Auto-Kick for Unready Players

[Billg606]

This pull request introduces an automatic kick mechanism for unready players in multiplayer lobbies. It also adjusts several build configuration options to better suit development and testing environments.

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Features & Changes

Gameplay

• Auto-Kick for Unready Players

  • Players who do not mark themselves as "Ready" within 20 seconds are automatically removed from the lobby.
  • A new error code ERRORNOTREADY was added to track this specific reason.
  • The system tracks the time each player remains unready and resets the timer if they become ready.

  Implementation Notes

• The checkUnreadyPlayersForKick() function is integrated into the multiplayer tick loop.

• A global gameHasStarted flag prevents late kicks after the game begins.

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 Motivation

This change improves the multiplayer experience by reducing lobby idle time and ensuring smoother game starts.

auto-kick.patch

[johan-boule]

The feature already exists in version 4.6.2!
In your WZ config file, edit the line hostAutoNotReadyKickSeconds=20

Some commit that started to introduce the code 6996183

[past-due]

I believe this patch was offered as a method to fix some issues with the auto-not-ready kick routine.

Those have been patched in #4790, which will be included in 4.6.3 - so hopefully this patch should no longer be needed after that point. 🙂