To Have the ability to Watch and Chat??

[EddBoy7]

I thinkit would be cool if we could watch other players in battle and maby even be able to talk to them and give them hints on what they could do!! In a battle the lower right hand corner always has the name of the 2 people batteling and it says 2 players in the arena if we could watch are name could be there too! Would it not be cool if we could do this??
Please respond!!!!:D

[A.F.I.]

chating = superspam
watching will let ppl copy others forms easier

[EddBoy7]

Ok then no chating but watching would still be cool!! You could learn new tactics and moves and different settings!!

[CYBERwizard]

Originally posted by A.F.I.
watching will let ppl copy others forms easier
The ability to watch and learn from others is strategy if you ask me. If you can watch someone and learn their tactics before you fight them you can find their weakness. That seems like a pretty good STRATEGY.

[Cuathon]

this would be very hard to code and would clog servers

[Killer_kev]

specing and chat are as old as this forum is, you would not haveto worry about spaming if people had to get persmition to watch

[Snork]

This has been suggested several times.

I suggested weeks ago to designate a square, I chose upper left, to be watching arena.

[Hashish_Scout]

Well, then that square might be taken alot by newbs, maybe a floor, maybe floor 10?

[uknowwho42]

Floor/square thing cooould work, but I think instead it should be an invite/accept thing instead of you can just jump in. Both players agree to let someone watch, and then they can watch. Of course that would be hard to code and people might be bums and never let anyone in, but in theory at least it would probably work better.

[MasterGolem]

maybe a gold only thing? Since most golds arent n00bs they wont copy the formations

[Snork]

Hashish, I suggested one square per floor.
And who cares if they're new, it's still a game to watch.
The good players will still get games in for all to see.

uknowwho42, nice thinking, but would defeat the purpose if you have squares to watch but nobody will let you watch. Don't wanna be watched, don't play on those squares. :)

[Punishment Co.]

Hmm... what about, the watching feature is available only to inter-clan people. That way, you really wouldnt have to worry about people just stealing ur formation, I mean, at least this way u know who's watching >_< just a thought I felt to add

[EddBoy7]

So what some of you are saying is that you should need an inventation 1st befor you could watch some 1 battle some 1 else!

So fore ex. i would have to type /watch [persons name] then while you are in battle it would say maby in green Mr So and So would like to watch type /y to let him or /n to not let him watch!

How does this sound?

[Ahab]

Bleagh.

You should be able to click on any game and watch it for as long as you wanted. Period.

This "secret strategy" stuff is for the birds. You can either play or you cannot. If the secret strategy stuff was a real part of the game, people would be incentivized NOT to play any games at all, except in tournies.

And I guess I don't get what is so hard about coding it so you can see the feed that's already going out to two players???

[kyrios24]

Exactly what I was gonna say punishment... I would love to have the whole clan strategizing together. Now, an idea lifted off my chess server. There's something called "whispering," and then there's the ever-present kibitz. Maybe golds only could kibitz (players could hear it), and everyone could whisper (only watchers can hear). I also like the invitational thing, though maybe there could be private games that need invites. You could post a poll or something, see the ratio of people that would want private vs. non-private, and divide up the boards accordingly.

Only problem is, this would make cheating extremely easy...clan members could watch and message each other with moves. I really want the option to watch though, it would be sweet.

[AzN_GuY]

server ports. 250 incoming connections at once. Servers would clog faster than a drain with tar poured down it.

[Ahab]

I guess I don't understand.

How is this different than, say, 250 people playing the game, from an I/O standpoint?

[Snork]

You don't want to be watched, don't play on the special squares.
End of story. No need for any special rules. Either play there, or don't.

I've suggested feeding the game to a different web page where you aren't logged in. That way, you can just go to the web page and watch. You're not in the server, so not taking up space. And can't get involved in the game.

The whispering could be disabled for anybody in a game that can be watched, back on when they leave the game.

Those are all workable ideas I think.

[max2k106]

all this stuff is confusing, the people that made TAO are either gonna make the watch and chat feature or they're not, thats it, case closed, end of story, but it would be cool:p