I need an explanation on this as I keep getting into servers in NA East/west and its a bit confusing when I'm in UK and should realistically be localised to Europe!
Explain how localised stamps work
@brotherbong3819 said in Explain how localised stamps work:
I need an explanation on this as I keep getting into servers in NA East/west and its a bit confusing when I'm in UK and should realistically be localised to Europe!
When are you playing?
@pithyrumble different times I had a brig of Americans 2 days ago at midday and tonight from 7pm until just now at some point I got lazybeard and ended up loading into a semi toxic reaper brig
@brotherbong3819
Over in the corner under posted x ago, there's a wheel where you can edit your posts lol.
AFAIK, if no-one in your stamp is queueing you'll be sent to another, similar to server merges. I'm not sure exactly how it decides what stamps to consider at that point, but HG is trying to match you to another HG attacker as quickly as possible. I think it considers defenders second, but potentially you could end up anywhere in the world. Around your noon is 7-8ish AM eastern time (east coast NA)
Rare has not released all the details of stamps and migration to keep people from double boxing their main+alts as much as they can, so I don't know if anyone can detail it better.
If you're doing Open Crew that will always use global matchmaking, and it has always been that way.
It will try to get you the best match for your connection but primarily it's focused on getting you into the game quickly. The region will depend on the first person to start the crew.
If you have a Closed Crew already and you are all in the same region, it should only put you in that region. If you are all in the UK (and not using a VPN), it should only put you on EU servers. If you end up on a server in another region, that's not intended.
If you have a Closed Crew and are from multiple regions, it will depend on whomever started the crew session.
When it comes to Hourglass matchmaking, it tries to match you on your stamp taking various factors into account - such as [a variation of] ELO-MMR, connection, ship/crew size. Bear in mind that stamps are not the entire region but a subset of players within that region who logged in around the same time*, so you can potentially change stamp by restarting the game.
Cross-stamp matchmaking was talked about but I believe (from talking to folks who do HG a lot) that it wasn't implemented or was removed because it didn't work as intended.
(*edit - this is a bit more complicated, as pointed out below. You can join stamps that are already active, of course. Players leave and join stamps all the time.)
@pithyrumble don't think it does this, when no one on my stamp i just get no games. Arena used to expand matchmaking to other regions and even override the xbox only preference if not enough players. Wonder if this will be added for hg
@pithyrumble cross stamp was in general and I think that is a thing but it still means your pool is x servers in your region to my understanding. In arena I've played with people in Asia before at 3am but hg or adventure I'll never be matched outside of Europe (or xbox if that's what I've chosen despite it having a message saying this is a preference and can't be guaranteed).
Bring on the PlayStation players
@realstyli I would add/change that you can join a stamp hours later, they aren't just when the servers were first populated.
@captain-coel said in Explain how localised stamps work:
@realstyli I would add/change that you can join a stamp hours later, they aren't just when the servers were first populated.
You are indeed correct. I just wanted to keep it simpler to understand.
stamp migration was supposed to be a thing in one of the patches?
Yes but they took it out and never replaced it (apparently).
@realstyli said in Explain how localised stamps work:
If you're doing Open Crew that will always use global matchmaking, and it has always been that way.
It will try to get you the best match for your connection but primarily it's focused on getting you into the game quickly. The region will depend on the first person to start the crew.
If you have a Closed Crew already and you are all in the same region, it should only put you in that region. If you are all in the UK (and not using a VPN), it should only put you on EU servers. If you end up on a server in another region, that's not intended.
If you have a Closed Crew and are from multiple regions, it will depend on whomever started the crew session.
When it comes to Hourglass matchmaking, it tries to match you on your stamp taking various factors into account - such as [a variation of] ELO-MMR, connection, ship/crew size. Bear in mind that stamps are not the entire region but a subset of players within that region who logged in around the same time*, so you can potentially change stamp by restarting the game.
Cross-stamp matchmaking was talked about but I believe (from talking to folks who do HG a lot) that it wasn't implemented or was removed because it didn't work as intended.
(*edit - this is a bit more complicated, as pointed out below. You can join stamps that are already active, of course. Players leave and join stamps all the time.)
Firstly I never play open crew and have only has 2 crewmates both also uk players, since s11.
Also I didn't touch hourglass at all over the last 24 hours and i wouldnt say i play it alot at all. I was sat at sanctuary outpost and went to get a drink n a sandwich and when I cane bk... lazybeard.... landed in America! I don't use a vpn and thought it to be a strange occurrance there's should be enough eu players in servers at 1.30 am ish! Alot of people work nights and have nights off in the week, I know this from personal experience. And I know it was an American region from the lag and the players accents I formed a alliance with a duo sloop and fought the brig mentioned every player was clearly NA east, hence the reason for posting
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