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[96drum]

I think adding a !ping command for lobby leaders would be extremely useful, to give a sound notification to that person targeted. (eg. "!ping 96drum" would give a small ping notification to me) Preferably, a !ping all command would be good as well. A 10 second or so cooldown would also be a good idea, to prevent abuse by trolling lobby leaders.

 

This would be good for lots of situations where you want to contact someone and they've tabbed out. For example if your friend suddenly wants to join your team, and you want someone to switch to the opposite team. Or if you want to ask your team to join mumble, you can "!ping all" to get their attention.

 

I'm don't know much about developing, but I think that's already a feature that admins can do in the main lobby finding page (for regions, if not specific people), so I assume it wouldn't be too much work to port that over to the lobby page?

 

Alternatively, it could be buttons by each persons name, next to the kick and ban buttons.

 

Thanks!

 

[Ulyk]

downvoting this, no thanks,

 

people will abuse it even with a cooldown and i don't want to hear a ping when i'm pre-readied. and even if it doesn't ping people pre-readied, or in spec; it should be the participants' responsibility to pay attention to the lobby status and not the hosts job to micro-manage. if it's so important for your friend to play then reserve a slot or wait for the next lobby and if teams are stacked because players won't switch, get used to it.

 

we have the rep system if people don't join mumble anyway.

[nrd.]

All I'm reading is abuse abuse abuse. This isn't going to work.

 

!ping AU

[Highvlass Heavy]

!ping NA

[Mother Tereza]

The sound notification, that lobby leader was able to use to annoy any player, was one of TF2Lobby features which we (TF2C devs) intentionally haven't included into TF2C features set. And not going to do so in a future, because of its abuse vulnerability. Sorry to disappoint you.