Streamlined autohosts

The goal of this change is to reduce vote spam on autohosts and to simplify starting a game. Instead of having players initiate polls all by themselves, autohosts will follow a standard scheme after each battle:

1. Battle ends, replay link is posted in chat
2. 35 seconds to look at end-game graphs and talk about the game, no polls can be started
3. 25 seconds !map poll with multiple random options, the option with most votes wins
4. If 8 or more players are on the server, afk are specced and a normal !start poll is initiated
5. If the game didn't start, polls can be issued as usual

What do you think about this change? What would you do differently? Other devs already know about this, but I wanted to give players the chance to comment before forcing it on them.

You missed most needed part - automatically all afk players is placed in spec position (if this is not already fixed cuz i didn't play ZK for while).

I say 3 randomly chosen maps, a 16 player room getting 1 vote each on 10 maps sounds like a mistake. or if there are 10 maps let player veto maps durring voting that removes a map from the poll if it gets => 3 vetos than !y votes so a concencus can be reached.

Well I would like a system of instant action, and I feel that what you're trying to do is similar to instant action's idea. In most cases, people start the game immediately after a map vote. For custom settings, I think people should go to custom hosts. This idea of mine would also mean a lack of soft lock games where small team games die because of 1 or 2 nonvoters.

Maybe have autohosts and instant action hosts and slowly fade autohosts from the equation?

For now it is a start vote. That means you are ringed when the vote starts. If you do as little as move your mouse you won't be specced. This update will also change the afk detection from only in-game action to any system wide input.

It's all implemented server-side. All I'm waiting for is Chobby making a GUI to select maps: https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Chobby/issues/650