moved creation of the socket into main function

games/ttrs.py

@@ -243,13 +243,7 @@ class BalanceTtrsPlayer(TtrsPlayer, threading.Thread):
         self.start()
 
     def run(self):
-        sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+
-        try:
-            sock.connect(self.addr)
-        except ConnectionRefusedError:
-            print('could not connect to balance server', file=sys.stderr)
-            self.evt = PlayerEvent.QUIT
-            return
         self.running = True
         evt = None
         oldevt = None
@@ -481,6 +475,14 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
     seed = random.random()
     games = []
+    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+    host, port = args.balance.split(':')
+    try:
+        sock.connect(host, port)
+    except ConnectionRefusedError:
+        print('could not connect to balance server', file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(1)
+
     def start_game(player_id, xpos):
         pg = Playground(10, 16)
         if args.pygame: