Paid Host leaves room and game can't start

9 votes

There have been a few times where I'm hosting a game of 6+ and why waiting on everyone, my "internet connection drops" and have to leave the room. Upon refreshing, I'm no longer the host and therefore game can't continue because the new host doesn't have a paid account. So then we have to leave the room and I have to restart everything. This is very annoying especially when 8 players because it takes a while for people to join.

Done premium room Suggested by: Nelson Quintanilla (10 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Nov, '21 • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

30 Nov, '20
Chris Merged
This is a follow-up on the "AFK Host" feature that was previously completed.

If a host is, for some reason, not starting a game once all other players are seated and have hit "ready", they get kicked out of the room and the next person in the room becomes the host.

This is usually perfect, except when a map/format was selected that the new host hasn't bought (e.g. 5-6 player; seafarers).

Suggestion: either one of these happens:
a) The host is the first person in the room who has purchased whatever needs to be purchased so that the game can be started, OR
b) If there is nobody else in the room able to create the game, there's a 15-second countdown that says "Game settings are such that this game cannot be started by the players currently in this room. Kicking all players to the lobby in 15 seconds" or something
18 Feb, '21
mangobandit Merged
When a host creates a game with a paid for expansion or map, the game stays in the lobby for a long time with no one able to play it. It would be great if you could you make it so these games automatically delete themselves if the host leaves, to save the lobby from being clogged up with unplayable games.
13 Apr, '21
Sun Wu Merged
A number of times I have joined a game to discover that the Room Host is not qualified to play the specific Game Mode selected.
I presume this is due to the original qualified Host leaving.
It would be less wasteful for all if when a qualified Host leaves the Room, the system checks to see if there are any other qualified Player(s) present and only promotes them as the Room Host. If no qualified Host is available the Game is removed from the Lobby and the attendant players are notified (perhaps they could be booted after 3-5 minutes of inactivity) and after a delay the game is deleted.
01 Jul, '21
Othinnson Merged
I would 200 upvotes if i could....so annoying to find yourself sitting in a room waiting for the game to start then the host can't start so leaves, then someone else is host and still can't start.... so annoying. just kick everyone and delete the game.
19 Jan, '22
JUAN Admin
"Hosts leaving expansions/maps" (suggested by Mangobandit on 2021-02-18), including upvotes (4) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
19 Jan, '22
JUAN Admin
"Don't allow host who's unable to host" (suggested by Chris on 2020-11-30), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
19 Jan, '22
JUAN Admin
"Game Mode not available to Players in the Room" (suggested by Sun Wu on 2021-04-13), including upvotes (2) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
02 Feb, '22
JUAN Admin
Done. Will go live in v126 (Feb 18th)