HTF Scoring for future BZflag version?

Death Barrel · Post by **Death Barrel** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:45 pm

hey guys,

was talking this over with a few ppl, and we would like to know if you guys could intergrate a scroing system for HTF, instead of the players manually doing it. would be like a mod that keeps track of how many times a player has scored (ctfed) their own flag.

thx guys

db

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:17 pm

your talking about making it a real game mode. It's posible, but would require a break in protocoll IIRC. The server would do the score not the client.

Death Barrel · Post by **Death Barrel** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:50 pm

ok, cool, i figured it would be server side bzfs, so what do you guys want to do this? candy? cookies? beer?
hehe

we coudl really use this since HTF is becomming really popular among a lot of regulars, would be nice to see

thx
DB

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:40 pm

Well, it could go in 1.11/1.12 ..

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:49 pm

just code it up, shouldn't be hard.

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:05 pm

I'll see if I can roll something, but do keep in mind that my C skills are, uhm, ehm, well, you know. And that I can't actually compile BZFlag

Death Barrel · Post by **Death Barrel** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:15 pm

hehe, well that would be better than my skills

i think loser had a good idea: maybe make a style for all rogues, with a special flag, and a special base, might make things a lot easier, coding wise.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:17 pm

never underestimate your own power

Rebel Chik0rita · Post by **Rebel Chik0rita** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:49 pm

cool .. a special universal flag just for HTF .. that'll blow up all the other tanks(regardless of color or rogue) except the tank/team that captures it =)

an "armageddon" ..or "nuke" flag , heehe >;)

this way , you can have teams in HTF if you wanted too .

also , i think that a player-flag-capture-counter would be a neat statistical and informational feature to have not only for keeping score in HTF games , but for regular CTF games too .. perhaps make this a future server option?

|tim| · Post by **|tim|** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:17 pm

tha'd be cool, the 'nuke' flag. when you captured it, an orange shockwave affect goes throughout the whole map.

Rebel Chik0rita · Post by **Rebel Chik0rita** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:29 pm

LoL yay

i was thinking more of a simple all-kill genocide effect ..but if they can do a nuke wave that would be even neater =)

rob1n · Post by **rob1n** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:47 pm

do u really wanna hear about my c skills?

what is it? loser appreceation day?

hmmm....it could be like normal ctf, where the rest of the tanks blow up...

or if teams, could have teams blow up...but then, that's ctf, not htf...

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:56 pm

I'm looking at the BZFlag code and getting a headache. Don't know the first thing about coding a new gamestyle. Need pointers. Where should I go to discuss this?

Post by **DTRemenak** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:02 pm

oblomov: #bzflag on irc.freenode.net is where the devs usually hang out & discuss such things.

oblomov · Post by **oblomov** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:06 pm

Thanks, DTRemenak