KillSwap - Switches your position with who you kill

[Zehra]

A custom flag which switches the killer position with whoever they kill.

License is CC0-1.0

Download available here: github.com/Zehra/KillSwap

-Zehra

[optic delusion]

Could this steal flags instead of swap position? Would be a thief flag that kills. I'd probably get rid of the thief flag if I had that.

[blast]

I imagine that would be difficult, since there's no guarantee that a flag will be available to give at the time of death. I don't recall if the API can give a player a flag that is currently falling or (de)spawning, and randomized flags can lead to a specific type being unavailable at times.

[Zehra]

@Optic Delusion
Yes, it is possible. Blast is right with there being some difficulties with this. I believe the simplest alternative is to kill a player with the bz_killPlayer() function whenever a player steals a flag, but this in short would in essence remove "default/normal" thief [flag] from operation. (The only difference is that players without flags would be "safe" from death.)

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@Blast
Thankfully you mentioned the possible difficulties, as this reminds me of the issues which were seen with granting/switching flags in Progressive Flag mode.

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It feels like we can nearly do something at the cutting edge of bz tech and at the same time it's a house of cards or keep things in the basic reliable state of the art and have gotchas. Everything else for this usually winds up being somewhere along this line most of the time, in my opinion.

-Zehra