Me and my buddy tried to do this.

Myth confirmed, last person to join wins.

If there is a FFA that is freestyle and everyone deadbeats without ever playing a single turn, everyone gets the auto-kick at the same time rite? What would happen? Does CC blow up?

If the fewest open spaces system was to be implement, might I suggest a different approach:

It displays the games with the smallest vacant percent of players missing. That way, 8 player games that are half full are weighed just as much as 1v1s.

I personally have a very narrow range of games I ...

I wasn't trying to detract from the suggestion at all with my first post. As I said, I would be in favor. I think the biggest issue would be the memory that it would take. I remember in one of the threads, someone combated this by saying that perhaps someone's replays could be saved for only a week ...

I would not be opposed to this. Been suggested before in various ways. Here are most... I won't say all, because I'm not sure I found them all.

https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=165642
https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=154867
https://www.conquerclub.com ...

I reviewed the ones you mentioned. The only complaints I found were as follows.

This would interfere with strategy during the game. As the name suggests, this device would only be available post-game. As such, there would be no interference, only review.

It would take up too much memory. This is ...

Concise description:

A "play" button available in archived games which would allow the viewer to see the game play out from the start, probably in faster-than-normal speed.

Specifics/Details:

I don't know how much information CC stores about games, but I know that the game log would not ...