| 00:42.32 | Zehra | By the way, looks like the following thread would be better suited for the 'Map Editors' forum: https://forums.bzflag.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=20179 |
| 00:45.34 | kierra | lol |
| 00:52.29 | Zehra | This may be part of the reason we continually see repeats of similar questions over the years. (The part of topics being in the incorrect forums.) |
| 00:53.48 | Zehra | I may later make a write-up, so this would occur less often as it seems most are not good with searching within the forums. |
| 00:58.04 | allejo | out of sheer spite, Iâll make sure that post remains where it is :) |
| 00:58.14 | blast007 | hehe.. |
| 00:58.32 | blast007 | Zehra: a writeup about what? |
| 00:59.58 | Zehra | It would be mostly more in the sense of tutorial and guide, basically would offer an index of many of the common repeat questions, as well as not so common ones. |
| 01:00.33 | Zehra | This way, the majority of answers to most questions could be easily found. |
| 01:00.45 | blast007 | nah, it won't :) |
| 01:01.04 | blast007 | if people don't search for their specific question, why would they search for your FAQ? |
| 01:01.05 | allejo | or effort on writing could be allocated to documentation for the game |
| 01:02.07 | Zehra | Maybe it could be due to that they are simply unable or do not know how to search the forums. |
| 01:02.30 | blast007 | it's not a big deal |
| 01:03.31 | Nuhro | if ppl want to find something, its in the same area as any other map discussions. why is this such a big fricking deal to you? |
| 01:03.33 | blast007 | after we launch the new site and get rid of the wiki, I'll work on replacing the forums with a shoutbox |
| 01:03.44 | Zehra | allejo: I should have some updates posted within a week or so. |
| 01:03.55 | blast007 | ducks |
| 01:04.09 | Nuhro | quit wasting ppls time over petty things |
| 01:04.12 | Nuhro | goodness. |
| 01:04.22 | allejo | surprisingly, I can get behind that shoutbox idea |
| 01:04.28 | blast007 | lol |
| 01:05.06 | blast007 | while we're at it, we should add a webring |
| 01:05.16 | Nuhro | if it bugs you that much copy and paste it all to another forum. jeeze |
| 01:05.42 | allejo | what about a counter on the site that tells you how many people have visited our site? |
| 01:07.22 | Zehra | "You're BZFlag's millionth visitor" :D |
| 01:20.53 | Nuhro | so my thread is out of place, but the new map idea in general discussion is fine? hmm. Interesting deduction. Wouldnt it be hard to find as its not in the map making area? Hmmmmmmmmm |
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| 02:28.24 | Zehra | For the next major release, would a feature only displaying teammates on radar be accepted? |
| 02:28.45 | Zehra | This would be so a new mode could be introduced and a couple new game modes added. |
| 02:31.07 | Zehra | (The work would be sent in as a pull request, so no additional effort would be needed for it to exist, minus the efforts of merging it.) |
| 02:34.55 | allejo | merging requires a lot of effort. idunno |
| 02:46.40 | blast007 | I don't see the use of that |
| 02:47.28 | blast007 | seems like you might as well just turn it off completely |
| 02:48.29 | Zehra | The idea would be to give players the ability to use radar, but it wouldn't indicate where opponents are. |
| 02:49.20 | blast007 | why have radar then? |
| 02:50.36 | Zehra | In most other games, players can 'see' their teammates on the mini-map, but not their opponents. |
| 02:51.26 | Zehra | Giving ST to players is an option, but would prevent players from having the benefit of hiding. |
| 02:53.21 | Zehra | ST and SE would not be added when this setting is added, but the overall concept is to introduce some new modes. |
| 02:54.09 | allejo | there's already a lot of customizations that a server can do. we're trying to move towards a more standardized approach across servers, not introduce more variety |
| 02:57.16 | Zehra | Makes sense. In which areas would we begin to see this occur and precisely how, if I may inquire? |
| 02:59.59 | allejo | nuke all the team colors except rogue and observer. nuke all bzw objects except boxes and bases. we're going minecraft style, everything's a box! |
| 03:01.27 | allejo | remove the ability of sending custom messages. everything will be selected from a list of predefined messages such as, "hi!" or "hello" |
| 03:02.33 | the_map | also, split players by OS so they're only playing with others with compatible bzflag builds -- this will allow an easier build system |
| 03:03.07 | allejo | ah yes. the Minecraft segregation methodology |
| 03:06.20 | blast007 | realisticly, stuff like eliminating some BZDB vars, maybe running some official servers with standard settings |
| 03:06.41 | allejo | ^ |
| 03:07.42 | blast007 | make the server list data better so we could indicate "non-standard" modes or settings |
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| 03:11.09 | Zehra | I could see this happening in a few places, perhaps '_skyColor' being replaced with 'skyBox' and perhaps plug-ins being able to register a mode they implement. |
| 03:11.58 | blast007 | I'm talking about gameplay affecting settings..... |
| 03:17.50 | Zehra | Would this be within the region of flag specific or more general game play settings or a combination of both? |
| 03:20.14 | blast007 | yes |
| 03:22.45 | blast007 | I would like there to bfewer surprises for players between servers |
| 03:23.06 | blast007 | to be fewer* |
| 03:24.44 | Nuhro | if I am there its always a surprise :) |
| 03:26.06 | Nuhro | allejo loves showing up and seeing me. He is speechless everytime :D |
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