Phantom sky divers

#21 I was wondering if any other levels have 'islands', and if so has any one been on them?

Joey

#22 Man, y'all have too much time on your hands. I am glad that this bug is at least amusing. The arrow pad launch to the small island is especially amusing, reminds me of when I was young and we were all jumping bicylces.

"is it ready yet, is it clear?"

" yeah, go paco go!"

#23 Come look at these cool island jumping pictures..... enjoy :)

Island jumping with Merv

Hello Merv :)

Cool view from small island

#24 The deserved credits as I know them (correct me if I am wrong):

First verified off mainland safe landing: Shoseph
Landed on small island after accidently hitting pad combo.

First verified "controlled" off mainland landing:
-z- using pad combo.

First unverified heavy tank on "pad island":
Tank Dork using sinking launch in own game, then came and told -z-, paco, and mess starting an all night launch fest.

First verified sink launch to heaven: -z-
First verified to "ski slopes" -z-, Paco

First verified trip to big island on cranium crater in light tank: Paco
Using sink launch past island then driving back to it from behind.

First verified trip to big island on cranium crater using sink launch in heavy tank:
Tank Dork, I have been back once since.

Most frequent flyer miles and visits to the most islands:
-z- He has been to pretty much all the islands and logged many hours of flight time =)

If I missed someone, my bad.. I was up all night and things got fuzzy =)

Air Traffic Control:
Cranium Crater is the prime map for island hopping since it has a launch point on all sides of the island so you don't have to drive alot when you spawn in.
The other three maps in the lush series have launch points but not as many as cranium crater and require alot of driving with fewer launches per game.

Frantic maps. There are many launch points in all the frantic maps, but the best one by far is
Receptor Ridge
which has alot more sharp ridges to "sink" into.
The main problem with the Frantic maps is that the islands seem to be uninhabitable, each time we landed on them we died.. more experimentation needs to be done in these regions before colonization can begin.

Spooky maps. Basically untested as far as I know.

"Uh Oh.. this is gonna hurt..."
Tank Dork

#25 Ok.. due to all the DEMO's who just dont bother to read server names and come in guns blazing when people are just after a bit of skydiving fun, any server I create for skydiving will be password protected using 'skydive' as the password. Hopefully those disinterested in skydiving will not be reading this thread and will hence not know the password to get in, and all those who are, will be able to.

If people still come in and cause problems, then I shall change the password and will try and notify all those who do enjoy a bit of cliffdiving individually.

-Z-

#26

Quote:Tank Dork wrote:
Thank you shoseph for leading us to the new world.. even if it was on accident.

Heh, I didn't know my little discovery would lead to a whole new world of exploration. I definitely have to try this stuff on my own. :)

shoseph

#27 That you do shoseph.. that you do... but don't try it on your own.. do it with others.. its safer and ALOT more fun. =)

"I have that sinking feeling again"
Tank Dork

#28 @Tally Ho (and anyone else who doesn't see the islands when they play) - The islands will only show up on high detail settings. For medium and low details, the terrain that isn't part of the actual play field is culled out. This helps performance on lower end machines. We tend to err on detail settings on the side of better performance, so you might try setting your details to high to see if you still get good framerate.

#29 A couple of new firsts:

First to sink the scrum and leave it bouncing around under the ground: 56kLagMan

First controlled shunt to another island: 56kLagMan (Shunted over by me, -z-)

heh.. definitely, as Joe pointed out, too much time on our hands.

-Z-

#30 Man, I've been gone too long. I finally just got version 1.02 update. So lemmie get this straight, you find a sharp point and you sink into the ground? Also, Zoggles, is your skydiving server still up?

#31 It's not always up.. depends on what else I've got running etc. I try to leave it up as much as possible when I can, and its usually up for several hours every day.

But yes, fnd a sharp (nearly 90 degrees) edge on the terrain and move forwards over it very very slowly until you start to 'sink' into it. Then just wait and watch what happens! The best map for it is Cranium Crater and one of the easiest places to get results is 'the spike' - a sharp pointed protrusion on the edge of the mainland (which can be a bit of a Bucking Bronco ride).

Don't forget to double check your parachute before you try it though ;)

-Z-

#32 Time for more screenies:

Bot's trying to skydive. They aren't very good at it yet:
ezupa.com/thinktanks/IHearTheWeatherIsNiceThisTimeOfYear.jpg

When he's not playing ThinkTanks, Z can be found helping old ladies cross the street:
ezupa.com/thinktanks/TooMuchTimeOnYourHands.jpg

My radar can see the scrum, why can't I?:
ezupa.com/thinktanks/PhantomScrum.jpg
(Also note the little icon that gives Lag Man his nick.)

The new holographic scrum is hard to pick up:
ezupa.com/thinktanks/BecomeOneWithTheScrum.jpg

Z likes the holo-scrum too:
ezupa.com/thinktanks/DoesThisMakeMeLookFat.jpg

While not skydiving z tries to overcome his many vices:
ezupa.com/thinktanks/DeathOfTheDeadlySins.jpg

#33 Another first,

First to fly the UFO to the small island: 56k Lag Man
ezupa.com/thinktanks/Hehe.jpg
I used the two arrow pads to get over there.

I missed on this run, but was amazed at how much speed I had left over. I bounced off the low part on the right of the little island and kept on going until I died just short:
ezupa.com/thinktanks/UFOsShouldJustFlyThere.jpg

It's tough going though since 'Heavy Testing' is Battlemode and other tanks, (especially bots) like to shoot at you.

For more info read this thread:
http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=forums&page=result.forum&qf=90

-- 56k Lag Man

#34 --BUMP--

#35 Lol, I remember when I first started, and island hopping had just really started to get big, and everyone was doing it, that was fun.

#36 Ya, I remember that. Lets keep bumping this thread to keep the memories alive.

#37 Lol, this here thread was on page 70 :)
alot of clicking involved, to --bump-- dis thread :)

cpt Rik

#38 I havn't read EVERY post, but iv read a lot and in thoses post no one tells how to get over there!!!! so i figure you moded the maps and added speed boost. Well here gose nothing! ->->->->-> aaaa to many seed boosts lol :-).

#39 You do know you do it on the stock cranium...dont you?

#40 No, isle hopping is on Cranium. I had an "Isle hopping classic" server up a while back.

I just changed that arrow boost so it ALWAYS points the right way.