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A Change to the spectate system

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Esaphia
Hello

This may or may not have been talked about in the past but i was wondering if there could be a setting where you could change whether you want people to spectate you publicly and freely or if you want it more private, like an invite only for spectating.

Why is this feature useful?
This could be useful because some people may not want to be spectated - an example could be a user playing a ranked map, somebody starts spectating which could occur as a distraction to his/her gameplay.

How could this feature be implemented?
If a user were to spectate somebody with "invite only setting" the user would click on the individual he/she wants to spectate as usual, however instead of the usual straight into spectate, a message could pop up saying that this player has spectating set to invite only. The player then has the choice between a cancel or send invite button which send a direct invitation message to the user similar to a multiplayer lobby invite.

Thank you for checking out my feature request :)
Pawsu
Blocking from spectating completely? Nope: t/37402
You can hide the spectators list via options instead.
Inviting players to spectate you? Yup! t/105274/start=0
o x
Not a big fan of this, Peppy denied something similar to this here.
As he stated you can just turn off visible spectators if you do not want to see people spectating you.

With the example you used of being distracting for players to see a spectator I think it would be distracting regardless of the spectator. Chances are if you are going to invite someone to spectate you, you are probably already PMing them so the person there can just mention that they are spectating you.
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