Anyone still interested on 'safe' combat?

I'm not referring to lobbing nukes at eachother in rausch, but actual combat involving semi-realistic weapons and actual tactics? I am, and I can put some more time into developing for it, but only if people are still interested.

Yes.

Would you be willing to only use certified guns and hit counters?
Also, anyone got an affordable safe combat engine already worked out that can be referee'd?

I'm willing to do whatever will make it fun and viable. Despite rumors to the contrary, I am capable of playing by the rules

Heh. me too. I have a hitcounter that I can control on high subchannel, still working in a better authentication scheme for it. IF I want people to 'stay dead' in a match, I now can.
Now to take away their ability to keep firing when dead....

I made a working autoturret, finished the mechanics last night, needs little more polish before I start carrying it into battle :d
It's really only good for counter-intrusion, not gunning down an endless stream of noobs. But it works

I would only participate if you played this in an endless loop.

My mind was just filled with monkeys on horseback.

You could always try one of my Laserquest arenas - see signature for location.

Lewis

Why does it need to be safe.....
I demand a biofeedback neural interface where I really kill my opponents

Waiting on qDot to get back to me on that.

I'm sure we can work that in somehow. We'll need something like 'Let The Bodies Hit The Floor' and 'Breathe' for team matches, tho.

I have one that's about 90% accurate . It's a little nuts. I'm afriad I went a little nuts and spent a week on the motion prediction. There seems to be some wakkyness with where sl detects avatars. Anyway, not sure turrets should be allowed in any combat deemed safe and fun . Would part of your weapon certification include a max rate of fire? Can I get a weapon certified? waht if it's a bow, will a hit count more?

There's alot still to be worked out. Mainly I wanted to make a turret so my small group could cover territory better, it's not instant-kill, but motion prediction and multiple target cycling would be cool.
It'd take cooler people than me to get a combat system entirely worked out

Yes, this is fine. Just so it isn't a one and done sorta deal. That is no fun.

heh, i think prim bullet combat is just doomed. horrible horrible way to do combat. It would be interesting to know from a linden though, what prim shape is easiest on physical collisions... I'm betting cylinder, but I could be wrong, or there may be no difference.

I have a free combat system (Terra Combat System) that is used in many aircraft and other vehicles (like tanks) already. It's also available as a HUD attachment, so you can wear it at the same time as any gun.

It works like laser tag... it sends out particle tracer bullets and uses sensors to detect hits. It keeps track of your hits, kills, and deaths.

If anyone wants a copy of TCS to put in your gun or vehicle, you can pick it up from my shop in Abbotts.

ya, best alternative to prim bullets, but the problem with sensors is taking cover becomes rather meaningless .

Right I unless you rig it to detect PASSIVE as well, and see if PASSIVE is first detected, right? Or have it check to see if a passive (wall) is in front of AGENT or ACTIVE?
*ducks cause he's not entire sure if he's right*

heh, doesn't work very well, if any 15 passive objects fall into the sensor cone whether or not they actually block the shot, they keep the sensor from even seeing the avatar. Anyway, it's not just passive, you have to detect everything. Also, the closer you want a shot to be effective, the wider your sensor cone has to be. I think a 15 degree arc was the smallest I was willing to go, which ends up covering a lot of space at medium range. Sadly, I'm convinced the only way for combat to really work in sl is to get LL to implement functions specifically for it, but eh, they have too many feature requests already, and I'm discouraged that I'd get what I really want anyway. And I'm impatient and I'd like to find a way to do it now. I think, hard on physics as it is, prim bullets are the only way to do ground combat. In planes sensors work well enough for sure. But vehicles even carefully scripted ones, are hard on physics and bandwidth in their own right.

Well, worth a shot. we could use slow-moving 'inert' bullets to check for a hit, then apply effects (damage, kickback, gruesome death)...
wait, that's kinda redundant.

Just make slow-rate of fire bullets w/ encoded names that the hit counter than make decisions with?

yep, lesser of all evils.

There used to be an entire sim here in SL that you could do just this in. I think it was called Midnight City? Can't remember now, but it was fun as hell. I was pretty sad when it went away. I still have all the guns, but they aren't much use now.

Yes I would be interested in a fair regulated combat system

oh and cube is the easiest for collisions

Well I'm up for it burke if you want to kick it around in Pi. It should even be possible to keep score in a timely and elegant fashion given HTTPRequest .

Another problem arises from asshats who show up with overpowered insta-kill-orbit-doom weapons. Do we carry our own 'fuck you too' negative mass weapon for them? Or do we be good little (airborne) residents and just AR them?

You know what option gets my vote, but meh.