[MERGED PR] Joining round as observer prevents the RP Respawn Timer from applying

[Torchwick]

I’ve thought on this one for a bit. My only main concern, setting aside the risks of metagaming and all that, is of how it will affect population. It’s no surprise that the lowpop server has a large amount of people that observe and join when they are ready or able to. While their reasons vary and may or may not be pure, that is where a lot of the population comes from. My worry is that this will discourage people from playing lowpop due to the player count being even lower or the amount of people in round being worse. It was already an issue, but now the observers won’t be able to join after, which might amplify the problem.

I do however hope I am proven wrong! It might encourage people to just join the round and play instead of avoiding joining all together. I will remain neutral and if this gets test merged I’ll be happy to be proven wrong. I figured I’d just outline that concern speaking purely from a population balance perspective rather than a metagaming one.

As an edit I will note that this might become an amplified issue in October when observing is encouraged mechanically with the ghost stuff. Just a thought.