Loading...
  OR  Zero-K Name:    Password:   

Post edit history

matchmaking

To display differences between versions, select one or more edits in the list using checkboxes and click "diff selected"
Post edit history
Date Editor Before After
6/16/2021 10:04:17 AMUSrankAdminSteel_Blue before revert after revert
Before After
1 Have players opt in to 'narrow band ranked matchmaking'(a checkbox under multiplayer/matchmaking) which is tagged "This option will force the matchmaker to only match you with very similar ranked players, at the expense of making it harder to find you a game". This narrow band matchmaking will work as if you and everyone in the mm pool has spent 0 seconds in the pool, so your vs pool does not expand and you do not get droped into other players' expanded vs pools. 1 Have players opt in to 'narrow band ranked matchmaking'(a checkbox under multiplayer/matchmaking) which is tagged "This option will force the matchmaker to only match you with very similar ranked players, at the expense of making it harder to find you a game". This narrow band matchmaking will work as if you and everyone in the mm pool has spent 0 seconds in the pool, so your vs pool does not expand and you do not get droped into other players' expanded vs pools.
2 \n 2 \n
3 Say I am a player under current matchmaking. I am not in the matchmaking pool, but the matchmaker will alert me that I could match with someone right now, the top of the screen 1v1 popup. If I have enabled narrow band matchmaking, this popup will be modified under the condition that the player I would match with is outside of the 'narrow band' option, and it would display 'extended band matchaking 1v1 avalible. ' This would come with a 'play' buttton, but would 'give' the player the information that this is an easy game/hard game, if the player understands it. If they press play, they get to play that game. 3 Say I am a player under current matchmaking. I am not in the matchmaking pool, but the matchmaker will alert me that I could match with someone right now, the top of the screen 1v1 popup. If I have enabled narrow band matchmaking, this popup will be modified under the condition that the player I would match with is outside of the 'narrow band' option, and it would display 'extended band matchaking 1v1 available. ' This would come with a 'play' buttton, but would 'give' the player the information that this is an easy game/hard game, if the player understands it. If they press play, they get to play that game.
4 \n 4 \n
5 Say I am a player under narrow band matchmaking. I only get automatically put into a match if the matchmaker finds me a narrow band match. If the matchmaker finds me an extended band match( current matchmaking) I get an alert and a top screen popup 'extended band match avalible' with a 'play' option. I can play the extended band match, under the knowlege that I'm not getting the narrow band match that I really wanted. 5 Say I am a player under narrow band matchmaking. I only get automatically put into a match if the matchmaker finds me a narrow band match. If the matchmaker finds me an extended band match( current matchmaking) I get an alert and a top screen popup 'extended band match available' with a 'play' option. I can play the extended band match, under the knowledge that I'm not getting the narrow band match that I really wanted.
6 \n 6 \n
7 Say I am @Steel_Blu, approximately 2400WHR, not queued for matchmaker. Player B, a 1900WHR who has narrow band searching enabled, is in matchmaker queue. matchmaker considers that player B has been queuing a long time, and qualifies for extended band matchmaking( regular mm) and would consider pairing me and B together for a game. I will not get a popup saying 1v1 avalible. Player B will not get a popup saying '1v1 extended band matchmaking avalible. ' Player B can only extended band matchmaking with players who are actively in the 1v1 queue. This probably heavily decreases the number of games matchmaker will create for narrow band players. 7 Say I am @Steel_Blu, approximately 2400WHR, not queued for matchmaker. Player B, a 1900WHR who has narrow band searching enabled, is in matchmaker queue. matchmaker considers that player B has been queuing a long time, and qualifies for extended band matchmaking( regular mm) and would consider pairing me and B together for a game. I will not get a popup saying 1v1 available. Player B will not get a popup saying '1v1 extended band matchmaking available. ' Player B can only extended band matchmaking with players who are actively in the 1v1 queue. This probably heavily decreases the number of games matchmaker will create for narrow band players.
8 \n 8 \n
9 Essentially, by ticking the checkbox, given player will narrow the amount of players they can receive matches with from outside the 1v1 queue, and gets some discressionary ability over what games the matchmaker sets them up with in the 1v1 queue. 9 Essentially, by ticking the checkbox, given player will narrow the amount of players they can receive matches with from outside the 1v1 queue, and gets some discretionary ability over what games the matchmaker sets them up with in the 1v1 queue.
10 \n 10 \n
11 If a player can tell the matchmaker to restrict themselfs in queue, the matchmaker should be able to provide feedback about how if they were not restricted, they would be in a game right now. As the matchmaker advertises itself to players not in queue, it can't 100% of the time tell a restricted player that they would be in a game if they were not restricted. 11 TLDR:
12 If a player can tell the matchmaker to restrict themselfs in queue, the matchmaker should be able to provide feedback about how if they were not restricted, they would be in a game right now. As the matchmaker advertises itself to players not in queue, it cannot with confidence tell a restricted player that they would be in a game if they were not restricted.