My main use case is for my module MatchmakingService. Before the documentation was updated, it stated that, as long as you don’t go above the quota, SortedMaps had no limit. I was just wondering why that was scrapped for a 1kb limit. For example, I hold running games in memory to support adding players to games that have already been made. This allows players to start games with the minimum number of players required so they can just get in and play, and more players can join if spots are open. These games typically don’t last long so I hold them in a sorted map.
The problem with the 1kb limit comes with keeping track of running games, which are divided two ways: map and rating type. My service supports skill-based matchmaking (sbmm) which allows developers to enable it if they want a rating system for their game, they can have as many ratingTypes as they want so they can have multiple queue types (think “ranked” and “unranked” that both use sbmm, but for a different reason and aren’t connected). It also supports an arbitrary number of maps so that developers can have more than one map if they choose. All this boils down to is a lot of usage in memory, that doesn’t go over the size quota, but will go over the 1kb limit. I don’t save every game in the same sorted map, each game gets their own unique code.
In order to support adding players to running games I keep a list of every game code and put it into a group based on the rating type and map. It would be inefficient to use GetRangeAsync on every running game if none of the running games apply to the player’s queued game type and map, so (see bottom) I need to keep a list of every running game’s unique code for every map and rating type (I don’t store the entire game, it’s just a list of strings that represent the games), and at about 20 games that list exceeds the 1kb limit so I need to break that list up every 20 or so games, so I just have a counter that keeps track of every new sorted map so I can retrieve the list of running games based on rating type and map. I could shove more into the sorted map by reducing the size of the unique codes for every game, but eventually I’d still run into this problem, it’s unavoidable.
It just gets very complex very quickly with such a small limit and I’m really upset that the original unlimited size for sorted maps, as long as it didn’t exceed the quota, was scrapped for such a small limit.
I may switch to GetRangeAsync just to make it easier on myself to maintain, but, at least in my opinion, it shouldn’t be necessary. After re-reading the documentation on GetRangeAsync it wouldn’t be a suitable replacement as it only works on a single sorted map, which doesn’t help me in this case as I would need to get a list of all games running which are all different sorted maps. I could put all the running games into a single sorted map as, after re-reading the docs each value in the sorted map has the 1kb limit and maybe that could work, I’ll have to experiment with it though. However, the limit being so small is still not ideal.
