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However, I think there would be advantage in producing a flag that had a fixed angle for the shots say down 15 degrees so that you could shoot down at tanks from an overhanging or you could shoot up at tanks from the angled shots rebounding off the ground in front of you. A number of maps make this...

I mean don't go charging into the middle of the Boxy map where you have to jump in there while the geno is waiting for your most vulnerable moment of landing. I agree... I choose a "role" when I go onto a map and try to stick with that for a bit. On boxy, my best skill, and most common ro...

Adding on to what Win XP said... the "founding fathers" of BZ Flag made simplicity a core design principle--the idea that the tanks themselves had to be pretty simple and intuitive, or else many people would loose interest before they got over the learning curve of just getting around in a...

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Sky King wrote:that's right, count 'em... SIXTY kills

If I count them it's 45. 3 geno shots and 15 or less players : 15x3=45.

Doh! For some reason I was thinking 4 shots, I got my servers mixed up.

It seems like LaserMania has been very quiet lately, so I've been hopping on Two Tanks to get my fill of max-range sniping. In general, I really like it a lot... very well done... The one thing I don't like is that it encourages spawn-kill camping. Grab an SW flag, go hang out by the spawn zone on t...

I agree... We agree... If you go back to my original post... My frustration is with people saying things like "C'mon guys, just stay away from geno"... I have no issue at all with people being careful around geno, and trying to outwit him... that IS what I am proposing. I personally try ve...

All very good points XP... let me address a couple of them with my thoughts... Trepan has/will be adding flag hunting to 2.2.x. I love this idea. I think that even aside from hunting, that it would help balance out geno if it was always depicted by a highlighted blip on the radar. What I would reall...

My comments are mostly directed at Boxy, but this really applies anywhere that a CTF game has a geno flag... I'm a pretty "situational awareness" player most of the time, and I rarely get hit by a geno but it does happen. And when it does, there's always... ALWAYS... someone who says "...

I do find subtle rendering differences between my two computers... One has a little nicer ATI card, the other a lighter weight nVidia... I don't remember exactly what the differences are off the top of my head. Have you looked in the BZ program directory to see if all the same image files for shots ...

Play what you are used to, yes, But an elite keyboard player will never be able to beat an elite mouse player. Is this true? I am a mouse player, but I know a lot of the really good players in the game are keyboard players. I do like the precision I can get when long range sniping, right down to th...

yes, but that will effect your accuracy negatively. Use a medium to large size mousebox in your transition. I agree. I am a 100% mouse player, and having experimentd, I have found a very large mouse box is best for me. The resolution or "granularity" of small mouse movements is much more ...

What if everybody matches in one style of play, next (set of) round(s) is a new style, and keep adding new styles and eliminating. The last player remaining is the King/Queen of BZ. I think it works better if everyone stays in every round (as opposed to being eliminated) and a score is kept to dete...

I'd start with what Donny Baker said, and start with the config.cfg file. If you have a default Windows XP install, this is in your "My Documents" folder in: \My Documents\My BZFlag Files\2.0\config.cfg Second, I'd look at my video drivers... Did it start failing with a seemingly minor upd...

Sticky flag to hard and no one wants to be stuck on a wall marker flag dont under stand flag catcher just get highspeed or drive over The way I understand them: The marker flag would be like explosive paint in a paint ball... I shoot it at you, and it "paints" your tank with explosive pai...

Not to overcomplicate things... but what about splitting the file so that the settings are in config.cfg, and both the username and password are in credentials.cfg?

The goal should not be to stamp out bad language but to foster a friendly play atmosphere. Well said. That was the point I was trying to make early with many more words... That the problem I see isn't swearing, or 'playful' trash-talking... Rather, it's this kind of bitter, biting contempt that is ...

I have an ATI Radeon in my laptop... Two thoughts: 1. I find that shadow=stipple really slows things down... stencil is kinda slow, and off really helps on the lighter-weight ATI cards; Here's what I use with good results: Blending: On Dithering: On Smoothing: OFF <** Lighting: FAST <** Shadows: STE...

...and it would be nice if the name of the nominee is blinking Better yet... since most kicks/bans are for TKing, show the person's score in the message, as some people have the scoreboard off: A poll to ban xyz (3-21, 11 TKs) has been started by abc... maybe even incorporate the kick reason in the...

I like the idea. I think we have all felt that frustration--most of us like sportsmanship and want to help our opponent get rid of a TKer or flag stealer... Yet we've all been in that boat where, just as I am typing "/vote yes"... I take a GM or laser right to the head. I wish people were ...

I don't think there needs to be a list or an up front warning... Hey, I cuss like a sailor in some settings, I am no prude, believe me... But not here on BZ. And in fact, not anywhere where there's 10 year old kids, or people who don't know me well enough to understand me well enough to know how to ...

I tried it, and have to say, I didn't like the idea. (This is a little off-topic as we're discussing feature feedback on an announcement forum)... As people above have just said, it is almost harmless to experienced players, and deadly to inexperienced ones... And I am pretty much totally opposed to...

I was wondering. If these were real tanks, wouldn't the shots kick the tanks back? With the M60 and the M1, firing the main gun is a tooth-rattling, pants-wetting ordeal... OMG, your fillings hurt the first few times... US tank rounds have a tracer on the back of them, which is a bright reddish-ora...

Obviously you didn't play at Lasermania before we implimented the TK %'s You are proposing a change to the client to accommodate a problem at one map. Boxy War is a TKers paradise (if it is a huge problem elsewhere I would love to know where). Good point, I'm not sure how much it occurs elsewhere, ...

what i dont know is the grades of antialiasing my g-force 6600 can do grades from 2x,2xQ, 4x, 4xQ, 6x, 6xQ, and 8x, and 8xQ This gets back to what I was saying before, about how the MIPMAP function within the texture option settings implicitly antialiases the image. For instance, the brick wall tex...

That has already been shot down by Tim Riker (pun intended). It has been said numerous times this is a simple tank shoot-em-up game, no different vehicles. I agree with Donny and Tim... I think the flags already add so much versatility to the vehicles that on many servers, it's been taken overboard...