Ah those freakin area bots, what a complete pain. I remember when your freq number decided what kind of FTL you could use, catapult freqs were the worst. I remember when I actually flew around in a spaceship
wat Why are you trying to run something like Eclipse on a rpi? It's way better suited to just be a deployment target after doing your development on something with actual power
If you want to do it that way, it might be more interesting to use the powerball than a single flag because you can't hold onto it for very long and would have to keep passing it around.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, there was a working gametype similar to this in 2008, it just had to be manually hosted every time. The primary mechanism behind it was even released publicly in 2009.