Spectating in our UHC event?

[Mick]

Howdy zoomers,

We have our first UHC event happening a little bit later today, and I wanted to make this thread today to ask you for your feedback about whether we should allow for players to spectate or not.

Currently, the options are:

1. 30 seconds after a player dies, they are kicked from the server and unable to log back in for the rest of the event, not allowing any spectating whatsoever.
2. After a player dies, allow them to freely spectate whoever/wherever on the map that they'd like

The concern we have with allowing players to freely spectate is that it would make it extremely easy for teams to "ghost" the competition and tell their teammate coords, what armour they have, etc. In my opinion, allowing spectating would make the game far more social and fun, but less competitive so I figured I'd leave it up to all of you. I think that I'm in favour of us allowing spectating and I like to believe that as a community we're reasonable enough to not try to cheat in a blockgame.

If we did allow for players to spectate, they would be able to freely fly around the map but wouldn't be able to teleport to other players, making it more difficult for them to find others and lessening the likelihood that ghosting could occur and making it incredibly hard to target specific players because you'd have to find them first.

If you haven't already and you're interested in joining our UHC, please fill out the form here: https://www.mc-market.org/support/whitelist-request

Thanks gamers,
Mick

 

[nether1]

Allow it. It's better to see the winner/gameplay in actual than just asking "Who won?" or "What happened?".

 

[joerock777]

Yeah, just allow it. And teleportation should be allowed. If you are worried about people leaking their coordinates, just simply read the server console and punish them

 

[Mick]

Yeah, just allow it. And teleportation should be allowed. If you are worried about people leaking their coordinates, just simply read the server console and punish them

People are gonna end up being in calls on discord with their friends, and it's impossible for us to track that

 

[joerock777]

People are gonna end up being in calls on discord with their friends, and it's impossible for us to track that

Unless?

 

[Brawlrus_]

True. Maybe just make it were they cannot like tp to people and see if anyone is near them.

 

[Dies]

People are gonna end up being in calls on discord with their friends, and it's impossible for us to track that

Is it possible to do a livestream for those who cant play?

 

[Mick]

Is it possible to do a livestream for those who cant play?

I believe Maddy has said that he's gonna be doing a livestream of his perspective, not 100% sure if anyone else is though. I won't be livestreaming my perspective

 

[MarkElf]

I think spectating will allow for an unfair advantage between friends who may just end up sharing the prize money or giving a small portion at least for sharing details like location and equipment. If this was for fun, it would be fine but it isn't as their is a cash prize on the line. Livestreaming will lead to stream snipers or whatever the term people use nowadays is.

If you don't want people asking 'what happened' or 'who won' then record it and upload it for people to watch after the event is over.

 

[Dies]

I believe Maddy has said that he's gonna be doing a livestream of his perspective, not 100% sure if anyone else is though. I won't be livestreaming my perspective

Alright, but dont let players spectate freely, just like in hypixel they cant go out of a 30 block radious of the player they are spectating

 

[joerock777]

Or there could be a player compass