lobby staller fix

[vikkings]

just put a 15mn timer if they leave a lobby 3 times in a row or something. wouldn't that fix it

[Flavorable]

Sadly, that wouldn't fix a thing. That would mainly be problematic for people who are joinleaving a couple times to find their friends' lobby, and people trying to look for a different custom lobby. Lobby stallers, however, won't be affected, because they'd just use different accounts to join the lobby and have them in sets where they can wait 15 minutes for group 1 to be able to be allowed back in the lobby, while groups 2 to 15+ do the exact same thing.

I'm sad to say that if there were an easy solution, it'd have been implemented by now.

[vikkings]

yeah, thought it could work since i only see up to 4 accounts per staller usually. makes it a bit harder to set up at least. i still think this could discourage it, how about implementing that solely on classic rp? other modes don't seem to have that issue

[Flavorable]

A couple weeks/months ago, it was classic TT, so they keep switching modes regardless.
And sadly, these people tend to have accounts made by the dozens, so it wouldn't deter them as much as we'd hope, while it would definitely handicap the non-nefarious players.

[vikkings]

Jesus Christ

[vikkings]

is adding potential players in a game impossible with the client? if we can get up to let's say 18 players in a lobby, wether by adding any roles or implementing some kind of first come first serve captcha once game starts that leaves out 3 people, that could weed them out. players who fail it would just be sent back to the homepage. sure throwers and bot could go around the captcha and leave, but they're doing that already.

[Flavorable]

Captchas are easily avoidable. Furthermore would it, again, mainly punish people who aren't trolls.

[vikkings]

i mean. if the games can start. a whole day of stalled lobbies is pretty punishing too.

having a 3 player buffer means the stallers need 4 accounts simultaneously in a lobby to lock. now, that might be possible, but a party joining late counters it. we don't have any counter beyond someone randomly joining in the <1sec lapse between the bots switching right now

[James2]

just put a 15mn timer if they leave a lobby 3 times in a row or something. wouldn't that fix it

People who leave the same lobby multiple times *during the countdown* should be directed to a different lobby (in the same way that people who try to join while the countdown is going on are).

Leaving prior to countdown does no harm and should not be penalized.

And sadly, these people tend to have accounts made by the dozens, so it wouldn't deter them as much as we'd hope, while it would definitely handicap the non-nefarious players.

I highly doubt that anyone could manage 60+ accounts at the same time without specialized software. The proposal in the OP would mostly solve the staller problem, and with my suggestion would impose minimal costs on legitimate players.

[FroggyMaybe]

I mean, the best solution to this is, and would be, to allow players to start with less than 15 people in the lobby. Its been requested for so long now.

[WildCard65]

I mean, the best solution to this is, and would be, to allow players to start with less than 15 people in the lobby. Its been requested for so long now.

We had that feature, and no one loved it.