Incentive misalignment leads to timing exploit

Description

• In the current implementation, the last player to claim the throne before the grace period ends becomes the winner and receives the full pot.

• There is no additional benefit to claiming early in the game, and no penalty or difficulty for claiming the throne at the very last second.

• This creates a strategic flaw: players are incentivized to wait until the last possible moment to claim the throne, allowing them to snipe the pot with minimal effort and maximum reward.

Risk

Likelihood:

• This behavior will occur frequently, especially once players realize that early claims provide no advantage.

• Players will begin to monitor the end of the grace period and only claim close to expiry to maximize reward and minimize risk.

Impact:

• Discourages players from engaging early in the game.

• Reduces fairness, as players who build the pot through early participation are effectively subsidizing the final "sniper."

Proof of Concept

This test demonstrates how a players enter at the last moment and wins the pot while other palyers entered way earlier and clearly no chances of them winning the pot

Recommended Mitigation

Use a Chainlink VRF powered raffle system where each throne claim grants tickets, and the winner is selected randomly at game end to prevent last minute sniping and reward overall participation.