QuickMatch and springie improvements

We have rolled out a new version of autohost and lobby which change the way stuff works:

Starting the game
* starting the game now needs a vote if more than 1 players are present (!start causes a poll to start)
* auto starting was removed
* attempting to start very big game now results in automated "vote split players" - you can override this by forcestarting as always


Moving to other game
* !move [host] and !votemove [host] were implemented - they now move all people from the autohost to a new one (For example use !move PlanetWars to start a vote to move all people there)
* !splitplayers and !votesplitplayers were implemented properly and fixed. Splitting creates low and high elo hosts but keeps people from the same clan together.

Spectator state
* bugs regarding people unspeccing after move or split were fixed
* also if you are spectator and join other game manually you will be a spectator again


QuickMatch
* quickmatch no longer self-activates, it must be manualyl clicked for it to start
* quickmatch instead self-deactivates if you join any room manually
* rules were tweaked and improved so that huge games are no longer preferred and it should suit well people at times of low activity or people who seek to play 1v1, ffa and other rarely played modes as well as people who just want to wait for any of their prefered games to end to play asap.
* qcuikmatch dactivates if user is idle, starts a game or spectates
* big games are no longer massively preferred over small games
* currently joined game no longer has a preference
* several bugs in quickmatch were fixed, including the one where you join 1v1 host without a partner or where players were sometimes moved while quickmatch was disabled

quote: * starting the game now needs a vote if more than 1 players are present (!start causes a poll to start)

At first i was liek OMG and then i was liek WOW.

Noticed it this morning - it's a very welcome change. Woot.

I wonder if ZKL have some widget for those votes (like ingame)?

quote: * quickmatch instead self-deactivates if you join any room manually

Will it deactivate if i use non-zkl lobby, and set prefs from site? (i fully expect that, but just checking in case i don't need to f5 each time :P )

quote: Due to problems detecting various states in other lobbies, quickmatch support for other lobbies was removed - no longer possible to activate on site.

That's sad.

(but at least there's the "я креведко" option instead)

Looks perfect. Almost exactly what I wanted... although I worry that the vote start could make starting a game really slow if it takes a long-assed time for the start vote to complete.

I'm wagering those split votes will almost never pass, but I'm happy they're there.

Brilliant. Well done.

Sound great!

omg, i waited for those changes soooo looong! THANKS!

The only thing that really bugs me with the quickmatch options is that it says "sily maps" instead of "silly maps".

Default to "votesplit" when > 20 players fails badly when players do not want to split: if majority of players vote no... then it just need 1 player to press start button to cause the vote to be issued again. And people vote no, and again and again.

!forcestart has its own problems... described countless times. I requested a long time ago to have a !startoversize (and !vote...) that would balance properly.

Proposal:
when votesplit is induced by size > 20 AND majority vote no... when someone try to !start again, don't issue !votesplit again... issue a vote on forcestart, if you don't want to implement a !startoversize, which would be the proper way to handle it...

quote: * attempting to start very big game now results in automated "vote split players" - you can override this by forcestarting as always

what is size is "very big"?
i am in 8v8 room atm..did not see such thing? neither in a 9v9.