For powerups, could a style of -1 choose a random weapon powerup?

I know you eased up with barriers typed backwards, will this happen with zones?

[hmmm, everyone expects me to be consistent... you should know me better than that by now! Seriously, that would be a good thing for me to do.. -s]

I placed 2 flags for a CTF map (Odd/Even)
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If i pick up the flag, it seems the flag actually will respawn after a while...it appear there even after I have it in my possession.

[be sure to set the spawn seconds to the value you want. This way flags can be retuned home if not 'played' within a certain amount of time. -s]

/a shrugs

Oh, and the thing where you cannot go through corners now...
It seems that it messes with bullets. If you shoot at one (external corner) at an angle that should cause it to continue on but bounce off of the corner, it comes back at you...hope that makes sense...

[please try to consider it an exciting feature! -s]

Also, how about a concrete type wall that instead of bouncing bullet and homing missiles just sitting at the edge until the expire, they would explode on impact. Then people can outrun missiles and cause them to hit things etc. (and i wouldnt be so hessitant about putting them in my maps) As it is they are a sure hit unless you can get them trapped behind a wall and stopped there.

[spawn]
Ship_ID_Number = X, Y, Angle, Can_Spawn

So no throw that out! This is supposed to be 8 player game not a "well I think this map is 2 player map so I'll restrict it.

.ini files are funny about that sort of thing.

I recommend

;
; comments first
; blah
; then the section name followed by
; data with no blank lines
[section name]
d1 = v1
d2 = v2
...

(um, you can have blank lines BEFORE the section name, just not AFTER it.)

[ahhh... I thought you meant NONE of them showed up... -s]

[powerups]
0= 0, -1, -1, 10
1= 0, -1, -1, 10
2= 0, -1, -1, 10

And if I fly out of the box I eventually find a blue square with a zillion traps around it....

OH, I bet I know what's happening. You're probably setting some so close together that they 'snap to' the closest grid line (pup positionining is much lowere resolution than line or zone positions).. So you are seeing several pups on top of each other, which look like a single pup.

If the galaxy coords are 0-8191, pups can only be placed on the even multiples of 32.. so

0, 32, 64, etc.

If you put a PUP at 15, for example, it will snap to 0. actually, it probably always 'snaps to the left' so 31 would also snap to 0.

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This is just my guess.

1.) You have "No Hazards" selected

or

2.) You still have the blank line and/or comments after the [powerups] section name.

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One thing I notice is that if you change an .ini file, windows tends to keep it around in a compiled form until you open some other .ini file

So, as a map developer, you end up having to:

1.) save your new .ini file
2.) select a totally DIFFERENT map
3.) Select your new .ini file again.

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I was stuck in your maze of twisty passages. Not stuck in the big sense of stickage, just in the sense that I couldn't easily zoom around looking for where you might have placed mines.

I forgot that I left harmful powerups disabled. I'm really sorry about that.
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As for my one way barriers, I simply have a really thin zone between two transparent walls (it can be just one if you like but two looks cooler). This zone has a current pushing you towards the way you cant come from.

Now, by accident, I made the second wall (the wall which side you can pass from) a solid wall. This turned out to be a good thing. It made it so you cant even touch the zone from the wrong side. Because of a bug (now a feature, really), the solid wall is on the edge of the zone and will not be in the way of the current. The current pushes you over the wall.

code:

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+ sign is the zone
Fake wall > |+++|
            |+++|
            |+++| < Real Wall
            |+++|
 Zone Current >>>>>>
   (positive X)

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This all works beautifully together to make an effectife one-way barrier (meaning Dan doesn't have to implement one way barriers).

This isn't a huge release, but I want to fulfill a couple old promises before getting all hot and bothered about hammurabbi..

* Zones are accepted with reversed arguments. (it was really me who was 'reversing' them in the first place!)

* NEW [CREDITS] section in map file

Your map file can (and should) now include a CREDITS section, which looks like this (and apologies to Mosq if he pre-implemented this to old spec...)

[credits]
author=Billy Crystal
sernum=4D2378AC
version=2.03
email=billy@crystal.com
info=This is my first map so don't yell at me!

This information is displayed in the OPTIONS dialog area (below the current map settings in the little window on the right).

* SIMPLE VERSION CHECKING

When you fetch a new map from another player, if it is the same name as a map you already have, I put up a little dialog asking you if you really want to overwrite the copy you already have.

I Include all the new CREDITS info for both versions, to help you decide.

If you DO overwrite your copy, the old copy is saved in your MAPS file as "mapName.ini.bak" (until you overwrite it a second time, at least).

* SHIP SPAWN POINTS MAY INCLUDE STARTING HEADING.

It's optional. see map0.ini for details. Legal values are 0-359 (in degrees).

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And I think that's it. Still no waypoints (sorry) and no new weapons, etc.

If you sit on a non-random powerup, Arcadia freezes completely. CLRT+ALT+DEL end task is the only way to fix it.

In general, I would suggest not having things respawn too quickly, only because a respawn sends a packet (even if you were 'full' since officially you don't know what it was until after you ask the host for it.)

Anyhow, a few suggestions that you have probably heard...MAY have been suggested before...but I want them to be posted here anyhow

Remember the whole "Draw your own ship" thing?

When do we get to use textures in space...

a cool idea would be to have an object that has to be shot to move. Think...like an asteroid. Anyhow, players could shoot it around the level and if it collides with someone, it would damage them. It would just bounce around and stuff

Variations of the plasma rounds (spread shot, rapid fire, charge-up blast, and so on.)

IDEA! Flares or heat beacons. You drop them like proxy mines and then the homing missle on your tale goes to that and goes boomy away from you.

Well, synSpace + empyrion + persistent universe + 3D --> rocket club.