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Some players are often trolled within in-game chat, mostly commoly in ranked matches. (Quickmatch)

As a player, I want to:

• Have the ability to disable the chat entirely so no chat is received from any player.
• To be notified in game when attempting to chat with it disabled, e.g. "You currently have in-game chat disabled".

Task detail:
Disabling in-game chat should be handled by the client. Spawner should read from RA2MD.ini

When Japanese characters are in the hostname, the game crashes. Switching to a hostname with only ascii characters the game no longer crashes.

See discord discussion in the cncnet server here: https://discord.com/channels/188156159620939776/1112100895493193749

Instruction at 7B353E is executed after getting null from gethostbyname. The error is detected at 7B34D5 but the code doesn't bail out and continues executing until it attempts to reference the null result.

As a player:
I want to see my APM count in each ladder matches. It would record clicks and keyboard input whilst in game.

For dev purposes, if its saved to stats.dmp we can grab that value.

Steps to reproduce:

As a player

1. Hover on enemy submarine when it appears without clicking.
2. Wait until tooltip appears, internal error will then show

There's a current bug where if you are a player, but then lose and turn into an observer, gap generators still work, instead of revealing the shroud around it.

When a player turns into an observer gap generators should not be working and we should be able to see the entire map, as how a normal observer would be able to see the whole map upon load in.

As an observer I want to see see both of the opponents build queues.

Example below

Feature request

As an observer, I want the ability to see:

• Underwater units of all players
• What other players are building when clicking on production buildings. (MO has this with Ares)

When a mastermind is overloaded, aiming it on a meatgrinder avoids overloading.

Small maps are problematic on large resolutions. Scrolling visually glitches the screen and is mostly unplayable.

In Vanilla RA2:

• When dogs & Flak troppers are stationary, attacked, then commanded to move, they start running (crawling for Flak Tropper) and get a speed boost as shown in these videos for dogs and flak troopers
• Note: in the dog video, pay attention to the 2nd dog, not the first dog.

In CnCNet RA2:

• When dogs & flak troopers are stationary, attacked, then commanded to move, they start running and do not get a speed boost

Request:

• To make the dogs in CnCNet RA2 closer to vanilla RA2

Reason:

• the speed boost gives tank battles with fodder more randomness and less predictability
• currently, dog behaviour is very predictable due to the absence of the speed boost
• with the speed boost, dogs will be able to run past tanks, causing the tanks to turn their turret (main use of fodder) or reach other dogs quicker
• this speed boost also allows dogs to eat infantry a lot quicker (which helps allies as sovs are overpowered)

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Protocol zero allows the game to play with zero input lag. Currently Yuri's Revenge is using Protocol 2.

TS & RA succesfully have this working.
https://github.com/CnCNet/ts-patches/blob/master/src/spawner/protocol_zero_c.c

We would like to see a "Random Allied/Soviet" Side in addition to the "Random" option under Side (Factions). This would allow players to get a random Soviet/Allied faction, as some times we'd like to play soviet & don't want to play Allied (& vice versa). This will also give a lot of variety to showmatches.

Examples have been attached (made by Polye). I believe he has been able to add a new house under GameOptions.ini to replicate this feature too.