Custom Game Refreshing: Once and For All

Usually in a much needed full house, a host is asked to refresh the game by opening and closing slots. My question is: Is refreshing your game on the custom game list possible at all? If so, how, and if not, why.

No one really knows peple just believe that if you open then close the slot it will refresh or allow others to enter the game but actually it is probably not true cause all it does is open then close thats all it is just some thing that know one knows :gsmile:

Yes, it is obvious when you do it. The game senses a full house, and for some reason then ignores it. Then when the slots are open, it picks it up as if its a new game. Howwever I have heard that this "feature" was removed, although I have not bothered to test it.

I think its sheer idiocy, but something Im forced to do to satisty the impatient 12 year olds who leave if filling a game takes more than 15 seconds.

Battle.net automatically refreshes the game list every so often, listing games from oldest to newest. A player can also do this automatically by clicking on the "refresh" button. When you make a new game, it autmatically gets added to the top. Its a very simple array.

All closing and opening the slots does is remind b.net theres room, something it knew already. The refresh still comes on the automatic, predetermined interval. In fact, closing the slots may delay the fill up, if your unlucky enough to do it during a real refresh.

Of course, this is all conjecture. But its logical conjecture, based on the observed behavior of the custom games window, and the absence of a physical refresh button in the lobby screen. This is the most damning; if Blizzard had gone to the trouble of making games automatically refresh when the slots are opened and closed, why wouldn't it have just stuck the button in instead?

The answer is simple: the impatient 12 year olds would hit it constantly, causing undue latency and making your custom game preview list nigh unreadable.

sgtteflon just slew this topic with a deadly sweeping arc of his mighty blade of reasoning.