players should be able to re-connect after disconnecting

[andy5995]

If a player lags out, he should be able to re-connect to the game in-progress

[andy5995]

@Jammyjamjamman told me the code to do this had been added but was disabled. If it works at all, I suggest enabling it so the bugs can be worked on.

If it's enabled, we'll have to figure out how to test locally if possible, and then document the process.

[andy5995]

This enables some code that was put in place by the MG team

zetaglest/zetaglest-source@4e9ed10

I tested it. It allows for a player to rejoin after lagging out.

I tested it first by joining a running game

• start client
• host game
• have network slots available when the game starts
• start another client on the same computer
• join LAN game

I then tested rejoining after a lag

• while connected with the 2nd client, I cut my wifi off for a second
• was then dropped by the running host
• was able to rejoin the game

I don't know how stable the code is.. It hasn't been tested for any length of time yet, or under real-life conditions.

Oh, this is one problem.. one can only enable the "in-game" join when setting up a network game from the "custom game" menu, or from the "host game" button in the lobby.

[andy5995]

re-joining works, but not reliably and has some other side effects.

So closing this ticket, and will create individual tickets as needed