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FAForever / downlords-faf-client

Official client for Forged Alliance Forever
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Lobby Hosting Duration Indicator #3054

Closed magge-faf closed 1 month ago

magge-faf commented 8 months ago

Issue:

Sometimes a lobby is idling for many hours because the hosting player has forgotten about it for whatever reason.

Causing:

Players are waiting in that lobby until it fills, then they leave after host does not respond; The lobby still exists, and new people join the lobby again - new cycle of waiting and leaving begins.

Solution:

Indicate the hosting time to see which lobbies are idling for many hours/days which are most likely dead ends.

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Brutus5000 commented 8 months ago

Very interesting suggestion. Might need the lobby server to send the lobby creation time.

Sheikah45 commented 8 months ago

I just checked and it does require changes to the lobby server to send creation time.

fcaps commented 8 months ago

if we manage to produce some events for this (lobby started, joined, started, changed etc.) we get more out of it than just "how old it is". Thinking about "expected waiting time for a lobby", "host is a fast starter badge - got lobbies filled <5min" etc.

HermanSkop commented 4 months ago

The field for GameInfo in faf-java-commons is required.