Another anecdote, under the category self-awareness:

Setons 4v4, with everyone around 1000, except our mid who is 700. Barely seven minutes in, his ACU gets killed. I inherit his base, but my single-core brain gets overwhelmed trying to handle both my naval battle and the land onslaught in the middle. They break through and the game ends at like minute 20.

Says the 700-rated guy without a hint of irony: “damn why do I always end up in the shitty team”

An anecdote on my first encounter with toxic players:

I was a complete noobie and not accustomed to rude players when I played my fourth or so ladder game. It was on Seraphim Glaciers (4 islands). I managed to take both of the empty islands and felt pretty good. Then my opponent did a T2 comdrop on my main island, to my absolute surprise. Befuddled, I spammed T1 arty and walked my ACU into his to deal with his T2 PD creep. It ended with both ACUs blowing up in a draw.

Then my opponent started yelling at me and called me an idiot. Being new to FAF, was again very confused: had I violated some kind of taboo? Was this like the old Total Annihilation where it was frowned upon to kill an ACU with your ACU?

Later I realized: no, I hadn’t done anything wrong. It’s just that my opponent was Gmoney. He apparently frequently tried cheesy strategies against noobs, expecting to win easily, and then got very angry if a noob managed to counter him

To all noobs hesitating to try ladder: most other players were friendly and some even gave me tips so just try it.

Is there a way to change Selection Deprioritizer with regards to bomber selection? I often run into the issue of wanting to select all bombers, but when I have some T1 bombers in the mix, none of the T3 bombers get selected. It would be great if it didn't interfere with the bomber selection. I really like this mod by the way, thanks for making it.

One day the children will ask you, “is it true that you played FAF back when most of the players were un-upgraded humans?” You’ll lean back in your rocking chair and say “Why yes indeed. Let me tell you a story…” What are your favorite FAF moments and anecdotes?

I’ll go first. It was a game cast by Gyle a few years ago, I believe a 4v4. Team North was down one player already and is generally behind. One guy in Team South sees an enemy ACU in a transport fly close to his own ACU. Clearly a quick thinker, he decides to self-destruct and thereby killing the other ACU, so as to increase the advantage from 4v3 players to 3v2 players.

Except, it turns out it was not an opponent ACU but his teammate with a similar color, and now instead of 4v3, it’s 2v3 Gyle actually got frustrated because he missed what happened and couldn’t make sense of how Team South lost two ACUs out of the blue without any sign of enemy action. Priceless…

Another anecdote, under the category self-awareness:

Setons 4v4, with everyone around 1000, except our mid who is 700. Barely seven minutes in, his ACU gets killed. I inherit his base, but my single-core brain gets overwhelmed trying to handle both my naval battle and the land onslaught in the middle. They break through and the game ends at like minute 20.

Says the 700-rated guy without a hint of irony: “damn why do I always end up in the shitty team”

What I want to know is, how did you get your girlfriend to play a SupCom mission for two hours?! Are you doing her laundry for the next two years? Did you forge documents proving that you’re the heir to the throne of Monaco?

An anecdote on my first encounter with toxic players:

I was a complete noobie and not accustomed to rude players when I played my fourth or so ladder game. It was on Seraphim Glaciers (4 islands). I managed to take both of the empty islands and felt pretty good. Then my opponent did a T2 comdrop on my main island, to my absolute surprise. Befuddled, I spammed T1 arty and walked my ACU into his to deal with his T2 PD creep. It ended with both ACUs blowing up in a draw.

Then my opponent started yelling at me and called me an idiot. Being new to FAF, was again very confused: had I violated some kind of taboo? Was this like the old Total Annihilation where it was frowned upon to kill an ACU with your ACU?

Later I realized: no, I hadn’t done anything wrong. It’s just that my opponent was Gmoney. He apparently frequently tried cheesy strategies against noobs, expecting to win easily, and then got very angry if a noob managed to counter him

To all noobs hesitating to try ladder: most other players were friendly and some even gave me tips so just try it.

One day the children will ask you, “is it true that you played FAF back when most of the players were un-upgraded humans?” You’ll lean back in your rocking chair and say “Why yes indeed. Let me tell you a story…” What are your favorite FAF moments and anecdotes?

I’ll go first. It was a game cast by Gyle a few years ago, I believe a 4v4. Team North was down one player already and is generally behind. One guy in Team South sees an enemy ACU in a transport fly close to his own ACU. Clearly a quick thinker, he decides to self-destruct and thereby killing the other ACU, so as to increase the advantage from 4v3 players to 3v2 players.

Except, it turns out it was not an opponent ACU but his teammate with a similar color, and now instead of 4v3, it’s 2v3 Gyle actually got frustrated because he missed what happened and couldn’t make sense of how Team South lost two ACUs out of the blue without any sign of enemy action. Priceless…

I’m late to the party, but I have this exact issue too, about every third game lately while playing ladder. I’m pretty sure it’s not Windows notifications, no idea what it is. When it minimizes SupCom, I don’t see any notifications. Has anybody found the cause?

Thanks to all three of you for your responses.

I find SACUs a mysterious corner of the FAF universe. At my level (~1000, mostly ladder), I rarely ever see them built. I’m currently only aware of three applications:

• RAS SACUs for ecoing
• UEF bubble shield SACU as a mobile super shield
• Seraphim/Aeon rapid fabricator for massive build power (not sure if worth it), or to reclaim after naval battles

I’d love to hear what better players do with SACUs. For example, would you use Seraphim rambos as a land force instead of/after Othuums?

Is there a way to change Selection Deprioritizer with regards to bomber selection? I often run into the issue of wanting to select all bombers, but when I have some T1 bombers in the mix, none of the T3 bombers get selected. It would be great if it didn't interfere with the bomber selection. I really like this mod by the way, thanks for making it.

Thank you Uveso, great tip with the mods. I tested it and it turns out it has nothing to do with hotkeys. It's just how the selection works with the "Selection Deprioritizer" mod. Hope I can fix this, the mod is great otherwise.

Does anyone use the Selection Deprioritizer mod (not version 4.1) and not have this issue, or know how to fix it?

FAF has these awesome customizable hotkeys, including one to select all bombers. One strange issue is that in my experience, if you have T1 and T3 bombers in the mix, pressing the hotkey will only select the T1 bombers. Only once you lose all T1 bombers can you select the T3 bombers.

So I remembered this cool old thread on how to build your own hotkeys, and I tried to fix the issue myself. Strangely though, the issue seems to persist even with different variations of the hotkey.

For example, I made one for testing purposes that in theory should select all bombers and all Moles (url0101):

'Select bombers & more'] = {
                    order = 37,
                    action = 'UI_SelectByCategory AIR STRATEGICBOMBER, AIR BOMBER, url0101',
                    category = 'Custom Keys'
                },

But the same issue persists: if you have a Mole, a T1 bomber, and a T3 bomber, the hotkey will only select the Mole. If you destroy the Mole, the hotkey only selects the T1 bomber. If you destroy that too, then the hotkey selects the T3 bomber.

Does anyone know how to get the hotkey to select ALL bombers?