I don\'t think it\'ll be a good command. It could be achieved in two ways, both of them are bad:
1. Using AI that will \'figure\' it\'s way to follow the player. This will be bad because: A) Alot of programming. B) Alot of testing. C) The only way it\'ll actually work is either if the player being followed is braindead, or if he\'s just walking straight.
2. Once the command kicks in, the server logs the movement of the player being followed, and transmits it to the GM client. This is bad because it\'ll probebly be too complicated to make, and even when it\'ll be possible, the GM client will have to use AI to calculate how to reach the point where the player is standing when the command kicks in (wich brings us to why using AI won\'t work). Unless the GM stands -exactly- in the place the player is standing when the command is activated, both AI and backlogging.
A good way to solve it will be if the GMs will be able to fly. Flying = no obstacles. No obstacles = extremely simple AI, wich isn\'t really needed at all.
And now, for DepthBlade:
Originally posted by DepthBlade
Invasion of privacy?
What privacy? Really, what?
The server probebly logs the conversations, and if it don\'t, it should.
Also, if you want privacy, you might want to throw the modem at a speeding truck and start living underground in some hole you dug. Just make sure it\'s
really deep because satellites with heat sensors or devices that check if there\'s oil in the ground might pick you up. Also, make sure there\'s no entry to the tunnel, and that you started digging from the bottom of the ocean. Otherwise, someone probebly saw it, or something recorded it, wich risks your privacy.
Still, if you decide to ignore the above paragraph, don\'t forget that PS is a free game. Free, meaning that you shouldn\'t complain. Free, meaning that it\'s probebly being sponsored by some company that from some odd reason cares about someone that won\'t buy their products. Free, meaning that you still shouldn\'t complain.
Now, if you care about your so-called private conversations without inviting the participants to the hole you haven\'t started to dig (so they won\'t sell this precious information to something creepy like a corporation or your governemt), you should use tells, or talk in IMs or something. I doubt they log tells, or that the GMs can read tells (even though they should). True, the IM services might sell logs of their conversations (wich is really pathetic considering how 70% of the AIM conversations probebly look like), but I doubt they sell it to PS, or any PS guild.
Now, of course the GMs are far from being objective. It\'s the human nature. The only way they could be objective is if they wouldn\'t be in the community, and be replaced every no more than a day. And they still won\'t be very objective because they\'re humans (unless you\'re really paranoid and think they\'re aliens or robots or something and are trying to take over PS from some odd reason).
Now, not being objective doesn\'t make a person want to sit in PS guilds\' private conversations while invisible and then share the logs with the competitive guilds. No, this is something else. It also has nothing to do with power-hunger, or corruption (unless the GM is being paid). The only thing it got to do with, is if the person is a jerk. If the person is, indeed, a jerk, he probebly won\'t get to be a GM anyways.
Besides, I thought your guild is chaotic-good. You shouldn\'t have priate guild meetings that involve coming up with plots. Unless, maybe, you got spies and stuff in other guilds. Who\'s the power-hungry now? :]
