[Xpilot-hacks] XPilot 5 XPilot++ "TAG/IT"

[Ben Armstrong]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:48:29AM -0600, Ross Venable wrote:
> 2. a different color on hud and in the game (like alliances)

Hm, I'm wondering if a team variant of IT might work.  IT player 
automatically becomes team 2, whereas all other players are team 1 (and 
robots still on team 0, just to make life interesting).  Then turn on team 
shot immunity.  This will make the IT player's life total hell, of course :)

A "hide and seek" variant to try to balance out this inequity:

- the transition to IT grants the player a cloak

And finally, since it is trivial to have the client distinguish which player 
is it (just by identifying the "IT" text message from the server,) it
ought to be trivial to provide a "keyLockIT" to lock on the "IT" player.  
Implementing this feature removes the tempatation for people to hack their 
own clients to do this, and therefore makes a level playing field for 
hackers and non-hackers.

Ben
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