Randy -- I like having the widest range of options when creating a game and think a pop-up warning is sufficient for "never boot". Although I could see removing the option in tournaments and I could see why it would be reasonable for you to "unstick" or just closeout games that appear as though they will never be finished.

The problem here is not one of booting per se. It's a problem of inactive accounts. I am not a fan of players who take weeks to make their turns, but I know when I join a game or tournament with those settings (and players) I'm likely to have to deal with it. But if they've truly left WL and haven't made a turn in any game for an extended period (or logged in for that matter), then that's not really a booting issue.

You might want to have a rule that an account that remains totally inactive for an extended period of time (say 60-90 days), becomes "inactive" and that player automatically forfeits any open games, until they return their account to active status.

This approach would have no effect on the stallers, sloths and deliberate delayers (because they take turns in other games), but it would fix the problems from people who've left WL. Which fits your philosophy.

very nice Duke. +1

Duke's suggestion sounds like a solid one.

Ok -- I added it:

http://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warlight-features/suggestions/1339405-player-active-inactive-status-where-inactive-pl

I tried to add something a while back, and couldn't figure out how to do it, sadly, lol

Duke's suggestion is yet another good one, so that makes about six or seven viable proposals that have been advanced now to deal with this situation. And of course, that means that six or seven people were hardcore enough to care about this issue and make concrete, sensible proposals to solve it.

The silence in response is deafening. I guess until this issue gets 400 votes on UserVoice (despite the fact that UserVoice is not always a useful metric for determining what is desired by the gamers here), it's not getting fixed. Quite disappointing, to say the least.

Why not just have a statute of limitations on the "never" boot clause? I have a game (http://warlight.net/App.aspx?GameID=1094615) that's been open for 70+ days, everyone has voted to boot the last guy except 1 person, and everyone has voted to end the game except the one guy who can;'t get booted. Can't you just say the "never" boot only lasts for 30 days or something? Also, I think if someone is intentionally stalling a game you might want to suspend them.

if the never boot option only lasted 30 days, then it'd be a 30day boot option.. the same thing as putting a cap on the boot time, just it would make it an unseen cap except to those that know the rules well

Just noticed this has been fixed and I like the 100 day limit.

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Troll -- Don't view a hundred day time limit as a challenge!

??? Who are you calling a troll?

The Troll. The guy.

the maker of some of the original maps lol

Not "the". Just Troll, creator of Europe map, and some others.
Known as one of the most slowly players in WL (in one tournament, in Championship game, Randy booted him because he was not moving for 5 month).
One of the first players of WL.