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huff

Joined: Dec 19, 2009

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 06:54

Why is it that you can't chat with the players while spectating and they are playing?

shadeysmoke

Joined: May 09, 2012

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 07:05

id say to not have someone not involved in the game running there mouth and disrupting others games

quixote

Joined: Mar 13, 2005

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 07:46

Yeah, and to stop coaching.

huff

Joined: Dec 19, 2009

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 08:16

Valid points but the coaching can still happen via IRC/PM'ing/ talking on the phone ect.

harvestmouse

Joined: May 13, 2007

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 08:34

Yes, the 2 reasons above. Disruptive and coaching. It's not really for stopping deliberate coaching, but accidental.

'He'll need to take 'insert name here' out of the game with his blockle in the 2nd half if he wants to get back into this'

For example, would be coaching, but not deliberate. And you get that sort of chat in a lot of spectated games.

Overhamsteren

Joined: May 27, 2006

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 11:30

Would be fun if there was an 'allow spectators chat' option and if both coaches allowed it the chat would become open to read for all.

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huff

Joined: Dec 19, 2009

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 13:00

+1

harvestmouse

Joined: May 13, 2007

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 14:41

Not going to happen, for the reasons I listed. I don't think you can spec your own games now. However during lrb 4, speccing your own games (for tips) was thought to be one of the lowest things you can do. Of course the word min-maxing hadn't been invented back then.

HLY

Joined: Nov 03, 2009

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 14:52

considering I just specced a game where one of the coaches was getting majorly grilled by the spectators, I'm pretty glad that chat is kept private.

and coaching - it can influence other peoples plays and can be darned annoying (even when its another coach just stood over your shoulder refusing to go away...)

danielcollins

Joined: Apr 04, 2005

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 15:16

harvestmouse wrote:

Not going to happen, for the reasons I listed. I don't think you can spec your own games now. However during lrb 4, speccing your own games (for tips) was thought to be one of the lowest things you can do. Of course the word min-maxing hadn't been invented back then.

Really? We used to multi-spec our own games with about 10 clients running parallel. Mind you that was not to get any advantage other than THE ROLLING CHEER: where you had so many clients that by the time the last one cheered, the first was allowed to cheer again! It made a massive wall of sound.

Those were the days...

Wreckage

Joined: Aug 15, 2004

Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 15:27

harvestmouse wrote:

Not going to happen, for the reasons I listed. I don't think you can spec your own games now. However during lrb 4, speccing your own games (for tips) was thought to be one of the lowest things you can do. Of course the word min-maxing hadn't been invented back then.

Really? I thought speccing own games was simply cheating. And now you tell me it was just frowned upon like something normal like min-maxing? Damn, why did I never do it?

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