Joining a game in-progress

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I have not tried joining with Hamachi or under a lan yet so I'm not sure if joining in-progress is established at all.. also I feel bad if this is already posted but I did an honest effort looking around at the 3 pages of suggestion topics.

I would like game hosters/leaders the option to allow new players to jump in their game within whatever timespan they choose. Think of it as jumping into a match of Team Fotress 2 when its already in progress and joining the action right away. Before you go in you can download any necessary mods the game creator put in.

If a player drops, they can jump back in within a few minutes, otherwise:

Option 1: A player looking for a random match can choose: (pick a random new game starting up) or (pick a random game already in progress).

Option 2:A player looking for a specific game type can browse in-progress games that have the join-in feature unlocked. They can see how many minutes are left and jump in if they like brand new games or really late games.

The player will pick up the Demigod of the player that left. This demigod could have disappeared when the player left or was under AI control (does not matter to me).

If 2 players left making the game even (3v3 to 3v2 then to 2v2) then two people would have to que up to join. I suggest this because the big reason is to fix imbalanced games. Theres no huge advantage to joining in-game at all, but I would enjoy a record of how many games I randomly picked up and finished, just for some fun prestige of helping out folks.

I would not know what games to prioritize first for a random game, nor do I know the coding problems with jumping into a game someone is hosting.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

It's hard with a peer2peer model to do that.

 

Sucks playing any other RTS after playing WiC. :/

 

Can join mid-game and laggers don't ruin everyone elses games.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I'd like to see how well the AI is coded as the game develops.  Personally, I'd hate to jump into a game mid-match to take a leavers/disconnected players spot.  In many cases, that person left because they were losing meaning now you get to joing a match where the other team has the momentum.  Would be nice to get back in a game you previously left just because of a lost connection, or other crash/error.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I agree that most of the time joining mid-game would suck. If I would see one that had 5 min into the game I'd go "hmm, that one probably has not gone to crap (yet)" and I'd jump in. Hey, at least your teammates would love you for it. Unless you're dumber than the AI. Which I probably will be. I've seen AI replaicing dropped players a few time in (I believe) Mario Kart and its not too bad.

Innociv, do you think it would be possible to set up some form of dedicated server(s) to avoid that model? So if you love hosting but you hate droppers, you make a server which has a different "model" which allows people to come in and out... I'm not good at that stuff. I guess thats why I'm in the "Ideas" forum, just to throw out a suggestion. For those dedicated servers you would have a more reliable game at least, so we have a small reason to do an "in-progress" game other than having a gold sticker on your record.

And I agree Odit, the worst is when you're on something like WC3 about to win a drawn-out match and the host's lag spice nukes 2 players on your team... or yourself.