instant-spectate

lul woolctf has this

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Some CTF teams blacklist certain players from spectating matches in the first place allowing them to join and instantly get spectator isn't a good thing, there is also normally a limit on specs for some teams too which can cause problems.
Adding a system of "You are on this team you can play" would be a lot of effort for one and two not effective considering it is achievable right now if you just ask a JMod or Mod to set you into spectator mode. If random people are joining /support and ask for an online Mod to kick them from the server or if you know what you are doing and joining just don't join. -1

 

The Mod could also just not set those players that aren't allowed to spectator and make them leave and keep the limit by just not /spectating over a number of players to that limit. I don't think this idea is being stricter with spectators but more of the opposite that is just my opinion on this.

 

I don't understand this, all this dev time to save a few seconds of a mods time and it'd be easier to control it manually.

 

This is basically an advanced whitelist, and a whitelist needs a roster to go off of. However, CTF teams often have very dynamic rosters with changes 24/7, so it would be more hassle in the long run to keep these rosters updated for the match server. Also, this would be annoying for PPM's and unofficials that have players in the game who might not even be on the roster.

-1

 

stop joining matches u arent playing in and there would be no problem

stupid random

 

you know what is a simple solution to make matches start on time???

not joining the match server if you are not playing

 

If us mods have to constantly attend to random people joining to spec, then we aren't able to start the game on time even if both teams are ready. Long story short, don't join match server if you aren't playing. If you want to spectate a match, ask the teams before just joining and expecting to be set in spectator.

 

@Wizzlol707 kamil is delusional lol

 

As I said before, if you wanted only people outside of the teams to spec, you would have to essentially create a whitelist for all the teams to be used on the match server. That itself would have to be kept updated with the CTF Official Teams section, and in the long run would cause more work for the people in charge of the list to keep updating as people leave teams / switch teams / create new teams / disband old teams. That being said, you would have to also have a way to only whitelist certain teams for the match server, and our devs should spend their time on more important projects.

It would just shift all of our work onto the devs and admins in charge of the server whitelists. The issue would also be solved if people checked with the teams playing to decide if they can spec or not, and then mods can just spectate everyone on the server because they don't have to keep checking with the team leaders.

 

Pros

• Allows new players to experience the cancer.
• Gives me and the rest of the community a reason to complain.
• ****s and giggles.

Cons

• Waste of money (We pay devs)
• Another thing to fix if it breaks
• Waste of staff's time (rosters update to frequently)
• Nobody really cares.
• PPM's and special events make this inconvenient.
• Where's wool? (Extremely low priority for what it's worth)

I'll let you way that one out

 

(I'm not a mod, don't quote me on this) giving players spec doesn't seem like a major issue to the point where an auto spec is necessary. I think it's fine where it is, unless ctf mods start complaining in mass then there's really no point to this being added. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say that it would save time, just not a significant amount of time.