UFO (Bravetree people, please read)

#1 All UFo lameness belongs to UFO flyers. It's a cop out for people who never see their name at the top of the leaderboard when the score is over and buy a new toy instead of practicing. stop blaming the clubs gdi. i just spent two hours at comp usa. dont mess with me. the only thing worse than people cheating by cliff siding to get it is people HACKING to get the gd thing. so gd american. you cant tell which way that gd thing is going.

ill break you; the penguin's on crack.

#2 Wow.. Tally has had a rough day!

"nothing like a pissed off ausie"
Tank Dork

#3 Tally,
Thank you for insulting my country.
Thank you for taking my God's name in vain.
Thank you for attacking someone who asked a simple two questions.
Thank you for threatening people.

Thank you for being such a jerk.

#4 We certainly can't stop you from posting a tutorial, but we would rather you did not.

The UFO at the moment is something special. It is not a really good vehilce to have (in terms of it's effecitveness), and the bragging rights of either knowing how to unlock it or having unlocked it 'for real' puts you in a special club. We would rather have that mystery drawn out.

SO, instead of posting a tutorial.. I think you might have fun selectively handing out the information to people you want to have it.

We cannot stop you from editing the files... so, do what you feel is right.

#5 Joe are you guys ok with us editing files?? I just like editing small things like i gave myself a aqua brain and a bumper sticker that says FP RULZ Im not trying to improve on your designs or anying
PS ANYONE WHO HACKED THERE UFO IS A PUSSY
FP

#6 Right now the changes are client side only, so go right ahead and edit away and amuse yourselves, trade skins, show them off, send them to each other, have 'best skin' contests, etc...

It would be quite funny to start seeing 'skin packs'. I would love to see an OSX skin pack (that makes your tanks look like part of the OSX interface) and a Window XP skin...

We eventually would like to be able to put in a skinning system for armies, scrum teams and the like, but that will require that we address some complex back end issues.

A favorite old trick of mine (in other games) was to edit all the skins so they were hot pink and easier to see from a distance.

Eventually we want to add a bunch of things to have facilitate community sharing of resources like this, so keep the comments and discussions happening along these lines so when we do get a chance to devote some resources to this, we give y'all what you actually want, not what we think you want.

last thing... if you start hacking away and things start to break and can't get into games or start having problems with the game, we can try to help.. but we kind are very busy and we may have to leave it up to y'all to unhack your way out fo the problem.

#7 If you plan on trying to edit files MOVE A COPY OF THE FILE TO A TEMPORARY FOLDER!
PS ya pink rocks joe I have a hot pink and black zebra tank that looks like a heavy but drives and shoots like a light kick ass
PSS Joe I would like to see a map without the fog for long range battle and maybe 30 people
Is it ok to make a 30 person server or does this crash or slow down other servers??
PSSS IM WORKING ON THAT OSX SKINPACK ive already made the aqua brain a week ago, working on the tank skin complete with Apple logos and the X on a plate on the back.
FP

#8 ThinkTanks was not designed to handle a 30 person server. It will probably work, but the load might bog down the server (unless it is fast) framerates might be slower (polycount) and the maps are kind of small for 30+ players.

Maybe a 'jamboree' to test it out?

#9 Well out of curiosity, I created a server with 90 bots last week and, yes, the framerate is dreadfully slow at that point and the level of carnage is almost apocalyptic. It is handled exceedingly well though all things considered.

-Z-

#10 LOL. yeah. I might post a tutorial, but I don't want to hurt Joes feelings. LOL.
FP, I like your note: If you hacked it, ur a pussy. I recently got my 500000 back, so no more hacking for me.
(FP, sorry about a few days ago. I was pissed off at my computer...)


Nathan Gibney: TT ID: Nathan / Nathan TT
"If it's brown, drink it down. If its black, that's poison jack!"

#11 Tally, "If you don't have anything except gd to say, don't say anything".

Okay. I have some questions, i would like these answered. Developers or Z, i don't care.

1. How do you fiddle with the skins? Could I make all the ppl invisible (not practical but cool). FP sent me an aqua brain THEY ROCK but i can't figure out how he does it. I would love to be able to do wild stuff to my tanks, no one else can see them anyway and the developers don't mind.

2. How on earth did Z get 90 bots in a server? Just curious. Screenshot maybe Z?

3. Why do all the bots have names now? Is that something special on real servers? I know Z has his sin bots tho, i would love to name a bunch of bronze brained heavies after some particular ppl i know. I have taken an interest in this customization stuff, maybe Joe could post an explanation here or something?

Thanks guys, can't wait to get replies.

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#12 You want skinning? Check out my thread here:
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=12380

Anyway, naming bots is easy. Theres a prefs.cs file, where you can change bot names, what tank they drive, and their brain color. That file is written in plain engligh, so it's easy to edit.
Whoops! I've said too much!
*Jumps out window*


Nathan Gibney
"I've been insulted, USA has been insulted, and hacking has been insulted by Tally. Let's insult him! :)"