Tell people they need to get ready

[JeremyJames]

We need something to tell "not-ready" people they need to click on that "Ready" button 😄

[ChoiZ]

If 60% of room is ready we can imagine to add a countdown (ie: 10 seconds to be ready).
At the end of this countdown peoples not ready are automatically spectators no?

[MacMinty]

This has been a huge problem with me for a while. More often than not, people will just sit in a lobby when they finish a game, so you end up with these big lobbies where many people are trying to play, but a few are stopping them. This will, I imagine, occasionally result in people not coming back to curvytron because of the lack of actual gameplay. The kick mechanic is very impractical. If you aren't the party leader and try to initiate a kick of an inactive player, it will almost never happen from a vote because of how little people pay attention to the chat. They either don't know that a kick vote is taking place, or they simply don't care. As for party leaders, the kick mechanic is even worse. They either: Don't know how to kick, don't know people need to be kicked, or simply are inactive from the lobby. I think one of the previously mentioned ideas on this thread would be the most viable fix: Have a way to force inactive users into spectator mode if inactive for a certain amount of time. When the clock symbol appears to denote a player has not made any actions as of recently would be a good place to start with timing of when the players go into spectator mode. There also has to be an easier way to transfer party leadership. I argue that if the party leader has been idle for any reasonable period of time (until the clock symbol appears), any player should be able to claim party leadership. Party leadership seemingly goes to a random player at this point, and I don't think that should be allowed to happen. Having a player be able to claim party leadership (maybe by clicking the crown button next to the current leader's name) will ensure that someone can take control of the lobby, have an alternate way to clear out idle players, and get the game started.