This week in Slack

[moonbearonmeth]

No mention of the Python client? We had an actual development release

You broke the client theme I was using though :/

[Mad`Mozart]

You broke the client theme I was using though :/

Dude!
After countless updates breaking my theme and 5 times reporting it (and having it 'solved'), every goddamn update still continued to rape my theme like a lil bitch.

Best solution - never update. I still can play, watch replays and occasionally troll aeolus with my 1 year old client

[Wesmania]

You broke the client theme I was using though :/

Dude!
After countless updates breaking my theme and 5 times reporting it (and having it 'solved'), every goddamn update still continued to rape my theme like a lil bitch.

Best solution - never update. I still can play, watch replays and occasionally troll aeolus with my 1 year old client

Development releases break theming mainly because the client gives a lot of freedom with the .ui files, and changes in code can cause them to no longer match. I try to avoid changes that break themes, but they occasionally have to happen - in 0.17.2 the reason was completely rewritten chat.

[moonbearonmeth]

Moon Slept in Edition

Nothing happened.

More cats it is.

Spoiler: show

Oh and the results from last week's survey are in.
Turns out most of you aren't in the slack and actually care about what happens.

[moonbearonmeth]

So many Nightmares Edition

Client not shit again
That bug that was causing the irc client to not refresh itself was fixed now all I need is for a very beautiful young man to update his theme.
You can get the updated client here if you haven't updated already: https://github.com/FAForever/client/releases/tag/0.17.3

The Great Mass Debate
The vote is currently running on when the next dev call will be range from this Friday to the weekend after.
Will update when the answer is out.

Shidboast
Includes but not limited to
-Devs admitting they are bad at the game
-Devs admitting they are paid shills from AMD or Intel
-Devs think that games should be communist

[moonbearonmeth]

Crumpets Were On Sale So Now I Look Forward to Breakfast Edition

Map Generation?
So a dude showed up with something he's called a 'map generator' it seems more like a tool to come up with map concepts rather than something that procedurally generates maps on game start but still looks neat.
More info can be found here now: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=16134

Replay Vault is Fugged
Dunno why, devs haven't said much, send help pls.

Shidboast
There wasn't any :/

[moonbearonmeth]

It's Not Incest if it's your Step-Sister Edition

Dev Call Electric Boogaloo
Bonus addition for this week because I happened to be there and you're too lazy to listen to the VoD
-Slack might move to another platform that functionally does the same thing
-ICE coming soon

Spoiler: show

-Something about a new way to compress replays that for all intents and purposes does the same shit for the person viewing the replay but makes the devs happier
-The forums are going to look danker
-Neroxsis Map Generator is a thing
-Dev Calls should be happening more often
-There will be a sheet for questions from the community i.e. you to fill in. (And totally spam it with hentai)

Replay Vault
They fixed it

Shidboast (yes that is the correct spelling)
-Is anti-air air (This conversation has been going since Wednesday)
-Am I offensive
-Do the Chinese matter
-Grammar-nazism
-Crypto currencies
-GPU prices
-University Elitism
-Dunning-Kruger Effect

[moonbearonmeth]

5am paperwork edition

@everyone
After a long long heated discussion some of the devs are looking into the possibility of having the IRC channels more clearly show when new messages have appeared in them
Something along the lines of different colours, blinking names or a little icon kind of akin to how PMs or mentions in aeolus currently work.
I wasn't part of the conversation but I am curious what the public thinks.

Skynet
It seems there is currently a private test running on what more or less equates to AI optimisations for Sorian and the old GPG AI.
This is estimated to go public in a few weeks

Cartography
OzoneX released a new version of his map editor, this made a lot of people very happy and was widely regarded as a good move.

Shidboast
-Is Belarus real
-Is Austria real
-Is Quebec real
-Grammar nazism
-Dual Gap
-tele boats

[moonbearonmeth]

Why did everything have to happen this week edition

Player Councilor
Hasn't really been talked about in Slack but you can read about it here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16218

MISHUNS
Work on some co-op missions has started, ETA: Whenever.

The Great Map Debate
Alright so after me getting some information I wasn't apparently supposed to have a cubic fuckton of arguing, voice calls that were happening too early in the morning and several hundred paragraphs of drafting the long and short of what happened to those who weren't in on the shitshow but knew there was a shit show is this...
The Map and Mod branch of the council while still in it's infancy was establishing it's in what many considered concerning and ass-about-face manner which basically equated to them not first setting out guidelines and some errors on the administration's part about who has permissions to do things outside of Map and Mods. Most of this has now been resolved thanks to the cooperation of the M&M team and resident FAF skeptics and looks set to grow and adapt to be a part of the FAF community in a more promising manner.

And on the topic of growing, during the several hours I spent observing these conversations and reading through logs information was brought to light to me, things like how the map vault is apparently populated by somewhere upwards of 20000 maps and I am still not aware of the current state of mods. To say the task ahead of the M&M team is monumental would be an understatement in both dealing with what has come before and what is going to be and they need volunteers to help. FAF is always looking for people willing to contribute however most people and some cases is a matter of having prior technical experience with a subject, the M&M team however is not bound by this and is willing to take just about anyone who is willing to help. If you are interested in helping out, their discord can be found here https://discord.gg/86PUtHT

Shidboast
- Teleporting behind you
- Gender Neutral ACUs

[IceDreamer]

I ruddy love this thread. Keep it up moonbear! :p