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Nah you can type your own smilie. Putting them in the game would lag it up. Not if they were just client sided representations of the ascii. But I don't like the idea either for different reasons. In my opinion there is often too much unnecesary chit-chat in-game. The console should be for coordina...

Contrary to the occasional question I get asked, I am not and have never been a fan of Duran Duran, who it turns out wrote a song called "Reflex". The name came about when someone noted how I sometimes twisted my body while gaming and started calling me "Flex". I added the Rex bit.

I once got chastised for swearing when I used the word "damn" in spiralzone, and the language filter turned it into "$%^&". :? I found the whole thing a little funny considering the scale of harsh language involved and how some of the jibbing going on at the time was more pot...

wouldnt that be a bit hard to aim?

I can see it being used as a form of carpet bombing.

I like your idea a lot :D since I've had issues with how bumping into the gate posts can get in the way of a navigation through the portal at a critical moment when you are heading at it in a non-perpendicular vector. :x But on the other hand I think there might be a few issues with getting it to wo...

Bouncy saved my life yesterday

It's amazing how sometimes the bad flags can occasionally help you.

I got blind once and decided to let out a volley of random shots as cover. One of the shots hit someone who was in stealth.

Anyway, this new flag idea is worthwhile considering.

So you can get to zones and places that you would otherwise have to fight for? (ie, in CTF, if someone is guarding their base, you just jump up there, drop the flag and shoot them.) If thats no the intent, i see the flag being used as this. so This does not get my vote. I'm against. I agree. Both P...

On the one hand, I like the idea of the weapon. But the issue about the distinct possibility of hitting a friendly concerns me a little. Certainly it needs something like that to diminish the otherwise god-like power of the weapon, but there are already enough TKs beyond your means to control and ad...

Canberra (the land down under)

I tend not to hold the flag. One shot protection is rarely enough in my opinion as the shots that hit usually come in quick procession. But I can see what is meant by it being too confusing to allow more shots.

Just don't keep it if you don't think one shot protection is enough.

Nothing in BZFlag done with a regular client is cheating. Some things might be a bit more cheesy than others, but it's all acceptable. Yep, that was pretty much what I was alluding to. If the game has that imbalance, it may be cheesy to take advantage of it but it is also suicide not to because the...

Dervish wrote: The genocide tank then has a clean shot at a prone tank.

That's a fair point. It involves an uncommon event (you have the web flag, a team mate has geno, and they can get to the webbed tank), but never the less indicates [/some/] value.

Thief is good for getting yourself a mean weapon while at the same time our oponent loses it. Whether or not that can be considered a directly offensive weapon, that has significant personal value to you.

I have to say that I'm siding with the "what's the point" argument. If the special weapon (web or otherwise) was no easier to hit the oponent with than standard fire, then the flag is more a hinderance to you than helpful (as it would take more than one shot to take them out and the second...

I typically team msg "sry" when it was an obviously avoidable TK of mine where it's mostly my fault. If some teammate is clear across the map and they are too noobish to avoid a single shot of mine that might have gone astray, then I'm with Red Baron -- I don't say anything. I'm with you ...

My take on WG... it's a flag. Personally, the _setJumpCount should be limited to only one jump, because if you allow people to double-jump it's much like cheating. With GM on unlimited shots you can sit on a perch and rain down hell all day and gather a huge score without having to be a good aim. I...

I would like to see "flat" teleporters that could be driven over rather than through. I also think it would be cool to be able to hide teleporters.

So that you would fall through them and down from the receiving TP (i.e. horizontal instead of vertical)? I like that idea.

AND has 31 teamkills.

That makes up less than 1% of his death score. In comparison, 4 of the other 5 players have a much higher tk rate.

I prefer the status quo. If anyone really considers capturing the flag to be worthless, consider this : 1) no-one is telling you that you have to capture it yourself. If you prefer personal point scoring, leave the flag capturing to others. There are plenty of other roles you can take in the game. 2...

Wings are a good feature overall. Some servers could do well to hobble them a bit more by limiting the number of flaps for balance (for instance, there is no fun playing hunt-the-rabbit when they can just fly away and never land or can purch themselves in very difficult places for non-wings tanks to...

Yeah, that might be a better idea as it gives the flag a fair bit more strength without actually reaching superweapon status. It would be a nasty surprise for the GM and L flag holders who have themselves camped in a nice spot taking shots at everyone. Thinking more about the name, maybe it should b...

I looked through the flag suggestions and didn't find one exactly like this, so I was thinking of a flag where your tank acts as normal, but when killed by any means (shot or otherwise), a single shock wave emits from your tank position. That shock wave would behave just as the shock wave flag behav...

It might be nice if this was an option setting.