The combined viability score for a 24 player server The primary goal must be giving the player a good game, or players will just ignore the ranking or “play now” button, so seeding is given a lower weight in the combined function. Seeding servers is also only a secondary goal. We only care about increasing the viability of the server if there are open slots, so in the combined function we scale the effect of the derivative of viability by the number of open player slots. To do this we give servers a bonus based on the derivative of viability.ĭerivative of “Viability” w.r.t. To do this we also want to help seed servers by putting players on the server that will increase the viability of as many player slots as possible as much as possible. We don’t just want to put the player on the biggest game available though, we also want to maintain a healthy server pool with many viable games. Viability as a function of the number of players Games start to become viable as they pass 12 players. This function determines the viability of a game from the number of players. For a good game, all conditions should be simultaneously true, so we express this as a product.
The goal is to come up with a smooth expression that is proportional to the probability that a player will have a good game on a server.
It powers the “play now” button at the top of the menu. The next version of Natural Selection 2 contains an algorithm I designed for ranking servers.
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