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Alright, first off, how do I start a server on OSX? Second, how do I incorporate a map into this? -Thanks Depends on whether you want a public server or a private server and what options you want to run. The bzfs binary is embedded in the BZFlag application bundle on Mac OS X (meaning you have to u...

Hehehehehe, that's great.. =)

Thanks. really. thanks .. it's nice to hear a bzflag story that just has to make you smile.

Okay, I went and made a map file. It's just .txt, though later I changed it to .bzw. I'm having trouble setting it up at all. I dropped the world in the resource folder, but I couldn't select it in-game, and the terminal wouldn't run it when I just ran the server on default settings with "-wor...

bamf. wrote:I'm around, trying to fit more bz breaks in at work

That's great news. =)

I don't seem to get quite as good an arial view of the field when you aren't playing as much. Not that I don't get a lot of arial views.. but it's most always fun to play against mr bad *ss.

Cheers!

don't get me wrong, but it is that kinda style that we are talking about learner, if you want to play for fun then don't join the league. the league is for real official matches, i do see your point and can understand and respect it, but there is just no place for this mentality in the league. Henc...

baron as Db posted its not just fortix. its TLz(at times)fortix, barons, tds, kow, bzr, proxs, eez, some players on Vbz. dub. <snip snip> if your scared you may lose its just a game. fortix and taf in 2 weeks became #1. if you lose your title most likely you could get it back. Don't quite see how B...

CapN wrote:Any suggestions on a new temporary addiction for me?? I think I pretty much have covered a lot of them but I' m pretty open to your ideas and I will have a few extra hours in the week

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-CapN-

The developers can always use a hand..

Cheers!

[snip snip] Are these instructions for Mac os X? I tried to get bzflag to ru in windowed mode awhile ago, using a similair setup, and it didn't work. I know that the server is somewhere in the package, but how do I give it and the other programs the dang arguements? And is it possible that I could ...

You do need quotes, though depending on your version of bzflag, those values may not get used (the textures are used). If you don't have any luck with quotes, you'll need to modify the tank texture images (using an image app like Photoshop or iPhoto or gimp, etc). If you want to try modifying the te...

For a variety of reasons, the Mac OS X client cannot run in windowed mode, nor can the application be switched out. You have to quit the game. There's not much that can be done. The Mac OS X port is the newest BZFlag port and continues to improve. Windowed-mode is one of the last remaining features....

The bzfs binary is stashed inside of the BZFlag application bundle. So if you put BZFlag into your /Applications folder, bzfs will be at /Applications/BZFlag-1.10.4.app/Contents/MacOS/bzfs for bzflag 1.10.4. Open up terminal app and you can run bzfs by providing that full path. See this for help: /A...

I can't imagine any of the developers presently contributing to the project (I can count them on one hand) that would actually bother with a cheat client. There's simply just little to no incentive, motivation, or reward. It's not like it's an intellectual challenge to make a cheat client, there's n...

It's been a while since there has been an active poll asking this, so here goes yet again.. What would YOU like to see happen most over the next year to BZFlag?

On a side note, most any of the major new features being considered will also incur backwards incompatible releases.. This goes for fixing the networking, karma, and other planned ventures. So another forced update is pretty much a given whenever those features are completed. That's perhaps the topi...

As many of you know well enough, 1.10 has been in the works for several months now and includes several noteworty features. It's the next official release since 1.7g2. It's completely not backwards compatible with the current clients and servers so everyone will have to upgrade. Should the we do all...

What about those of us that live in our own little world?

ski wrote:im curious...chick, think you can get a few of your team for a match sometime at 10pm est?

lemme know

10pm est (i assume you actually mean edt)? that sounds rather like a great time for some shot-slapping =)

When? I'll be sure to get nice and warmed up. [grin]

To be honest, it's one of the better ideas I've heard in a long time.. It's not anything easy to make happen, but it's good to get the idea posted here for those darn developers to keep in mind..

I hear they work harder if you feed them snacks.

Big Barrel wrote:is there a way to change this??
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Of course there is Ask one of the bzbb fellows in irc who maintain this forum. That'd be Patlabor221, fiberchunks, and captain_proton. You can also send them a private message, I'm sure.

Cheers!

Patlabor what new features are there in the 1.9 version? Complete release notes describing all of the changes since the last release our being written up this week and will be posted later. Some noteworthy items are client and server side bad word filtering, a voting system for collective removal o...

*snicker* I just have to post back to this one. Yes.. I'm still lurking around the boards a little. I'm just dis-interested with BZ right now.. so I'm not playing.... at all. :) [snip] Anyway... this is Spiff signing off after his first post in... eight days? Wow.. ;) Hehe .. I knew that would pull...

Wow, what a rigged poll. There are basically two choices. "Yes" and "I'm too stupid to think"

Not exactly an intelligently useful poll in my book. I'll opt out of voting for this one.

Cheers!

There is a bad words list in the cvs repository that I compiled for the new server-side aggressive bad word and callsign filtering. The file is located at misc/multilingualSwearList.txt The list includes approximately 1500 obscene words and phrases covering approximately 45 languages and dialects. A...

Bah, there's not enough samples to qualitately say anything yet other than a majority don't find it "cheating" perhaps. The point is that unless it's deemed "cheating" it _is_ a skill that can be utilized. Using it in desparate situations probably falls into the "foolish&quo...

My history is nice and short. I started playing last fall (almost a year now!) and began my "learning" phase. After many repeated comments by others that I was "no longer a newbie", I was urged by many (*ahem* many players) that I should join a league team. I had no such plans to...