[Fidd]

118. "typed" potential crew-list of players in game, but not in lobby.

Imagine you could get in game, and add your name and desired roles, and preferred language, to a list visible to all captains in all locked lobbies. Possibilities would be "new player", and/or the usual roles. More than one would be settable. If any of the captains, playing any of the locked games wish for (say) a helmsman, they can bring up their list, and see all the helmsman, or, they can keep the list unspecified and invite any they wish to play with. Or, they might see a player from their own country, and invite him. etc. Players who have attracted numerous bans would be unable to access this feature? Players would also be able to flag themselves as "unavailable" to suppress invitations, were they, for example, waiting to play an organised game.

In the boat, the captain would view this list of currently available players on the C menu. Quite how he should be made aware of players being available in such a system, if at all, I remain uncertain of.

On further thought, if the list of "waiting" players was visible to all in the list itself, and a means of communicating existed, this might also prompt someone to start a lobby. The problem currently is that way we used to assemble as players, pre-game, was discord, however, with the advent of the (better) in game voice, we've lost that....