When someone leaves the room everyone should be put on "not ready".

17 votes

The following occurred to me 2 games in a row today and it happens more regularly as well. You host a lobby for a 4 player game and wait for there to be 4 players. All the players press ready and you click the start button, but in the second you are clicking the start game button someone leaves the lobby. I am now stuck in a 3 player game and have to give up a karma, since no one wants to disable karma for some reason.

A similar situation has happened when I was in a 4 player lobby, pressed ready, the 4th player left and the host just started the game anyway.

If players are put on "not ready" when someone leaves this would not be an issue as the game cannot start with 3 players unless all players agree to this.

Done Suggested by: Lisanne (19 May, '21) • Upvoted: 24 Dec, '21 • Comments: 6

Comments: 6

05 Jun, '20
PotatoRiot Merged
For example when it's a 4 players game and the 4th players disconnects moments before the host clicks on start game the game is starting with a bot as 4th player. It should have an error popop for the host to confirm that he intends to play with a bot as 4th player. Having to disable karma all the 3 players and create a new game is a hustle in these cases
08 Jan, '21
CristiSheep Merged
or disable the start game button for 1-2 seconds until the host figures out that somebody leaved the lobby
03 Mar, '21
drippy Merged
Multiple times someone has left the game just before I click "start game" and so the game just starts with fewer people. There should be a popup that says "are you sure you want to start with fewer than X people?"
09 Jun, '21
SetAU1
This has happened to me and it's really vexing. Hope they fix this.
26 Dec, '21
JUAN Admin Merged
"add a "are you sure" button if starting a game with fewer than the maximum players" (suggested by drippy on 2021-03-03), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Dec, '21
JUAN Admin
"When there are less players than the number in the settings game should not start" (suggested by PotatoRiot on 2020-06-05), including upvotes (13) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.