Game wide matchmaking

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Is there a good way to do game wide matchmaking and reserve server teleportation? I was thinking of having a Datastore table that every server reads and writes to, which looks something like this:

WaitingPlayers = {
    ["Gamemode1"] = {--array of players names
    },
    ["Gamemode2"] = {}
}

And a function on each that runs constantly and checks if the size of each game mode is divisible by 2, and teleports the first 2 players in each game mode to a reserve server. I don’t know how well this would work, out if this is even feasible, so I’m open for corrections and/or suggestions on how I can achieve my goal.

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Also, please, no http service if possible. It’s above my current level.

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You’re most likely going to have to use the datastore method, then just sync everything.

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I’m not exactly sure if this would produce your intended outcome, but have you considered using a start place exclusively for matchmaking, similar to DropBlox? This would avoid the complications of having to communicate between servers.

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. @BeastyBlake101 mentioned communicating between servers, which gave me the idea of “MessagingService”

You can read more here:

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The best way you could achieve this is to reserve a game server using ReserveServer() and then sending that code and players who you want to teleport through MessagingService to the other servers and teleport them as well.