Slitherine

Apparently the Swiss confederacy can join ... he is idle with zero regions as the 16th player.

The MP lobby windows is not fully in synch with the SP version, that's why. It will show all factions.

So if you chose a nation that didn't exists join in MP, why doesn't it go idle, is the player really logging in and seeing that is still does not exist every turn since he isn't idle? And does that mean we need to wait max time each turn forever in this game?

ps. if so I don't like it!!!

In my ongoing multiplayer, somebody accidentally picked Lombardy (not on map at start) instead of an Italian minor that starts in Lombardy. I don't recall it waiting for them before resolving turns. By the time Lombardy actually spawned, the server had removed them from the game for being idle for too long.

Until now we have always have to wait to 15:45 for next turn, but then again we are not that far in the game.

The system can't know if the player is doing something or not, so if you are waiting for him, it means he connects at least once every 3 turns.
That said, I should see how to update the MP lobby to the level of features of the SP lobby, the two are not kept in synch automatically.