Recommendations for Maps, settings etc. for a newbie old timer
Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 2:46 am
So I last played BZflag many, MANY moons ago in the late 90's on UNIX workstations and it was a lot of fun but I kind of lost touch.
I'd like to set up a private server for a few of my colleagues and I to play. The technical side I think I have covered, I have the bzfs compiled and available on a Linux cloud VM with enough bandwidth for the 8 or so players. We'll be using a combination of recent MacBooks and Windows laptops for the clients.Play will be over the connected Internet and we all have reasonable connections at home.
No, the question I have is about Maps and settings and other thing to go in the conf. file. This should be a fairly simple setup, close to the classic with no flying taks and not even an Overthruster in sight. The Maps must have high replay-ability value and should encourage games of 20min or less. Team play is preferred, but not required. CTF is also OK, but I'm not going to start there. Plenty of cover and sniping positions as well as opportunity for tactical play are greatly desired.
Repeat: I'm mostly looking for suggestions and recommendations for Maps, settings and etc. How to get the clients to easily connect to a private server would be nice to know too. You may assume that the participants will all be on a video/vloice chat simultaneously as well, so some clues as to how to get the clients to play nice with multiple monitors would be useful. But mainly "pick up and casual play" recommendations. These are not hyper-caffeinated 15-year olds, but most of them have hidden depths of sneak and guile I'm hoping to expose.
Thanks in advance!
I'd like to set up a private server for a few of my colleagues and I to play. The technical side I think I have covered, I have the bzfs compiled and available on a Linux cloud VM with enough bandwidth for the 8 or so players. We'll be using a combination of recent MacBooks and Windows laptops for the clients.Play will be over the connected Internet and we all have reasonable connections at home.
No, the question I have is about Maps and settings and other thing to go in the conf. file. This should be a fairly simple setup, close to the classic with no flying taks and not even an Overthruster in sight. The Maps must have high replay-ability value and should encourage games of 20min or less. Team play is preferred, but not required. CTF is also OK, but I'm not going to start there. Plenty of cover and sniping positions as well as opportunity for tactical play are greatly desired.
Repeat: I'm mostly looking for suggestions and recommendations for Maps, settings and etc. How to get the clients to easily connect to a private server would be nice to know too. You may assume that the participants will all be on a video/vloice chat simultaneously as well, so some clues as to how to get the clients to play nice with multiple monitors would be useful. But mainly "pick up and casual play" recommendations. These are not hyper-caffeinated 15-year olds, but most of them have hidden depths of sneak and guile I'm hoping to expose.
Thanks in advance!