diff --git a/RP_L4/RPL4LOBBY.cpp b/RP_L4/RPL4LOBBY.cpp
index b79e916..f8ece7b 100644
--- a/RP_L4/RPL4LOBBY.cpp
+++ b/RP_L4/RPL4LOBBY.cpp
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ void RPL4Lobby_PullRaceResults()					{ }
 
 namespace
 {
-	enum { kMaxLobbyMembers = 4 };
+	// A full grid is eight pods, as the pod hall ran it. The egg builder
+	// carries the owner plus maxExtraPilots (8), so eight members fit
+	// with room to spare.
+	enum { kMaxLobbyMembers = 8 };
 	const char kLobbyTagKey[] = "rp412";
 	const char kGoKey[] = "go";
 
@@ -379,7 +382,6 @@ namespace
 			-1, &title, DT_CENTER | DT_TOP | DT_SINGLELINE);
 
 		SelectObject(mem, room->textFont);
-		int row_h = client.bottom / 16;
 		// wider than the old middle-half: the right column now carries
 		// full catalog names, and in football three of them
 		int left = client.right / 6;
@@ -387,23 +389,9 @@ namespace
 		char text[128];
 
 		//---------------------------------------------------------------
-		// The host's setup, under the title: the track on its own line,
-		// then the conditions. Everyone flies the owner's picks, so this
-		// is the one thing in the room nobody can see for themselves.
-		//
-		// Drawn full width rather than the roster's middle half, because
-		// track names run long ("Berserker's Bahnzai"), and the roster
-		// then starts below whatever this took - two extra lines above a
-		// fixed roster top would have run into the first player.
-		//---------------------------------------------------------------
-		int top = client.bottom / 4;
-
-		//---------------------------------------------------------------
-		// The buttons are laid out upward from the bottom edge, so the
-		// setup lines are only affordable if the roster and its hint
-		// still clear the topmost one. Work out the room first and take
-		// as many lines as fit - the map alone is worth more than the
-		// conditions, so it goes first and drops last.
+		// The buttons are laid out upward from the bottom edge while the
+		// roster runs down from the top, so everything between the title
+		// and the topmost button has to share one band.
 		//---------------------------------------------------------------
 		int ceiling = client.bottom;
 		if (FootballLobby() && room->teamRect.top > 0)
@@ -419,16 +407,67 @@ namespace
 			ceiling = room->leaveRect.top;
 		}
 
-		int setup_top = title.bottom + row_h / 4;
-		// the fixed block below: four roster slots, a gap, and the hint,
-		// plus the half row this block leaves above the roster
-		int block = kMaxLobbyMembers * row_h + row_h / 2 + row_h;
-		int setup_lines =
-			(ceiling - block - setup_top - row_h / 2) / row_h;
-		if (setup_lines > 2)
+		//---------------------------------------------------------------
+		// Size the rows to that band rather than to a fixed fraction of
+		// the window: a full lobby is eight players, and eight rows at a
+		// sixteenth each would run off the bottom of every window we
+		// support. Counted in half rows, the band holds
+		//
+		//   setup lines + gap + kMaxLobbyMembers rows + gap + hint
+		//
+		// so the row height falls out of the space actually available.
+		// It never grows past the old sixteenth (a two-player lobby
+		// should not have circus-sized rows) and never shrinks below the
+		// font, which is what would actually break - overlapping text.
+		//---------------------------------------------------------------
+		// tmHeight already includes the font's own leading, so a row that
+		// tall cannot clip or collide - asking for more than that just
+		// costs setup lines the room would rather keep.
+		TEXTMETRICA metrics;
+		GetTextMetricsA(mem, &metrics);
+		int min_row = metrics.tmHeight + 2;
+		int max_row = client.bottom / 16;
+
+		int setup_top = title.bottom + client.bottom / 64;
+		int band = ceiling - setup_top;
+
+		int setup_lines = 2;
+		int row_h = 0;
+		for (;;)
 		{
-			setup_lines = 2;
+			// halves: setup, half gap, roster, half gap, hint
+			int halves = 2 * setup_lines + 1 + 2 * kMaxLobbyMembers + 1 + 2;
+			row_h = (2 * band) / halves;
+			if (row_h >= min_row || setup_lines == 0)
+			{
+				break;
+			}
+			--setup_lines;		// buy room back from the setup lines
 		}
+		if (row_h > max_row)	row_h = max_row;
+		if (row_h < 12)			row_h = 12;
+
+		//---------------------------------------------------------------
+		// On a window too short to give eight rows the room the standard
+		// font wants, draw this block smaller rather than letting the
+		// rows overlap each other or run under the buttons. Nobody plays
+		// at that size, but a squeezed roster still has to be readable.
+		//---------------------------------------------------------------
+		HFONT squeezed = NULL;
+		HFONT previous = NULL;
+		if (row_h < min_row)
+		{
+			squeezed = CreateFontA(-(row_h * 2 / 3), 0, 0, 0, FW_NORMAL,
+				FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, ANSI_CHARSET, OUT_TT_PRECIS,
+				CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, CLEARTYPE_QUALITY,
+				FIXED_PITCH | FF_MODERN, "Consolas");
+			if (squeezed != NULL)
+			{
+				previous = (HFONT) SelectObject(mem, squeezed);
+			}
+		}
+
+		int top = setup_top;
 
 		const char *map_name = LobbyText(kMapKey);
 		if (map_name[0] != '\0' && setup_lines > 0)
@@ -534,6 +573,13 @@ namespace
 					  : "Waiting for the host to launch...",
 			-1, &hint, DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER | DT_SINGLELINE);
 
+		// back to the room font for the buttons, which have their own room
+		if (squeezed != NULL)
+		{
+			SelectObject(mem, previous);
+			DeleteObject(squeezed);
+		}
+
 		HBRUSH frame = CreateSolidBrush(kGreenBright);
 
 		//