There is a "queue" system: sit there as an observer and wait to see someone sign off on the consol then quickly rejoin. How lazy has our society become?
What if you wanted to play, but ended us as observer, then start talking to the other observers... Maybe then you don't want to play, you want to stay in observer to talk or whatch...
Perhaps it could be a patch for some people who want that? I don't know. I think it would have a conflict if there are about 6 other people also wanting to play.
CannonBallGuy wrote:What if you don't want to become a player?
Do you get the option to join or Not-join this queue?
If you want to be an observer, you can. If you choose auto/colored team, then you'd be put in teh queue.
I think whast he means is that a message would pop up saying "Would you like to join as a player?" and then there would be an option saying "Yes" or "No". Maybe it could use some "quick-joining" thing.
*sigh* i remeber playing bzflag before it was released to the world. That was pretty cool already. Then i started playing on 1.7 a nice and simple going around in a tank shooting game. Now its getting all weird and more sci-fi. i think i like the old one better :\
This is how I was thinking of the queue system to clear things up:
1. A person joins a full server with the request to be on a team.
2. That person is put in observer, but he is assigned a queue number.
3. When somebody leavs the server, the person with the lowest queue number would be put into the server.
If you join the game as an observer, you wouldn't be put into the queue, you'd just be an observer.
RPG wrote:This is how I was thinking of the queue system to clear things up:
1. A person joins a full server with the request to be on a team.
2. That person is put in observer, but he is assigned a queue number.
3. When somebody leavs the server, the person with the lowest queue number would be put into the server.
If you join the game as an observer, you wouldn't be put into the queue, you'd just be an observer.
Good. How about a combination of mine and yours? it would tell you when it's your turn to come in. If you say "No", it would take you off the queue, but you can choose if want to join back at any time.