Yeah, I think the latter. Spend 1 res and only you respawn faster. Could be coordinated for fast wave spawns too...

This sounds interesting.

As several members have already guessed, I was thinking of it being a personal timer. The personal timer's starting value would still be calculated for each player in the same way it is now. If under the current system a player would wait 8 seconds, then under this system they'd wait 8 seconds -- unless they spent 1 or more RP. If under the current system the player would wait 10 seconds, then under this system....you get the idea, also 10 seconds unless they spend RP.

Meanwhile, as you said, "regardless of how many people shoot out of the queue early you still take your full amount of time" if you don't spend as well. If I die and have to wait, and halfway through my waiting someone dies and wants to get right back in, they can spend RP and skip right past me. Any number of players can do this. My time would not be affected if I'm stingy with my RP.

Well, there is a problem though- it'd be a bit funny with the wait time for others to spawn. Would this still put people in a queue, or take them out of it and onto a seperate piece? If so, they'd only spend 1 res and suddenly get out quick.

This would need better explaining Marik

You're probably right, it does need better explaining.

Let me write what I know of the current respawn system; if any of it's wrong because I do more forum work than playing and I'm an uninformed nublet, let me know.
Right now if someone dies, they get put it the spawn queue. If it's empty, they wait for a certain number of seconds. If other players have died recently enough to still be waiting, the most recent player to die has to wait a little longer because they're at the end of the queue. The more people waiting, the longer the queue is (isn't this the definition of a queue?) and the longer a new person added to the queue has to wait to respawn. Am I correct about this?

Alrighty, if so, then on to explaining my suggestion:
Let's say a player -- I'll use my own nublet self as an example -- dies. I'm broke and stingy with my RP, so I decide to wait it out. Because I'm not spending any RP at all, my time to respawn under this system is the same as if I had died in the current system.

Now to illustrate a *slightly* more complicated situation. 2 players dying only a few seconds apart. Let's say a different stingy player, Bob, dies and gets put into the respawn queue. He's been waiting for a short amount of time, and has about 5 seconds left when all of a sudden I get put behind him in line because I got my nublet skulk self killed again. This time I'm an impatient little bugger, I see I have something like 10 seconds left, so in a caffiene-induced rage I slam the "spend RP" button a dozen times in rapid succession. The game spends the mere 7 RP I actually did have, flashes something onscreen to let me know it's futile to try to spend 12 RP's when I don't even have that much, and my respawn time is cut from 10 to 3 seconds (10secondsLeft-7RP'sSpent=3secondsLeft). 3 seconds later I'm ingame again, and Bob has 2 seconds left (remember he had 5 left to wait through, so 3 seconds later he'd have 2 seconds left.)

[edit]Note how a very well-coordinated team could "spend their way" to wavespawning. If I had 10 seconds left and Bob had 5 (like the above example), I could spend 5 RP to have the same amount of time left as Bob (10-5=5, and my 5 seconds = his 5 seconds left; we both have the same amount of time left.) When our time did come, we'd both spawn in simultaneously. I'd just be 5 RP poorer. If we both had RP flowing out our ears I could spend 10 and Bob could spend 5, and we'd both be in simultaneously right then.


Any more questions I can answer/clarifications I can try to make?