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Is anyone aware of a plugin that provides rotation of players from spec to active teams in TF2? We are looking to possibly add this feature to one of our servers at Team Interrobang (http://www.teaminterrobang.com)

I'll explain what our goal is. We want to run a server with 'pure' teams, that is restricted to one player of each class for a total of 18 players (9 RED, 9 BLU). Our intent is run this on one of our a 24-slot servers, thus allowing space for 6 spectators.

We'd like a plugin to manage the players that are in spec and rotate them into the spots on the 2 teams as people die (if need be it can be on every death, or after a set number... such as if you die 2 times you are 'benched') This would more or less work similarly to arena, but we'd be able to play ctf, cp, pl, etc. and our goal should be to keep spectator time equal or less than arena mode.

I'm thinking you put the spectators in a queue to play. When a player on their team (other than an engineer with buildings) dies, they jump into that class, and the other player goes to the end of the queue. Let players pick up to 3 or 4 classes they don't want to play. Choosing fewer classes to exclude gives you more play time as a bonus for being flexible. Players to rotate out are picked by longest time since they were last in spectate, and rotate when they die.

A completely full server with 12 players on a team (3 in spec, 9 fighting) would probably have a reasonable amount of time in spectate so things aren't boring. Setting players to rotate after about 3 minutes of play would mean players spectate for about 1 minute at a time, and sit our about 25% of their total time. Seems comparable to Arena to me, and if the server is less than full, it gets significantly better.

Thanks for any help with this. If anyone out there has the desire to take on this project for public release - that would be awesome. If anyone would be willing to work on this for us to make this an exclusive for our team, we are willing to negotiate payment (we are willing/able to pay for the product if it will be only ours)