Territorial control...

[adameros]

I would like bases that change to the color of the last team to drive over them. You could then have maps where each team would start with a base, and there would be several neutral bases. When one team turns all the bases to their color (or at least turns all the enemy bases to their color), they win.

[jeff]

That Would Be Great For Mobile Forts.
A Team Would Start Out With A Fort And Could Capture More Forts,Sorta Like A Territorial War

[Spazzy McGee]

I really like this idea, would be good as a new 'official' game mode. I guess a team would win a point when all bases were that team's colour, everyone would die, and bases would be set back to 'colourless'.

I see it working well for BZFlag.

[adameros]

Maybe not in the initial version, but if someone wanted to up the difficulty, you could have a world variable that would specify how many seconds someone had to hold the base to change it's color.

[Bambino]

Very cool. Reminds me when I played some PS2 game and you had to "tag" (spraypaint) areas of the map to gain control of it.

[trepan]

This should be relatively easy to implement using a server side-plugin.
You would use meshes (or meshed objects), as the bases, with physics
drivers for contact detection (as was done in the original AHOD map).
To mark a base's ownership, you could use a dynamic color attached to
a BZDB variable (added in SVN r12986, 2.0.12 iirc), and possibly have the
plugin place an unreachable team flag above the base (which would also
be visible in the radar).

[trepan]

Hm, maybe BZDB controlled dynamic colors aren't available in any
2.0.x releases (based on the following):
SVN r12781: Bump proto to 37, and rev to 2.1.7
(r12781 comes before r12986)

[Agent West]

a variation of the idea: specific super flags spawn on a base (rogue base maybe). when that base is captured, it turns the team color and only players from that team can get flags from there.
there is only one problem: it might be hard to implement the flag-to-team idea since it should either be a drivethrough base with flags in it (only drivethrough to a controlling team) or it should somehow change flags themeselves so that the other team can't get them.