Balatro-Multiplayer / Balatro-Multiplayer/BalatroMultiplayerAPI-Server
Policy: leaving a match after accepting (two-tier consequences)
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
**Status: needs triage** (policy / enhancement)
## Summary
Once a player accepts a match (Balatro-Multiplayer/BalatroMultiplayer#493), they may still need to leave. Consequences should depend on **when**:
- **Leaving after the run has started** → treated as a **normal loss** (full game loss + MMR loss), same as any forfeit mid-game.
- **Leaving during the ban phase** (before the run starts) → **some MMR loss but no game loss**, plus possibly a **queue-time penalty**. Bailing during bans is lighter than abandoning a live game, but shouldn't be free.
## Open questions
- How much MMR the ban-phase leave costs (fixed amount vs fraction of a loss).
- Size of the queue-time penalty, and whether it escalates on repeat.
- Exact boundary for "run started" (first blind? deck locked in?).
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Research direction
Start by reading the referenced match-acceptance issue, Balatro-Multiplayer/BalatroMultiplayer#493, and trace how leaving is currently handled after acceptance. No files, tests, or entry points are named here. Done requires agreement on the run-start boundary, ban-phase MMR loss, and queue-time penalty before implementation can be scoped.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100