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Yeah, radar sizes and alike are conf-based changes anyway, so we can try any combination. The important thing is the generated bzw.

This actually looks pretty darn nice. Might be cool to try a no-jump no-radar version.

I'm having the same problem. Just upgraded from Fedora 32 to 33. The server must be reading my user name as it shows it's registered, but it seems be be having a problem with the password. Looks good in the config, and have re-entered it when trying to enter a game. No dice! Also, I don't get a lis...

If the boxes themselves are placed in a grid pattern, there should be no overlaps or enclosing of the (mesh)boxes themselves and quite likely with the right settings, they should all appear uniform on radar in theory. I just tested this and there is indeed no clear transition between the objects on...

optic delusion wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:39 amIf either player does not have three wins or three losses at the time of the kill, it just ignores the points, and you each gain or lose the one point as you normally would without the flag.

So a 0-2 killing a 2-0 results in 1-2 and 2-1 instead of 1-0 and 0-1 respectively?

I haven't tested or confirmed this, but what may work is to use non-visible and non-interactive objects and place them around the boxes, so as to make them appear as a single ground level on radar. (In essence making a single box floor.) That doesn't work on Fast Sorted. Even if enclosed with a pas...

Never forget the grand rogue hold-the-flag. Its uniqueness in the idea of tank movement/positioning affecting the external bullet direction vector 3-dimensionally was in a league of its own, gameplay-wise.

Depends on what exactly you need and how creative you want to be. At default world size and radar size, any box with a width of 0.01 or less should be invisible on radar. As such, unless you need a top and bottom side, you could make paper thin, hollow boxes. Or even just paper thin walls, should th...

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You can also play the Pillbox map on any Leagues United server and even compete on it.

Because something not being designed for a purpose does not mean that it later strictly cannot fill that purpose. Bzflag evolved into a game played over the internet, albeit the design remains the way it was prior to it.

Welcome back, it's great to see you! As long as there are at least some interested individuals, decentralized games such as BZFlag will continue to live on. Despite some relying on the centralized auth system and alike, all the core aspects are not. And that is one of the great advantages of this ga...

Started off really smoothly, then towards the end it became a hell train of persistent score ~92. Forced it through in one streak with WG somehow.

Sounds great, thanks for the update!

You will either have to articulate your thoughts better, or give me a specific example, as I still don't know what you don't understand. If you read the OP, you would have noticed—in bold text—that the proposed mode keeps the aspect of a zero-sum game . As such, as many points are awarded to the hun...

Very useful addition, especially to prevent the meddling with some non-administrative settings that are standardly not changed at all while the server is running, but can still be abused.

Thank you, allejo!

I think the OP is clear and your question is not. Continuously killing the bounties and not dying or killing non-bounties in between results in doubled points after each kill, both as a gain on the hunter and loss on the prey. Non-bounty kill: 1 point gain/loss Bounty kill streak: 2, 4, 8, 16, ... p...

You can also get sums greater than the top by killing many smaller bounties. If your top scorer has 100 pts, and you kill a girl with 75 and a guy with 40, you are now the top at 116, with the current leader not having to die. In any map that allows all tanks to interact with each other and are the...

I'm not sure I follow. The OP states that as many points that are given to the hunter are also subtracted from the prey. That is not necessarily 1, but is on a binary scale, again, as explained in the OP.

Binary Bounty Hunter (BBH) is a conceptual game mode, or pseudo game mode, that attempts to make the hunting or bounty aspect of the game more attractive and rewarding, resulting in a more dynamic and strategic approach towards gameplay. While not strictly limited to any core game mode, it is mainl...

I—hands down—really like that idea, JeffM. Though it might need some tweaking. The issue is with the leaderboard that you mention, and the way the scores would be distributed. Every spawn on the map would yield +1 sum total of player points. Now imagine one player having a large streak, reaching the...

Due to stats sites not properly factoring in game modes, modes like Rabbit Chase, Hold The Flag, Racing Maps, Keep Away, and King of the Hill tend to "decrease" player stats overall, no matter how good a player is at said mode(s). Really now? Then how come I tend to always maximize my sco...

So how exactly is this mode different than a regular CTF with max shots config set to 0, or a two-way HTF?

You ought to consider writing less and being less ambiguous with your posts. I do not believe CTF in general needs a different game mode. Players just need a better incentive to focus on the team flags. This matter is already covered in leagues united, since the only long-term record and statistics ...

If only something like a league existed. You know, one that unites.

That sounds like a classic HTF (hold-the-flag) system.

Yes, it does exist! It is called a HTF scoreboard and quite a few HTF maps utilize it. The most recent would probably be the Obstacle Course, orchestrated by ahs3.