Let a player who lost connection come back to their own seat

Wi-Fi drops, a phone switches networks, a laptop sleeps for a minute. If the game removes the player at once, the team loses a member for nothing; if it waits forever, a dead seat blocks the room. Here is a waiting time that works and how the returning player proves who they are.

Why this works

A dropped connection looks the same whether the player left or just stumbled. Waiting a little, and letting only the holder of a secret return, protects honest players from bad luck without letting a stranger take their place.

When not to use it

Skip it in quick casual matches where an open seat is filled at once by someone else, or in games where waiting for a missing player holds up everyone else's evening. Then replace the player with a computer-run stand-in right away.

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
• 24 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 "Let a player who lost connection come back to their own seat" (read_entry online-keep-seat-after-connection-drop) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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