IRC logs of Freenode #BZFlag for Sunday, 2019-03-10

ZehraBy 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=2017900:42
kierralol00:45
ZehraThis 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.)00:52
ZehraI may later make a write-up, so this would occur less often as it seems most are not good with searching within the forums.00:53
allejoout of sheer spite, I’ll make sure that post remains where it is :)00:58
blast007hehe..00:58
blast007Zehra: a writeup about what?00:58
ZehraIt 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.00:59
ZehraThis way, the majority of answers to most questions could be easily found.01:00
blast007nah, it won't :)01:00
blast007if people don't search for their specific question, why would they search for your FAQ?01:01
allejoor effort on writing could be allocated to documentation for the game01:01
ZehraMaybe it could be due to that they are simply unable or do not know how to search the forums.01:02
blast007it's not a big deal01:02
Nuhroif 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
blast007after we launch the new site and get rid of the wiki, I'll work on replacing the forums with a shoutbox01:03
Zehraallejo: I should have some updates posted within a week or so.01:03
* blast007 ducks01:03
Nuhroquit wasting ppls time over petty things01:04
Nuhrogoodness.01:04
allejosurprisingly, I can get behind that shoutbox idea01:04
blast007lol01:04
blast007while we're at it, we should add a webring01:05
Nuhroif it bugs you that much copy and paste it all to another forum. jeeze01:05
allejowhat about a counter on the site that tells you how many people have visited our site?01:05
Zehra"You're BZFlag's millionth visitor" :D01:07
Nuhroso 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? Hmmmmmmmmm01:20
BZNotifyredesign @ bzflag.org: allejo pushed 1 commit (https://git.io/fhhPR):01:51
BZNotifyredesign @ bzflag.org: allejo 70083a: Add a "Skip to Content" option (https://git.io/fhhP0)01:51
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ZehraFor the next major release, would a feature only displaying teammates on radar be accepted?02:28
ZehraThis would be so a new mode could be introduced and a couple new game modes added.02:28
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.)02:31
allejomerging requires a lot of effort. idunno02:34
blast007I don't see the use of that02:46
blast007seems like you might as well just turn it off completely02:47
ZehraThe idea would be to give players the ability to use radar, but it wouldn't indicate where opponents are.02:48
blast007why have radar then?02:49
ZehraIn most other games, players can 'see' their teammates on the mini-map, but not their opponents.02:50
ZehraGiving ST to players is an option, but would prevent players from having the benefit of hiding.02:51
ZehraST and SE would not be added when this setting is added, but the overall concept is to introduce some new modes.02:53
allejothere'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 variety02:54
ZehraMakes sense. In which areas would we begin to see this occur and precisely how, if I may inquire?02:57
allejonuke 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!02:59
allejoremove the ability of sending custom messages. everything will be selected from a list of predefined messages such as, "hi!" or "hello"03:01
the_mapalso, split players by OS so they're only playing with others with compatible bzflag builds -- this will allow an easier build system03:02
allejoah yes. the Minecraft segregation methodology03:03
blast007realisticly, stuff like eliminating some BZDB vars, maybe running some official servers with standard settings03:06
allejo^03:06
blast007make the server list data better so we could indicate "non-standard" modes or settings03:07
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ZehraI 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
blast007I'm talking about gameplay affecting settings.....03:11
ZehraWould this be within the region of flag specific or more general game play settings or a combination of both?03:17
blast007yes03:20
blast007I would like there to bfewer surprises for players between servers03:22
blast007to be fewer*03:23
Nuhroif I am there its always a surprise :)03:24
Nuhroallejo loves showing up and seeing me. He is speechless everytime :D03:26
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BZNotifyredesign @ bzflag.org: allejo pushed 1 commit (https://git.io/fhhMm):06:18
BZNotifyredesign @ bzflag.org: allejo 297e0e: Add captions for all the map screenshots (https://git.io/fhhMO)06:18
BZNotifybzflag.org: allejo closed issue #13 "Accessibility Notes" (https://git.io/fhQxN)06:19
BZNotifyredesign @ bzflag.org: allejo pushed 1 commit (https://git.io/fhhMr):06:24
BZNotifyredesign @ bzflag.org: allejo a5177e: Add BG behind jumbotrons for really large screens (https://git.io/fhhMo)06:24
BZNotifybzflag.org: allejo created branch feature/redesign/search (https://git.io/fhhSx):10:19
BZNotifyfeature/redesign/search @ bzflag.org: allejo bbec0c: Begin support for a lunr.js search (https://git.io/fhhSp)10:19
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