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Make lobbies close automatically if leader is offline for 5+ minutes


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#1 Mister Sir of Vibe

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Posted 08 August 2016 - 02:58 PM

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Lobby creation
Description:
This idea came out of my ban yesterday, where I forgot that I was in a lobby and shut down my PC, leaving a degrootkeep lobby unreponsive, unfillable, and uncloseable except for by the admins. That ban was completely justified, but it gave me this idea.

Lobbies will close automatically if the leader is offline or away on Steam for more than 5 minutes at a given time. The leader will recieve something similar to a cooldown, but with higher penalties, and for creating lobbies instead of joining.

Suggested cooldown penalties:

Level 0: 12 hours
Level 1: 1 day
Level 2: 2 days
Level 3: 1 week
Level 4: 2 weeks
Level 5+: 1 month

Possible alternative is that leadership is automatically transfered.
Pros/Cons:
Pros:
- AFK leaders' lobbies are not kept up
- AFK leaders are penalized
- Players are not kept waiting
- The lobby does not need manual closing by a staff member

Cons:
- May be hard to implement
- Leaders that suffer an outage may be banned

#2 MasterNoob

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Posted 09 August 2016 - 09:42 PM

The Lobby does not need a leader per se; although he might be the only one to extend the idle timer @serveme.tf. Anyway, we would like to manually process bad leadership on a per case basis.