Loneliness Update

Over the last month we have been working on a complete rewrite of our loneliness system. When designing the new system, it also resulted in a major overhaul of events. We are talking multiple thousands lines of changed code and I'll do my best to summarize the most notable changes.

Time Trials

Just like before, there will be no collision in time trials. However you also have a new setting, where you can toggle the visibility of other players. It's available as dye item in your hotbar and in the /settings menu under the Time Trial category. The ability to show players does require you to have the OpenBoatUtils mod installed.

Events

Loneliness Changes

We are moving away from the loneliness word and instead races can either have collision or no collision. If a race doesn't have collision, drivers may be given the ability to decide if they want other drivers to be visible or not. If the choice is given, it will be managed similarly to time trials by a hotbar item, or by changing it in /settings on the first page.

Participants

Everyone who is part of an event, including spectators are now treated as a participant. There are some things that might be good to know.

1. You can only be an active participant in one event at the same time. If you want to switch event, you may have to do /event leave before you can join another event.
2. If you are doing /race leave on the event server, you will still be an active participant in the event. If you want to fully leave the event, you need to do /event leave or press the Leave Event button in your hotbar.
3. When you are participating in an event, it will hide everyone who is not a part of that event. The opposite is also true, meaning unless you are part of the event, you will not see anyone in the event. To join an event without signing up as a driver, you can do either /event spectate <eventName> or /event join <eventName>.

New Event Sidebar

During events, you will now always have a sidebar that keeps updating. This is a good indication that you are part of an event. Between heats, it will give you information about what's about to happen. When a heat is loaded, it will give you some useful information about the heat settings. As soon as the countdown starts, it switches back to the normal sidebar we are used to.

When you sign up for an event, you can still time trial a track, but the time trial sidebar will no longer show in favor of the event sidebar.

Reset Potion

Whenever your reset potion takes you to your latest checkpoint, it will have a different color. We hope this visual change gives drivers a better indication of which behavior is currently connected to it.

Qualification Grids

Qualification will now default to using the track spawn(where you go with /tt) instead of a special qualy grid.

Track Settings

Specifically for Formula Um there is a new setting to prevent people from spawning boats and time trialing on the track outside of the dedicated event, which means the tracks could now be open, letting people teleport there easier.

Update to Recordings

Piggle made some changes to the playback of pb recordings, hopefully making them a bit more accurate again.

Bug Reports

So we are aware that this update is very likely to contain several bugs, where things don't work as intended. Please report if you notice anything that is not working as you would expect, as it's our best way to hear about it and we'll try to patch it as fast as possible. There is also a chance that we discover issues during the events this coming weekend, so please be understanding and respectful in case something doesn't work. We don't intentionally break things, but mistakes are bound to happen when making big reworks like this one.