Question about camera modes

[Esselinithia]

Probably many of you know that the camera has 3 modes:

Follow, first person, stationery

When you use the third mode, it stays in one place, even if you leave the screen. While it can be great for making daoc videos, probably t can be used in different way:

You can leave the camera somewhere to see something without being present.

You can check your ground target (for volley / GTAOE) from behind walls for enemies nearby
You can check spawn points of artifact encounters
You can check bridges, etc. for enemy movement

If you do it with the camera of your buffbot, it can be significant advantage.

Before trying the above ideas, I would like to know if they are legal or illegal? From an RP perspective, your character wouldn't have this information so it is illegal. But from an RP perspective it would be hard to explain /gu, /cg, /bg, /as information, guard spam, /rw, etc. so it can be a valid use of a valid game function. What do you think? What the E&E, and the GMs think? What the RvR people would think?

 

[Teh FnoRd]

think if you move to far aaway the screen gets kinda blurry and you can't see stuff happening only a blurred kinda screenshot like screen.

 

[Esselinithia]

To check what is on the other side of wall, check a nerby encounter (while farming something) can be still possible, even if there is a range to it. (will check about this range in housing zone, where it should be ok)

 

[Wazkyr]

your capped at clip range (3k afaik?) so wont work any futher than that. I used it alot on scout with volley and gts, so its briliant.
But running a bb to set a cam and then putting it back to keep will not work, as you will be out of clip range and will just see a semi loaded area.

 

[old.Whoodoo]

What you can see is still dependant on the 3k radius of your toon, if you leave the camera set somewhere and wonder off to say 5k away, nothing happens on your screen.

 

[Void959]

It's no different from using the standard camera mode (zoomed out and following) to camp bridges or docks etc and see people who can't see you, or stealthers who are about to jump you etc etc. It's certainly not illegal.