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Rest in peace Muri. This news has left me numb.
Sincerest condolences to her family and friends.
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This game has always been, and should always be the quirky little open source game it has always been. Those who played the original 3-D arcade versions of BattleZone (and Red Baron) understand what and perhaps recall what this game offered, on top of being freely available. When it came out, those ...

I'm glad to see this thread is resulting with players and devs, that are the bzflag community, discussing elements of the game with potential changes. It's great to see people still care and enjoy this game! So now do this: Join Game->Find Server->Connect Then come look for me in bzflag, because I w...

RIP Surftank

Sorry for confusion on my comment about "see you in a few years", as I meant that in regards to posting on this forum. I'm still around and have much respect for those of you that have always been a class act. I received communication on my commentary pointing out that many players exhibit...

howdy folks, i'm an old tanker who plays anywhere and everywhere, this includes those weird servers with little to no admin control. this translates to verbal abuse quite often as you imagine. however playing under aliases as often as i do, where i continue to encounter a good handful of players fro...

thanks for working on this fellas! much appreciated. and thank you Quol! was good to see you the other day! for the new american server: http://www.gamesunited.de/ib/index.php?showtopic=12828 It's written clearly there but I'll write it here again: for the moment its ONLY testing, when we see everyt...

word.

beanpole wrote:

I am also getting impatient on a new server ^__^

no birdman! i want it now! just kidding man. :D i will just mention that i've gotten feedback also from another league with nice fat pipe, developments are underway. lets hope this works out, it has great potential for a sweet server on our side of the pond. special "thank you" goes out to...

not sure what the process is for approval by GU admins, but first things first. testing! we should probably test the servers before making it an official one eh? cbg's is pretty low lag for me but my jit was about 5ms, how about you other players? we need input one of the "official" usa se...

you sound like you have a problem with me personally. funny ts, would you not expect us people from over seas to have lag greater than yours? using your own logic, you should complain about people you play who have the high jitter values and low lag just as much. This thread is not about complaining...

ts, would you not expect us people from over seas to have lag greater than yours? using your own logic, you should complain about people you play who have the high jitter values and low lag just as much. you offer no help in this thread which is about trying to startup optional GU style servers on o...

excellent Chestal, Thank you. the jitter concerns me more than my lag from such a far distance (i would expect the higher lag). something that i experience on this end is that the bullet seems to arrive quicker than expected. for example; timing of when i jump to avoid oncoming bullets is off and my...

for some reason, packet loss is bad on both servers for most players. they do not get used for a reason birdman
maybe they need fatter pipe.

cbg's is pretty good but not match setup yet for testing.

birdie wrote:there is silvercat and shellshock allready

are there any usa or canadian (or anything closer) people that can host a GU league style server? we are in desperate need of a GU server.

MOFO? badgerking? anyone?

tanks,
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good discussion :) thanks guys! like bzflaginator, from this end sometimes it does feel like they have thin tanks over there, but its been my thinking that my lag gets those packets back here later as described. when fighting tanks with 30-50 +- 10 ms however, i feel almost cheated in that the bulle...

not hypothetical at all, its more like an every day scenario when playing on servers across the ocean in europe. what i'm trying to get here is the magnitude of the player A variance in lag versus player B lag ping. certain players often say i'm laggy, on my stable line i get 160 +- 2ms (which i thi...

hi, i'm hoping the dev's could shed light on this scenario. consider "player A" located physically close to a server, say in the same country, whose lagstats reflect 50 ms +- 10 ms. question: does this mean that the player A's line varies from 40 to 60 ms? does this also mean that "pl...

But I like the Jump-in-and-Go type atmosphere he's talking about. There could easily be 10 or so such tournaments, one for each format, and they could happen pretty often (Like once every month). Then, the winners' names would go up on right of the sign in screen until the next tourney. Granted thi...

is this tourney going to happen or not?

this thread touches upon the difficulty tourney due to various leagues or should i say styles. people these days just don't want to keep it simple in both tourney set up and tank game style...for whatever reasons. http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=8367 the following is from chestals post about...

There ought to be just one league... and for matches, let the teams decide together how they want to play, what server, what map, etc. There is such a league where you can decide how u play, what server and what map the openleague ;) openleague is a good start and the format is fine. TangenT makes ...

too many leagues, why can't there just be one ONE LEAGUE?? while were at it why can't there just be one server and everyone plays on it. And everyone should just play bzflag and no other games. the players/teams can still be different styles and play on different maps could they not? Well if you wa...

i just created a league and guess what? I AM THE CHAMP OF IT amazing.... folks, leagues don't mean much anymore if there are 20 of them. keep it simple, keep it real, name a champ for a year. as posted before: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- on...

i just created a league and guess what? I AM THE CHAMP OF IT amazing.... folks, leagues don't mean much anymore if there are 20 of them. keep it simple, keep it real, name a champ for a year. as posted before: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- one...