[ bzflag-Feature Requests-1168070 ] GM should kill at point blank range

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Feature Requests item #1168070, was opened at 2005-03-21 22:25
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Matthias Jetleb (legomaniac)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: GM should kill at point blank range

Initial Comment:
Do I understand what people are telling me correctly? Is 
GM really set to be non-lethal until it is a certain 
minimum distance from the shooter? If that's what was 
actually happening, it was allowing people with Wings 
(an already arguably too powerful flag when it has no flap 
limits) to just drop right in front of me with impunity. This 
makes Wings effectively invulnerable against GM's as 
long as you don't get killed during the initial ascent. 
There's no logical reason for this as I see it. GM should 
be as lethal as any other weapon at any point in it's 
flight.

LEGOManiac

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Comment By: Sean T. (autocosm)
Date: 2005-07-09 18:59

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What about making the range of a GM unlimited in cases like 
this?  Make the missles have sharper curves (turning).

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Comment By: Thomas Stauer (t-s)
Date: 2005-06-03 14:02

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I already made a patch which is optional ("setting that
avoids tanks with GM to kill themselves by bug") that
implements that functionality. I don't know how good it is
but it seems to be only way without changing lots of GM code.

This would need to be implemented after a protocol break of
course.

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Comment By: Septic Tank (oliver_browne)
Date: 2005-06-03 13:40

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I also think that it should kill at close range and that
that range could be set by the server

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Comment By: Dave Brosius (dbrosius)
Date: 2005-03-21 23:14

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i believe this is an unfortunate side effect from a hack that 
keeps GM from killing yourself when moving forward and firing.

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