lets talk about spectraitor cheat

Most people aren't complete dickheads. Speccing is a part of the 1-room culture so nothing can be done anyway.

But how am I supposed to teach all the lobsters to fight back when sfireman comes?

Suggested new commands:

!votemute spec (name) - mutes that spectator from using all-chat in game. Chat channels a: and s: are still allowed. Effective until game end/start.

!votemute spec all - mutes all spectators from using all-chat in game.Chat channels a: and s: are still allowed. Effective until game end/start.

!votemute echo (name) - lobby messages by that player are not echoed into the game chat. Effective until game end/start.

!votemute echo all - lobby messages are never echoed into the game chat. Effective until game end/start.

!votemute lobby (name) - player is unable to create messages in the lobby. If the vote fails, the player is still muted for 30 seconds. If the vote succeeds, the player is muted for 10 minutes or until game end/start.

!votemute pluk - mutes Firepluk permanently

!votemute pessimism - blocks all messages containing: resign, give_up, nub, nab, bored, sleepy, (additional character strings to be added later), or until game end/start. Players will recieve an automated spring message saying "your message was blocked by !votemute pessimism for containing (character string)"

!votemute elohell - blocks all in-game messages by players with 1800+ elo. Effective until game end/start.

!votemute god - blocks all messages by admins/mods. Effective until game end/start.

!votemute votemute - prevents any further usage of !votemute. Effective until game end/start.

I have to say I seen it once and promptly make the guy aware that it is not fun to do such thing after I whooped his butt regardless of this fact in 1v1.

bipolar much?

i have seen people spec cheat and get away with it.. then i tried to joke spec cheat and before the first scouts had made it midway i said "wow thats the fastest detri iv ever seen" .. bam kicked.. i guess i should have said thats the fastest iv ever seen somone finish a detri.. ill have to try to be more rediculous nextime.

i guess its possible on some non metal maps that people would still rush a detri O.o

What if I haven't seen them, but heard them on Mumble? Honk?

i bet there are more then a few people with labtops and spy accounts spectating games.. so that they never get nuked or krowed anymore

We've always known this might be a problem in the long term and maybe after steam release we might have to do something about it. If you want to fobid specs in your game you can, and maybe that should be facilitated mechanically at some point.

quote: It's completely unreasonable to bar spectators from a game over irrational suspicion.

Unless there is money on the line, I don't really see a huge problem having spectators. Since we don't run money tournaments, it's probably not a big deal.

Granted, if people are worried about it despite no monetary reward, I'd still say that outside of tournaments the risk of spectators cheating is more annoying than anything. Not reason enough to completely disallow spectating in regular matches, just report the offending spectators. Maybe if people are really concerned in tournaments, they could request no spectators (besides the commentators, note the stream is delayed).