Pop-up box asking if you are active before game start
I have played a lot of diplomacy games in my Warlight career and so many times after waiting hours for the game to fill up, one player ends up getting booted and creates a power vacuum.
My suggestion is that just before the game starts a pop-up box displays asking if you are ready to start the game. It basically works like a boot timer, which can be customized by the host.
Say the game starts, the pop-up displays, but one person doesn't click 'ready' within the allotted time, then that player is basically kicked from the game before the game starts and his/her place is opened for a new, active, player to join.
This will help save a lot of games from being ruined by inactive players, which is one of the biggest problems, and most reoccurring problem, I have experienced while playing Warlight.
Thanks for reading ;)
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Ashmage commented
I believe there is a solution to that. The open seats prerequisites? You could use them to block most of the inactive people.