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by optic delusion
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:35 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

I have been looking to revamp the capture bonuses for a long time. Hopefully I get to it someday soon. At one point in the past we had that thirty second delay like is suggested (I think it was 15 sec), but that can lead to other problems so we removed that and went with a different plan. It is supp...
by optic delusion
Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:50 am
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

It's team flag genocide. The key innovation of Apocalypse! There is no genocide flag. Long ago some of us got tired of players passing by their own team flag and not playing defense with it. So we gave your team flag some value beyond saving your team. If you carry your team flag and shoot a player ...
by optic delusion
Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:23 am
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

It is not hollow. It's actually four separate structures. A bottom, a middle, and a top, with a gap between the bottom and middle just large enough to allow bullets into an inside structure that sacrifices the bullets.
by optic delusion
Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:51 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Sacrifice Stones!!!

Not very long ago bullets would ricochet off of that block in weird directions. (and you could get your tank hung up on the corners.) _squishFactor or jumping will allow ricochet off of the sacrifice stone. _muzzleHeight is 1.57 and that is where the bullet eating edge is. Above or below that height...
by optic delusion
Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

We run on Alejo's server machine. It is getting both drives replaced. Then it will take awhile to get all our wheels spinning again.
by optic delusion
Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:26 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

Sub, The reflectors are coming back, in a new form.
Ennui, you are going to get at least some of what you want. Team flag defense against capture will get easier.
by optic delusion
Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:09 am
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

A little discussion about terminology. You know what a flag "drop" is. A flag "toss" is something else. When you drop a flag over a pyramid, and it flies to center or a safety zone, that is a flag "toss". Every time you enter a neutral zone with the team flag, a toss to...
by optic delusion
Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:13 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

After I activated the new neutral zones on Monday 12/18, I have played using nom-de-guere a few times and it seems that players are somewhat accepting of the new zones. At least that's the feeling I get. The current zones were the original plan for the NeutralZone plugin. The base-to-base bridge was...
by optic delusion
Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:10 am
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

These are all valid criticisms, Agatha, Thank You for your thoughts. I really need this kind of feedback. However, I am going to do the exact opposite of what you advocate. The bridge is going away, and I am adding more neutral zones. When I first got the neutral zone plugin working, I realized that...
by optic delusion
Sun Oct 22, 2023 4:59 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

It's when you transfer back and forth from the large platform (with the base on it) to the new bridge. Right? The problem is that the large platform is a mesh object, and the new bridge is an BZ-defined object. Way back when, I had a hell of a time putting the base (which is BZ-Defined) on the large...
by optic delusion
Sat Oct 21, 2023 4:42 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

Sounds like you are spawning slightly inside the object. Exactly where does this happen? Anywhere on the platform or only on the new bridge?
by optic delusion
Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:41 am
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Neutral Zone

Neutral Zone plugin and map objects have been added, and now the bug where a team flag could be dropped inside the neutral zone has been solved.The plugin now respects safety zones. This means I had to add ten safety zones and now team flag pass-to-center is now a thing of the past. The platform con...
by optic delusion
Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Help remembering old map
Replies: 8
Views: 2489

Re: Help remembering old map

AFAIK Teppic never uploaded his images to bzflag.org. So even if you had the maop, you'd still need the images.
I don't have that map, but the teppic maps that I do have, have images from this location that no longer exists.
addtexture http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.foster47/ textures/ bridges.png
by optic delusion
Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An Apocalypse Server solely for registered players
Replies: 16
Views: 5495

Re: An Apocalypse Server solely for registered players

The one behavioral rule we have is "Don't be an asshat". If you're verbally toxic, then you're an asshat. I haven't looked at the logs... yet, but singling out a player for abuse, or continual abusive talk in public, is toxic. We are very permissive, up to a point. A little here and there ...
by optic delusion
Tue Aug 15, 2023 11:43 pm
Forum: General Map Making Discussions
Topic: Index of BZW related stuff
Replies: 7
Views: 2208

Re: Index of BZW related stuff

With the help of Blast and the Wayback Machine, I was able to see what is inside Trepan's noshow folder. But only up until Feb 2009, You could do the same. Not nearly as much good stuff in there as I was hoping, here are the highlights. The first two are EXTREMELY interesting. http://trepan.bzflag.b...
by optic delusion
Tue Aug 15, 2023 1:45 am
Forum: General Map Making Discussions
Topic: Index of BZW related stuff
Replies: 7
Views: 2208

Re: Index of BZW related stuff

That wolf listed above never really worked, Here is the successor to the wolf which did have success. The Velociraptor Animation using LOD. You have to join as a player to see it because observers don't get the LOD effect. It was broken, but I fixed it. http://images.planet-mofo.com/A-Delusion/untit...
by optic delusion
Sun Jul 16, 2023 2:55 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

I have improvements to ED placements. The shoot-yourself-to-get-stealth zone still needs a minor improvement, i'll try to get that real soon. The self-destruct-to get-ShockWave zone is now active. But it's kinda useless as long as you stay there. The SW does not quite reach far enough to stop a capt...
by optic delusion
Fri Jul 14, 2023 9:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy 30th birthday bzflag
Replies: 7
Views: 2276

Re: Happy 30th birthday bzflag

HAPPY 30! Somebody needs to bake a cake.
How many of us will even live another thirty?
by optic delusion
Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:28 am
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

Thanks Rotten. It was the tenth anniversary, really eleventh as ten complete years have elapsed since the start of this forum thread. The theoretical limit for flags is 255, and we were pretty close to that at the beginning. It was also five shot. Ever since then, the theme has been reducing overall...
by optic delusion
Wed May 03, 2023 10:08 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

unpleasant surprise, it should be resolved, check your private messages, and please message me privately if there are any further problems.
It is a player named "canada" that is banned, not the country of Canada.
by optic delusion
Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:15 pm
Forum: Players
Topic: Runruns
Replies: 19
Views: 6960

Re: Runruns

I only talked to you a few times, but I still miss you, Runruns.
You will be missed by many at MoFo.
by optic delusion
Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:37 pm
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

TEN YEAR LONG APOCALYPSE

The Mayan "Popol Vuh" describes the gods first creating three failed worlds, followed by a successful fourth world in which humanity was placed. In the Maya Long Count calendar, the fourth world ended after 13 bʼakʼtuns, 144,000 days or roughly 5,125 years. This means that the fourth world...
by optic delusion
Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An Apocalypse Server solely for registered players
Replies: 16
Views: 5495

Re: An Apocalypse Server solely for registered players

Sorry I did not see this forum thread before now. We've been through this before: Planet MoFo was FOUNDED on a premise against this proposal. On day one of Planet MoFo's existence this proposal was rejected. We have ALWAYS been more permissive than other servers. I took some of the swears out of the...
by optic delusion
Thu Feb 09, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Map of the Month
Replies: 14
Views: 7167

Re: Map of the Month

If you guise want to use a MoFo map, please do. Any map (not server plugin) that has ever appeared at Planet MoFo is LGPL, except the name "Planet MoFo" I usually say that to use our stuff you have to remove the Planet MoFo name where it appears, but I will forego that requirement for your...
by optic delusion
Sun Jan 29, 2023 6:01 am
Forum: Servers: General Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo
Replies: 205
Views: 231001

Re: Apocalypse In Action :: Planet MoFo

You guys got half of it pretty quickly. If you kill yourself, it gives you back the point. If you can get the other half, I'm going to change it so it's super easy to figure out, and add a new function that will make it better, more powerful. So somebody figure out the other half. After it gives you...