spawing issues

[kc9foh]

I know somewhere this has probably been suggested before. I have had a lot of newbies and old timers remark about spawn kills. As I am still learning how to write the most basic coding in software dev. Can somebody add a 2-3 second delay for both invincibility and no shooting just time to move before getting shot right after the spawn?

[meeba]

I know somewhere this has probably been suggested before. I have had a lot of newbies and old timers remark about spawn kills. As I am still learning how to write the most basic coding in software dev. Can somebody add a 2-3 second delay for both invincibility and no shooting just time to move before getting shot right after the spawn?

That is such a brilliant idea, I tip my hat to you.

Devs, any chance this can be done? Being killed right after a spawn, which happens often due to the server deciding where we spawn with no regard to shots, is no fun.

[Grace F]

Spawn killing... invincibility, I've wondered myself about that.

I doubt it would be made though. There are ways to avoid being spawn killed. Such as looking on the map for a your teammates to see if their in the clear.

[JeffM]

It's been discussed. First we are going to make the server take shots into account during spawns. This should help the spawns a lot. After that we'll have to move hit checking to the server. After that if it's still a huge problem, we can look into some sort of spawn protection.

[.Zero]

That sounds good. Sometimes I get killed the instant I hit 'i', so that would be a big improvement. Any idea on a time-line? (2.2?)

[JeffM]

the server side shot tracking is planed for 2.2

[kc9foh]

I look forward to the improvement. Hopefully that will calm the masses!

[too much loving]

I think that spawning works OK, but it's always fun to nitpick.

If I read the code in trunk correctly then a new tank can spawn facing directly at a nearby enemy. It looks like the code only checks where the enemy is facing. (but maybe I read the code wrongly)

It looks like a new tank can spawn almost on top of an old tank as long as they both face away from each other.

By the way, how about letting safeDistance depend on the number of tanks in the field? That would remove spawning problems in games with few tanks. One idea is to start out trying to spawn with a very large value of safeDistance, but gradually decrease safeDistance whenever a position is rejected.

EDIT: typos and deranting