Rework the "Automatch finder" (formerly "Quick match finder")

[FritzS]

I’m glad to see that others having similar issues with the current implementation! I’m convinced that it is a major blocker for OGS to grow.
I have made specific suggestions how the behavior could be improved 2,5 years ago but I’m not aware any changes were implemented.
I would be interested to learn what you think about the suggestions I made back then:

Make quick matches the primary way of finding matches

When I first learned that automatch might not get me a game even if there are custom game requests waiting that would perfectly match my automatch request, I was really confused. I was expecting the server to do everything to give me a game quickly. Particularly when I’m using a generic automatch request that is very open to the settings of the game. My expectation would be that every match request (auto and custom) is kind of a query with certain constraints. Some queries being more and some …

Make quick matches the primary way of finding matches

When you think about it, two users searching for a game - one using automatch and the other one creating a custom game - almost want the same thing: They both want to play a game with specific settings. (And of course both want to find such a game as quickly as possible.) The only difference between the two is that one player is more specific in the settings of the game than the other. And in case of the custom game the player is not necessarily more specific because he wants to but instead bec…