recent addition to the site so there's no reason why we could not do this.

    The Developer of MapBan got back to me and said he could add Supreme Commander Forged Alliance to the Site and there was No Map Limit which is a big thing for us as there is possibly closest to 3-400 maps that could be needed for this to work to its full potential for us.

    The Site offers us some nice benefits. I will be using Rainbow 6 Siege(R6S) as an Example for what is possible on the site.

    Map Pools
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    With Mapban we can have Map Pools or Presets, As you can see above in the R6S part of the site there are 3 Presets and a Map Pool. The Presets allow us to have set maps for them so at a click of a button all the maps needed are selected. With the Custom pool you can just select the maps you want in your pool from the Bank of maps listed. New map-pools are able to be added within 24 hours.
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    Best Of X
    Once the Map preset or Custom pool has been decided your are then asked on how many games are to be played. the system allows for Best of 1, 2, 3, 5 or 7.
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    Lobby
    Once the Best of X has been selected you get prompted with this screen. here you delegate the links to Team 1 and Team 2, As well as a Like For Viewers to see. Also if you click on the more links at the bottom of this image there is a Browser Source for OBS that can be used for Casters to have show on Stream while the players pick the maps.
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    Team Link
    When you are given the team link you will be presented with this page. here is where you can set your Team name or Player Name, As well as Uploading a Team Logo which needs to be 150x150px and as a png.
    Team Link.png

    Veto Process
    In the image below you can see the Maps that were Vetoed Out with a ‘X’ on the map name. and the maps that were picked by the players will show their MapBan Colored Logo or the Logo they Added when they set up their name in the previous step. so in this case Orange picked Theme park and Blue picked Tower.
    Veto.png

    Any questions
    Contact me Via the Forum Direct Messages, Aeolus or FAF Discord 🙂

    posted in General Discussion •
    MapBan System is Now Live!

    MapVeto Sytem is now Live

    After 2 Months we finally have the base layer for the 3rd party MapVeto System.

    A few weeks ago, i put out a post with an overview on what this system is going to look like and a Basic understanding of the feature.


    https://www.mapban.gg/en

    Current Map List
    https://forum.faforever.com/topic/783/mapban-system-map-list

    Request or Submit Maps

    Here is a Google Form Link for your to request maps to be added and for map Maker's you will also use this link to Submit you map to be assessed to be added to the system. Any request / Submissions that are approved you will be contacted before had to make sure you are happy with it still to be added.

    Form - https://forms.gle/wone7VhdxLbwCD7w5

    More Pool

    The aim is to get more Pool on the System in 2021.

    I would like to get some sort of the following pools

    • Ladder/TMM Pool
    • Custom Pool for Specific Tournament (Rule will apply but still TBD)

    FAFLive Account

    Using the FAFLive account for Tournament will be decided By FTX as he will have the Login Credentials for the account along with me.

    Using the FAFLive Account you can see this Video to run through how to use it.

    Video - Coming Soon

    Using the System Without FAFLive Account

    To use this new Tool, we have now you do not need to have access to the FAFLive Account to make the most of it, the account is there for Convenience due how the Plus account works.

    To Start creating your pool you need to head on over to https://www.mapban.gg/en on the front page you should see FAF.

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    Now Click on the FAF Section and as of 22nd Dec 2020 all you should see is Custom Map Pool (More to be added in the new Year).

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    Clicking into the Custom Map pool you will now have access to all the 108 Map in the First Upload.

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    on this page you can use the Search bar to see if the maps you want are on the system and then click on them to select them. As you can see once selected, they show as a highlighted.

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    Once you have selected your maps Right at the bottom of the page is a 'Submit' Button you want to click that.

    once you clicked submit Base on the number of maps you have selected you will be give Best Of X

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    As you can see here out the selection of map, I picked I can only go up to a best of 5. Update: FAF will be geting Both Best of 7 and Best of 9 Options.

    Once you have picked the Best of that you wanted for you Map Vetoing you will now get prompted with the Mapban Lobby, there is a lot to go on here.

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    The Top button that says ' Ban Order & More Options'

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    This is what you will see when you click into it. This will allow you to set how you want the maps to be picked or Banned and click submit once you set it to how you want it.

    The Next 2 parts are the Links you want to give to the 2 Player or teams that are competing.

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    This will take them to a Generated page.

    Opening up the Team 1 link you will get hit with this page.

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    Here is where you need to Put in your Team name or FAF Name & if you want you can put in a Team Logo. Now one you filled out the field's click start Banning.

    When you click Start Banning you will now get this screen,
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    this page will list all the maps you selected at the top of the page it will say what you need to do so to Pick & Ban you just need to click and hold on the map and it will add a 'X' if it is banned.

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    and when you select a map is will show your Mapban colour blue for team 1 and Orange for team 2 in the corner of the map.

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    Another Link is the Viewer Link.

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    this can be given out to people on a live stream so they could watch the banning processes and see what was being banned or picked.

    If you are Streaming the Tournament with Live Map Vetoing ( this will be different for FAFLive Account ACCSES) you want to click on the More Links.

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    this will open 2 more links. you can ignore the logs one but the last one 'Link for BrowserSource.

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    this link you want to create a Browser Source on OBS and Paste That link into the URL and it should allow you to see onscreen the map vetoing live on stream.

    If you will be using the FAFLive Account for MapBan there will be a Video to Cover how to use it as it has a different way to do thing with it being more used for Streams.

    FAFLive Accout Stream Overlays

    here are some Screenshort on the additional Ui elimets you can have for streams

    Note: the background is not aprt of the overlay jsut thier so you can see them 🙂

    For the Main Overlay thier a few extra toggle that can be enabled

    Break will show current score on the games that have played

    Start

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    Main

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    **Main With Show Played Maps **

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    Main with Show ActiveMap

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    MapVeto

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    Break

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    posted in General Discussion •
    RE: FAFLive ShowMatches

    Show Match Could Use MapBan as a way or more Audiance Interaction from what the players are Deciding

    posted in Tournaments •
    Art Request for MapBan

    What is MapBan
    Back at the end of last year i finalised the Setup of MapBan a 3rd party Site to give the ablity to tournament directoed to create easy to used maps pools and have have a proper MapVeto System, Along with the OBS Scean Weblinks to provide a better viewiong expeiance. you can read more about the system here https://forum.faforever.com/topic/706/new-map-veto-system-for-tournaments?_=1616333858444

    Reason for the Request
    This reason for this art request is that the FAF Map-Gen is becoming more and more used in tournaments now and at at the point of the final set up for MapBan Map-Gen was not been used in a Tournament setting, But things change. To help fix this isses i want to add 6 Placeholder "Maps" for Map-Gen .

    Art Request Info
    The images them self do not have to have a image of a map in them due to the maps are Randomly Generated. As long as the images repersent the Map-Gen this is fine.

    Please can you post you submissions below Or Send them to me Via Zip File on Discord

    Specs
    Image Size: 990 x 556
    File Format : jpg
    Number of Images : 6

    After Speaking with Swkoll for we came up with the follwing that we would need

    5km - Tournament
    5km - Unexplored
    10km - Tournament
    10km - Unexplored
    20km - Tournament
    20km - Unexplored

    To have an idea how the "Maps" will show please look a the link under What is MapBan and you will see how they lay out map Images

    posted in Contribution •
    RE: Tutorial for new players with zero RTS experience

    Im Working with Willows Duality to have an Updated Beginners Guid to how to FAF this will be a Vidoe Covering all the basic stuff for playing the game. this is not quite ready yet but have been told he has a personal goal to have it done by febuarary. But playing campagn is the best place to start

    posted in General Discussion •
    RE: Why would you have left FAF?

    @speed2 where is the framework for this would like to talk alook

    posted in General Discussion •
    RE: cant create or connect to any games

    you need to lauch Supreme Command FA for it to create the files in a new Windows instlation as it need to create the prefs file. then you should have been asked by the client to fined the supcom fa Ex/ folder it is in. as lauchen supcom fa from steam may download some .NET framwork it needs

    posted in FAF support (client and account issues) •
    RE: FAF Webiste Updates/Improvements

    @tagada twitch button has been merged but not released on a new version of faf stack yet. And the live stream tab is broken to due to depreciated twice api etc. Alof of the stuff I'm working on is based on my local vm atm

    posted in Contribution •
    RE: Unit Creation Tourney #1 (October of 2020)

    Any update on the Results for this yet ?

    posted in Tournaments •
    MapBan System - Map List

    Previous Post - https://forum.faforever.com/topic/706/new-map-veto-system-for-tournaments-help-needed

    Map Request / Submision Form - https://forms.gle/Wo8vyuspGChPSqfeA

    So, to start out with I have a list of 109 Maps Ranging from 5k to 20k. All Images for the maps have been Curated

    If there are any other maps that should be a part of the list, please leave your Suggestions Below this Post. I will be asking the People who are better qualified than me if the map is balance and not broken to be added to the system.

    To begin with the system there will be 2 Pools to select from:
    1v1
    Custom Pool (Create your own)

    Once the system is up and running then i will look in to the following Pools:
    2v2
    3v3
    4v4
    Custom Present pools ( can be Created, these take up to 24 hours to be created )

    The Current list is as follows:

    5k Maps:

    Adaptive Salt and Pepper
    Ambush Pass
    Ambush the enemy
    Apchui
    Balvery Mountains V2
    Boogie-Woogie
    Crimson Feud
    desert arena
    Desert Joust
    Esgaroth's Ruins
    Fields of Thunder v2
    Finn's Revenge
    Firelight
    Ice Village
    Jagged Subsidence
    Mirage
    Monaki
    Moonlight
    Nehtotkas Twin Maidens
    Sentry Point
    Summer Duel
    The Ganges Chasma
    Theta Passage - FAF Version
    Theta Passage 5
    Williamson's Bridge
    Winter Duel

    10k Maps:

    8-Badlands_v4
    Abhor
    Adaptive Archsimkats Valley
    Adaptive Canis River
    Amoor
    Anchor
    Arcane
    Arctic Refuge
    Broken_Vows
    Cadmium Green
    Cobalt Valley
    Comet Catcher
    Darkfall
    Daroza's Sanctuary
    Desert Castaway
    Desert Planet II v2
    Diversity
    Eridani
    Eye of the Storm - FAF Version
    Fancylands
    Farce in tha Forest
    Festea VII
    Fields Of Great Phoenix
    Fields of Isis
    Forbidden Pass v4 - FAF Version
    Four-Leaf Clover
    Frithen
    Gates of Anubis
    Goodlands
    Haven Reef Fixed
    High Noon
    Hollow
    Last Oasis
    Loki - FAF Version
    Niflheim - Final II v2
    Open Palms
    Oracle
    Polar Depression
    Regor VI Highlands
    Salembay
    Saltrock Colony
    Sands of Ablicka
    semiflooded Niflheim
    Seraphim Outpost
    Souvenir
    Standing Stones
    Stella Maris WM 1v1
    Sweepwing Sanctum
    Syrtis Major - FAF Version
    TAG Craftious Maximus - FAF Version
    The Cold Place
    The Dark Heart, FAF version
    The land wilderness V3
    Twin Rivers
    Volcano Duel
    Vulcan's Reach
    Vya-3 Protectorate
    White Fire v2
    wildpath
    Z-D Rasty Lite

    20k Maps:

    Adaptive Kusoge
    Chiron
    choir and flagellant
    Coldfire Crossing
    Crossfire Canal - FAF Version
    Emerald Crater
    Gateway and Rose
    Mentor
    Norfair
    Osiris
    Pelagial v2
    Point of Reach v4
    Roanoke Abyss
    Selkie Isle
    Seraphim Glaciers
    Shoal
    The Bermuda Locket
    The Crucible
    The Ditch
    The Drunken Beetles Dance
    The Requisite
    x6 1v1

    posted in General Discussion •
    RE: I cannot see any units upon loading a game

    ^ You need to delete that mod as you dont needed it that mod you have got thier contains stuff the game has know idead what it in it hens the reason not working correcly all you need is to have the FAF selected in game type and no mods seleceted

    posted in FAF support (client and account issues) •
    RE: Unable to load Nomads replays

    Best place to probs to ask is on the Nomads Discord : https://discord.gg/8bfQwE

    posted in Game Issues and Gameplay questions •
    RE: OC loading screen tooltip is wrong

    https://github.com/FAForever/fa/pull/3258 Done

    posted in Suggestions •
    RE: Adding a console command to command line executable?

    you could probs use the Console++ 1.01 mod in the vualt and jsut edit the Lua File in the hook folder

    posted in I need help •
    RE: MapBan System - Map List

    Abhor.jpg
    @Jip If your maps are in the ladder all i need is them in that size format you quoted, I just used the Builting Border Settings with rantom faction on to cycnle throgh the background and then just sniping tooled the map till it fit into the Size needed. Also added a Submision form to the Main post at the top

    posted in General Discussion •
    RE: Client v1.2.3 Upcoming Features

    Added Lastest Relese to the Wiki as well https://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?title=1.2.3

    posted in Blogs •
    RE: Customize Taunts, Need Help

    https://discord.gg/gN4SdPb <- Creative discord is the best place to ask

    posted in Modding & Tools •
    RE: Chatbot developer / maintainer

    I think this was beeing worked on in Zulip and was beeing Redone in .NET core and .Net but not sure on if they are sill working on it or if it has stoped.

    posted in Job Openings (unpaid) •
    RE: MapBan System - Map List

    @Sir-Prize said in MapBan System - Map List:

    Nice to have the tool I guess, but I don't think doing map bans by PM was even a minor legitimacy problem given it's how they do it in online SC2 tournaments.

    this was not to make the torunament look more ligitimate. the aim of this system was to reduce the work load of the TD having to go back and forth with Pm's here. with this system the TD only need to send a Link to each player they go throgh the Veto and selection and both player can see who bans what and picks what.

    https://forum.faforever.com/topic/706/new-map-veto-system-for-tournaments-help-needed this is the first post i made about the system and should explain it a bit better

    posted in General Discussion •