http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/70089Games like this demonstrate that they're different people, since they're all playing. Still, friends/roomates.
Spec cheating will put a complete end to open spectating and means we might need more measures in place for account control. It will really damage the game. Don't do it.
Edit:
[2:36 PM] [Anteep] i dont think it was serious at all
[2:36 PM] [Anteep] more like trolling
[2:36 PM] [Anteep] if you notice it's clear that east is winning
You get banned for trolling. Just don't. If Quadaffi had taken this more seriously in chat (and stop throwing around racial slurs) maybe a ban wouldn't have been necessary. If he wants to sit down and explain that he was just screwing about and considered the game won, he can do that. If he's going to make stupid jokes about racial slurs instead he gets banned.
[2:44 PM] [Anteep] check this replay:
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/70077[2:44 PM] [Anteep] on that replay
[2:44 PM] [Anteep] we get a zenith late in to the game
[2:44 PM] [Anteep] fireman sam just points out a few targets we could never have seen
So here is another replay to investigate for spec cheating...
Edit2: det says that game desynced hard, and at no point was sfireman's alt actually spectating- he probably never joined the game (running on the same box etc). While he did have knowledge of the Zenith and Fusion, given the desyncs, he may have just scouted for it.
If anyone else has any games they want to point to where sfireman or anyone else may have speccheated please feel free to bring them to our attention.