Drop Games Awaiting Players After X Time Since Last Login

by **Woodruff** on Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:57 pm

Downey wrote:What if the player is just not logging in because he's waiting for them to start, or to get a notification from his email for when it starts so he can log in?

This is a VERY good point. I depend on that email to let me know when I've got a game ready. If a player has a large number of games going, this isn't an issue because they're always getting the emails. But particularly with a freemium where you can only be in four games at a time, this could really be a problem in auto-kicking someone who's really just sitting there waiting for the email to tell him it's time.

by **lanyards** on Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:46 pm

Concise description:

After X amount of time has passed since a user has last logged on, the user should be dropped from all of their Awaiting Players games.

Specifics/Details:

Could be enforced in all cases or could be an option with the default set to 'on'.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

This will undoubtedly decrease the amount of deadbeats in games.
This will allow more team games with lingering freemiums who will never log in again to be filled with organized teams.

I did search the forums and found that this was suggested back in 2008 (http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=471&t=59434) with a 3 day time period. It seemed to get positive responses but was never implemented.

3 days may be too short a time period in my opinion. I might suggest a week or more possibly, but I think there should be a cap on it at some point. More than once I've been hindered from joining games needing players because of a freemium cook/cadet who has not logged on in months.

by **Gilligan** on Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:29 pm

lanyards wrote:Concise description:
After X amount of time has passed since a user has last logged on, the user should be dropped from all of their Awaiting Players games.

Specifics/Details:
Could be enforced in all cases or could be an option with the default set to 'on'.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
This will undoubtedly decrease the amount of deadbeats in games.
This will allow more team games with lingering freemiums who will never log in again to be filled with organized teams.

I did search the forums and found that this was suggested back in 2008 (http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=471&t=59434) with a 3 day time period. It seemed to get positive responses but was never implemented.

3 days may be too short a time period in my opinion. I might suggest a week or more possibly, but I think there should be a cap on it at some point. More than once I've been hindered from joining games needing players because of a freemium cook/cadet who has not logged on in months.

I like this.

I do think that 3 days is too short, though - I think a week is sufficient, considering the time to drop waiting tournament games was 15 days.