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Hope they fix host kicking and instead implement a vote-kick feature. I got kicked at the end of a deep dive last night with no warning as we were finishing a perfect run and now I don’t even want to play this game again. Still fuming about this design decision.
Sorry you had a bad experience, but voting to kick doesn’t really work in a game where the player count varies from one to four people.
Yeah let’s let one power tripping shithead have sole discretion. I’m honestly just going to host games and kick people before calling the drop ship from now on until ghost ship fixes this garbage. I found forums complaining about this abuse since 2018 so clearly this is a valid way to enjoy the product
Edit: sorry I didn’t notice you were a developer, but I’ll leave my passionate empty threat as is because I’m still frustrated 2 days later. I hope there is some sort of mitigation you guys can implement such as a unanimous veto system to override a host’s kick request. I understand the host can ultimately end the session whenever they want but at least that way they are penalizing themselves in the process.
Honestly if there was even a report player option I might have felt better afterwards. I felt like I had absolutely no recourse.
Otherwise it’s a really great game though. You guys should be proud of yourselves. I wouldn’t have such strong feelings about this one dealbreaker if it otherwise wasn’t so fantastic.
I get your frustration, but voting is not the solution. Is it a majority vote? When is it a majority with four players? 3 vs 1? What if someone doesn't host? Is the host immune? If not there needs to be some sort of host migration, which is not without issues.
It's a fairly complicated issue with no immediate solutions that are easily used. Voting requires a certain number of players to actually work, a veto system is hard to properly introduce and relay to people, so it actually works the way player wants to - and even then, there's a lot of pitfalls.
Not saying it won't change, but the easiest way to avoid the issues is to host yourself and communicate with others.