@Caliber said in Reduce T2 Air Snipes:

@Dorset if your sniped within 7 mins before flak exists by a player who rushes (key word here) rushes T2 air and then deletes your ACU it isn skill issue, its just abusing Air.

and? your team loses an acu and potentially the army surrounding it. however whoever rushed corsairs is now way behind their mirror in eco or whatever that player made. that player's role is now to punish the sniper. it is not necessarily a skill issue if you get sniped, sometimes it's not preventable. however, not punishing a snipe rush is a skill issue indeed, be it yours or your teammate's

@Caliber said in Reduce T2 Air Snipes:

Theres probably more examples but thats all i can think of right now.

there you go that's the problem you can't think of them all, and it'll be even harder if we introduce more

bad idea to make these weird exclusive rules like air units dealing less damage to ACUs only. its just confusing.
however, i am on board for a t2 air nerf. is there anyone that isnt?

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i don't think many high rated players will mind you playing, really. most people don't care about global rating

and yeah ive never seen a rating reset/correction unless a player cheated to get their rating

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@maudlin27 Sorry, typed that on my phone so it wasn't super clear. What I mean is that it should not always repeatedly try to bomb the same engineer if that engineer did not die after the first bomb (it dodged).

https://replay.faforever.com/24337913 In this replay the AI first bombs me and gets one kill, then repeatedly tries to bomb the same engineers. There's a few issues with this:

1. It's predictable for me what engineer to dodge with
2. If the bomber had gone for the other engineers I would've had to dodge them around which cancels their build queue that I'd then have to requeue, very tedious and in my opinion the main reason early bombers are so powerful. In addition to this my other engineers were not 'ready' to dodge, as they're stood still, so higher chance the bomb lands there
3. Its perfect aim makes it incredibly easy to dodge because it's so predictable. Maybe give it a 50/50 chance to not drop on the engineer's course but behind it, or directly on top of the engineer?

So if the AI can recognise our spawn point, make it so that it won't try to repeatedly go for the same engineer if near our spawnpoint, but switch it up

@maudlin27 said in M28AI Devlog (v205):

Kolbut (RC Semi-final) - 7 changes, incl improved T1 bombing of engineers where M28 hasn't gone first air (with clumps of engineers prioritised, and use of micro to increase chances of dropping bombs), and delying T2 land for navy personality

I'd also suggest for it to change engy targets if there are multiple engineers nearby (indicating a base, u wouldnt want it to drop 1 bomb on expanding engineer and then leave). It was super easy to deal with ai first bomber because it only went for 1 engineer and has predictable aim. The power of an early bomber honestly lies in disrupting all engineer orders by forcing dodges more so than killing 2-3

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@Nuggets said in 1v1 Ladder:

My point is that it was once discussed if dual gap should have a separated rating category, to not inflate or falsify global rating, but got "immediately" denied.

because this doesn't fix the problem. dualgap isn't the only map rating can be farmed on.
even just playing mapgen leads to an "inaccurate" rating because you don't play human made maps as well as others (throwback to the canis/hilly/wonder games a month back where everyone seriously sucked).

1. i don't clown on your 1v1 rating
2. the problem with inflated ratings is that you won't know which to believe. currently, 1v1 rating is more meaningful than all other ratings combined. most people's 1v1 rating is already accurate because they played a number of ladder games at some point in their life. all ranking custom 1v1 games does is create opportunities for people to get ratings they don't deserve
3. global is not the most relevant rating category when it comes to assessing somebody's skill. all of the top players rely on player knowledge and completely ignore global rating. it would be sad if 1v1 rating met the same fate

I don't get your point

If all custom 1v1s count towards ladder rating then the rating can be abused or at the very least players will play maps they enjoy, are better at, and still end up with an inflated rating. And now we have nothing to gauge a player's 1v1 ability with

btw bringing back a !to ladder command, the client notifying you when someone in your range is searching, and not getting disconnected from aeolus are probably the 3 best ways of bringing back some activity to ladder

btw bringing back a !to ladder command and the client notifying you when someone in your range is searching are probably the 2 best ways of bringing back some activity to ladder

@Nuggets said in 1v1 Ladder:

Not quite the right topic ...but, I dont remember who i've told this, but i think 1v1 games hosted in global should automatically count towards 1v1 rating instead of global. I can guarantee way more people will play 1v1 (custom 1v1 in this case) and it will solve way more problems than it creates

this would suck, it would devalue ladder rating just like global rating

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