Game cannot handle players disappearing

[Luke-Jr]

If a player disappears mid-game, all hope is lost at completion of the game.

[Luke-Jr (luke-jr)]

From parent bug 314632:

 David Hammond wrote on 2009-01-07:
One possibility is opening up the "!yandere end" command so that if any player misses two night actions in a row, any player can then type "!yandere end" to end the game. In fact, it may be useful to allow this even if only one night action was missed.

[Rosalia (sabre-and-mattimeo)]

Potential (if lame) fixes:
1. Kill the leaver.
2. Auto-abstain the leaver.
3. Post-pone the game via Imoutobot. (No further actions/voting allowed?)
4. A forcible end by majority vote of the remaining players.
5. Auto-kill the exited player by the yandere the next night.
6. The leaver's actions/votes are stripped from the total required.

... Uh...

[Luke-Jr (luke-jr)]

Keep in mind the game can never be sure when a player has in fact disappeared. Because of this, many of Rosalia's suggestions are not feasable.

[spyder (ishypop)]

i was going to suggest having a vote function to end the game, but rosalia wins on that account.

[spyder (ishypop)]

on the note of post-poning the game, would it be possible to leave the game in the system, give it a number or some other id and then start another? that would allow people who have time an energy invested into a particular game the chance to begin again later. it could also be included with the 'end game now' solution for a game that was just started or a game that people don't care about.

[Rosalia (sabre-and-mattimeo)]

I think that sounds best. :) If possible.

[Rosalia (sabre-and-mattimeo)]

Actually, I think the saving of games would be a problem. If the leaver has quit for a while, it could take quite a long time for all players to return, and eventually the saved games would take up a lot of space. You'd have to instigate a limit, and old games could fester there forever, unless they were deleted by Nanobot, luke-jr, or someone, periodically, or via timer.

[spyder (ishypop)]

a decay time would most likely be possible. i've thought of that already, but i'm glad you mentioned it.

[Henri Kemppainen (duclare)]

The games are pretty quick and small; I doubt anybody would really care enough to want to save a round of Yandere and come back to it later. Saving would be too much trouble for the little (nothing?) it gives.