The other half of the setup-page-as-room work, both halves Cyd's ask.
JOIN STEAM GAME now sits down where it stands. The mission column -
scenario buttons and the track, time, weather and length drop-downs -
greys out and MIRRORS the host: the owner's published setup is mapped
from display names back to catalog indices on every heartbeat, so a
member watches the host change the track from inside their own setup
screen. The right column stays theirs - callsign, role, vehicle, colour,
badge, recording - and republishes as they change it, so the host's
roster tracks them the same way. LAUNCH GAME reads WAITING FOR THE HOST
and answers to nobody; the go arrives through the same timer, registers
the peers, and leaves the menu as a member launch. JOIN becomes LEAVE
LOBBY while seated. The room screen is now unused by both roles - kept
compiled, but nobody's flow reaches it.
A member's launch also now sets the RECORDING flag from its own pick.
Nothing on the member path ever set it before - the same
published-but-never-acted-on seam as the member cam - so a member who
ticked RECORDING recorded nothing, all the way back to the feature
landing.
One host at a time, while the flow is young: HOST STEAM GAME first runs
the same worldwide search joining uses, and if an RP412 lobby is already
open anywhere it refuses with A LOBBY IS ALREADY OPEN - JOIN IT rather
than opening a second room nobody can tell from the first.
Check-then-create is not airtight against two people clicking in the
same breath, but for a playtest group on voice it is the rule that was
asked for. If the host leaves, ownership would migrate silently and turn
some member's page into a host's - the member poll treats inheriting
ownership as THE LOBBY CLOSED and steps out instead.
The old modal exits are gone with it: steamAction, the post-loop
RPL4Lobby_Join call, and the member's room re-entry path. The menu's
modal loop now ends only at launch or close, whoever you are.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 5
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