Introducing Accelerated Fight or Fail

As previously announced, in order to push Planets League games towards finishing by the end of the season, we are implementing an acceleration to the Fight or Fail limit of long format games, starting on October 1st. Here are a few more details on how that will work and what you can expect.

1. The acceleration will start on the first host run after Oct. 1st, that the FoF limit would normally increment on. For games with FoF increment 5 (all but the Melee games), this will be a turn that ends in 0 or 5.
2. A report, event and activity item will be posted in the game, in the turn leading up to the start of the acceleration.
3. Once the acceleration starts, there will be fewer and fewer turns between increases in the FoF limit, and eventually it will increase by several planets each turn.
4. The algorithm used for the increases factors in the base FoF increment and a acceleration rate in the settings, but the details are not too important, as there should be a schedule of the increases you can refer to available in the usual places you find the FoF information (both old and current clients). This schedule will be available following the first host run after Oct. 1st, even if the acceleration period has not yet started.

The published schedule is the most important part to pay attention to. Once you are notified that the acceleration is starting, just check there to see what to expect in the coming turns. If you get notified that the acceleration period is starting and don't see links to the schedule in the places FoF is listed, please be sure your client is up to date.

An example of accelerated FoF starting on turn 70, for a game with a normal increase every 5 turns (the accelerated FoF schedules look similar to this).

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