Hosting games - ability to start/kick/chat & change faction

[Patrick_FF]

Can Direwolf please enable the 'host' to be able to press 'start' in their own game, chat, and kick players from their games? Instead of the game automatically starting when the room is full - it makes waiting for friends a nightmare (if someone random beats them to it) and having to restart constantly.

To be clear, I like a mix of friends and public in my games of Root - so a password will not solve this. I would prefer to communicate than be forced to resign each time, and say 'sorry guys I need to restart' once the game has initiated.

Finally, if someone random joins and chooses a role, which I would like my friend to have - I cannot communicate with them to change role (nor can they), so then once again I have to quit out, and recreate a game - it seems pretty tedious; I am literally sitting on discord saying 'quick are you ready, join as fast as you can or we'll have to restart' and 50% of the time it does not go to plan.

Thanks

[Arasa]

Howdy!
I also enjoy having a mix of friends and strangers (to spice the game up)
What I've found is the only stable way is to make a password, then make sure your friends are in the game, then throw the password into the public lobby chat and let strangers join

[Patrick_FF]

Originally posted by Arasa:

Howdy!
I also enjoy having a mix of friends and strangers (to spice the game up)
What I've found is the only stable way is to make a password, then make sure your friends are in the game, then throw the password into the public lobby chat and let strangers join

Yes that's fair enough, and a good suggestion - however, it's still a bit clunky. It would be nice if we could communicate within the game room, and let people change their factions around at least.

[Dire Wolf CS]

Hello Patrick_FF! Thanks for taking the time to reach out! We appreciate your comments and we will pass them on to the team for review!
If there is anything else we can do for you, please let us know.
Have fun playing Root!

[Patrick_FF]

Originally posted by dwd_admin:

Hello Patrick_FF! Thanks for taking the time to reach out! We appreciate your comments and we will pass them on to the team for review!
If there is anything else we can do for you, please let us know.
Have fun playing Root!

Thank you for the response, it's great to hear the devs are taking community feedback onboard; I hope you guys will consider my suggestion.

[Vartz]

A lot of lobby options are actually missing in the game. It would be cool too to be able to force players to play a random faction. Aslo, there is no lobby at the end of games either. Would be cool to have a chat too and some cool statistics.
That said, I know it would take time to do and I would much rather have the next expension and a 6 player game than some more options in the lobby.