Ok I enjoy Capture the Flag even though there are few really good CTF levels to play (massassi only has 6!), but there is something that is just lacking that I believe is why it is not played as often as anything else.
MONOTONY Its the same thing over and over again, Run get the flag, find the punk who has your flag, Kill him, Run back to your flag before its stoled AGAIN, lather, rinse, then repeat it all over again until someone gets tired and leaves or you actually score enough points and win a game. What I think it needs is a fair bit of diversity and randomness.
This is what my ACTUAL question is. Is it possible to rewrite the CTF cogs so that it allows for more than 1 location for the flag to be. Like 6 or 8 different spots. The flag would randomly appear at one of these positions and you would have to find it, then take it back to your base. It would then be transported to one of the other remaining positions allowing you to actually have to search for the flag. (Like real capture the flag)
If this is possible then new CTF levels would have to be made, bigger more random levels rather than mirror copied levels. Im currently working on a big CTF level which would be Perfect for this concept. So all you Coggin X-Perts run this idea through your heads and get back to me.

Thanx
Menace

It certainly is possible.. I'm swamped ATM though, otherwise I would take a look at it..

-Jipe

I would also like to know if you like the idea. If you dont then say so and why.

I'm in the same boat, I love CTF but it's too repetitive to set the score limit for more than 100. Sounds like a great idea.

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hey have you ever played drazen isle? you know how theres that cog that mekes all the big guns appear in different spots each time? well maybe you could like just edit that cog to make it move the flag to a different location each time...aahhhhh...

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Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ?
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I've had a quick look at the ctf cogs and it's not that difficult to modify the code to do what you want.

All that's required is to create some more ghost objects where you want the flags to appear, and then modify the ctf_main.cog to randomly select from one of these - you can still have certain locations for each team though.

The only problem is that I'm swamped at the moment working on Rbots, but I'm more than willing to lend a hand if someone else would like to tackle it.

Cheers...

Raynar


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the answer is yes
yes, yes, and more yes
and then even more yes