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Prevent late joiners during Trader periods

Davski

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Jun 12, 2018
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It's a nuisance that we could be right at the end of the Trader session, and then with 5 seconds to go until the next wave starts, someone joins. As difficulty increases with the number of players, the late person becomes a liability to the team considering they couldn't get to the Trader and prepare themselves.

Likewise, it is horrible being that person when joining a game only to find that the next wave is about to start in seconds.

Most of the time it takes at least 15 seconds to actually run to the Trader pod from spawn, so anyone joining with less than 15 seconds to go is likely to be buggered in the upcoming wave, especially on later/HOE waves. People are sometimes Kicked when they join really late, so that it is not going to affect the team in the upcoming round.

Could we either:
- Have players spawned to the Trader pod when they join, so that they have time to prepare themselves
- Disallow players from being able to Ready Up when there is less than, e.g., 10 seconds left at the Trader period, so that the joined player must spectate until the new Trader session is open.

Thoughts?
 
^ We still follow unwritten rule of KF1

But yeh, it's happening more and more ofteb when someone joins a server and ready's up right at the last 3 seconds before shops close.

I have 2 things that could help prevent situations like these and make the experience bit more enjoyable.

1: the long requested "spawn right next to the active trader pod"
2: Status hud in the lobby that indicates the current phase of the game.
So that if you join, it would display that players are currently surviving the wave, and when the wave is over it displays the trader pod timer.
When the timer is at 15 seconds or less, the ready up button changes color to indicate that the new player will be put to the spectator seat until trader time begins.
That way the already playing players wouldn't have to waste time and resources on someone who just joined, was unable to buy up in time, die and leave like a massive kunt he is :D
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(i mean the ideas are basically the same as yours, but the phase hud in the lobby would make it easier to communicate for the mid game joiners on whats happening right now before they commit on press the ready up button)
 
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