Concede button: yes. With this addition: it means you leave your dice on the board and there will be no bonus dice added to them anymore because you don't have a turn anymore. At the moment people use leaving as conceding but they still get their bonus dice which clutters up the board and makes for a less smooth game for the people who stay.

this is too true. dooo it!

not sure this would be possible

That's impossible, because who would get the countries?

No, it's good as is.

i suppose instead of kicking out the player anyone who enters a table can just take his place instead if he has not joined after a certain amount of turns.

Not exactly, but hard to summarize. There should be a way to deduct points from 'away' players and award them to people who are playing.

It's frustrating for a player to go "away" early in the game, sit on one territory with several dice, and be ranked higher than another player who's actually playing.

I love this idea if it is thought out better!

allowing people to take over makes the game unpredictable. maybe when eliminated let a player trade places with someone who has been away for a long time (and thus finish with a higher rank), but that would still make the game too unpredictable in my opinion.

Hmm...yes, I agree this is a problem, but this solution would penalize people who lag out or get unsynched.

people who lag out can just refresh and join right back.