Multiplayer game - simple host switching?

Anyone have the code for simple automatic host switching?

It sounds a quite promising solution to one of my Apps.

What if switching would work like this:

There are always two room(name)s reserved per one game

- RoomPrimary

- RoomBackup

When a new game starts, everyone goes to RoomPrimary.

If RoomPrimary host drops, each (currently playing) client automatically connect to RoomBackup, where the 1st one becomes new Host. This 1st host will send the latest game status to everyone else.

After this switch, the only problem is that new players would go to RoomPrimary that is empty/wrong...ideas how to notify them ?

I assume one game can be in just one room at once, right?

Again, while it is possible to do some sort of host migration, it is going to have problems and probably end up being way more effort than it is worth. It makes much more sense to use a proper dedicated host or use a third party backend service.

host migration is more effort than:

- learning a whole new programming language

- learning about domains and hosting

- being forced to host servers for each game you produce regardless of the revenue they generate instead of having a simple peer to peer host migration and not manage servers or infrastructure or scaling

Nah

Thanks for comments, yes I have all data synced into each peer all the time, so I think my solution will be to reconnect to same room if DROPPED even occurs, and just let the 1st peer to become host automatically in case the host was dropped causing each one to drop.

Also, I dont need the names of players at all, so its enough that "game data remains" when even a few players remain online playing.