¶ FAF Teams
Forged Alliance Forever (FAF) is a community project of players and contributors who want to sustain and advance the game Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.
The FAF Teams are groups of FAF contributors who are tasked with diffrent aspects of FAForever.
These are the current Team Leaders:
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Trainer Team LeaderInspektor_Kot (Secondary: HintHunter)
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Community ManagerDeribus
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Promotions Team Leeader:Rowey
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FAF Live Team Leader:
TBD
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Tournament Team Leader:Swkoll
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Matchmaking Team Leader:Archsimkat
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Balance Team Leader:Tagada
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Games Team Leader:Jip
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Creative Team Leader:Balthazar
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Moderation Team Leader:Giebmasse
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DevOps Team Leader:Brutus5000
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Campaign Team Leader
Rezy-Noob
¶ The Teams
- Hinthunter
- Tagada
- Inspektor_kot
- F-Odin
- Javi(Femboy)
- Sladow
- ююю (Banani)
- Cheeseberry
- Morax
- grimplex
- LimeZ
- Gorthaur
- FtXCommando
- Skrat
- harzer99
¶ Policies
We are a group of interested people in the development of the faf community. Our goals are providing opportunities to new players to develop their own skills and adapting them within the community.
¶ Team Membership
- Applicants apply by contacting the leader of the team.
- Applicants are discussed and voted on by the team with a majority required to join.
- Team members may be removed due to not being suitable for this role.
¶ Responsibilities
- Be active in the #gat chat and #newbie chat in FAF client.
- Contribute guides making and other things related to them.
¶ Team Roles
¶ Team leader
This is the face of the team.
The team leader is elected by a team vote.
The team leader can be changed by the request of at least 50% of team members at any time.
The team leader is the default point of contact with the board and other teams.
If there is a team vote that results in a tie, that team leader acts as the tiebreaker.
¶ Deputy team leader (Second leader)
This is the right arm of the team leader.
The person is elected by the team leader.
The deputy leader is also the point of contact if the team leader is absent.
¶ Team Leader
- The team leader is the liaison with the Association Board and other FAF Teams
- The team leader is to be voted upon by team members
- If the team leader is no longer fit for the position a minimum of two team members may request that a vote be cast to replace the current team leader. This can not be used within a 6-month window of the last request to vote on a new team leader.
- The team leader has the final say on the content of the NewsHub
- The team leader has the final say on the content on official social media channels, including Patreon
- The team leader has the final say on the content on the website
¶ Team membership
- Anyone interested can apply by messaging the team leader and are encouraged to specify how they want to help.
- Applicants are to be then discussed with the team and voted upon on. A majority is needed to be approved to the team with the team leader being the tiebreaker vote
- Team members may be removed at any time due to inactivity or if the member is no longer suitable for their position by a Majority Vote of the whole team.
¶ Team Responsibilities
- Create a steady flow of content for the NewsHub whether that is weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.
- Maintain a steady flow of content on the FAF YouTube this can be Weekly, Bi-weekly or Monthly
- Maintain the FAForever.com website with up-to-date information (Tutorials/guides, patch notes, new features etc.)
- Look for new ways to promote FAF (on and off the platform)
- Communicate with other communities for opportunities of collaborating (Tournaments)
- Focus on the onboarding of new players to faf (from account creation to first game)
- Promote community-made content (maps, mods etc)
- Promote all official FAF tournament (Organised via the Tournaments Team)
- Update Patreon bi-monthly with written post or YouTube video's
- Maintain Social Media Platforms with updated not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit
¶ Members
¶ Current Team Leader
- Rowey
¶ Members
- Giebmasse
- Javi
- Jip
¶ Associates
- Phong
- Fichom
- Spikey Noob
¶ Members
¶ FAFLive Manager:
- TBD
¶ FAFLive Organizers:
- Tagada
- Farmsletje
- Endranii
- Javi
- Swkoll
- Morax
¶ FAFLive Associates:
- WillowsDuality
- TheDuelist
- Derp
- Harzer99
- Dragun
- Blackheart
- Petric
- Archsimkat
- Foley
- White_Owl
- Apofenas
- HICHI
- BananaNoob
¶ Policies
¶ FAFLive Associate:
The role given out by the FAFLive Manager in order to make managing the account as easy as
possible. This is typically given out to casters interested in helping the channel cover events but
may not have an interest in larger scope decisions regarding the channel. It can also be given to
serial event organizers that utilize the account or people interested in helping the channel
improve from a streaming setup point of view. The role can also be removed at the discretion of
the Manager.
¶ FAFLive Organizer:
This role is voted in by a majority of current Organizers. It represents people that have an
invested interest in improving the account across the variety of fields that FAFLive is used for
while also working to expand it beyond those fields.
It is not necessary to be an Associate first to be an Organizer, however it would definitely be the
norm. A person can apply to be part of the Organizers by speaking to the Manager of the team
who will then handle the logistics of a voting process.
Organizers vote for a new Manager on an annual basis after the annual FAF General Meeting.
In cases where a Manager must be replaced, 66% of the Organizers can submit a petition to the
Board.
¶ Members
¶ FAF Tournament Manager:
- Swkoll
¶ FAF Senior TDs:
- Morax
- Swkoll
¶ FAF TDs:
- Pryanichek
- Fearghal
- TRU_Putin
- Lenkin
- CaptainKlutz
- Aeonrico
- Kite
- KeyBlue
- Apofenas
- Dragun
- White_Owl
- Tagada
¶ Policies
¶ Requirements for being a TD:
- Role is given out and removed by the Tournament Manager
- General Baseline is that a person should have hosted a tournament in the last year, but the position may be given out to people that have a large degree of experience that warrants giving input on tournament discussions.
¶ Requirements for being a Senior TD:
- Voted in by a majority vote with the current Senior TDs and Tournament Manager where Tournament Manager acts as a tiebreaker if necessary.
TDs themselves do not hold any minimum responsibilities but are able to voice concerns and
input about tournament schedules and funding. They are free to participate in these discussions
as interest in making long term, consistent, and complex events run smoothly is the ultimate
division between a Senior TD and a standard TD.
Tournament Directors are given privileges over events as outlined by:
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/269/tournament-code-of-conduct
Senior Tournament Directors will be responsible for reviewing tournament formats and giving
advice on how to make events run optimally.
They will also be the ultimate decision body that
determines Official FAF Event Scheduling as well as working with the Board to allot funds for
these events through the Tournament Manager.
Senior TDs vote for a new Manager on an annual basis after the annual FAF General Meeting.
In cases where a Manager must be replaced, 66% of the Senior TDs can submit a petition to the Board
¶ Members
- Tagada
- Archsimkat
- Harzer99
- Inspektor_Kot
- Morax
- Yudi
- Emperor_Penguin
¶ Policies
¶ Team Membership
- Interested applicants apply by messaging the team lead
- Applicants are discussed and voted on by the team with a majority required to join, with the team leader being the tiebreak
- Team members may be removed due to inactivity or being no longer suitable for the position
¶ Team Leader
- The team leader acts as the point of contact with the board and other teams
- The team leader is elected by the team vote or by the previous team leader
- Any team member can call for team lead election at any time with a 6 month cooldown period in normal situations
- Authority to assign team members to specific matchmaker pools
- Authority to determine membership and structure of the matchmaker team
¶ Team responsibilities
- Curate and update 1v1, 2v2, 4v4 matchmaker pools monthly
- Determine the rating brackets and the pool breakdown by bracket
- Update the maps rating spreadsheet to assist with making pools
- Create matchmaker events to increase engagement with matchmaker
- Gather data and feedback on what maps are liked by the community
- Work with mapmakers to accept/give feedback to new matchmaker submissions
¶ Team Lead
- Tagada
¶ Members
- Turin
- Farmsletje
- Tex
- Archsimkat
- Swkoll
- SpikeyNoob
¶ Honorary Members
- JaggedAppliance
- Zlo
- Petric
- Keyser
¶ Policies
❖ The main goal of the Balance team is the continous balancing of FAF's gameplay to make it more fun, fair, and engaging.
¶ Team Membership
❖ Interested applicants apply by messaging the team lead.
❖ Applicants are discussed and voted on by the team with a majority required to join, with the team leader being the tiebreak.
❖ Applicants are expected to be experienced players and have good understanding of the competitive gameplay.
❖ New members are accepted on a trial period that lasts up to 3 months.
❖ Team members may be removed due to inactivity or being no longer suitable for the position by the team leader.
¶ Team Leader
❖ The team leader acts as the point of contact with the board and other teams.
❖ The team leader is elected by the team vote or by the previous team leader.
❖ Any team member can call for team lead election at any time with a 3 month cooldown period in normal situations.
¶ Member
❖ Member of the Balance team is expected to actively work towards team's goals and responsibilities. This is achieved by discussing balance matters with the team, creating Pull requests in the repository, and taking part in meetings.
¶ Honorary Member
❖ Honorary members are experienced players or past members of the team. They provide their insights on balance matters however they don't have any voting powers and are not subject to any activity standards.
¶ Team responsibilities
❖ Maintain and improve the gameplay of FAF
❖ Roll-out patches to fix any bugs and introduce new features
❖ Prepare patchnotes and explain to the community the reasons behind changes made in the patch
❖ Engage with the community and collect feedback
¶ Team Members:
- Jip
¶ Policies:
¶ Membership
Being a member of the game team means you maintainer rights on the repository. This allows you to do what one expects from a maintainer. They can review and merge pull requests of contributors. And they have a vote on larger changes, such as a change to the architecture of the code. A member is encouraged to review pull requests and to interact with the community. A member is considered inactive when it has not made contributions and did not interact with the community.
A contributor can not join the team directly. They must be put forward by another member. This guarantees that at least one member is able to speak up and support the contributor. Within four weeks of being put forward the team can discuss and vote on whether the contributor is to become part of the team. The contributor is accepted once a majority votes yes. If no majority is found within four weeks the contributor is automatically declined. The lead can veto the contributor from becoming a member. This measure is rather extreme - the matter can be taken up to the board when applied and disputed by other members .
At any point the lead can eject a member from the team - the matter can be taken up to the board when applied and disputed by the member in question.
¶ Lead
Being the lead of the game team means you have admin rights on the repository. The term 'lead' is symbolic. A better term from the scrum world would be a product owner. The lead stays in touch with the remaining teams and the board. The lead is the only person that can make a release towards the main branch: deploy/faf.
Any member can call a re-election of the lead. By doing so they put forward another member to become lead. This guarantees that at least two members support the election. This can be done at any moment. After an election there is a two month cooling off period during which no new elections can be initiated. There's a two weeks notice for members to be made aware of the election. During this period any other member can decide to join and compete in the election. The lead automatically participates in the election unless he declines.
The election uses approval voting. This means that the person with the most approvals becomes the new lead.
¶ Members
¶ Team Lead
- Balthazar
¶ Team Members
- CaptainKlutz
- Dragun101
- Jip
- MadMax
- Sheikah
¶ Policies
¶ Team Membership
- All votes will be decided by a simple majority with the team lead getting the deciding vote in the case of a tie
- The team will vote to add a member
- The team lead will be decided by a team vote
- Any team member can call for team lead election at any time with a cooling off period of 6 months between elections for team lead
- 6 months of inactivity may lead to being dismissed from the team
- The team can vote to remove a member at any time
- All authority is given to team lead to distribute as they see fit
¶ Team responsibilities
- Moderate the map and mod vault (hiding and unranking)
- Decide on the ranking of maps (mostly delegated to the user)
- To curate the vault rules
- To curate the recommended mods and maps
- To keep logs of moderated content and users banned from the vault
- To handle appeals from moderator action team vote needed excluding the moderator the appeal is against
- To inform the new community manager of moderator actions so they can contact the user
- The team will add, modify, and remove statutes through voting
- Any conflicts will be resolved with a vote
¶ Global Moderators:
- Angelofd347h
- Archsimkat
- nemir
- magge
- Deribus
- Giebmasse
- Gorton
- LegionDarrath
- Macronoob
- maudlin27
- Nemir
- Resistance
- Swkoll
- Tex
- Voodoo
- ZLO
¶ IRC Moderators:
- Apofenas
- Medicraze
- NarNerdPower
- Viking
¶ Mission:
The moderation team’s mission is to keep the community a healthy and pleasant place
for all users, on all FAF platforms, by enforcing the rules of the community.
The moderation team also determines the moderation policy and rules for the client,
discord, forum, and other FAF managed platforms.
¶ Moderation Team Lead
- Acting as the final point of appeal for all moderation decisions
- Determining the membership and structure of the moderation team
- Chosen by the moderation team, with a 12 month cooldown period during normal circumstances
¶ Team Members
- Interested candidates send their application to the team lead
- Applicants are discussed and voted for within the team, with the team lead having the final say regarding new team members
- Team members can be dropped from the team due to long inactivity or being deemed no longer suitable for the position
- Moderation team members can be split between global moderators, discord moderators, IRC moderators and forum moderators
¶ Members
- Brutus5000
- Sheikah
- Askaholic
- BlackYps
- p4block
- MazorNoob
- kubko
- Rowey
- MarcSpector
¶ Mission statement
We enable the promise of forever in Forged Alliance Forever.
This is achieved by following our key goals. Everything we do should be
- open and reproducible,
- built to last,
- built to scale,
- avoiding vendor lock-in & single point of failures and
- as simple as possible, but as complex as required.
*More details on the dev team can be found at DevOps
¶ Team Members:
- Shadowlorda1
- Speed2
- Greenkiller56
- Resistance
- SpikeyNoob
- MarLo
- Madmax
- NoOneCares66
¶ Policies:
This team is responsible for creating and developing campaign missions on FAF.
The campaign team has its own repository where it can make changes to the game. The campaign team maintains the repository - no change requires approval from either the game or the balance team.
The campaign team has its own repository with maps, that acts as a vault. The campaign team maintains the map repository and no change to the map repository requires approval from the creative team.
¶ Team Membership:
- Onboarding of the new team members will be happening upon contacting the team lead or any other developer from the project for a position in the team.
- Applications will be reviewed and voted on by the team members.
¶ Team Leader:
Campaign Team lead has the following responsibilities as it follows:
- Organize the resource flow
- Micro management of the actual team and onboarding of the potential developers
- Contacting and ensuring a communication bridge with the player and contributor base