Mods Ladders TrueSkill

[moses_the_red]

I vaguely recall hearing someone say that its planned to introduce ladders and true-skill ratings for mods.

I've never actually played a mod myself, but I've always kind of wondered why after all these years no mod has taken over vanilla FAF in popularity and giving it some thought recently, I think this is probably why.

I assume that some of the mods out there are very good, perhaps nearly expansion quality game updates (I've heard horror stories about a few of them as well, but I'm talking about the good ones).

So I'm curious, is this actually happening? Are there plans to support mods with the features that vanilla FAF has, ladders and rankings?

Also, what do you think such a change would do to the game? Personally I think it would increase the game's popularity quite a bit and allow the community to choose the best FAF variant. I haven't tried any mods yet, but that might be different if I saw more buzz about it in Aeolus and found that it was being played competitively.

[PhilipJFry]

please play more and assume less

no there are no plans on introducing ladder to other featured game modes

[FtXCommando]

EQ is rated and BHEdit is SuPpOsEd to be rated. But [server issue/client issue] is keeping the latter from getting rated.

There’s criteria for a mod becoming rated but the rule of thumb is that it’s not meant to alter the gameplay from traditional FAF to the point that people’s current ratings wouldn’t be an accurate measure of their skill.

[moses_the_red]

please play more and assume less

no there are no plans on introducing ladder to other featured game modes

Why?

Is it something that hasn't been brought up before and there's been no discussion of doing it, or is it something that is seen as not possible due to technical limitations or issues?

[PhilipJFry]

we don't have anyone to work on the old python server and thus nobody will fix the issue that prevents us from allowing mods to be rated

as ftx already pointed out -> bhedit is supposed to be rated but isn't as of yet
maybe more sim mods will not unrate custom games in the future but don't expect anything to happen anytime soon

[moses_the_red]

we don't have anyone to work on the old python server and thus nobody will fix the issue that prevents us from allowing mods to be rated

as ftx already pointed out -> bhedit is supposed to be rated but isn't as of yet
maybe more sim mods will not unrate custom games in the future but don't expect anything to happen anytime soon

Is there a ticket filed for the issue? Where is the codebase?

[PhilipJFry]

github.com/faforever