Transfer game management when the manager exits

[JorenC]

Goal

When the game manager's membership effectively ends — civil disorder, elimination,
being kicked, or seeking replacement — automatically transfer the management role
to the most reliable remaining active player. Without this, games become
unmanageable: no one can pause, extend deadlines, or kick absent players when the
person with those powers is gone.

Definition of done

When the player holding the management role (created_by, on games with no
separate game_master) goes civil disorder, is eliminated, is kicked, or has
their seeking_replacement flag set, the game's created_by is updated to the
non-eliminated, non-kicked, non-CD member with the highest reliability score. All
game members receive a notification naming the new manager. If no eligible member
exists, no transfer occurs and the role stays with the exiting player.

Context

• Only applies to games where game_master is NULL. When a dedicated (non-player)
  game master is set, they cannot be a member and therefore cannot exit as a
  player — no transfer is needed.
• Reliability is already computed by get_player_stats() in
  user_profile/utils.py. The transfer logic can use the same scoring to rank
  candidates.
• Each exit event should trigger the transfer atomically alongside the state
  change that causes the exit.

[johnpooch]

I can't remember how this is structured in the backend. I know that the person who created the game becomes the game manager, but I can't remember if this is actually modeled anywhere or simply inferred by the fact that the person created the game. If it is the latter, then we need to do some updates to the modeling so that the game manager is explicitly tracked separately from the person who created the game. Otherwise, we would be corrupting our data by transferring the game manager.

I wonder if the term admin is useful instead of game manager. I feel like it is what people are used to with apps like WhatsApp, etc.

[JorenC]

We could use admin and GM to differentiate between Dedicated/Playing GM

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