FC Update 6.9

[Mythonian]

FC Update 6.9

Socialize loads fast now!

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Socialize Has Been Optimized!

It's been a long time coming. We've been saying we'd get to it eventually, and we finally did.

The load size for the Socialize skin has been reduced to about 1/8 it's previous size. This should drastically improve load times for everyone.

To switch to the skin if you aren't already using it, you can click here or use the style selector at the bottom of the page.

Also, if anyone is still having problems loading anything, let us know so we can fix that too.

We've got even more plans for improvements coming in the near future (enough to keep us busy throughout the Christmas break and then some), so stay tuned for future updates. To recommend more stuff for us to do, head on over to What do you want to see?! and tell us all about it!

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The War This Week

Vortex. Longbow. 8v8s. Fun. Snow.

Longbow, the map featured in our banner, is finally being played on. The other map is Vortex. Should be fun.

Keep in mind that we'll be testing out preset loadouts this week. Check them out here!

Check out full details in the Attack Plans.

The Battle begins this Sunday, December 16th, 2012, at 6:00 PM EST (aka 15 hours from this post). Be there!

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Gaming News, FC Style

GamerDirt has long been something we've featured on our home page. It was a great source of gaming news, and one of our very own veterans, Maxdoggy, was one of the admins over there.

Unfortunately, GamerDirt has since been disbanded/deleted by one of the other admins, so Maxdoggy decided to start it back up separately. You can check out the twitter account @FC_GamingNews. Be sure to follow it!

As soon as we can get the widget to work again, it'll be added back to the home page as well.

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Battle Films

Remember to keep saving those films and putting them on your fileshares!

I'm editing up a nice, intense game right now. Should be out Monday/Tuesday. It features perspectives from nearly everyone in the game, showing off their good plays and such. Should be pretty epic.

Unfortunately, several individuals did not save their perspective, so they won't get their perspective shown. Sucks for them. Be sure that you save your films and upload them so that you don't miss out for future videos!

If you do indeed save them, say so here so that I know to download them! Please follow the naming scheme in the OP of that thread for extra vCash!

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Recent Member Suggestions

This happens every so often. Some discontented members bring up ideas trying to improve things. We always appreciate constructive suggestions, as it's one of the primary ways we can move the community forward and resolve issues we have.

Sometimes the same issue comes up again and again and again, and it sounds good on paper, but whether it'll end up working in reality is sometimes a different issue.

Nonetheless, these suggestions are always discussed in the War Council. Seriously, you'd be surprised at how much we discuss and debate even the smallest details of things. Sometimes this is very good because we makes sure we don't ignore crucial bits of information and take our time to reach the correct decisions. Other times it's a negative because it takes us awhile to react to certain events or we might pay too much attention to details and lose sight of the big picture.

Nonetheless, it's how things work for the moment, for better or worse.

And the War Council ultimately makes decisions based on voting. There are only five people with votes: the Field Marshal from each army, the General from each army, and a neutral vote held by the War Director, GhostHammer.

The following decisions have been made:

1. We will NOT be removing "clans" or "ultra-competitive groups" from Forerunner Conflict at this time. Both the long-term and short-term consequences outweigh the negligible benefits from our perspectives at this time, since all of these groups are already integrated into FC and discriminating by skill level is a dangerous slope.
2. We will not be implementing a system to have lower-skilled units only face other lower-skilled groups, and higher-skilled groups only face other higher-skilled units for the Beta War. We understand that some groups are not having fun at the moment, and resolving that is something we will be heavily looking into for the future, but for now we won't make a formal system for it. However, the FMs will try their best on Sundays to make as many games as possible be balanced in skill.
3. In order to help members prepare for battles earlier and more effectively, the maps that will be played on Sunday will be announced on Monday. For the actual war that starts in January, we may be changing this back, so be aware of that. Nonetheless, we'll announce those details and more later on.
4. Some members have asked for a new forum section dedicated to serious debates and/or discussions. At this time we are viewing it as unnecessary. The Open Conversation section seems sufficient for the moment. If there is more interest later on (i.e., enough to keep the section actively used for the long-term), we may reconsider this.

If you are unsatisfied with any of these decisions, please contact your respective High Command members. If you want to change anything, those are the people with the influence that you need to persuade.

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Metkil told me to say "my banhammer is now a banshotgun" before he disappeared to shotgun fools in BF3.

See you guys at the Battles,
~Mythonian

[UNLUCKY NUM13ER]

Boom.

Cool update Myth =)

- - - Updated - - -

Boom.

Cool update Myth =)

[LyricsMode]

Change happened in small ways, And I trust my FM, along with the other one.


Good game. :P

[Sicarioano]

because we makes sure

Gotta love that grammar that Skynet has xD

[KazuhLLL]

Gotta love that grammar that Skynet has xD

He must have not updated himself in a while

I find it crazy that discriminating by skill was even in any way up for debate.. :P

Anyway, nice job optimizing the skin!

[LyricsMode]

He must have not updated himself in a while

I find it crazy that discriminating by skill was even in any way up for debate.. :P

Anyway, nice job optimizing the skin!

I don't think any of us were really pushing for clans to be removed seriously, or higher ranking squads to be facing ONLY higher ranking squads. Like OgePodge (A member most of you do not know, who is quite intelligent but low rank) said, squads with 2.0 W/L ratio's could face 2.0 W/L Ratio squads, 1.5 W/L ratio squads, and rarely 1.0 W/L ratio squads. But It isnt really fair to pit them against a .9 or below squad, as they'd probably beat them.

Just a platoon ranking system, based off your wins and losses, and you'll have at least 3 platoons to face each week to mix it up if we get the right minds in charge of it.

But I digress, as the war council "downvoted" it. As redditors would say, Haha. The skin does load much faster, Mythonian. Nice!

Also,
""my banhammer is now a banshotgun"

Should've said BanBoltshot. More range. :P

[Ex Zen Mute]

I wish we used a more military esq skin. Socialize just looks awful to me.

[Metkil5685]

Also,
""my banhammer is now a banshotgun"

Should've said BanBoltshot. More range. :P

You forgot to read about the part where I disappeared into BF3. Ain't no boltshot around here!

[Guzzie]

"ultra-competitive groups", lol.

[Lil Nawty Lucia]

I came here to fight a war sounds like I am competitive. I find everything in this update agree-able. I personally see a debate area of the forums just being ball of negitivity, besides what do we have to debate, politics?