We've fixed an issue with ladder game recently on the server that had been sleeping for a very long time.
Normally, the server tries to find fair opponents, but if there ain't any, it widens the bracket every X minute until an opponent in that bracket is found and matched with you, even if it's not fair. That means the more you wait, the more chances you have to find a game, but the more chances you have that that game will be unfair too because of a lack of players of your rating.
The issue was that this was not coded properly, and actually worked backwards. The bracket started very wide and the progressively narrowed - the opposite of what it should have been. That means the server used to match you really fast with really unfair picks, or else make you wait for a very long time until the bracket was so narrow that you couldn't match with anyone except someone with your exact rating.
Since we fixed that, finding a ladder game may take a bit longer because the server actually tries finding someone of your level first before catapulting you into an unfair game like it used to.
(However this doesn't explain the desyncs - I think those are related to a problem on your side rather than on ours, to be honest)Statistics: Posted by Louvegarde — 23 Jun 2019, 14:12
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