Sounds as simple as the title says. Implement the ability for staff to join minigame servers and spectate This would be helpful: So many hackers that could be banned on the spot. In CTF if we get a speed hacker we must wait at least 15 games before either a staff gets on, the hacker gets bored or a report gets accepted.
Hey, I definitely agree adding the ability for staff members to spectate minigames would be beneficial to the server, as well as it would help the staff because it would make it a lot easier for them if they were able join the game of the suspected hacker even after it started instead of having to search multiple different lobbies for them.
This should be implemented. Hopefully they'll pay attention to adding more staff abilities in the minigame revamp that is supposed to happen sometime. Currently, on skywars, a staff member can spectate the game by jumping into the void when the game starts, and on capture the flag, they will just have to follow the hacker, not in staff mode or anything, until they see them hack. If hackers are smart, they will know when there's a staff member online, since it will always say, whether in chat when they go into the void or in the tab list on other minigames. Because of this, I'm sure staff members catch less hackers than regular players do on minigames. The sub-servers have staff mode, although the minigames do not. If there was a way staff could join a minigame without it saying in chat, and spectate without players knowing, hackers would be banned immediately almost every time, greatly improving the quality of the server. +1
There is talk of a new plugin coming that will benefit the staff members in minigames! Hopefully part of this new plugin will allow them to join already in progress minigames! +1
I wouldn't necessarily call it a simple-to-add thing. With the current minigame system it's pretty easy to tell that they never added a way for the SG core to handle players joining after the game already started. Which is why you can't join ongoing games. To make this possible, they would need to rewrite a lot of code. Though with a revamp "possibly" coming, this is something that should definitely be looked into. Especially for minigames, this is a borderline mandatory feature that should have been added last revamp.
i love this idea! many people witness hackers but don't know how to record or the process to report it is hard to understand. this is would so nice to see implemented because you obviously cant /chatreport a fly hacker, so if the staff could spectate if would be very helpful!
