Queue Prioritization
Everything you need to know about queue prioritization or "priority queueing" in the SixTwenty
By default, when a player joins a game server that is at capacity, they are placed in a queue to wait for a spot to open up. The player at the front of the queue is the next player to join the game server when a spot becomes available.
Note
- Because the SixTwenty queuing service is a large distributed system, the queue position and size metrics that are exposed to players are not necessarily deterministic, and may have slight inaccuracies due to eventual consistency
Default Priority Calculation
By default, every player has a queue priority of 1.0. Parties are assigned the average priority of all their members, with a slight bonus of up to 1.0 total points based on the size of the party.
As a player waits in the queue, they accumulate an additional 1.0 priority every minute. This means that the longer a player waits in the queue, the higher their priority becomes. Priorities can never be negative and are capped at 100.0.
Custom Priorities ("Priority Queueing")
The base priority of a given player can be customized. This is useful for creating special products or subscriptions that grant players priority access to a game server's queue. It is possible to set a player's priority value for a given project from either the Matchmaker API or via the Purchases SDK through a Managed Entitlement.
When picking priority values for custom products or subscriptions, we recommend considering the following:
- Each point beyond
1.0represents roughly a minute of queue time that the player will "skip" in position when joining a game server - The maximum priority value is
100.0, which represents a player who has waited in the queue for 100 minutes - Note that players with a custom priority still accrue the default
1.0priority per minute while waiting in the queue