The ability to remove players who join your games, before the game has begun. Simple. Effective.

Blacklist, invites and prerequisites. Simple. Effective

That would get abused a lot.

I know lol.

I actually agree with colonel. My main problem is not people I don't like in general, it's people who become inactive, or people who are being completely unreasonable/obnoxious. Maybe the person isn't always this bad, so they just get ejected from the game.

You know you can just blacklist a player to stop them joining right?

If they've already joined your game then just blacklist them, delete the game, and remake it.

Pretty simple, I'm not sure what you're actually after here...

I would like such a function. I normally do 40 player invite only games. Right now ONE has gone inactive, and i would have to redo all the slots and re-invite people. That will take me at least a full hour...

@Fleece: I'm not going to delete an entire game to get rid of one player, there are always people who don't rejoin.

That seems useful. (I actually thought it was already an option...)

However, it is NOT an alternative to "private games" - it doesn't solve any of the issues I was trying to fix. (Which has more with inviting players to your games than screening players OUT of them, which we already have blacklists and prerequisites for.)

Some people join diplos and don't claim a territory. Usually they go PE... it would end that.

IMO, people should be able to join and play any open game that shows up in their open games page. A feature like this would be nice for removing inactive and vacationing players, but I oppose a feature to remove just anyone.

Is that a right or a privilege?

I think it's important to have certain people not be able to join your games.

Dafuq?

Why would you blacklist a harmless lovable rogue like me???

Vote to remove a player before game begins?

Hey, I'm with Colonel on this one.

When you're in a big real-time game (20+ people FFAs/Diplos/Whatever) and someone proceeds to be a prick in chat, blacklisting, deleting and re-doing is not an option, cause games with that many players take ages to fill and lots of people will be AFK or not reading chat to know why the game was deleted.

If I understand this right, you want to be able to remove players from games in progress?

What's to stop somebody from removing a player because they are losing/winning/an obstruction?

AFAIK Diplos are games with rules that are already made up, not part of the warlight infrastructure. Why would Fizzer need to make something to support that specifically, when you could just choose who you play with? Or remove people before the game starts, who are not active, or not joining?

It is not possible to remove players when they have joined a game. They have to do it themselves. That is stupid...

@Koala & Kretoma: This function is only to enhance the current "Add/Remove player" ability, which only works BEFORE the game begins.

Right now, the only way to "remove" a player is if they haven't accepted. We want to change that.

Edited 1/1/2016 20:44:26

I know, i fully understand everything, but thank you nonetheless. ^^