Sign up

@Skrat said in FAF Statistics Megathread:

@DETHTRON Only the data for the last 2 years will not be relevant as many Russian players have started using VPNs

You can approximate many of them by parsing game chat from replays. Few words in a relevant language will be enough to label player with a 90-95% certainty.

It's possible but it will take a few more tricks like this just to discover one demographic group.

Thanks to all participants for playing. Congrats to:
@turbo2 1st
@zlo 2nd
@swatoslav 3rd
@wifi_ 4th

To qualify for LoTS 2025

All replays from the tournament are down below
LoTS2025Q2Replays.zip

@Skrat

https://challonge.com/esbdo9uh

Mega backup distance has been buffed 12->15 about 1.5 years ago.
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blame/deploy/fafdevelop/units/XRL0403/XRL0403_unit.bp#L219

It's possible to buff it up to 20 but beyond that I doubt there would be any micro benefit.

Balance team is going to add beetle energy consumption next patch.
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/pull/6897

@Syndicus said in Seton's Clutch Tournament 2025:

We will have 6 teams in the upper bracket
Teams listed below:

Why only 5 out of 6 teams are listed?

Sign up Sainse 1541

Ties are broken based off accumulated points earned

It’s not a tie breaker, Swiss can have 2+ teams with the same second best score.

What's the difference between upper and lower bracket? How will you break ties in case of shared Swiss standings? How initial seeding is determined?

@rampeer said in Appeal from the players to the FAF administration:

Please review my application.

Forum is not a place to submit your application. It's a better idea to check a discord thread and see if you want to apply there.

Related to
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/9485/suspicion-of-hijacked-accounts

However, our data indicates that these accounts were accessed by another party

Make this data accessible for a respective account in personal cabinet/settings. It would contain:

• Device/browser, ip (country), date
• Separate column for active sessions
• Separate column for all history of logins (regardless of being logged in/logged out)

Similar functionality already in other services, like google account, messenger/social network account, etc. It will:

1. Help users to check if their data was ever likely compromised without appealing to moderators
2. Serve as a basis for implementing automatic notification "login from unusual place, is it you? if no, change password".

Here is a draft of how it can look

@rampeer said in Lets Talk about Rating:

But my hunch is that current change-per-game is too high. These zigzags are not normal, just look how rating graph looks for chess:

This comparison is not representative. The graph contains mostly long-lasting chess players who dominated for decades. It’s not a surprise at all that a world chess champion with peers will have consistently high rating. Because anyone else would not be included into your picture to begin with. The correct comparison would be the graph of MMR in Dota, CS or League of Legends.

Even if you sample was more representative, there are fundamental differences that won’t allow FAF to ever have the same accuracy as chess. Chess players play the same “map”. Cannot expect the same level of consistency when playing hundreds and thousands of different maps. Last but not least - chess is 1v1, but FAF is mostly team games.

Trueskill is better than basic chess ELO in evaluating players’ skill, but there are more obstacles contributing to larger swings too.

@magge

There are many log options in client that are disabled be default. For a guideline one would not only need to specify where to find them, but also which bars to enable to begin with. Should log be DEBUG or TRACE? I don't see IRC log option here, am I missing anything?

@magge said in DDoS and now something new again?:

but to do so, I need specific logs and timestamps when it occurred.

How can we provide it? Is there a need to enable specific log settings in the client?

@rampeer You’re downloading random replays without checking their validity. I can help you with downloading only valid replays (rated). You can additionally filter by game type, league, etc. If you’re interested pm me in Discord

@Brutus5000 Great, thank you

Show the latest post preview for general discussion topics too, not only for balance discussion subsection

@rampeer said in Lets Talk about Rating:

Also, 4.5% draw probability is just wrong. Who has that many draws?

The draw probability is estimated by FAF to be 10%. The math behind it is already mentioned above. Lower draw expectation would actually increase the jumps.