TITANS 1v1 Ranked Ladder Reset and Seasons Update 112314

Hello Commanders,

The official TITANS 1v1 ranked ladder was reset on 2018-11-02 at 06:00 UTC starting a new season that ends on 2019-01-24.

The player holding the Uber #1 position at the end of this season will be shipped an Invictus Commander statue, a beautiful item that everyone should want in their trophy cabinet.

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There will be new 1v1 ranked maps later this month with at least one new map every month.

TITANS Current Map Pool (11)

• Amplus
• Berg
• Blitz
• Clutch
• Crag
• Duat
• Forge
• Lock
• Meso
• Pacific
• Roc

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Seasons in 2019

Starting in 2019 each 1v1 ranked season lasts 3 months with a ladder reset at the start of every season.

TITANS 2019 Seasons

1. 2019-01-25 - 2019-05-02
2. 2019-05-03 - 2019-08-08
3. 2019-08-09 - 2019-11-14
4. 2019-11-15 - 2020-02-20

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Fixes

• Fix for never-ending 1v1 ranked queue after a network error

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Display Improvements

• 1v1 rank and inactivity displayed in start menu (moved into base game from community mods)
• 1v1 rank display in game over (moved into base game from community mods)

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Work in Progress

The following are still in development / testing:

• Tweaks to limit highest initial placement to Gold
• Inactive 1v1 ranked ladder decay (slowly lose points if you're not active)
• Visible points display
• Penalties for disconnecting instead of surrendering

Technical Notes

Server Improvements

• Experimental multi-threading on official servers (still legacy toolchain and infrastructure)
• More performance and memory usage improvements to navigation cost cells
• Logging of server rate
• Logging of system free memory (currently windows only)

AI Improvements

• Further refinement of AI aggression
• Adjusted how the AI chooses where to expand
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Retrained neural networks

Server Fixes

• Fix for AI Platoon::numUnitsOfType server crash
• Fix for AI chooseStartLocation server crash when passed bad data
• Fix for AI attempting to transfer a unit to a planet that did not have an initial planet manager assigned
• Fix for AI getting stuck building no factories if it is modified to remove the ability for the AI to build one or more factory types
  
• Fix for a multi-threading crash

Client Improvements

• More visible orbital attack lines in the orbital path visualiser

Client Fixes

• Fix for particle emitter crash when emitter has an invalid fx_trail_spec

Modding

• MatchmakingUtility.getSeasonEndDate()
• New gVersion global with current build number accessible in all scenes
• api.game.isPTE()
  UTC start_timestamp (landing time) and end_timestamp (game over) in server control state to calculate accurate game elapsed (note that valid_time_range.min is the in-game landing time

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