I remember on achaea they briefly had an arenawatch feature, and it was reeeeeeeally cool. Unfortunately, it also crashed the game and no one bothered to fix it.

I was just pondering how nice it would be if people could wander around the arena while other people fight. They would be in a state somewhat similar to phase, where they couldn't interact with the fighters, couldn't use skills, they couldn't be seen or detected by the fighters. Maybe ES would show who is in the arena watching the fight. They would be able to move about as normal, and see all actions like they were standing in the room. They'd also be able to see the afflictions and health/mana/ego of any of the fighters, and be able to GOTO anyone who has them on their allies list (or maybe just anyone else in the arena). Being able to follow would likely be handy too.

I don't think this would cause the same game crashing as arenawatch did, but having never seen the code I don't actually know. I am sure this would be a massive amount of coding, so its probably wishful thinking on my part.

Oh well, thought I'd share, and who knows.

Edit: Whoops, why isn't this in ideas? Can move it if someone feels like it.

That's a good idea!

Also disable says, tells and aethers to prevent people from abusing this to find where the guy they are fighting is.

and messages

ES (arena)?

This is a -fantastic- idea. I remembering being very disappointed when I realized that the arenawatch thing in Achaea didn't work.

This would making learning combat so much easier, and more fun.

There may be precedent for this--didn't Achaea have a mode during the intro where the new players were hidden from the rest of the world? I can't remember.

If this wasn't possible, maybe we could have a web site where a "camera" could me moved by the admin. The camera would just output its buffer to a web page, that would prevent the traffic problems from Arenawatch.

I remember the short period of time when arenawatch did work in Achaea, and it was awesome. If we could get some sort of spectator feature here, where you are in the room as a soul (call it a spectator) and could watch the fight, that would be nice too. There could be a fee of some sort, and you would be able to diagnose and discern the people in the room.

Or if arenawatch could somehow be fixed so it doesn't crash the game and put back in that would be good.