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I just saw, recently, a video of a nice real-life tank robot which has several interesting features. It is RoboMaster Series from DJI, the Chinnesse leader brand of commercial drones. They have S1 and EP models which seem to be oriented to child and teen people, respectively, with features of playin...

Just to add and remind: BZFlag is, already, a mature game; it is 2.4.20 version and it is approximatedly 30 years old (same as GNU/Linux; MS Windows is about 35; Apple, about 45). "Mature" in the sense it is very usable or advanced on its usable features and has not big errors (though, sof...

Agatha: I think I understand you want to make the glider go up again but without making another flap... and, as blast said, this is not possible on this game protocol/model. A thing I undersand is that BZ is a simple game, then we have these flags which are not mean to be too complex or sophisticate...

trpted: remember, always, there is the official documentation, which comes with the game (included files into the game directory/folders). I think people use bzadmin as: - an easy and low resources way to login on their own servers and check all the activity, being able to run commands to administra...

Zehra and Agatha: I think my Real Tactics Series can be seen as having more strategy together with tactics, since have more time to think and decide. Anyway, there is a game style called "Strategy" with systems like Turn-Based and Real-Time ones; BZFlag is an arcade-simulator game: we don'...

To help me understand electronic things I compare them to physical things. Also, you don't only exercise your body but your brain too (which you do with BZ). And watching sports/games is also fun!

My comments on your thread are there.

BTW, this map seems not to have a lot of strategy!

Seems good! A comment on your signature: "Stagnation is playing the same map for literal decades. Take down Apoc/Urban/Hix/Duc!" What do you think on sports like soccer, rugby or basketball, since they have the same "map" or field forever and seem to be still fun? I see these BZ ...

While I have left button and wheel up set to fire I can still scroll up/down smoothly with touchpad (if you are using a notebook): keep a finger quiet an move the other. (Not sure if you can set more than 2 keys/controls for an action, also (by config file).)

I will be sincere and say I didn't read a lot; but, maybe, Agatha (and others) could come to DiverSion server (when you see it online) and try the testing brand-new Real Tactics (or Real Life Tactics) Series. There are 3 different maps (my first original maps). It's a new style. As one of its basic ...

Let's analize it a bit: - mute: it is right, player just needs to rejoin and mute is off --> use plugin 'permanent mute', or something, or just take a stronger action - kick: it is valid as a warning; no problem with it - ban: you have here several ways for doing it: by IP, by IP family and by hostn...

Corrections:

• Captures:
  • Positive points: captures (it includes self captures by the opposite team).
• robotS ('solo'):
  • priorities: 1st) following and shooting opponents; 2nd) keeping current state;

About private servers: I know of a group which seems to be running a private server by setting a forum group and showing in servers list only to them (see the '-advertise' server argument). Then it's somewhat private. Another way, the real "private" let's say, is not to set these server ar...

Hello and welcome back. I'm glad to see old players coming again. I can suggest Levels and Robots (Simplified Version) since it has interesting and fun concepts. To config a good server you need to read documentation (manual pages) and try different settings. BZ comes, also, with HIX, which is fun, ...

Welcome back. If there is not enough players of the map you want to play in, you can now try nice robots locally to replace them: Levels and Robots (Simplified Version) . My server DiverSion is online regularly with those settings (a nice CTF map similar to Ducati and a nice FFA map similar to Easy ...

Update to the search of 3 posts above: My participation on the New Format topic .

Introduction: Based on the ideas stated/referred on Making Even Teams and thanks to the years of working with robots , both for personal and for other people's fun, I was able to make some hypothesis/thesis about the game in general that can be of use for all (they are rather tested already but sti...

Name/Title Convention Update: [<classification code>] {- }{{<brand>|<host>'s Servers}}: <map> {(<author>)} {- }[<continent/subcontinent code>] {- }{[more-specific-region code]} Brackets: double curly ones - mandatory; single curly ones - optional; angle ones - fill space in; bars: options. 'more-sp...

I make improvements on the codes by using arrobas instead of letters for a better clarification and by using lowercase letters on the Spanish ones: 'Protected Mode' Servers Classification: [FF@]: 'Protected Mode' Family-Friendly server: bad words are NOT allowed. [NFF@]: 'Protected Mode' NON-Family-...

As far as I know, starting the server from the Main Menu or GUI is not recommended (due to bugs; but, also, it s not very flexible). You should use the bzfs command line into a console. I recommend Linux; try always to have a Linux machine by hand (for this and other tasks) :) . Read "manual pa...

Thank you very much, JeffM!

By the way, I ask developers (in the case I did it): would a modified server with this patch (with the objetive of making future plug-ins) be allowed to be hosted publically (on the List Server)?

Thanks, Zehra and trpted, for your contributions!

Howabout.... The rabbit is the only one who can jump? I would be down for more team-specific limited access. One aspect I have thought of the most is a drivethrough wall, but you can only drive through it if you belong to a certain team. If a core change would be done that would allow for matters l...

OK. But I meant what you used to design it. Which program or tool.

Nice one . What did you use? Is it the default tank or a new one?

Sounds to me like if they were temporal networking problems. Check local connections first. But also consider they can be related to Internet provider, BZFlag services, servers services (if you don't always get the "can't talk with list server" message) or also normal Internet failures (it...

Then, to put things clear: you play some time on any server, you leave it (by "leave", "quit" or F12) and, then, you can't see anymore the servers list, right? Or you can see the servers list but you can't connect to any server anymore (apart from the one you were playing before)...