Spring RTS Engine

It would be nice if the mod could control whether spectators can pause or not. Often in CA, spectators will pause for droppers, laggers, desync, to help resolve bugs or UI issues or help noobs who havent figured out the mex and solar thing.

This is just common courtesy and the majority of the players do not mind, because it makes for a better game if all players are actually able to play.

We have not had anyone trolling us with spectator pauses, and such players can be kicked easily anyway, so its simply a loss of functionality.

+1

actually, i'm for a more complex proposal: enable some spectators to pause (and perform other interesting commands) and some not. useful for e.g. referees.

The only possibility I see so far is a tag (could be global, or per player) in script.txt for that.

or host-only unsynced-network lua callin.

imbaczek wrote:or host-only unsynced-network lua callin.

This would not work on dedicated hosts.

/nopause

-> host can still pause

The only thing ive seen that even remotely resembles abuse of pause is regrets keep paused widget (yeah it auto repauses after regret paused)

Beherith wrote:The only thing ive seen that even remotely resembles abuse of pause is regrets keep paused widget (yeah it auto repauses after regret paused)

Actually it pauses as long as the widget is turned on and game is not paused.

And I ever used it only once and even that by accident (forgot to turn it off after messing around in private game).

Regret wrote:

Beherith wrote:The only thing ive seen that even remotely resembles abuse of pause is regrets keep paused widget (yeah it auto repauses after regret paused)

Actually it pauses as long as the widget is turned on and game is not paused.

And I ever used it only once and even that by accident (forgot to turn it off after messing around in private game).

lolregret

Widget that pauses when an atlas is at x distance from your com?

Mod side makes no sense, shouldn't that be host-side? There's no reason why spectators should be more capable of pausing one mod than another.

+1 to this idea. There was a good screenshot for me to take earlier but I was lagging bad because I was on full graphics. I tried to pause to take it but it wouldn't let me and I missed the opportunity.

KDR_11k wrote:Mod side makes no sense, shouldn't that be host-side? There's no reason why spectators should be more capable of pausing one mod than another.

Making it a modoption is equivalent of making it host-side. (modoptions get set by the host)

mod-side != modoption

(although mod could decide to make it host-settable using a modoption)