Just wanted to say thanks to all involved in the Matchmaker development. I’m really excited for this.

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…

Magge is right: just make sure you bind the hotkey to "Select ACU (control group)" and not "Go to ACU". Then the mod works - thanks Uveso.

Thanks a lot. Let me just make sure I understand:

1. the code above, should it go into the game.pref file? I don't see those definitions Strogo listed in my game.pref file, so perhaps it goes elsewhere?
2. if it should indeed go into the game.pref file, mine only has one instance of "goto": in the "Profile" section, under "UserKeyMap = {", it says "Backspace = 'goto_commander',". Should it go somewhere there, or am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks again for any pointers!

Hi all, I often use the "select ACU" hotkey that automatically zooms in on the ACU. Is it possible to change some setting to reduce the zoom level?

I fiddled with the in-game "Zoom Pop" setting but it didn't seem to impact anything. Thanks for any pointers.

I’m only just seeing this discussion from 9 months ago, but I love the suggestions on shining a light I some of the party mods.

With regards to the question of what mods people would like to see combined: I think having the option to mix Claustrophobia and Murder Party would be great.

That would a) allow players to basically set a time limit on a game, and b) potentially address one challenge of Murder Party where actually getting your army to your target opponent can be tricky (depending on the map) while others are trying the same. (Claustrophobia incentivizes establishing yourself in the center, which would expose you more when adding Murder Party.)

What’s the cost of one TML missile, by the way?

Thank you both!

Say you’re in a navy position and your air player is behind or busy, so you can’t get help from torpedo bombers. Judging from the T3 Seraphim submarine stats (335 DPS for 3000 mass), it seems challenging to counter a pack of them.

Do you have to rely on ground firing destroyers or what would work?

Just wanted to say thanks to all involved in the Matchmaker development. I’m really excited for this.

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?