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I'm running bzflag 2.0.10 on a mac that is running the mac os x leopard. I found this bug out a while ago, but didn't post it. For this bug to work, you have to do a few things.

1) Go to a rabbit hunt server
2) Become the rabbit
3) Take a screen shot, then after you are not the rabbit
4) After the screen shot, kill a teammate and you don't die

Its says "don't kill teamates" and you lose a point, but you don't die.

I hope they fix this is 3.0

1)... dude, please use English words with ALL the letters, you are not 4.

2) It's technically a feature, when you take a screenshot you pause for a short time while the screenshot is taken. When you pause you give up your rabbit status, it's as simple as that.

I'm not entirely sure but it looks like when you pause it calls the function to select a new rabbit, but it calls it with no parameter (i.e. no one killed the rabbit). This looks like it is usually called when a player leaves the game. When that happens the paused player does fully change teams back to the hunter team as if he had actually been killed as the rabbit. I think that if the pause player's player index is added in the call in "bzfs.cxx:pausePlayer" it might fix the problem. Is there a developer that could check this out?

Yes, thats what I thought. Did you try it out?

JeffM wrote:When you pause you give up your rabbit status, it's as simple as that.

the issue is with what happens in #4...

I tested it and it seems to work correctly for me. When the rabbit hits F5, a new rabbit is picked. The one that was the rabbit gets correctly changed to a hunter. So what exactly are you saying is wrong here?

(I was using a 2.0.10 client on Windows that was the one using F5 as rabbit, and a 2.0.13 client on linux)

I am saying that, after a new rabbit is picked, the old rabbit, (you) can tk without dieing. I am running bzflag 2.0.10 on a mac

try it in 2.99.xx, the entire rabbit system has been redone.

see how much more fun it is when you use your words?

Ok, i have 2.99, but there are no rabbit hunt servers up for 2.99

So run a local one and try it.