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I failed to mention: if you can't see the image attached, you probably aren't logged in. Thanks for the replies, but prefered replies would be more like "Good idea, but maybe keep the status symbol adjacent to the callsign," or "Duh! The team flag name is spelled out in CTF, and won't...

Putting flag names before callsigns would make flags visible in any font, preventing them from being inadvertently or deliberately hidden by long callsigns and email strings.

A picture is attached.

Please suggest changes (if interested.)

A patch is available (if welcome.)

A meteorite: Maybe also try using --enable-shared.
I think the default is to build only statically linked libraries, unless you use this switch.
You can check by running ./configure --help, it should show what your default is.

I propose the following: (1) adding a command "/flag reset all" to do all-flag resets, (2) changing "/flag reset" to equal "/flag reset unused", and (3) allowing "/flag reset unused" to remain because a lot of scripts use it. IMO, this would reduce typing when...

sid6.7 wrote:goto www.sleepycows.org they run a winxp server
and it works...

I ran a bzfs 1.10 on XP for a little private map testing, but it did work for that, and the setup is described at http://www.sleepycows.org . The sleepycows map servers have been Linux, so far.

Hmmm...Sleepycows runs an XP server. They have a complete walkthrough on how to set one up. I forget the link... I only ran a bzfs 1.10 server on XP for a little private map testing. A description of the setup is posted at http://www.sleepycows.org . It should probably work pretty much the same wit...

This may not help, but have you tried deleting (or better, renaming w/.bak) your .bzf directory before invoking the new build? If not, maybe try that in case there's something stuck in the config that accounts for this.

I don't know if this is a bug or a "feature." This works on v1.10.6, at least. If you press 'u' and hunt a tank, then 's', to hide the scoreboard, then press 'u' again, then start selecting another tank to hunt, the scoreboard reappears so you can make a new selection. The first selection ...

2) that should be +f and -f for example, adding +f good{3} +f US{5} +f TH{12} would give 3 of each good flag for starters, and an additional 5 useless and 12 thieves. Similar w/-f (or simply '-f bad' gives 1 of each, I think.) And with bad flags, you can set the drop conditions with '-st {timeout_in...

1) This is in the bzfs docs, add a statement to the world map such as the following: weapon name example_weapon position 0.0 0.0 0.0 rotation 0.0 initdelay 10.0 delay 10.0 3.0 5.0 3.0 type V end V can be any flag, I think. I've used GM, L, US (for just bullets), etc. I suppose any number of delay ar...

Not sure but I think this is also the behavior in cases where matches are made by callsignfilter or bans (check if you have any bans on addresses containing range wildcards ('*')).

maybe add:

lag
lagger
laggy
camper
camping

(and other popular vintage whines)

DW, I've never heard of an admin kicking someone for stealing a flag with Thief. But one thing that I have seen, and that has happenned to me more than once, is that bzfs sometimes automatically kicks a tank that steals High Speed with Thief while in the air. The server gets confused about the tank ...

Toaster: cool! thanks :) Memnarch: short answer: see the bzflag manpage for -directory usage. long answer: Make a copy of your system's bz data directory, wherever that is installed, to somewhere in your home directory. E.g.: "cp -via /usr/local/share/bzflag ~/altbzdata" Modify or replace ...

I wonder if other players use any custom sounds or graphics they'd like to share? It could be as simple as a special super-bullet, or a fully customized theme with sounds and textures. I'll start this off with my amateur rendering of smiley-faced bullets, regular bullets with smiley faces painted on...

The tank glows, roars in Godzilla's voice, and exhales a cone of flame. Then it slowly wades back out to disappear beneath the murky waters of the bay...

Yes! Autopilot can be disabled by the bzfs switch -prohibitBots in 1.10.6. (At this time it is called -disableBots in 1.11.x.) Only speaking from 1.10.6 experience: when a player enables AutoPilot, the server will warn them. If they leave AutoPilot on, the server will kick them on the first respawn ...

Can the radar and panel be turned off completely, for taking uncluttered screenshots?

I assume you mean flags on the observer's callsign, since observers don't have tanks that I know of. (If they do, then I'm with lan56, how DO you see observer tanks?) If you mean flags on the callsign, then it is entirely possible to join as an Observer with a callsign of, say, "sniperdoodle/L&...

It was my understanding that -public is the way to list a server, too, but that is not exactly hat I observed. The following examples might help. Output is condensed for brevity. trial #1, simple invocation $ bzfs -d -q -p 5156 style: 0 (shows the voting arbiter info, but no server info, then...) Se...

It seems to me as if -publicaddr without -public is making bzfs list itself publicly, and also that bzfs segfaults when run without -publicaddr. That's two problems. I think a simple code change should both fix the first one and render the second an easy workaround. Hopefully this can be confirmed o...

If you try to join a site when it is full except for Observers, when you are added to the Observers team, how about also being placed in a Waitlist Queue? When a player leaves a given team, the queue is sought for the oldest entry having a player who tried to join either as Automatic or as the color...

The other day at Sleepycows, I was idle-kicked while active. Has anyone else ever had this or similar happen, or heard of it? (DETAILS - if you want to know...) The server has "-maxidle 600". The kick output was as follows: kicking Player Tegan [10] idle 1082 It happened within a few secon...

SERVER ADMINS :: Aribeth, Tegan aribeth@sleepycows.org, tegan@sleepycows.org SERVER SETUP :: Flags: 30. No bad flags. Plus: 3 each good; 4 SE; 4 ST; 2 GM. 10 shots to reload; limits on L, SW, GM. 10 players, any order. FFA, w/jumping and ricochet, very slight speed boost and respawn delay reduction...

Does anyone know that status of FreedomLives? Attempts to connect fail with a message "The game is full or over."