Warn and remove idle players without kicking someone who is just watching

A player who walked away blocks a seat, but a timer that counts silence also kicks someone in a long cutscene, a spectator or a person reading the map. Mouse wiggles by a script fool a simple check as well. Here is a check that warns first, ignores the right times and counts only real activity.

Why this works

Being quiet is not the same as being gone. Counting only actions a person chooses, pausing the count when the player can only watch, and warning before acting removes the seat from people who left without punishing those who stayed.

When not to use it

Skip it in a slow, thoughtful game where a player may take minutes to decide, or in a game with a time limit per turn anyway. There the turn timer already handles absence, and an extra idle check only annoys people who are thinking.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 21 lines of example code with 3 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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Use the Spielerando entry "Warn and remove idle players without kicking someone who is just watching" (read_entry online-detect-idle-players-fairly) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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