Kick headless admin after 10 minutes of inactivity

[tomreyn]

Currently it is possible for players to make headless servers useless for other players by just connecting as the first user and thus becoming an admin but never playing. While I'm writing this, one headless server is blocked this way: a "newbie" player is connected to it and does not respond to the chat. not does s/he do anything for ~30 minutes now. The headless server should kick inactive admins, and warn them a minute before doing so by sounding an alarm and displaying a message such as "You have been inactive for too long and will get disconnected. Please change any setting to extend the timeout".

[TotalNoob]

maybe a voting poll would be a good solution too. Let's say that 2 (or more) players connect to the game and vote if the room operator should be kicked or not. On the other hand it might not work if room operator will choose a map with 2 players only

[uncle]

Good idea.

[tomreyn]

Voting, while it would be reusable elsewhere once implemented, is way more complex, error-prone, and requires the voters to be in majority to be effective, which makes it useless in some situations as TotalNoob already pointed out. So I still think a timeout is the way to go there. Eventually voting could be added as an alternative later.