Joey wrote

MurderousMorty wrote

Skittle wrote

Joey wrote

The problem with a spectate bot is when people are trying to hide to plant drugs, which many new players do, they would be completely revealed.

no the problem is it doesnt work as myback said above

I mean.. you could just do the hacky method..

Run the game as admin, noclip somewhere with a good view, then go afk and start streaming whenever possible.

Easier with multiple monitors..

Thats actually a good idea. You'd just have to make the description of the steam say what the server IP is and what it's doing. Me as well as a few others can probably afk on the stream and explain to someone if they are asking in chat anything. Moonshade already has a twitch account so why not use it? I mean, the worst that can happen someone says they don't like the servers while someone randomly scrolling through twitch might want to check it out.

The reality of it is this could even be a user thing. If trusted regulars shared a twitch channel they could put the stream online when going afk if it was down.

Up-time wouldn't be perfect.. but it'd be exposure.

I have experience coding twitch bots too so.. we could make a bot interact with viewers and host other channels automatically when down.

We could even pipe in audio from a password protected TS channel, so people can talk as the host even if they aren't streaming.

Hell, Maybe I'll make a moonshade channel later tonight.

Joey wrote

That would be pretty cool. I just think and admin would have an easier time doing it due to the fact they can noclip, lets say near the PD, where you can see the entire middle part of the map where a player would have to stay in the bank so he wasnt killed.

It would be easier for users with noclip to get a good steady camera angle, but if players want to stream their POV and an admin isn't streaming at the time.. why not?

Collaborative Twitch channels can be very successful.

Joey wrote

You really don't even need to fix spectate for admins, they just need to set their health to a large amount, noclip into the air, and start the stream. It would be quite interesting actually.

I just meant that if you DO fix spectate, you can add a plugin that lets any player stream their point of view just by using a command like "/SpectateMe".

That way you'd catch a lot of things like raids instead of 100% afk still cam.

Still AFK cam is the place to start though. How many people here are comfortable streaming to twitch?

Joey wrote

I'm comfortable streaming. I usually just turn on music, talk to viewers, and host server events and such.

Something like this? https://www.twitch.tv/moonshaderpg

I just piped monstercat into it as easy music.

Message me your email and I'll get you a stream key.

I might leave a cam up when I go afk.

Joey wrote

I'd be willing to do a live cam on the weekends later in the day. I can't really do the AFK cam because whenever my computer can be on, I'm using it. I don't really have the ability to keep it running all the time. I'm not sure you even wanted to do a live one but if so I'd be down.

Live is fine, the point is up-time to get exposure for the server. Live is probably more interesting. AFK is easier. Noclip cam is best.

Btw MyBack if you are interested in twitter integration I can help with that. I've coded plenty of twitter bots.

myback wrote

MurderousMorty wrote

Btw MyBack if you are interested in twitter integration I can help with that. I've coded plenty of twitter bots.

That would be nice. I'll have to recover the password somehow though lol

Ok cool. Honestly I would start with an alternate account anyway. Twitter can sometimes get a little salty if you post too much with bots. We can tune it so that doesn't happen (I've spent a lot of time deconstructing their spam filter so.. i can accomplish it ez) but it's still smart to use an alt account till you get things exactly how you want them.

I code my twitter bots in Java btw. So you can either run a jar on your server, or pass data to one of mine.

Probably the easiest thing is for you to think about what you want tweeted, then figure out how to construct the tweets and save them in a text file line by line. If you are concerned about bloat you can have it keep only one tweet in the file at a time (just needs to be there long enough for the twitter bot to read it).

If you get that far I can do the rest. If you manage to pass data to one of my servers where I have the twitter code readily available I can keep improving the account to drive more traffic as I get bored.

Alternatively we can just fake the data and use it purely to drive traffic :kappa:

(Or I can show you how to code twitter bots in java if you want to do it all yourself)