A lot of people sit in spectate.
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Join Date: 2012-03-09 Member: 148459Members
Join Date: 2012-03-09 Member: 148459Members
As the title says, I'm a VERY new player and I've been enjoying the game a lot however what I've noticed a lot is that people that will afk in spec or sit in the team selection area and wait until they get on the team of their choosing. This generally leaves the 16 slot server with only have 10~ or so active players actually playing.
I personally find this really annoying, I'd like to have a full 8v8 match but you always got those people in spectate. There should be a limit on how long you can sit in the spectate spawn area before it kicks you. If you ACTUALLY wanted to spec you could should have to go into the spectate teleporter.
Just a observation from a new guy. What are your guys thoughts?
Edit - Made this while a little loopy on cough medicine so I just fixed some of the wording up.
I'd also like to clarify that I don't mind people spectating is mostly when they AFK in the team choosing lobby area. If people wanted to spectate then by all means join the spectate team. Maybe in the future there can be somewhere on the scoreboard that differs from people sitting in lobby to the people who actually want to spectate.
I personally find this really annoying, I'd like to have a full 8v8 match but you always got those people in spectate. There should be a limit on how long you can sit in the spectate spawn area before it kicks you. If you ACTUALLY wanted to spec you could should have to go into the spectate teleporter.
Just a observation from a new guy. What are your guys thoughts?
Edit - Made this while a little loopy on cough medicine so I just fixed some of the wording up.
I'd also like to clarify that I don't mind people spectating is mostly when they AFK in the team choosing lobby area. If people wanted to spectate then by all means join the spectate team. Maybe in the future there can be somewhere on the scoreboard that differs from people sitting in lobby to the people who actually want to spectate.
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I'll usually hit up admins to kick AFK specs when they sit around for a few minutes. You can usually ask in chat and someone can find an admin. Most inversion servers (aka all the inversion, all-in, 156(?), darkside) have a few admins around if you ask.
I'll usually hit up admins to kick AFK specs when they sit around for a few minutes. You can usually ask in chat and someone can find an admin. Most inversion servers (aka all the inversion, all-in, 156(?), darkside) have a few admins around if you ask.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Good to know, but I think a feature of sorts should be added so you don't have to hassle the admins every time you need someone removed for being in spectate for too long.
This isn't a HUGE problem, but I do see this happen now and then and just wanted to bring it to attention as in my opinion it kinda ruins some of the experience and also takes up slots for people who actually want to play.
Yeah, I do find the interval between games slightly too short.
This would only work if the server also kicked people for AFKing after a reasonable time period of no KB/mouse input.
Wait wait wait. You're Canadian? Damnit. Also increase the turret limit to 4.
I mean most of the time, the game has just 16 slots, so 8 vs 8 sometimes there 2 spectators so its 6 vs 8 or 7 vs 7 and on.
Why not lock the spectator and only unlock for admins?
Most people use spectator to see which team has the most of the map ^^
That wont be happening. On All-In servers i try and get people to learn how to play with spamming them. You don't need them to win. So i took the limit down to 3 and also, i think i upped the distance between them allowed till you can build the next 3. And yes im Canadian EH!
I mean most of the time, the game has just 16 slots, so 8 vs 8 sometimes there 2 spectators so its 6 vs 8 or 7 vs 7 and on.
Why not lock the spectator and only unlock for admins?
Most people use spectator to see which team has the most of the map ^^<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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From a admin perspective would you want to put on a mod/script that kicked people who stayed in spec for too long? If this thing would be created, as an admin there would you want it on the servers?
Just a question I'd like to know from a admin point of view.
Just a question I'd like to know from a admin point of view.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I admin the Team Darkside server and I would put this on our server.
There's a difference between people ACTUALLY going into spectate mode and sitting in the lobby where you choose teams. Which is what I'm mainly talking about.
It's not fair to force one team to lose 7v8 because you wanted to alt tab and watch cat videos.
Just a question I'd like to know from a admin point of view.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think i would run the mod, but i hope there was a timer i could set before it started kicking people. If someone is afk i kick them to make room. Like i stated above alot of people just like to hang out after a match. As for kicking specs. i let them spec unless people start asking about them. Then i ask them to join please.
Sometimes I have to wait 10min for a serverslot and as soon as I connect and join a team, I see 2 afk skulks for over 15min and some other AFK in the RR.
So a 18 slot server was full but actually only 13 were playing.
What I would prefer is that matchmaking time is increased to 1min and as soon as the round starts all players in the RR are forced to join random. In combination with AFK kick you would have full servers that are actually full of players that are playing.
This ^
Just a question I'd like to know from a admin point of view.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
After reading some of the other responses and thinking about it some more, this would be my ideal solution:
When server is full, kick when idle in RR for 5 minutes. Spectator, Marines, Aliens would be ignored. Or, if there was a way to detect inputs, then kick for 5m idle on any team when the server is full.
This would automatically remove those people who like to afk for 2 hours in a popular server but not hinder those who want to spec/talk trash. I've seen too many full servers where a few people will afk for 30m++. No reason they should be allowed to remain on the server, but admins can't monitor it all day.