Suggestion Idea:
To "join" players to games that are already awaiting players if the settings are identical in the two games.
Details:
Say two people want to play a Standard Sequential Escalating No Fog Casual game on Classic. They both start a game with these settings. Both games go up on the board, and both appear if you search for them. Since both players are effectively awaiting the same game, it would cut down massively on the sheer number of games awaiting players at any one time (and cut down on the time before players start a game after joining) by combining these two "waiting for players" games into one game and letting it start.
Obviously this is not limited to just 2 player games, if N players have created the same N player game and are all waiting, you could join all N together into one game and it would start immediately.
Why Needed:
This will cut down massively on the number of games awaiting players by joining a player to an already existing game with the same specifics. There are 15 pages of games waiting for players at the moment, ones on the 15th page have no chance of being joined unless someone specifically searches for that game.
Other Notable Points:
I think this should only apply to Public games, so players can still create games for themself and their friends and not worry about random people being placed in that game.. I also think that once a game has a second player joining it, that game should not be considered for "auto-combining" with other games.
Discuss.
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