Hello dear living being of all races and all stellar complexes,
i have been playing sc-arcade games for a long time (mostly on the eu server). Before the lobby auto kick was implemented, i got really annoyed by the afk-players at the start of the game. Since this feature was implemented, the number of afk players was going down, but now i have to tab in every 4-5 min. to not get kicked from the lobby. The result is not only less afk players, its also that you cant focus on other things very good, which you might could get done in the waiting time. Also it’s creating a bit of unnecessary stress tabing in all few minutes. I am like never afk at the start of a game (cause starting sound reminds me - even when tabed out), but i like to play a lot of semi popular arcarde-games with long waiting times. That means, the auto kick function affects me pretty much.
So i thought about a feature, that makes you enable the lobby auto-kick, if you have not been afk for the first minute in your last 50 or 100 games. So people who are never afk in the beginning of a game and like to play arcarde games with long waiting times actually can use the waiting time for something useful. People who actually don’t care about the game will still get detected as afk and auto-kick won’t be disabled for them. I think, that would be a fair way to deal with it.
The score, of how many games are needed until auto-kick can be deactivated, should probably be discussed by the developers, but if you like the idea or have an better solution please let us know and discuss it, so the developers will maybe read and implement it. I would be happy to have a fair solution for this. What do you think about this?
Best Chewy