Spectator Suggestions & Code Help.

Would it be possible to see the health, ammo etc of the players that are left?

I don't think that is a good idea.

I might be paranoid, but I would just hate it if my opponent suddenly by divine intervention (or similar) gets to know I only have 1 hp left and starts spamming gun on me instead of grenade as he used to do...
I hope I expressed myself fuzzy enough

The problem with your idea is that it requires some kind of web interface and there's no coder for that right now. Besides, who would qualify the skins? You can't only let the community do it, it would make people mass register users, vote for the skin and then you are invisible in game.

I think more like a group of active members who are good skin-makers, who in a combination with the dev-team chooses a few skins that come in the next version. Btw, too many skins would make the game a bit strange, I think the current number is perfect.

I thought about this too before i made a Mod where the health and armor is viewable to the specs. The reason why i decided to not care about this problem is: You could already tell what HP he got. Just count in your head.

by now most people love the feature. I did it like this:

show_health i y
where i = 1/0 on/off
and y = team (-1/0/1)

Health is shown by boradcast (easiest way without a client update and without a different netcode hash)

the second thing i made is a 'restart' feature for my 1on1 servers.
If team blue and team red type 'restart' the server will give them a 15second restart WITHOUT them having rcon.

IMHO 1v1 should be a seperate gametype, where only 2 players could play coz there are some problems with TDM or DM used for 1v1. In TDM mainly using the kill command can make u headaches because it doesnt decrease teamscore so when u have low health left u can kill urself and lose nothing but the weapons u had. In DM you dont see the teamscores. There are a lot of players who play only 1v1 so they sure would have some suggestions too. And of course the health/armor/curr weapon ammo could be displayed nicely on the two sides of the screen ( with smaller symbols ) for people spectating.

I don't know if that will help you. My mod for vanilla servers supports to kick those people automatically. Only define those options: sv_kick_teamkillers (allowed self/teamkills, 0=disabled) and sv_ban_teamkillers (ban time, 0=disabled). And by defining sv_team_balance 1 you can avoid that the other player changes to your team.

Sorry if you feel left out. All my opinions on the OT has already been presented.

Player following: Good idea and planned.
Zooming: Good idea.
Health visible to spec: Bad idea.

health could be visible for spectators if active players couldnt see what specs type...

Lots of other games have this problem.

Not allowing active players to see what specs type won't fix anything. People could use TeamSpeak or another program like that to chat to spectators/active players.

If the game is important, you delay the broadcast to spectators by 1 minute. Therefore all the spectators have access to health/armor/weapons/everything, but 1 minute later, according to the people playing, therefore the information is useless to the players.

AFAIK this happens in important Counter-Strike matches.

Although I think with this, is that in the real server, there are the players playing, and one spectator bot, which relays the information to another server which is just for spectators, and delays it by 1 minute or so.

Pretty extreme, but I think it does work.

Also, with the zoom out thing, I really love this idea. It would make getting to know the maps really easy. But if players could do it in-game, then it would be like having wall hacks (as in counter-strike), and you could zoom out in a large map to find where the players are.

So maybe only broadcast the information to the client which they would normally see, and when they zoom out/in, the data being sent to the client is the same?

BTW, i've looked at the source, and I have a quick question... Does the client have access to the spawn spoints? Or does only the server do that?

Cheers