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I also liked Agatha's idea about having the teleporters convert ordinary shots fired into them to PZ shots and PZ shots fired into them into ordinary shots. More conservative idea: make teleporters (at least those over the holes) convert bullets. It would be thematic because that's where PZ comes f...

I am going to go back to what I originally planned for the neutral zones, which is that team flags cannot be taken off the forward portion of the base platforms.You have to carry team flags from the base all the way back to the Hole of Justice before they can be removed from the platform. Well, you...

The platform connecting the bases is a gigantic change and I have been very surprised that there has been zero backlash against it. Not a single complaint. [...] I would really like to hear your opinions on this, especially as I am attempting a complete map rebuild. What I plan to do is expand the ...

It's worth noting that for (at least) several months there's been a troll-cheat impersonating regular players—I presume to cause exactly this kind of situation, with a mistargeted ban. I.e., it's possible that there was a "Cole l" cheating—but it wasn't our Cole l, if you know what I mean :V

In my opinion, the presence of super flags on a map makes it unsuitable for competitive play since it opens up too much possibilities that it either becomes a chore to learn or becomes chaotic. I see where you're coming from, and you're right about maps like Apoc, Urban, or Scarwall: GM, F/MG, and ...

(3vs3 and the map still barely feels like it has any action in a lot of cases.) What you wind up with is the game play becomes tedious and boring. While I agree that having more players is generally better, I strongly disagree it's required , perhaps especially on Two Tanks. Literally the most adva...

Hi, Every time when I want to play Two Tanks, I end up sitting by myself forever, waiting for anyone to join. The occasional player that does never stays very long, and after several deaths invariably mumbles about Two Tanks being a "campy map", before leaving. It's never specified quite w...

It was actually Grue's new server that i̵n̵s̵p̵i̵r̵e̵d̵ pushed me into writing this. It has really interesting new flags like Dimension Door (DD) and nice gimmick flags like SF, AT, etc., and the map itself is a nice new take on Apoc-style CTF. Props to Grue, and thank you for making something popul...

One foundational guiding principle of bzflag has been that death should be avoidable. Should you die, it's generally a skill issue. Your practice and intelligence both keep you alive, and there should usually be a way out. No-unavoidable-death has guided bzflag development for actual decades (see e....

Hey, I am moving soon, and when organizing my papers, I found my notes on Two Tanks jump shot angles. They're old and bad and paper, so I wanted to toss them—but not before making a replacement! So, I made a thing (note: links to high-res version): https://i.postimg.cc/x8x1MCRL/diagram.png There's a...

@tainn, That's extremely parochial IMO. And hostile, TBH. Anyway, returning on topic, how about a `_terminalVelocity`, or the like, server setting that defines maximum downward speed? It's backward-compatible, makes sense for other contexts, and perhaps is not too difficult to create. Or perhaps `_t...

I did not know about those parameters of WG—very interesting. I just tried them out. Slide doesn't work how I'd expect, but the real show-stopper with altering WG with these parameters is again descent rate. Falling gliders should follow linear paths, not parabolic like WG. And even more, descent ra...

Hmmm, that's disappointing. Perhaps it would be simpler to alter ordinary WG? That would prevent WG and gliders being used together, but would only require adjusting descent rate. Perhaps that's easier? Also, may I suggest maybe thinking about adjusting the future API so that plugins like this can b...

Hi, I am making a new plugin called "Gliders", with a new flag, "GL". Gliders function like WG but with two differences: first, GL cannot jump while already flying. Second, gravity's keyed from horizontal speed: moving faster means slower descent, and vice-versa. I do not underst...

Not really the place . . . but @alfa1: playing physical sports is very different because you get exercise—and attendant enjoyment, physiologically. Indeed, when you do not have that (like, you only watch), then it gets dull very fast. But it's not solely about "enjoyment" either; it's abou...

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@Zehra, @etigah, yes, exactly. I am frustrated by the lack of evident depth, since BZ is actually a fundamentally deep game. Perhaps I should steal Zehra's analogy—imagine that we were all playing chess, but everyone has decided to move everything like checkers pieces. I am over here like, why're yo...

@kierra, That's the thing, though. (And while we are on the tactics board, so it fits), I do not actually see myself to be a particularly competitive player. I scarcely even consider myself a gamer at all. I do not have reflexes, let alone focus or talent. Whereas, lots of players on BZ do get compe...

Somewhat inspired by chickenfarmer's tips , I thought I would lay down a list of my own. Like CF's list, mine will also end up being mostly reflections on my own strengths and weaknesses—which happens to be actionable for improving tactics and strategy, if you read carefully. However, since CF has a...

Description : Spawnkills are gamebreaking in several ways. This plugin discourages them by auto-killing the perpetrators of spawnkills. Best-used on CTF maps with separated spawn zones. See README for much more discussion. Version : Tested with 2.4.18. Probably requires 2.4.3+. All development is o...

I think what alfa1 is saying is that forum policy explicitly states that posted maps become public domain. This is a perfectly fine policy; copyright in this case is considered to be voluntarily ceded by the copyright holder, in countries where public domain legally exists. Since Two Tanks was poste...

Yes, more than 5 real players, or more than 10 bots, in the test, without dying.

Hi, I'm trying to get the "playHistoryTracker" plugin to work. I load several plugins on startup, and the server log shows: Plugin: Play History Tracker loaded from /usr/lib/bzflag-server/playHistoryTracker.so Play History Tracker plugin loaded "/listplugins" corroborates. Howeve...

I guess my question was more how the official Two Tanks server could know which flags go where if the zones don't list them. Flag types are not equally distributed between zones. But, if "/saveworld" doesn't actually use the server's ".bzw", then that would explain this. (Noted. ...