captainzidgel

I'm trying to research simple but realistic matchmaking. A lot of references to elo online are brief tutorials about finding the two players with the closest elo then throwing them together.

However, if you play a modern game, that's not what happens. If you queue up for any FPS or MOBA, there's a waiting time, even if there's hundreds of other players on. The matchmaker is trying to find players with similar Elo in similar locations with similar map choices and probably prioritizes players who have been waiting longer. That's a lot of parameters to balance. What is actually happening in that wait time? How does one go about deciding their parameters for when is too long to wait, when to keep waiting for potentially better matches even though you have enough players to start a match, etc. Then how is that actually implemented? Do I just block my mm server for 15 seconds in a loop and keep rechecking for "good" matches according to my parameters? (I am a hobbyist amateur, if that wasn't clear).

Interested in any tutorials, books, or research papers.

Been out of school for 3 years, working at Walmart and they have a benefit that will basically pay for all my schooling for participating programs.

I've narrowed it to these two programs by virtue of the deadline to apply not being in the next 4 days, but the start date not being 4 months from now.

Southern New Hampshire Uni: https://www.snhu.edu/admission/academic-catalogs/coce-catalog#/programs/V1S14E8tg/none?bc=true&bcCurrent=Computer%20Science%20(BS)&bcGroup=STEM&bcItemType=programs

Wilmington Uni: https://www.wilmu.edu/technology/computer-science-curriculum.aspx

I'd have to take a readiness assessment before applying to Wilmington, so if I fail that it makes the choice easier, but otherwise I don't really know. I would also have to choose a concentration for either program, but that will probably be easier.

Looking at the syllabus, it looks like Wilmington Gen Ed requires less (relatively) higher math, which would be attractive to me because the last math class I took was Alg 1 3-4 years ago and I don't want to get bodied.

What are your immediate thoughts? (I guess I should probably state my education goals - get an employable degree and learn cool stuff along the way, the gen ed might actually be more valuable to me than the CS stuff spending 1 hour lessons explaining what a function is)

Looking to purchase a domain. Google domains offers a WHOIS protection option where the domain is registered through some sort of shell corp or something, but you have to provide your real name and address for the ICANN.

There are people on the internet that don't like me, to say the least, and I tend to lean overprotective of my own safety. Is there any reason to think my address/name would not be 100% secure?