[Posted on behalf of BarkersCrest who is having some forum problems]

( You can skip down to the very last line and read the question and if it doesn't make sense you can read through the entire post for more of an explanation of the issue )

If you aren't familiar with Avatar Golf, the network sessions in the game can be set to allow Join In Progress, which I recommend everyone do in their games if possible.  When gamers look for an online match to join I list the AvailableNetworkSessionCollection returned from NetworkSession.Find and let the gamer choose which match to join.  This is working out really well except one problem, I'm not able to identify the NetworkSessionState of each AvailableNetworkSession and display that detail in the list of AvailableNetworkSessions to the gamer.

So basically, a lot of gamers are joining matches that are almost over but prefer to join matches in the lobby or are early in the match.

What I'm hoping to do as a work around is let the Host manage this kind of information in the session properties as the AvailableNetworkSession has the SessionProperties available.

Ideally, I'd like to reserve one position in the SessionProperties array for the current hole the match is on ( 0 for lobby, 1 - 18 for current hole ) and another for the total number of holes on the course that is being played.

For example, as the game is now, the current list will display:

Barkers Crest - ( 3 / 8 ) 
JoeSmithHacker - ( 1 / 8 )

I'd like it to instead display:

Barkers Crest - ( 3 / 8 ) - On hole 15 of 18
JoeSmithHacker - ( 1 / 8 ) - In Lobby Waiting for Gamers

As you can see, it would really help the gamers decide which match to join.

The question I have is can the Host modify the SessionProperties once the session is in Playing State?  ...and if so will the NetworkSession.Find return a collection with the latest Host values for SessionProperties when called?