Posts made by Wainan

For a point of comparison, Planetary Annihilation does it slightly differently.

In that, there are specific amounts that given builder units use per second, for the sake of an example say 10 metal and 100 energy.

In PA, if you're metal-stalling at 50% then your builder will only use 5 metal (as in FA), but the energy usage will not reduce.

It means that you don't have the catastrophic energy stalls that can happen after fixing a mass stall. It's a simpler version of the system that doesn't ruin it in the way that Supcom2 does.

Sounds like the Nvidia driver bug. See if anything here helps

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/779/nvidia-driver-performance-problem?_=1614686802147

Gamespeed is locked as standard, have you enabled it in the lobby options menu?

There are various options that cause a game to be unranked. I think adjustable speed might be one of them and that won't affect anything material about how the game plays.

FA will run fine with any ping below 500, assuming that the connections are otherwise stable.

I think it's quicker to reclaim and rebuild

I'm set to UK keyboard but whenever I have FAF running " and @ (and other keys like | and ~) are swapped around as if I was set to US keyboard, even in other programs like Chrome.

Does anybody else have this issue?

@cocAurico I think it might be more noob friendly in a way because there's no meta to learn (apart from MAKE MOAR TANKS)

@Sheikah #aeolus or something different?

@Sheikah is showing up simply being logged into FAF?

I've got PD+walls, Pgen factory surround and mass storage surround for mexes.

What templates do you swear by, and which ones are really bad idea?

It seems that you're bothered, @randomwheelchair

@Dragun101 perhaps we should settle down round the fireplace and talk of Mammoth tanks and Tanyas, old bean

I didn't expect that. It's good because it means the game is alive and attracting new players. It's bad because that's probably the same reason that bad players should die and why their mums are slags.

Maybe I'm just an old man shouting at a cloud then. It sucks, but you'll get to join me sooner than you'd think.

@FtXCommando You've got an attitude, but you also make constructive points. You aren't somebody who rages and lets his ego take over. You're mature enough to recognise what is important for the greater good and I have a lot of respect for you because of that.

@ThomasHiatt is there an endless supply of them though? What sort of people come to play FAF? I reckon that somebody who was 12 when FA came out is probably the youngest person who would be interested in FAF and they would be 25 now.

I got into RTS games with Dune 2 and followed the evolution of the genre with the kind of excitement that only a teenager can have. Every new game had innovations and made big steps forward and then Total Annihilation came out and it was just so much better than everything else. And for reasons I can't explain Starcraft became the popular subgenre of RTS and TA got kind of forgotten.

yadda yadda yadda we are now 13 years after the launch of SupCom and RTS is a dead genre. We aren't going to attract any kids. Do we want to make the finite amount of interested people decide that this is too much effort?

If I accept that there have always been arseholes, would you accept that we've always been better off without them?

@ftxcommando

I left to play Planetary Annihilation, around the time engie mod was introduced. That predates the examples you're giving

@ftxcommando

And the reason I didn't come back for so long was because I didn't want to get banned for making a second account!

@blackyps RandomWheelchair is in no position to say what I do when I come home from work or what state of mind I might be in.

I have a very good memory for people being obnoxious.

@RandomWheelchair You've made an awful lot of assumptions to back up what you want to believe.

There's absolutely no reason for players of this game to be obnoxious to each other, and back in the more innocent days before social media weaponised trolling and used it to effect worldwide political upheaval, FA players were nice to each other, and were interested in helping each other get better, and did want to share the experience of this most marvellous of games together.

@Exselsior I don't recall people getting angry about losing in the same way they do today.