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How about introducing an afterlife where the early losers can spend their time until the beginning of the next round? Perhaps the afterlife could be placed as a separate area of the same map as the "real game". The afterlife should not contain extra weapons and perhaps killing or dieing in...

Basically instead of respawning the instant you die, there are rounds, and you respawn at the beginning of each round. For instance, the round ends when: I also like this idea, but I think that the time limit is necesary. Otherwise the last two survivors can effectively block the server by staying ...

What is the bomb?

I've been thinking to add a mod for flag runners (for those that actually cap their own flag, it would be too hard to figure anything else out based on a tank's position). You idea is interesting, but I am not sure if it will work in the long run. The problem is that it is too entertaining to look ...

When I played xpilot I used a small perl script to query the servers for player names. It would be easy to rewrite the script ping instead of asking for player names.
http://www.nought.de/xpilot/xp

Would it be possible, and socially acceptable to do something similar for bzflag?

It is worth a try, but I don't think that it will work. The problem is that the rule encourages players to be annoying. Some players will be tempted to jump towards the nearest tank and explode as fast as possible. Of course there is a drawback of losing score and being flamed by teammates, but some...

I never understood how all these youngsters start playing bzflag. Personally I started using using linux at home because I used it at my university, and I found bzflag while toying around with apt-get. But how do all the youngsters find the game? Are they using their parents linux computer? Are they...

Just a small note:

Perhaps the faq could mention that all mines are unwanted in the game. This goes for invisible mines as well as visible mines. First time I read the faq I was a little confused about this point.

There is a patch and it seems to be in CVS. As far as I can see it was written by a guy who uses bzflag to teach some computer science course.

[ 1553730 ] Add option to forbid picking up own flag

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=303248

Have a look at the following feature request: [ 1311164 ] Configurable Flags http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1311164&group_id=3248&atid=353248 Somebody requested for a way to define custom flags in the server config file. This would allow you to define your own v...

As far as I understood this would require the server to add a small tag to all the messages send to the clients. Then each client could use the tags to choose which messages to display (and where) Personally I think that tabs may be overkill, but I would like to disable all messages except chat and ...

This has been discussed many times (See the faq). Personally I really like the gameplay that you get from not being able to strafe. If I wanted strafing I would play quake instaed of bzflag

The Flag Catcher flag combines TH ief with ID entify flags... You can see what a flag is that you are pointing at, even if it is far away, and if it is one you want, then you shoot at that flag and you get it. Even without ID entify, the flag catcher could end up being effective in capture the flag...

In essence, BZFLAG would not control your speed and direction based on where the mouse is located in the mouse box, but rather on how fast you were moving the mouse upward, sideways, and backwards. If I understand you correctly I see two problems in the idea. 1) You will need a very large table to ...

Maybe what would be better for detecting teamkills would be to watch for, say, 3 teamkills in a row, rather than a percentage. Very very rarely will a person accidentally teamkill many times in a row. If they are doing it accidentally, they still deserve to be banned :twisted: The three in a row ru...

At some point it was suggested that the server should turn teamkillers into rogues. This feature would be helpful for newbies, who don't understand the concept of teams. If the rogue team is full the teamkillers be temporarily banned instead. Alternatively the server could be able to mark an IP adre...

I like the idea, but how about adding a bit of randomness. the server could keep track of a set of "vanished flags", and whenever a flag disappeared the server could choose a "vanished flag" at random and add it to the game.

Personally, if I get kicked for teamkilling > x% (happened once so far), it's just mistakes - the guy getting in my way, being too close, forgetting what color I am, I just figure my bad and get back on. Banning for TK, I agree - bad idea to do it automatically. I would prefer banning the team kill...

jbeek wrote:It could be like the Shockwave but only 3x's bigger.
It could disable every tank in the range for three seconds.
justy

Hmm how about just blinding them or disabling their radar? Then they would have a chance to escape?