Observer Team

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Reported by SilentRogue on 5 Jan 2010 09:44 UTC Original Poster: badpazzword@gmail.com

Expecially for newbies, it would be important and experiencing to make 'vets' playing some serious gameplay without interfering with it.

Here's my proposal for this system, hoping it will clarify :

• For any game, create a 'Watchers' team. So, they can make comments to the game without burdening important team chat.
• The 'Watchers' team can read unfiltered chats (e.g., from and to anybody), but won't be able to communcicate with players (to avoid spying)
• 'Watchers', as the name suggests, can only watch. They may choose to see the game from the F3 panoramic or from a 'Take me to' cockpit view.
• Once a player joined 'Watchers', he's cannot obviously enter one of the two teams to avoid spying. So 'Watchers' is not usable to see who's having the winning edge and join the (hopefully) other team.

Operators and moderators may as well use the 'Watchers' utility to moderate games and check conduct/cheating more easily.

Moreover, important games as Allegiance Wars' should be real fun to see, imho.

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Comment by fuzzylunkin1 on 5 Jan 2010 09:45 UTC '''terralthra''' Problem with this is that with TS and such, information leakage would be incredibly easy. Perhaps add the specification that the observers team can only see entities that are eyed by the enemy team?

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Comment by fuzzylunkin1 on 5 Jan 2010 09:45 UTC '''badp''' Thank you, SilentRogue.

Terr, your proposal would look fair -- except the observer team has simply nothing to see in the first five minutes.

SG's accept viewers anyway, and there are rules to handle them.

But! It'd be cool to have something like this for games like, say, tournament finals.

Maybe if two observers could move around in F3 view and stream the game with a 15 minutes' delay, that'd be fair enough.

I think there's no simple way to do this though with the current build... but this is off-context for this bug.

/me readjusts the bug accordingly

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Modified by fuzzylunkin1 on 5 Jan 2010 09:48 UTC

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Modified by fuzzylunkin1 on 5 Jan 2010 09:49 UTC

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Modified by fuzzylunkin1 on 8 Jan 2010 08:49 UTC

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Comment by bp on 8 Jan 2010 08:52 UTC As the original proposer of the bug, I'll close it because it's too much work for too little gain.

The very same results can be obtained by having one basesitter per team streaming live through services like livestream. Examples can be seen here:

http://tv.holysh1t.net/#home http://www.livestream.com/qlpickup etc.

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Comment by bp on 8 Jan 2010 09:21 UTC I made an alternative proposal in ticket #51.