Automatic siege start

A quick look today shows 42 siege games unstarted, while those in the queues have to sit and wait. And example: Red board 7 day timeout 14 day timebank. Both players are no longer active on-site, bt what can those in the queue do? They have probabky forgotten they are even waiting given how long the queues take to move...

As an idea, auto-start any siege game a given period after the end of the previous one. To give some allowance for holidays and the like, set this period to the longer of 7 days or the move timout duration.

As an alternative, after one week, allow any player in the queue to jump to the start and begin the game. First come, first served.

Originally posted by Toe
A quick look today shows 42 siege games unstarted, while those in the queues have to sit and wait. And example: Red board 7 day timeout 14 day timebank. Both players are no longer active on-site, bt what can those in the queue do? They have probabky forgotten they are even waiting given how long the queues take to move...

As an idea, auto-start any siege game ...[text shortened]... for holidays and the like, set this period to the longer of 7 days or the move timout duration.

Originally posted by Toe
A quick look today shows 42 siege games unstarted, while those in the queues have to sit and wait. And example: Red board 7 day timeout 14 day timebank. Both players are no longer active on-site, bt what can those in the queue do? They have probabky forgotten they are even waiting given how long the queues take to move...

As an idea, auto-start any siege game ...[text shortened]... for holidays and the like, set this period to the longer of 7 days or the move timout duration.

still 42 today: none of those games have started over the last 2 days. Add to that the issue of a single player sitting on 21 of the boards (edit: not those waiting, just in total) and we can see that sieges are having a few teething problems...