As far as the avatar portion of the lobby goes, my idea is that, if I can get a functional list/challenge system going, and maintain that, no one will care if the avatars in lobby are a desynchronized mess.
i think most of the gripes with strive lobbies are synchronization issues: matching up with players that already accepted a match, players trying to pick a cab to match on--if players are expected to fall back on the list all the time they're just gonna start off with only using the list
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Worst case I come away with a better understanding of networking.
It feels like hubris but I want to try it out.