Game Night Autopilot

1. Opportunity Discovery

Scans Steam libraries of all linked members to identify games owned by multiple people. Filters out ineligible games (too few owners, no recent activity) and builds a ranked opportunity list.

2. Candidate Scoring

For each eligible game, the scoring engine evaluates 7 weighted dimensions: library overlap, recent interest, social affinity, availability overlap, guild activity, game fit, and turnout reliability. These produce a composite score that predicts session success.

3. Policy Evaluation

A 12-stage policy pipeline checks freshness, mode eligibility, entitlement, confidence, quiet hours, permissions, duplicates, fatigue, recent failures, daily caps, and Steam density. Only candidates that pass all checks are surfaced.

4. Session Lifecycle

When a recommendation is launched, SYNTHET creates an announcement with RSVP buttons, optionally creates a discussion thread and voice channel, registers reminders, tracks attendance, and generates a post-session recap card.

5. Learning & Adaptation

After each session, the learning engine updates member turnout profiles, pair chemistry scores, time-window priors, game success priors, and guild adaptation metrics. Future recommendations become increasingly accurate over time.

Launch a game night session from a recommendation ID. Creates the announcement with RSVP buttons, seeds participants, creates thread and voice channel (if enabled), and registers reminder notifications. The recommendation is marked as consumed to prevent duplicates.

View all active game night sessions in your server. Shows game name, participant count, RSVP status, and scheduled/actual start times. Sessions that run for more than 6 hours are automatically reconciled and closed.

View recent game night session history with outcomes. Shows the recap card for the most recent session including attendance stats, quality score, and viability status (successful, partial, or failed).

View or change Game Night Autopilot settings. Without arguments, displays current configuration. With arguments, updates the mode and/or announcement channel. Requires Manage Server permission to modify. See the Autopilot Modes section below for details.

Force recomputation of game opportunities. Rescans all Steam libraries and rebuilds the candidate pool. Useful after many new members link their accounts or after significant library changes.

Off

Game Night Autopilot is completely disabled. No recommendations are generated or surfaced.

Admin Only

Recommendations are only visible to admins. Admins review candidates and manually launch sessions. Best for servers that want full control over when game nights happen.

Admin Guided

Admins approve recommendations, then they're publicly surfaced for member RSVP. Members can see upcoming game nights and respond, but admins control what gets posted. A good middle ground for active communities.

Join — Mark yourself as attending. You'll receive reminder notifications before the session starts.

Maybe — Mark as tentative. You'll still get reminders but won't be counted for minimum player requirements.

Can't Make It — Decline the invitation. Your turnout profile is updated (declining is better than no-showing).

Scoring Dimensions

Library Overlap (25%) — How many members own the game. Recent Interest (15%) — Recent playtime signals active interest. Social Affinity (20%) — How well group members get along based on shared gaming history. Availability Overlap (15%) — Members share similar active hours. Guild Activity (10%) — Overall engagement of candidate members. Game Fit (10%) — Historical success of this game in your server. Turnout Reliability (5%) — Members' track record of actually showing up.

Confidence Bands

Each recommendation includes a confidence band: High (0.7+), Medium (0.4–0.7), Low (0.2–0.4), or Very Low (<0.2). Confidence reflects data quality — new servers start with low confidence that improves as more sessions are completed and the learning engine builds history.

Discussion Threads

Auto-create a thread under the announcement for pre-game planning and coordination. Thread auto-archives after 24 hours.

Voice Channels

Auto-create a temporary voice channel for the session. Automatically cleaned up when the session ends or is cancelled.

Reminders

Configurable reminder notifications before the session starts (default: 60 minutes and 15 minutes before). Sent to the announcement channel to ping RSVPed members.

Session Recaps

After a session ends, SYNTHET posts a recap card showing attendance stats, quality score, quality band, and session outcome (successful/partial/failed). Great for celebrating wins and building game night culture.

Member Turnout Profiles

Tracks each member's reliability: invite-to-attendance ratio, RSVP follow-through, meaningful attendance (10+ minutes), and dropout rate. Members earn reliability bands: Core, Regular, Casual, Unreliable, or New.

Pair Chemistry

Tracks how well pairs of members play together: co-attendance frequency, success when paired, repeat pairing stability, and shared game outcomes. Pairs earn chemistry bands: Strong, Positive, Neutral, Weak, or New.

Time Window & Game Priors

Learns which days/hours produce the best sessions and which games have the highest success rates. These priors feed back into the scoring engine, so future recommendations naturally gravitate toward proven time slots and popular games.

Drift Detection

Monitors long-term trends. If average session quality drops below 30% or the failure rate exceeds 50%, the system detects "drift" and can alert admins to review settings.

Overview Tab

Current status, mode, linked member count, queue size, active sessions, and learning profile (average quality, success rate, turnout rate, peak time window).

Settings Tab

Enable/disable toggle, autopilot mode selection, group size limits, announcement and admin channel configuration, feature toggles (recaps, threads, voice), daily recommendation caps, max active sessions, and cooldown timer.

History Tab

Browse past sessions with game name, attendance ratio, quality score, quality band, and viability status. Useful for understanding which games and time slots work best.