MarioFanaticXV

I kind of doubt it... RA2 is one of the main selling points of the Ultimate Collection. The original Command and Conquer and Red Alert have both aged rather poorly, but as someone who just played through Red Alert 2 for the first time a month ago, I can say that game is still one of the best RTSs out there. Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, and Generals are the ones I was always hearing about, and while I'm playing Red Alert 3 and certainly look forward to trying Tiberium Wars and Tiberium Twilight (well, maybe "look forward to" isn't the right phrase for Twilight...), I don't think I'm the only one that got the collection primarly for those three games.

I often times enjoy watching games, or leaving a game running in the background as an impromptu screen saver. Sometimes I'll load something up on YouTube, but other times, I just like to see the AI go against itself without me doing anything. Unfortunately, there aren't many games that allow me to do this, so I don't get much variety. I know that Red Alert 2 requires a human player, but then I saw this video, which seems to have some sort of spectator mod which allows a third party to observe the games: Assuming that mod isn't available, would it be possible to edit the rules.ini to make it so the first player starts with nothing but an indestructible Spy Sattelite and Power Plant? Or would the AI still go after the buildings even though they're invincible? How hard would it be to add "Spectator" as a faction which simply has full map coverage, and automatically loses (or wins) when all but one player (or team) is eliminated?