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You've gone and genericized (Couldn't think of the verb to make something generic) The Two Castles. One of the many things that made The Two Castles fun was the ability to get into unique positions by many different methods. For instance, spawning at the base, going forward, and doing a series of ju...

I have to agree with TangenT's idea here. If you automatically sign in someone who is a waiting observer and is next on the list to join, and that person is away or does not have their attention devoted to BZFlag, that person could just be idle kicked. That would mean the other waiting observers wou...

If the change in the ranking system is because you are all worried about spammers posting to boost their rank, then the new system means that admins no longer have a basis to delete alleged spam posts. And as most of you will agree, rank boosting is the main incentive for people to spam. Now that ra...

Does this imply that having a rabbit drop the flag it was holding would make all the other players drop their flag? It wouldn't be very fair if a rabbit got the OO flag, and then dropped it while a hunter was inside a building. The hunter would be stuck. And another thing this topic fails to conside...

Observers should be exempt from the Karma rule. If they are not, we will have a bunch of people joining as observer and staying for days while not contributing a lot to the BZFlag gameplay. People could also join a server in BZAdmin and go play on other servers. We might as well load up servers with...

When the server is set to have shots retain vertical velocity, things can get a little tricky. I usually try to stay above the enemy. This is because when you see shots coming at you, it's a little easier to jump on queu than to fall on queu. Also, if it seems impossible to dodge vertically, make su...

Who cares if the game sounds outdated? If midis were used, the download would be much speedier. And hey, Lego Star Wars 2 got along just fine using midis.

I'm running Windows XP SP2, BZFlag Version 2.0.8, and I was fiddling with the Blending, Smoothing, Lighting and Quality settings. I'm pretty sure it was red because there isn't a rogue team at Constitution's Tunnels, and if you look closely, the tank looks like it is a creamy yellow-like color on th...

I was recently playing a relaxing game of BZFlag, when I suddenly noticed (being the player that I am, I use my radar more than my HUD.) that shooting rogue tanks got me a team kill. It turns out that some of the colored tanks in the HUD appear rogue on radar. Another thing I noticed is that all the...

Why not just give the steamroller flag the ability to go through walls? And what would happen if you encountered another tank with that flag?

Perhaps you could make it like Lego Star Wars. Have a story mode, but allow other players to connect and help each other. Maybe have the connections be set up over local networks.

Geno =An opponent player has the Genocide flag, and you should try to fool yourself into believing you can do something about it. SW [mid] (Used at Viper's as well as other CTF maps)=Formally means that an opponent player has the Shock Wave flag, and you should not go towards the them (this is usua...

Minimum wage here just went up to $6.85 an hour, so that should help me out a bit. My brother works at Wal*Mart and he started out at $7.50 an hour. He's been working there for about 4 and a half months and he now makes $8.25. Not bad for someone his age. Where do you work? :? For my opinion on P2P...

Wide Angle

SW is the best in my opinion.

Drive perpendicularly in relation to the GM and then move out of the way right before it hits you.

Yeah, "Who Doesn't Use Radar?" would have more interesting results. I think I use radar about as much as I can. Maybe that's 85.6% of the time.

or how about you type "AFK" the rest of us :) :roll: . One enhancement along these lines I have been meaning to ask about is what if we can add the idle times to observers too. Is this possible???? If not say so without any verbal attacks :roll: . I'm not quite sure why you would want idl...

Interesting. You could also call this flag destiny bond, if you know what I'm talking about. I know the Wilderness map by Army of One had a world weapon plugin that would create a shock wave in the location that a person died. That made the game really tough though. Seeing as how you would need to d...

i'm thinking like a modification to geno. i think it would have to be done by the devs but like people are always complaining about geno no matter about the shotlimits or whatever. why not incorporate this idea into geno and make it so the geno flag can either be a normal geno flag or you can set i...

Well, "technically" it already is like that because you really don't know which flag you are getting (unless you are cheating >_>). So its "random" to some degree. -Tanner Well, it would not be completely random, and you can know what flag you are going to get without cheating. ...

That would be too powerful. Maybe you could make it like Mario Kart. When you get the flag, it would cycle through all the flags really fast, and it would stop randomly (or if you told it when to stop) and give you the flag it stopped on.

That's right. It could be AIM, since I switched to Trillian at about the same time as I stopped using AVG and the problem has ceased to trouble me. But if it is AIM, I don't know exactly what part of it could be causing this problem.

I was about to say it could be your antivirus software updating itself, but you said you disabled it. Do you use AVG? I know AVG minimizes BZFlag when it starts it's auto-update. Sometimes it finishes before BZFlag minimizes completely.I used to have this problem too, but I haven't had it ever since...

donny_baker wrote:and this music would all be non copyrighted... I don't think so...

Maybe you could use midis instead.

This has been discussed before. Putting in server supported background music would take up a lot of bandwidth. It would in turn create a lot of lag for players with lesser connections, and maybe even cable connections. However, a universal background music (possibly some sort of package) could be ma...