Issue With Pavlovia Credits Not Being Automatically Re-assigned For Prolific Study

When a partiicpant quits early, the reserved pavlovia credit does not become re-assigned to the same experiment, and since prolific automatically re-assings a participant, this means that the study will not have enough credits to complete and participants will get an error like this:

 "lewis-lab/monsters_zapping_game_pilot6 does not have any assigned credit left and cannot be run."

"If you are the experiment designer, you can assign more credits to it on your experiment page."

"Otherwise please contact the experiment designer to let him or her know that the experiment requires more assigned credits to run."

This is problematic and make some very unhappy prolific participants. Is there a way so that pavlovia can automatically release reserved credits for participants who quit, to free up space for more incoming participants?

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