I didn't yet put in any kind of message saying "you've been blown up X times. You can only be blown up Y more times." I'd like to do that. It won't impact scripts adding a line of text like that, I hope.

I thought this topic was for times blown up, so pardon me if I go back to that. I have an idea, or opinion. What not set the times blown up or times dead as a different limit. To me if your ship gets destroyed you have lost a ship or what I would call an LS. If you have lost a ship you have not died. If you have lost a pod or scout ship then you are out of the game for the day, that is a dead player or player death called an SD. To me those are to different things. Why not have the tourneys set up where they can count either as set by the sysop? If you want a player death limit then the player actually has to die and be out of the game until extern. Whether its a death by his pod getting blown up, or his scout ship being destroyed or any other podless ship, or a death by being murdered at stardock...that would be a death. If you want a ship destroyed limit then all the player has to do is have his ship destroyed a certain amount of times whether he gets podded and goes into another ship or not. He lives the rest of the day, but his ship was destroyed. I see these two things as two different things and should be two different limits. That's my two cents for what it is worth.

Seems were talking around all the same stuff:

1) Times Blown Up
2) Times Ship Destroyed

So I guess if those 2 different option's were available would that meet the masses on expectations of the way a tournament/game could be configured?

And of course there is an option for a time limit if the limit of times blown up or deaths were not met. However, why not fix one before coding for all the rest? Personally I like the ship destroyed limit, but if you have an actual death limit you could avoid a stalemate situation by not worrying about times your ship was destroyed. I heard the last tourney ended in a stalemate. Were you on one of those teams Toyman?

Ok, so the "times blown up", which I understand to mean "times you lose a ship", is working now. But let's talk about how the "times killed" should work, and how it was working in v1.03 and is working in the current release. How do I need to change that to make it work? What were players able to do to get around it?

If that's how it was working, then that's how you'd expect a "death limit" to work. So having a toggle on how it was working and the new way it is working should support both kinds of limits. So I think this is ready.

If you hit the death limit you could still take 2 pods per day. You had to be #SD# after hitting the Death Limit for it to work.

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Ship lost should be one count
while I think the death limit should only count #SD#
then when tourney mode true
and if death limit is set , it would have to be set real low to
give way for a reasonable time for game to end.
If a combo of both these limits were used
then there would be better control.
Say : Max Ship Lost = 15 or Deaths , #SD# = 4
Now if one of either is met .. that player is out.

just a thought

That does sound very flexible. I like it.