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1) a too old player (more than 6 months) joins. incorporate that---rooky player? what means every player who is shorter than 6 months in the league, is a rookie player?! I wlike that idea, but the time is to long, 3 months are long enough. 2) they reach an aim such as playing 10 matches. That could...

THe idea is to alter the team score if newer/weaker player going to match. So the player ELO is only calculated/shown in contrast of his team. Thats also very nice to show were a single players stays in the team.

THat idea isnt so bad, waht about to give the rabbit a ST witout to able to shoot and whan he drop the ST a G flag. And the game is leveled again.

THe spawn area of boxy isn't really good, it based to much how are your teamies playing. At the moment it is a big prison for the weaker team. I really want to see a escape door from the the spawn area. A teleporter at the rear side of the base would do it.Its end could located at the middle at high...

thats not my point, even every clean tank has some tactical posibilities, perhaps drive forward faster than bakward, flags are modify a special capability/posibility. In our case the flag hight speed makes you faster, what give you the same speed abckwards than a forwarddriving SW. So u learn fast h...

Teamies have to start at the bottom (my proposal is 1000), teams at the present 1200.

the idea of bzflag is to have flags. Flags are underline the already existing tactical capabilities of tanks. Counterwise every tank without a flag is by definition a normal tank. Your idea break the bzflag idea.

what in your view the differences of FFA-league the ladder and the 1vs1 league?!

Just to make it clearer. If the teamsite state prehaps teamELO is1200, player A +10, player B -100 (thats the variation from the present teamELO). And A and B won a match, the effektive teamELO for the calculation is 1210+1100/2=1155. That number goes into the calculation for gain points. The result...

Did i understand rigth , we want a better (team) ELO, what represent better the strengh of a team, it schould take in account the strengh of the actual playing teamies, but it should not be a ladder? That is like wash me but don't make me wet. Anyway possible is not to publish the ladder, only to pu...

the buttons swap their sides if i press preview.

Here it comes, Just litle different idea, if we have a personal ELO score as mentioned above, than the point gain or lose could calculated from the average personal score per team of the player who played the match. And add/substracted to the teamscore. That means differently from dmp's proposal, th...

I edited my statment above, it was for the case of cap-limit.

Just another idea, if we have a personal ELO score as mentioned above, than the point gain or lose could calculated from the average personal score per team of the player who played the match. And add/substracted to the teamscore. That would make it more interessting of let playing new players and m...

every time if i'm going to post, if the button " preview" is on the left side nad the button "submit" is on the right side, not if appers opposite.
After pressing preview both buttons are interchanged, preview right and the submit is left.
That's a quite confusing

What i want to see is, just to add that headline to the rules, not more or less. It's a rule which as any rule, not manage teams or. It only clarify the common basics. Every comunity needs some basics of understanding, some call it charter some call it differently. Otherwise it is only a grassroot o...

Always good arguments [dmp], I see the problem as well, that some teams able to manipulate their score (under activity rewarded ELO) by playing many matches while change loose and winner side. But your argument: that a team/player felt rusty after a period of inactivness, is a good argument for usin...

First after reading mistakes post, i thought: omg i highjacked his threat. But after some time i start to understand he posted a grat idea. that idea works in his context in mine and in general. It's simple and important, but it sounds stupid like my democracy request. So lets vote against with our ...

penalty for inactivity is unwanted, but what for a reward for activity!!!

could we have some themes. I really would like to use one what is like a text-only theme. Especally whan only shorts statsments;are posted; grafical signature, amimated pictures, the big ranking pic and all that stuff around the short post is not needed, it could be a link from the player_name to hi...

and ..where is your argument?
"sort of like a global positioning system for finding players." is a good explanation for the double use, it's both for some kind of navigation.
Or use the bz as a kind of namesspace, what lead to bz_GPS.

okay i erase the quote, but i dont change my meaning, that teamorders leads to inactivity for parts of the teams.

Death of teams in in my view more a problem for longlasting , highranked teams. For a reason the team went inactive, all active player leaving that team, at the end the team is only a dead body. I had the experience with fortix and tex. To delete a never played team after a time of inactivity (perha...

I red it earlier and it was stated in another contect, but i think its so also valid. I believe that everyone should have the right to choose who they want to match and when. Thats a good point. ESp. in the past some teams had a team order not to play matches without the teamleader. IMHO thats rude....

did u read the bzflag wiki? http://bzflag.org/wiki/CreatingAServer
Using the switch -public ...... tells the server to publish itself on the serverlist. If no -public than not.