Here is my first attempt at hosting a tournament! The premise is you have 2 lower rated knights lead by a high rated that can observe and coach. My goal is to allow some lower rated players to play with and learn from experienced players. I hope everyone enjoys!

Logistics

Tournament Dates:
Date of play:
September 3rd 14:00 UTC

Signups Close/Draft Starts:
August 13th

TD: SpikeyNoob

Bracket Link: TBD

IRC: TBD

Prize:

Total Prize Pool: $150
Donations would be greatly appreciated!
$100 donated by Exselsior
$50 donated by Spikey

1st: Custom Avatar $100
2nd: Faction Face Avatars $50
3rd: Faction Logo Avatars

Structure

Each team will include 2 under 1900 knights that will take part in the games and a 1900+ king that will ctrl k at the start of each round and assist their teammates without playing. The tournament will follow a single elimination format with the first rounds being BO1 and all the following rounds BO3.

Teams will be selected by a draft. The lowest rated King will select their first teammate followed by the next lowest king. This will continue until all kings have a teammate, then the lowest king will draft their second teammate and the cycle repeats. A kings highest rating on July 30th will be used to create the draft order.

Maps

Map pool:
-INITIALLY UNVETOBLE-
Map Gen 15x15 (8 spawns)
Map Gen 20x20 (8 spawns)

-INITIAL VETO POOL-

10x10
zerg canyon
Crazy Backtrack
Wonder open 5v5 v3b
Desert crisis
Diversity

20x20
The Ditch
Lena River
Pelagial v2
Sirgis
Adaptive Crateria
Seton's Clutch - FAF Version (mid and rock)

(For now the game as the last 2v2 tourny. Subject to change up to the end of signups)

Vetos:
3 alternating vetoes each, low seed vetoes first. High seed picks map 1. Low seed picks map 2. Players veto down for the last map. All maps are viable to veto on the 3rd game.

There is a pool of 13 maps and maps will be selected using a veto and pick system. This means each team has 3 vetos, with the lower seed in the group vetoing first in an alternating pattern. (ie lower seed, upper seed, lower seed, upper seed). Next the higher seed will select the first map, the lower seed the second map, and if necessary teams will resume vetoing maps until only 1 remains with the lower seed vetoing first.

No faction veto will be used for this tournament.

Once a map is picked for a round, the team that selected that respective map will confirm their team setup (who is playing slot 1 and 2) and the lower seeded team will then proceed to pick the slot setup they wish to play.

For mapgen, both teams can enter the lobby and view the map prior to sending in their vetoes. Each team now gets 1 reroll, but must use the rerolled map. Players must host with the tournament settings on when using map gen.

To clarify map picking and faction veto:

1. Figure out whether you use the upper or lower bracket pool.
2. Lower seed (as shown by the position in the group) vetoes first map
3. Higher seed vetoes next map
4. Lower seed uses next veto
5. Higher seed uses next veto
6. Lower seed uses final veto
7. Higher seed uses final veto
8. Higher seed then picks the first map to play from the list of maps in the pool that have not been vetoed
9. Lower seed picks the second map following the same rules
10. In the event of a tie, players veto down the remaining maps until 1 remains with lower seed going first
11. The winner reports the results (including losses and tie games) to their group's tournament director in the IRC channel

Rules

• Late players will be given a sub of equal or lesser rating if available, if not they will play down a player or forfeit
• The king on the higher seeded team will host each game.
• Prize money will be split equally between both the knights and the king

Signups:

Kings:

• Yudi (2535)
• Grimplex (2319)
• YellowNoob (2216)
• Swkoll (2198)
• Sladow (2190)
• Bully (2188)
• RowanMorseYT (2080)
• Edtjuh (1975)
• Archsimkat (1927)
• Auriko (1922)

Knights:

• Exselsior (1884)
• Mr-Skill-Issue (1867)
• Unknow (1858)
• crusher12321 (1849)
• FTXCommando (1848)
• BoomNoob (1846)
• orb (1800) (reserved for swkoll)
• Terminal (1799)
• Cast_Away (1787)
• salnik (1670)
• Penguin_ (1635)
• snowy801 (1600)
• Javi (1561)
• Skuzz (1400)
• Rort (1259) (reserved for swkoll)
• HalcyonWolf (1255)
• Hemfast (1206)
• Talon (1200)
• Rowey (1137)

BackUps:
If you are too low rated to play or the tourny is already full you will be put here

• dman82499 (675)

Credit to vena for the turtest

A balance patch has been released with a few important changes that have been planned for a while, but were delayed. Here are the changes:

Galactic Colossus

Previously the claws would instantaneously destroy the unit upon arrival. This matched the old behavior, but with the bug fixes of the claws it was only slightly too strong.

A unit now receives 730 damage per second per second upon arriving at the claw. Combining both claws and the beam the colossus has a maximum damage per second of 2460, which matches the old situation.

Chrono Dampener

The Chrono Dampener received several buffs over the past year. With this patch we nerf it by changing how the Chrono Dampener behaves. The old behavior applies the same stun on all units over a large radius every 5.0 seconds. The stun duration was 3.5 seconds.
The new behavior applies a diminishing stun based on the distance of the unit to the ACU over a large radius every 5.0 seconds. The stun is applied in slices of 0.4 seconds. There are 10 slices. Units that are on top of the ACU receive all slices, and are therefore stunned for 4.0 seconds. Units at the outer edge of the radius receive only a single slice and are therefore stunned for 0.4 seconds.

Thanks to @Deribus for the original idea for this change.

Air Staging Facility

When they were moved from tech 2 to tech 1 their build time was not reduced accordingly. The build time is now reduced from 450 to 350. For a tech 1 engineer it takes 70 seconds to build.

Contributors

• Jip
• SpikeyNoob
• Basilisk3

Logistics

Dates:
Signups end June 30th
Drafting starts July 1st
Play will start at 2pm UTC on July 8th

TD:
Rowey/Tagada

Bracket Link:
https://challonge.com/SummerBeta3v3

IRC:
#Beta

Prize:

Total prize: $350 (funded by FAF)

(prize money will be split soon)
1st: $200 + Beta Avatar
2nd: $100 + Faction Face Avatar
3rd: $50 + Faction Avatar

Structure

This will be a basic 3v3 tourney. Teams will be made via a captain draft. The highest rated players will be picked to be captains, they will then go from lowest to highest picking their next players. All games will be played on FAFBeta. We will use global rating for this tourny. If there are conflicts then points as of June 23 will be used.

Maps

Map pool:

(All maps are subject to change up until the date of the tourny)

INITIALLY UNVETOBLE
Map Gen 12.5x12.5 (8 spawns) (slots 1-6)
Map Gen 15x15 (10 spawns) (slots 1-6)
Map Gen 17.5x17.5 (10 spawns) (slots 1-6)
10x10
Adaptive Flooded Tabula Rasa (all mex + more reclaim enabled) (slots 1-6)
Adaptive Wonder Open (all mex + some middle reclaim + t1 army side reclaim) (slots 1-2 + 5-8)
Adaptive Pyramids (all mexes + additional mexes) (slots 3-8)
Adaptive Canis River (slots 1-6) (all mex)
Delirious Lands (x2 reclaim, 1-2, 5-6, 9-10)

20x20
Mangrove Delta (slots 1-6)
The Ditch
Lena River (slots 1-6)
Falcon Stone River (slots 1-4 + 9-10)
Adaptive Ndera (spawn all mexes) (slots 1-4 + 7-8)
Adaptive Metir (x1.5 reclaim + spawn all mexes) (slots 1-4 + 15-16)
Seton's Clutch - FAF Version (mid rock beach)
Adaptive Point of Reason (slots 1-6) (spawn all mex, more reclaim, small fleet mid reclaim)

Vetos:

3 alternating vetoes each, low seed vetoes first. High seed picks map 1. Low seed picks map 2. Players veto down for the last map. All maps are viable to veto on the 3rd game.

There is a pool of 13 maps and maps will be selected using a veto and pick system. This means each team has 3 vetos, with the lower seed in the group vetoing first in an alternating pattern. (ie lower seed, upper seed, lower seed, upper seed). Next the higher seed will select the first map, the lower seed the second map, and if necessary teams will resume vetoing maps until only 1 remains with the lower seed vetoing first.

No faction veto will be used for this tournament.

Once a map is picked for a round, the team that selected that respective map will confirm their team setup (who is playing slot 1 and 2) and the lower seeded team will then proceed to pick the slot setup they wish to play.

For mapgen, both teams can enter the lobby and view the map prior to sending in their vetoes. Each team now gets 1 reroll, but must use the rerolled map. Players must host with the
tournament settings on when using map gen.

To clarify map picking and faction veto:

1. Figure out whether you use the upper or lower bracket pool.
2. Lower seed (as shown by the position in the group) vetoes first map
3. Higher seed vetoes next map
4. Lower seed uses next veto
5. Higher seed uses next veto
6. Lower seed uses final veto
7. Higher seed uses final veto
8. Higher seed then picks the first map to play from the list of maps in the pool that have not been vetoed
9. Lower seed picks the second map following the same rules
10. In the event of a tie, players veto down the remaining maps until 1 remains with lower seed going first
11. The winner reports the results (including losses and tie games) to their group's tournament director in the IRC channel

Rules

• Late players will be given a sub of equal or lesser rating if available, if not they will play down a player or forfeit.
• The captain on the higher seeded team will host each game.
• Prize money will be split equally between all players on a team.
• All games will be played on FAFBeta

Signups

EspiranTo-
Aesir-
Chisato
Lunyshko
Yew
DisassemblyDrone
NOC-
Sladow-Noob
Unknow
Salnik
BoeH_MaHdinGo
FtXCommando
Aranei
OmniHaven
Karateka
hitgirl-
Gay_mover

@azath0th said in Nucleus genius and ddos of FAF. (ru original is below):

The other side of the question: should moderation permaban people for insults. I think no. Of course there are lots of edge cases blah blah... But if it happened in stress situation I think there must be a place for redemption or something.

We would not perma ban someone for insulting people. I assure you that was not the case in this situation.

I made this mod that prevents mex's from double upgrading. Might help solve the issue.

Skill issue.

You know u can ask for help instead of bashing the people spending their free time to make FAF.

Just made a PR that should fix the issue. Just waiting on getting it merged/made a maintainer.

I agree, premium dev tools seem like a far better use of funds than trying to get more players. Lets just improve the game as much as we can with it. Maybe getting the certification from microsoft so that the client is not marked as a virus would be worth the investment.

I have uploaded phantom as a sim mod on the vault, the death issue is fixed in this version. Please let me know if anyone has issues. Also now u can play nomads and phantom!

This is an issue. I did not think other units would target the sucked unit. We will troubleshoot and fix.

Sign up 1551

@Immortal-D What is toxic about providing feedback on you suggestions? Why post them if u dont want to discuss it?

Play setons instead!

Here you can find an updating list of all changes currently on FAFBeta! More will be coming next weekend and, as always, feedback is welcome and appreciated. Thanks to @Rowey for all his work making these patch notes. Also, a FAFBeta tournament is in the works. More information on that will be posted soon.

@cheeseberry said in How come you don't play ladder?:

My brain is too smooth to keep the openings and general game plan in my head for the 50 or so maps that are rotated in the 1v1 pool.

Combining that with me valuing mastery over actually winning the game, I dont even wanna play when I know I will already start off suboptimal.

Is this pretty dumb? Yes.

Could this be solved by either just caring less or by going through all the maps in like a weekend? Yes.

Am I gonna do that? Probably not.

This 100% but even spending a weekend on it is prob not enough to not feel like many mistakes are being made.

@Jip it just happened yesterday, thats what caused me to create the post. In the end i think i agree that the rating lose does not mean much and it would lead to more abuse if it was a way to unrank a game. Im just salty ig lol.

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