Hear all teh things?

[Derpy Monkey]

Hi all! The other day, I was playing on Turbine as the only admin. I heard complaints about a mic spammer on the other team, but I could not join the other team to see what was up. Anyways, my point is that sometimes there is a team with no admins to watch over voice chat and team chat. What if we were able to hear the opposing team? I am aware that this could be used as an unfair game advantage (listen in on the other team's plans) but we would also be able to catch ANYONE who disobeys the rules. If not that, could we maybe give Spectators that power? That way you do not have to join the other team, but you can still work any problems out. Forgive me if this type of suggestion was already a thing, but I was just wondering if we could make this work? Thank you for your time! :thumbup:

 

[Tea]

When I was on RailBait for awhile, the admins were able to do that, which was really helpful, only advanced admins had the ability to see all chat as well. It would be nice thing to have, but also could get quite annoying lol

 

[Misterboy]

I don't think people would like the fact that admins would be able to listen to the other team. People would be constantly complaining saying that we have an unfair advantage (which we would). As for being able to hear the other team in spectator, that could also be abused as one could join spec to listen, then join back to their team (not saying any of us would do this, but again it would not sound good to pubs/members). I'd say just encourage members/pubs to report people breaking rules to admins and if a report comes through and you can't join the team, ask one of them to switch. If not, try and get someone else to come into the server.

 

[Steelbilly]

I like the idea of hearing everything in spectate. If someone has made eGO rank they have proven to a large degree they are trustworthy.

It isn't like there's incredibly valuable information that ever comes across voice chat on a pub server anyway... Right now, anyone - not just admins - in spectate can see where people are at on both teams, where SG placements are at, etc. That intel is far more valuable than overhearing someone saying "We need an engineer" in voice chat .

 

[OSTKCabal]

I like the idea of hearing everything in spectate. If someone has made eGO rank they have proven to a large degree they are trustworthy.

It isn't like there's incredibly valuable information that ever comes across voice chat on a pub server anyway... Right now, anyone - not just admins - in spectate can see where people are at on both teams, where SG placements are at, etc. That intel is far more valuable than overhearing someone saying "We need an engineer" in voice chat .

Very true. Very few people actually use voice chat, and when they do, it's usually them yelling at some other player to do something, or a heads up on what you already know your team is doing.

 

[Beluga_Soup]

I like the idea of hearing everything in spectate. If someone has made eGO rank they have proven to a large degree they are trustworthy.

It isn't like there's incredibly valuable information that ever comes across voice chat on a pub server anyway... Right now, anyone - not just admins - in spectate can see where people are at on both teams, where SG placements are at, etc. That intel is far more valuable than overhearing someone saying "We need an engineer" in voice chat .

I like this idea. I think our servers would be safer.

 

[Trippey]

Why not just allow admins to join any team regardless of balance with an over ride? That way if there are complaints admins can move to the other team and do what needs to be done without having too much access such as all seeing/hearing.

 

[Misterboy]

Why not just allow admins to join any team regardless of balance with an over ride? That way if there are complaints admins can move to the other team and do what needs to be done without having too much access such as all seeing/hearing.

Maybe have a console command that allows you to switch teams without a message in chat? (Similar to there not being a message when admins join spec)

 

[Maserati]

Why not just allow admins to join any team regardless of balance with an over ride? That way if there are complaints admins can move to the other team and do what needs to be done without having too much access such as all seeing/hearing.

This was brought up awhile back but I recall one reason it wasn't considered was that it could be aboosed. Any admin rank could stack one team just because they don't like defending or attacking or wants to be on the same team with all their friends even after the auto balance kicked in.

Just pointing that out is all.

 

[Ezekiel]

• Ask person complaining about mic spammer to go spectator temporarily
• Switch to other team
• Assess situation
• Switch back

Most of the time this works fine.

 

[L.M.C.M.]

No arguments from me, simply put if we could find a good way to integrate this into our servers I'm all on board.