| 00:05.06 | blast007 | so, how far away should we be able to hear a sound in BZ? cuz currently it seems like it's infinite.. |
| 00:05.49 | blast007 | I can hear a world weapon being fired at around 40,000 units away |
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| 01:00.19 | spldart | It is a 'world weapon' after all ;) |
| 01:06.53 | blast007 | :P |
| 01:06.58 | allejo | is there a definition of how big is a âworld unit?â |
| 01:07.21 | blast007 | my understanding is that it's roughly one meter |
| 01:08.51 | allejo | how many meters can you realistically hear irl |
| 01:09.23 | Zehra | Depends on terrain and various other factors. |
| 01:09.42 | Zehra | (Although this is overthinking it.) |
| 01:10.03 | blast007 | how many meters can I realisticly hear a tank shooting colored energy balls that bounce off walls and ignore gravity? |
| 01:10.06 | blast007 | ;) |
| 01:10.48 | allejo | no, how many meters can I realistically hear someone yell âbang I shot you!â |
| 01:34.38 | spldart | Krakatoa was heard 4828032 meters away. ;) |
| 01:36.21 | spldart | And ruptured eardrums for over 64000 meters.... I mean... 'world units' ;~) |
| 01:36.56 | spldart | Balls that ignore gravity... |
| 01:36.59 | spldart | Hrm |
| 01:37.08 | Zehra | There pretty much is no real answer to the question, just an average of what it could be. (I'm over thinking it.) |
| 01:37.46 | spldart | If a ball that ignores gravity falls in the forest... Due any of us have a chance of surviving it? |
| 01:38.01 | spldart | Sry :( |
| 01:40.28 | Zehra | Over thinking this, but shockwave is a bit interesting in that regard. |
| 01:42.03 | Zehra | (Adjusting the shockwaves size per shockwave would be interesting, but would mess with playability too much.) :s |
| 01:43.11 | Zehra | or if we could add gravity to shockwaves. :3 |
| 01:43.37 | spldart | Oez Noez! Those are fixed points in space/time/ |
| 01:44.01 | spldart | Can't be having those move around. 8{ |
| 01:45.15 | Zehra | "eek, those floating shockwaves hit us and we were at the top of a building." |
| 01:46.35 | Zehra | Thankfully many ideas didn't become flags. ;) |
| 01:47.13 | spldart | To borrow from Heisenberg. Once we observe the moment of detonation 'sw' we know where and when the cat died 9D |
| 01:48.38 | spldart | Till then. The tank with the flag is the unobserved box. |
| 01:59.48 | spldart | I'd have to say one last thing about ideas that didn't become flags. New maps and esp very well made maps are becoming a rarity. Adding new flags without known repurcussions to game play would probably even be worse idea than just the time taken to code up new maps or what's left of desire to maintain the heart of what bzflag is suppossed to be. |
| 02:01.09 | spldart | s/maps/ code up the new super flags |
| 02:03.11 | Zehra | It isn't too easy to make a good map, as creating a map is easy, but making it 'playable' is not. |
| 02:04.08 | spldart | Very true. I spent more time making my old War Towers map logistically challenging that anything else. And I'm not a good map builder. |
| 02:04.55 | spldart | You got to get in there and see where advantages lie and move things around till rockets, SW, SB are all kinda on keel. |
| 02:05.21 | spldart | And give everyone a few key hiding points... Nothing to big. Make it hard to hide to avoid camping. |
| 02:07.01 | spldart | iirc I ditched laser or shortened it real bad. It's just not good game play. |
| 02:08.17 | Zehra | The difficulty is making a 'balanced' map, with various numbers of players too. |
| 02:08.37 | Zehra | Since a design might be really good, but with small numbers of players, it becomes unplayable in a sort of ways. |
| 02:08.54 | spldart | Thus no capture with unequal teams. |
| 02:09.16 | spldart | But you can't control if you have a 3 on 3 and 2 on one team are just total bosses |
| 02:09.38 | spldart | ish happesn |
| 02:10.15 | spldart | one of these days I need to rehost. I've been asked by others lend them it to host. |
| 02:12.18 | Zehra | I'll probably be on your map if it is back up. |
| 02:12.55 | Zehra | likes seeing new/old maps come up on the list |
| 02:13.02 | spldart | If I ever do let me know what you think. I did find it in a recent HDD crash and rebuild of this pc. I just need to host or have hosted |
| 02:13.37 | spldart | needs to look into poking holes in this comcast modem for bzfs |
| 02:14.27 | Zehra | Will do. |
| 02:14.46 | spldart | Actually. Apache first. Then bzfs |
| 02:15.05 | spldart | *me takes tomorrow off* XD |
| 02:16.12 | spldart | 80 and 5154 |
| 02:16.39 | Zehra | yay |
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