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Is flagshopping really that bad? On CTF maps I usually assign myself some kind of mission (the most common being "kill the camper") and so I will want the best flag for that (e.g., Stealth to kill someone with a Guided Missile flag). At Two Tanks, shopping for Wings or Narrow/Tiny/Thief i...

Is it on board (shared memory) or PCIe? My GPU is onboard with shared memory. In the BIOS I can set it to use 16, 32, 64, or 128 MB of system RAM. I started out using 16 MB and have had it at 32 MB for about a year, but that change made no remarkable difference. Is there a way to tell if even more ...

As Sky King noted, any frames per second above the refresh rate of your display are wasted. In your config file, setting saveEnergy to 1 and fpsLimit to maybe 5 FPS more than your display refresh rate should maximize the useful performance and minimize heat that causes the cooling fans to run loudly...

I partially agree with Sky King. Messages like

Sky King is on a Rampage!

are very annoying. On the other hand, I find that messages like

Bullet Catcher is on a Rampage!

or

Sky King's rampage was stopped by Bullet Catcher

enhance the game significantly. :-)

if everyone was recklessly aggressive, there would be no defense whatsoever. That's why there needs to be a few tanks with better patience than the two of us to guard the flag. I am quick to play defensively if needed. Whenever I happen to spawn in my team's quadrant I will try to help clear the en...

If too much loving happened to be "camping" at his base, he would be doing three things: 1. Preventing the enemy from a quick takeover of the flag and spawn positions near the red base. 2. (I'm not positive on this one...) Is making it possible for other teammates to spawn near him, makin...

On a public pillbox map, camping anywhere is a detriment to your team. Especially if you camp at your own base, you will spend a lot of time doing nothing while your teammates are one tank down fighting the enemy.

This version generally works well with my Fedora 7 Linux setup. It compiles uneventfully using the spec file from bzflag-2.0.8-4.fc7.src.rpm, and may well be suitable for release. However, with 2.0.10 RC2 the problem of being sealed on the Two Tanks treads and in the Lasermania teleporter, as discus...

I experienced the same problems (sealed on Two Tanks treads and in Lasermania teleporter) when running Fedora Core 5 Linux. Now that I have upgraded to Fedora 7 I can move freely about both maps. The BZFlag version is the same (2.0.8) in both cases, but I now have Kernel version 2.6.22 rather than 2...