Sorry for not posting in a while, had some family issues.
Anyway, Pasik literally hit dead on what I was thinking with the Civies when he said:

"have the matches feature another faction meant for spectating, this faction has a designated base and a spawn point and an armory in the map, the armory supplies only a special vest that transforms all hits to non-effecting, and a weapon that doesn't shoot -- voilà, you have spectating where you can run freely in the area and can't get killed (except vehicles driving over you)"

Although I didn't think of the vest, I sure can see where that could come in handy!
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Can anyone help me with the quote thing? I don't know how to use it, I'm new to this type of fourm typing.

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