[ bzflag-Bugs-1624400 ] Laser should not ricochet

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Bugs item #1624400, was opened at 2006-12-29 10:33
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Category: BZFlag
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Brian Utterback (blu28)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Laser should not ricochet

Initial Comment:
When ricochet is turned on, the laser can bounce in unpredictable ways. Since there is no range limit on the laser, it can bounce all around the field, with the mostly likely result of killing the firing tank. It is impossible to tell where it will end so firing the laser becomes a crap shoot. 

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Comment By: alwaysanegativescore (alwaysanegative)
Date: 2007-01-11 17:36

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The variable controlling the laser range (I think it's _laserAdRange) on
the server in question must be through the roof. Try lowering it, or if you
aren't an admin, ask an admin to lower it.

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Comment By: ruskie (ruskie3)
Date: 2007-01-08 08:09

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Did you ever play on two castles... laser there doesn't crisscross the
entire playing field... infact it doesn't even go from one corner to the
other without a bit of help from moving forward. So it is limited. and it
can ussualy be predicted.

I've been saved by being hit by laser simply due to the fact that people
expect it to go full range when infact it does not :)

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Comment By: Brian Utterback (blu28)
Date: 2007-01-08 07:50

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Maybe I am missing something. Unless the laser is shot perpendicular to
the surface, it will ricochet at 
an angle. While it is reasonable to expect that an experienced player
could use this to his advantage, 
the next surface hit will also likely be at an angle and thus ricochet
again, also at an angle, becoming
more difficult to predict at each ricochet. Watching the various servers
with lasers configured, every time
it is used, nearly the entire playing field is blanketed by crisscrossing
beams. 

Perhaps the best thing would be to have a configuration parameter that
sets a limit to the number of times
the laser will ricochet? 

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Comment By: ruskie (ruskie3)
Date: 2007-01-07 07:14

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Not really... And it is ussualy limited in duration/range. And nothing is
unpredictable... It's all predictable... one just needs to learn how to use
it first

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