Spectator mode

A spectator would be invisible and tell you what's behind you if they were your friend. They could help prevent assassinations on occasion.
A ninja would kill the assassin, and wouldn't need to even say a thing.
A ninja can easily scope out a defense. Pearl up to the flagroom, invis, watch.

 

Just noticed and edited the post. Thanks.

Now back to the topic...

 

Honestly, it has the same effect. You can get across the map as ninja as fast as you can fly. And you can interfere with gameplay as ninja. You can heal your friend as medic. There's really 0 benefit to having a friend spectate for you. Even alone, I can scout out a defense easily. Ninja to see what's what, and then medic, ninja, Mage, or chemist to cap all depending. Defenses don't often change other than one or two players leaving or joining, and often they don't affect the outcome much.
As far as Ninja's time limit goes, it doesn't take more than 64 seconds to scout a defense.

 

the problem with spectator mode like on other servers is the fact that you can stand in front of an arrow and block it while spectating, unless there is a way to stop that, spectating in skywars wouldn't be the best idea, but other servers it should work well!

 

/gamemode 4 makes you have no hitbox.

 

Sounds like a great idea, I defiantly agree with these ideas but an addition to HG would be greatly appreciated too, don't you agree? Even if it is only spectating the person who killed you it would add a awesome bonus!

There is the problem of having people telling others but that can't be helped much anyway if people are talking together or skyping so we might as well live with it

Good point

 

In HG teams would have such an unfair advantage.
@DreamOnPvP great idea though I support it .

 

In gamemode 4 you don't have a hitbox and are completely invisible so arrows fly through you, however if it is abused you could simply have a barrier so you can only watch from 20 blocks up, for example.

 

Good point! And I think I spectator would add to the mini-games!

 

I think its a very good idea!
I play lots of Mc-war, and sometimes I do /war leave, and I just wait 320 seconds.
It would be awesome, if you could go in gamemode Spectator, which has been added to Minecraft in 1.8.
Maybe this could be possible to add in the game, or not, just tell me