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You can see the list of changes in the commit logs, for 2.4.x related changes https://github.com/BZFlag-Dev/bzflag-import-3/commits/v2_4_x for 2.6 development work https://github.com/BZFlag-Dev/bzflag-import-3/commits/v2_6_x Mostly it's just small fixes and minor things for code cleanup, I don't bel...

The open source code that called that steamworks API would be somewhat useless since you could not compile with without steamworks and would make it impossible to build a client outside of the developers that worked for the company that produced the steam version. And the protocol would have to chan...

The proprietary consoles are not something the project is interested in doing, there are a number things that would make it very hard to work with in the current project structure, mostly the fact that major parts of BZFlag would have to be re-written and would have to be closed source (Microsoft an...

Write up a patch for it.

Our authentication is user based not sever based, so each client would have to connect with a global login username and ID, then you could basically ban any user that was not authenticated. This isn't exactly what you want, but it's all we have. There would be nothing to prevent a modded client from...

You would need to read the documentation for net nanny, we are not able to provide support for it since we didn't make the software. They probably have a FAQ or something about how to get various games to work.

Yes you talked about changing it's functionality, we will not be doing that. It may not be useful for your personal play style but it is for others. Not all flags are well suited to all people.

No, there is no arguing it. How Identify works is how it's supposed to work by design.

The human players don't know what the flags are, so the robot players should not know it ether, so I don't see how it's something that you would have to program at all. When a tank drives over a flag it will get a message about what flag it has picked up. This is required to make "bad flags&quo...

The behavior you are seeing is intended. We specifically made the client treat all flags as PZ until pickup. This was done to prevent cheating. The Identify flag is the feature that tells a client what the nearest flag is. If the client knows all the flags anyway then there is no benefit to that fea...

If there are no other programs running while you play on your system, it is most likely your Internet Connection Speed that's an issue, or the Server's. It is possible that the game is laggy because of the weak/slow connection to the server. I wouldn't know if 16 MBit/s CS would be enough, since I ...

Are you running retail or pre-release, What mac is it on? what graphics chipset does it have?

The 2 pre-made binary packages work fine on my macbook in 10.9, there are some issues building it under 10.9

yes, that is an older version, we do not retroactively apply fixes to older version. We have not had a release with that fix in it.

that seems to have been fixed in the SVN/GitHub codebases.

Are you trying to show anything specific or just the fact that your GL implementation is CPU bound?

View the obj file in meshlab to see if it has the triangles. If it does then they were made by the sketch-up export. This is my guess as to where that happens. Most programs turn everything into triangles so that they are all planar. My guess is that sketch up also doesn't export UV coordinates and ...

Just so everyone knows, Tim Riker has decided to make a change to the developer agreement, and change to Copyright Assignment. This is not a change to any kind of license and does not affect bzflag's open source status at all. We are still LGPL and fully open source, that ain't ever changing. What t...

You can totally do that on your own server, it would be easy to write a plug-in to do what you are talking about, but it's not something we'd want to apply to every server

That would turn the currently open games from inclusive to exclusive and is not a direction we want to go. Part of the fun of playing the game is playing it with others. Playing with your friends is good and all but that is the reasons leagues exist. There are far too many cases where this idea coul...

Please state what license the map is released under

I would like to see your code to see how you implemented it again.

you do know we actually have a server side bot API already right? it just doesn't do driving, shooting, and dying. Our goal was to do no networking code for bots at all and just let them update the server state.

actually bz robots is used in schools to teach AI so this is not a new concept

the files you have posted are somewhat useless ( they include headers you did not provide).

How much work did you do to complete the server side bot API in bzfs?

yes but you can't be sure every client is in sync so when it looks like I hit you on my screen, on your screen I missed. This does not lead to fun gameplay and makes people think others are cheating when it's just lag (sound like any tank games you know?) There are no internet games that use client ...

Not really, mostly people just do small hackish patches like this that just make us get worse.