Opinion on "no spec cheat" rule?

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The official opinion is: don't.
My opinion is: don't.

i wrote a unit tweak giving mex full map view..

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then i realized its already a part of the game and you can just turn "global los" to true in room settings

and i also realize cliver is asking about cheating not playing without fog.. i expect there are a few who do already do this.. there are cheaters in many games.. perhaps cliver is asking if a no spec option can be added to rooms for replay only spectating?

maybe thats not such a bad idea for some high level games.

if a group of 8 players wanted to play a purple ranked game and they dont want any spectators only players.. then an option to kick and lock the the room to specs could be useful in tornaments for example

incase your still reading my board ramblings..
im going to mention just because it was funny i tried to make my commander into a singularity using a tweak and it caused my comander to instantly explode XD

yes perhaps your right but lets just check we are on the same page.

i dont mean to ?voice? mute spectators but rather to prevent them 'as spectators' because this can and indeed sometimes does equate to simply another screen next to a person playing using two accounts. they are able to then look using the extra account at the nature of there enemy.

unless i missunderstand what mutespec does? does it prevent spectating? perhpas the word mute is confusing me?

What is the purpose of starting so many unnecessary threads?

what if somone builds 3 singu and doesnt connect them all game.. that drives me nutz.. its hard to bottle this up.. i need therapy after.. i really really want to tell them. '=D

... sigh. I knew that there's no progress without shame. But -7 dislikes is excessive. Good thing that the dislikes don't mean a thing, and I got what I wanted: Aquanim gave me the feedback I wanted, with due respect and lack of disrespect. These kinds of responses are the reason I have to ignore any sort of rating.

Anyway, I asked this question because I wanted to run a lobby where "spec cheat" is allowed. As Aquanium stated, by "spec cheat," I don't necessarily mean "spec troll," just something that gives an unfair advantage to make the game more fun. As Aquanium stated, new players can benefit from spec cheat, even if the feedback comes from an enemy, to learn the game better. But furthermore, I don't like fair battles, since they don't push innovation. Sure, it can be fun to play a mirror match over and over again, but to me, it might be interesting to see what happens in scenarios of "last stand," which only happen in strong vs newb players, which is an inherintly unfair match.

Maybe people misunderstood my intentions as to promote spec cheat in all lobbies. I am not <REDACTED> or <REDACTED> player, I think that [CLARIFICATION]: "no spec cheating" is a fair rule for competitive games.

With that cleared up, SmokeDragon, Aquanim, thanks for the feedback. Another day proving that higher rank =/= better player.

I forget what it's called, but we've had a game type for a long time where everybody has full vision of the map and you can't built antis... It's called something along the lines of mutually assured destruction, after the principle by which nations that have nukes do not use them in fear of being destroyed by retaliatory strikes. I forget the exact name if that's not it.

Calling that "spec cheating" is weird. Cheating implies a rule is broken. There's nothing being broken if the mode is changed for the lobby and everybody is equally impacted by the change. Cheating implies that a change was made to benefit a specific player/team, most likely done in a covert fashion.

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 But furthermore, I don't like fair battles, since they don't push innovation. 

is it not the opposite?.. that the more fair the ballte the longer you have to ~ and the more you have need of ~ inovation