Flow

Before the game

• Persons can register for the matchmaking, becoming Users of our service
• Users can connect their aoe2-profile with their account
• Users can adjust their personal preferences regarding maps, ladders etc. in the settings.
• Users can queue up for their settings or join a queue they see are the most people in, other recommendations
• Users get informed of their match in their client with a pop-up, switching to the settings of the match
• A Host is being decided randomly of all participating players.
• Else, Users can set their preference in the settings if they like to be hosted more often.
• Hosts create the game lobbies (until, we haven’t found a way to automate that)
• Lobby settings get verified as much as possible via aoe2.net matches API endpoint
• Match starts

After the game

• get basic game information/result from aoe2.net
• download, parse and analyse recorded games
• use results if recs are unavailable

1. results when both players pick no team still show both winning, so recs would be best (aoe2.net)

• create rating change

1. with the recs analysation, we could even calculate a more precise rating change depending on how the game played out
2. like a player that was dead in minute 13 and just stayed in the game until 1h25 because the person had a vill hidden in the corner should probably not get so much rating change as someone that was carrying all the people the whole game (just as an idea)