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Genosse Dark Lord wrote:kbd only - cant play with that freakin mouse

Well said. Glad I'm not the only one who hates shooting and aiming with the little rodent.

I see a lot of ppl say that they've gone from keyboard to mouse, but never the other way around.

I used to use the mouse, and I totally sucked. I switched to keyboard and found it a lot easier. I do use mouse for precision jumping, but I find sniping (which is what I do most) very hard with mouse.

Tanx wrote: I've introduced it [BZFlag] to countless others, but most of them won't even try it.

I know! I've done the same thing, and I hate it when people shun the game because it's graphics aren't as advanced as other games.

I go with
w,a,s,d - movement
j,k - fire
l - identify/lock on
p - drop flag
space - jump
q - slow keyboard motion
o - binocs

I guess I pwn with ST or Laser, but my favourites would have to be Tiny, WG, and MG, if it's a good map.

I do alright on The Two Tanks and Castle Warfare, where I can get a +30-50 pretty regularly, if I hang around long enough. I play on MoFo and MW sometimes, but I'm not too good there.

Letsee, my two brothers play, but neither one is registered, and they're always changing their callsigns. Two of my friends play, "a tank full of holes" and "Beowulf" but I'm pretty sure they're not registered either. So that makes me at four

1) Positive, joyful, and fun. Not necessarily skilled, but makes the game worth while.
2) Whiners, who complain about "lag", etc. People who get mad at accidental tks, and when they tk, say stuff like "you got in my way!".

Thanks but, I don't know half the stuff he's talking about. Is there any place that just tells me what to do very simply?

All I want is to be able to play with bots, when my internet connection is down. Know anything that will tell me that?

I have Mac OS X

Could someone please tell me how to start my own sever, and play with bots? For one thing, I don't know what this "command line" thing is.

Yeah, keyboard. No brainer. I used to use mouse, then I got a laptop, and wanted to try keyboard, and now I can't use mouse.

ok, I will. Thanks for the help!

I have a brand-new Macbook, and I just started having these lag/jitter/packetloss problems. My two brothers also play, frequently at the same time as me. You think would have something to do with it? I've never had these problems before.