Feature Suggestion (of sorts)

[HellBlade64]

I did some thinking recently (yeah I know, thinking can be dangerous), and was wondering if the ZandroDev team could implement the ability for clients on servers to call a force spectate (Spectate Kick) vote. I'm aware there's the host-side command to spectate kick someone. But, okay, picture this.

Example: You're on a server with 5 friends and 5 other people (10) and it's a survival server. Everyone but one of your friends dies on the map, and your friend, being the last player alive, is afk. You don't want to vote kick him from the server.

See? This is where "callvote spectate <playername>" could be helpful, if you don't want to kick the person from the entire server, and don't want to wait for the automated 10 minute force spectate thing to kick in, it makes for an easy solution to quickly fix survival games and other various modes.

So, whaddaya say? Is it a good idea, or am I just wasting time?

[Klofkac]

Create a tracker ticket for that. The devs use it for suggestions and bugs.

[Konar6]

The automated afk kick threshold is configurable, it's not fixed to 10 minutes.

[Slim]

*hack* RCON KickFromGame "<Player>" *cough*

[Cruduxy]

If talking about survival servers then be sure this will be disabled on almost all servers with 1 life. Most people die in the first 3 minutes then its up to 1-3 guys to finish the map, people already troll by voting the same map to restart it or even skip it. now they'll proceed to force spect ppl justifying "we came to play not watch and didn't kick you out so stfu and play or leave".
If you think that won't happen then probably press F8 to turn chat on and see people spamming "plz die so we can play you suck anyway".

[CloudFlash]

If talking about survival servers then be sure this will be disabled on almost all servers with 1 life. Most people die in the first 3 minutes then its up to 1-3 guys to finish the map, people already troll by voting the same map to restart it or even skip it. now they'll proceed to force spect ppl justifying "we came to play not watch and didn't kick you out so stfu and play or leave".
If you think that won't happen then probably press F8 to turn chat on and see people spamming "plz die so we can play you suck anyway".

This.
Not even mentioning how many noobs would force-spectate better players just because they are better than them.
Not even mentioning how many lovey-dovey couples will force-spectate everyone else 'because they make muh sweet Cloudey look like a cute little newb <3 3333333 :**** X-DDDDDDD ;-) ;-)'
YES. People like that DO EXIST on Zanzan.

[HellBlade64]

I remembered what my other suggestion for a new vote option would be, being able to client-side vote to change the sv_maxlives amount on the server. Now, of course, I can already see bad shit that could come with such a voting addition, like what someone here said, Zandron00bs would attempt to vote to have something like 99999 lives, but what if you added a max live addition amount, like, they can only vote to make the maxlives limit so and so. Like, minimum 1 maximum 10 or so.

[Ænima]

I remembered what my other suggestion for a new vote option would be, being able to client-side vote to change the sv_maxlives amount on the server. Now, of course, I can already see bad shit that could come with such a voting addition, like what someone here said, Zandron00bs would attempt to vote to have something like 99999 lives, but what if you added a max live addition amount, like, they can only vote to make the maxlives limit so and so. Like, minimum 1 maximum 10 or so.

Then they would just vote the max in any scenario.

[Slim]

Make the maximum vote for 5 lives and it might sound good.

Depending on the maps, 1 life is still widely proper. But if it's BS platforming with punishment of death (DBZone), 3 to 5 is proper.