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by ThrustVectoring 4081 days ago
That's not the correct strategy for keeping the timer alive as long as possible. If everyone did that, then everyone would simultaneously press it the first time it almost-expires, and nobody would remain for the next time it nearly expires.

A better strategy is to pick a random time number that you wait until, biased towards the lower part of the range.