Testserver Usage

This page mainly describes changes to FA Lobby.ini (%APPDATA%\ForgedAllianceForever\FA Lobby.ini on Windows) for testing/debugging purposes.

Setting up for test server

The test server settings in the client are enabled when the client loads the development environment. The easiest way to make that happen is to use the force_environment setting in FA Lobby.ini:

[client]
force_environment=development

Relay

When using the relay is required, it may be necessary to use the prod server relay because the relay on the test server may not be functional. Use this setting:

[turn]
host=dev.faforever.com

Verbose logging

To log "debug" level log messages, set the log level to 10:

[client]
logs\level=10

This leads to a lot of logspam. When uploading debug logs, always upload both forever.log and forever.log.1!