Not Planned Give all players !ghost

[zach]

As of right now, !ghost on jailbreak can only be used by dedicated supporters or by a chance from !rtd. I think it should be available for all players for the following reasons:


1. Keeps the server population higher - By allowing all players to use !ghost, players will be more likely to not leave when they die because they will have stuff to do when they are a ghost. Nobody likes sitting in spectator for 7-8 minutes while waiting for a round to finish. I think this will overall keep the server population higher!

2. DS already has a lot of perks - Dedicated supporters have more perks than ever right now, so just removing the addition of !ghost will not make an impact on people buying it.

3. Newer players can practice games - A lot of new players will end up dying early in the rounds and wont get a chance to practice games that they died to. Giving them !ghost can help them practice these games.

 

[mouse pouch]

+1 What a wonderful suggestion. Having every player be able to participate no matter dead or alive will absolutely increase population!

These new players need to refine their skills and practice and I feel as if these new players never get to learn as they always die first. I'd feel always behind and eventually just want to leave if I could never learn.

So let's add this suggestion my friends! Ghost for everyone is a fantastic idea!

 

[Majesty]

+1 / -1

Good bc i wont be bored

bad bc it makes donating not so special tbh

 

[mouse pouch]

+1 / -1

Good bc i wont be bored

bad bc it makes donating not so special tbh

WS

 

[Majesty]

WS

i guess

 

[MS]

Nah. It's a great cosmetic and non-gameplay altering perk, which are hard to come by. I disagree with making this free.

1 might be true, but we added !tetris (for everyone) as the biggest mechanic to incentivize staying.
2 I personally disagree with. CS LE has always been trying to figure out more perks to give DS, especially more perks for higher tiers.
3 is also true, but newer players can always pay $5.

Keep in mind in a public forum like this, I imagine the majority of responses will be positive; no one wants to have to pay more for features. If we added to the perks of DS while also making ghost available to everyone, then I could see it being a fair trade off.

As it is, however, I do not think giving ghost to everyone is a good idea.
(You might also want to consider performance; the ghost plugin does a few quirky things like noclip, teleports, triggers, etc. which certainly aren't negligible).

 

[aln]

As MSWS stated, instead of making it free. Why not add it to the perks of being an e tag? just another suggestion to add. And the pros of adding it is that it influences people to join the community therefore more retention is coming back to the community.

+1

 

[SneakyTurtle]

I agree with making it more accessible, but tbh I'm not tryna play climb while I'm dead id much rather spectate and watch stupid situations happen. Usually, when I die I'm just on my phone and listening with .1 game sound for funny shit.
I do see why people would want to use it though, I'm just saying why I, and I'm sure many more wouldn't.
Also if I remember correctly when it was available for everyone it was janky with TPs and boosters and used to block bullets at one point.
Overall though +1

 

[Queen of Ice]

it could work i see where you coming from zach but at the same time people may not like it but if they can disable it yes i can see it work and people enjoying it more and of course it going to be something people will experience.

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[Nekkk]

I had another idea to make players stay on the server -> https://www.edgegamers.com/threads/381683/

 

[blank_dvth]

With both this suggestion and Nekkk's suggestion (DM area), there will be a noticeable performance impact on the servers. Ghosts can also (in some edge cases) interfere with the alive players in various ways, which can disrupt rounds -- this is far more of a problem when there's a lot of people in Ghost who can accidentally or intentionally cause this disruption. CS LE is currently considering this suggestion, however. If this were to be done, it will very likely be restricted to only =(e)= tags, to at least try to mitigate some of the performance impact as well as an incentive to join the community.

 

[Crazy]

non-gameplay altering per

While I know your against it, I’m just saying that this isn’t true. Ghost can screw over a lot of different games and we aren’t able to fix that. Angle vector comes to mind as one example.

It should stay DS for all the reasons above and because of the disruptions ghost can cause in games.

 

[mouse pouch]

CS LE is currently considering this suggestion, however. If this were to be done, it will very likely be restricted to only =(e)= tags, to at least try to mitigate some of the performance impact as well as an incentive to join the community.

I will have to agree with you on this part! We could have more players have a reason to keep playing to improve player retention!

 

[simon.]

Absolutely agree

 

[MS]

Marking this as not planned