A player kicked or banned only found out why from the status line of the
multiplayer menu, if they opened it.
- What the host or server says as it puts a player out ("You were
kicked...", "You are banned...", away too long, a mod or cheat it does
not allow) is now shown in the middle of the screen with an OK button,
under YOU WERE KICKED, BANNED or REMOVED. The same when they are refused
on trying to join again early. A link that is simply lost shows nothing
new.
- Answered with A or B on a controller, Enter or Esc, or a click on OK. The
game's input is held while it is up, as for the vote for the next map, so
the button that answers is not also a press in the game.
- Console: "popup test" shows it with a sample message, to try it without
being kicked.
Server: a kick by a vote has a time of its own, votes.kick_minutes, 5 by
default (1-1440, or 0 for until the server restarts); it no longer goes by
players.kick_minutes, which is now an admin's kick only and is still until
the restart by default. Console: votes kick-minutes <minutes>|restart, and
"votes" shows it. A config without the key takes the 5 minutes.
The Mods page has a third tab, PROFILES. A profile is a saved list of which
mods are on, in what order and at what version; every mod stays installed
once, in the one Mods folder. Loading a profile rewrites mods.json, switches
off what it does not name, and downloads from Thunderstore what it names
that is missing. Profiles live in Mods/profiles.json.
A profile travels the way r2modman's do, so the two managers read each
other's: export.r2x inside a .r2z file, and a code on Thunderstore's
profile service. Config files in an r2modman profile are ignored.
Installing or updating a Thunderstore package now brings the packages it
depends on, needed ones first, leaving out any already installed at a new
enough version. A mod pack is a package that is nothing else.
A kick, by an admin or by a passed vote, used to keep the player out until
the server restarted. "kick_minutes" in the players section of the config
(1-1440; 0, the default, is still until the restart) and the console
command "kick-time <minutes>|restart" now set how long it lasts.
The player is told how long when they are kicked, and how many minutes are
left if they try to join early. A kick keeps the time it was given, so
changing the setting is for later kicks. Bans are unchanged.
Map updates
- A map the game already has, being replaced by the host's version,
could load as soon as the new files were in Mods, while the mods
were still being applied: it ended on "This map is not loading". The
session now holds the load while a map is downloading, installing or
applying, as it waits for one that is missing.
- A player whose version of a map is later than the host's keeps it and
loads. Only an older one is replaced by the host's. Versions are
compared number by number (1.10.0 is later than 1.9.2).
Dedicated servers
- maps.latest_versions (off by default): the server asks Thunderstore
for the newest version of each of its custom maps, at start and every
maps.latest_check_minutes (5-1440, default 60), and writes it into
the mod's manifest.json. Nothing is downloaded: the server reads only
a map's level list and version, and players, who are held to the
server's version, fetch it as they join. The map being played waits
until nobody is on it. A folder that is not a Thunderstore package is
not touched, and the level list is left as it is.
- Console: maps update, maps latest on|off, maps latest every <minutes>.
Overlay
- Vote card: the pass mark is always in the middle of the bar. Green
grows over the left half up to the yes votes needed and over the
right half past them, whatever share the vote needs.
- The "Staff" tag is "ReSkate Admin", shimmering from #2500FF to
#B2F9FF.
No protocol change. Tests cover the version comparison and the
manifest write; the Thunderstore lookup was checked against the site.
The map update flow, the vote bar and the tag were not seen in game,
and the server setting has not run on a live server.
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A dedicated server that rotates its maps can now ask players where to
go next instead of taking the pool's next map.
Server
- maps.rotation_vote: when the timer runs out, a vote between three
maps drawn at random from the pool, "Random map" and "Stay here".
The most votes wins, a tie is drawn, and with no votes it is the
pool's next map. It ends early once everyone has voted.
- maps.rotation_vote_seconds (10-120, default 30) and
maps.rotation_extend_minutes (0-240, default 15; 0 leaves "Stay
here" out).
- maps.rotation_announce: a card when the map has 10, 5 and 1 minutes
left.
- The vote's maps are drawn a minute ahead and sent to games
(PacketKind::next_maps), so their pictures are ready when it opens.
- /vote extend: a built-in vote that gives the map in play
rotation_extend_minutes more. On by default (votes.extend_map), and
only runs while the maps are on a timer. "extend" is now a reserved
vote name.
- Console: rotation vote on|off, rotation announce on|off,
rotation stay <minutes>|off, rotation extend [minutes],
votes extend ..., vote extend.
Game
- The vote opens as a popup in the middle of the screen: a tile per
answer with its picture, name, share of the votes and count. It
holds input as the map download card does, and works with a
controller (D-pad, A, B), the keyboard and the mouse.
- Pictures: a mod map's icon from its folder, or from Thunderstore
when it is not installed; the game's own maps show their loading
screen picture, cut to its middle square. "Random map", "Stay here"
and a map without a picture are drawn as shapes.
- Older servers and polls are unchanged: the vote is a poll, so it can
still be answered with /1, /2... in chat.
Protocol 50: games and servers both need this build.
Votes: a vote is decided by the votes cast, not by everyone on the server. It
passes when yes is its percentage of them, at the end of its time, or sooner
once the players still to vote could not change it. A kick still needs two
yes. The card's bar is yes in green from the left and no in red from the
right, with a mark where yes has to reach. No protocol change.
Map versions: a map installed at another version than the host's is no longer
loaded as it is. The download card offers the host's version (MAP VERSION,
UPDATE), which replaces the installed one and is applied while the game runs.
For that the live merge keeps each mod's fingerprint with where its archives
were placed, and places a mod again when its files have changed since: before,
a mod replaced while the game ran was read where the old one lay. When the
host's version is gone from Thunderstore, or the old one's files are in use,
the player is told and leaves the session.
Dedicated server: "maps reload" reads the Mods folder again, so a map copied
in while the server runs can be switched to at once. The server window reads a
copy of the map list.
Map names: a custom map's level is dingolevel_reskate_<map>, and "reskate" was
left in its name ("/map reskate badlands"). The map's own name is shown and
typed now; the old spelling still finds it.
as a level unloads, the game takes each mesh variation out of its registry by the
entry's mesh and reads it unchecked, and this map's meshes unload before
their databases. A guard on that one function has the read of a mesh that is
gone go on with the next entry, and logs how many were passed over.
- maps.park_mods binds a Park Editor park mod (Mods/<folder>/parks/<key>.park.json)
to a name and the map it was built on; maps.park_limits caps the parks and
objects spawned at once (3 and 512 by default)
- park-mod list | add <name> [<name>...] [minutes] | remove <name> [<name>...] | clear,
from the console, as /park-mod by admins, and by players through custom votes
- A spawned park is the layout of the server's own SteamID and epoch, sent like a
player's: games since 1.0.0 already show it, it counts against no player's
object limit, nobody can move or delete it, and it stays when players leave
- Objects players' games would not take (not Build Kit items, broken values) are
skipped and logged; a missing or broken park is an error line when spawning
- Optional expiry (1-1440 min) with a warning in chat a minute before; every
park goes on a map change and none survive a restart
- [parks] log lines name who did it: console, the admin, or "a vote"; a vote's
refusal reaches chat
- park-mod is reserved for custom commands; README.txt documents the settings,
commands and a park/unpark vote
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Dedicated servers: roles, with their tags, commands and permissions
A dedicated server had one list of admins who could do everything, and
everyone else could do nothing. It now has roles, kept in
data/roles.json beside the bans: each a name, the tag its players wear
in the game, the server commands it may use, what it may do besides
commands, and a rank.
A server starts with five: player (everyone given no role: chat, votes,
parties, private messages), vip (a reserved slot), moderator (kick, ban,
messages, giving out lower roles), admin (everything) and muted. The
default role is whoever was given none; a role has what the default has
as well as its own unless it says it does not inherit. A reserved slot
is a permission, so a role's players have one without being listed.
Nobody kicks, bans or changes the role of a player whose rank is theirs
or higher, or gives out a role that is; the console is above every role.
"*" is every command but role and reserved, which a role has only when
it lists them.
New commands: role <player or SteamID64> <role>|none, roles, and roles
reload. "admin add|remove" and "admins" are gone: the admins an older
config lists are moved into the admin role the first time the server
starts, and leave the config.
In the game, a player's role tag and colour show in chat and on their
nametag, and each control in the Multiplayer menu, the map, time of
day, world layers and parks follows the command it needs rather than
one admin flag, as do the commands chat offers.
Protocol 48: the roster carries each player's tag, and a new
permissions packet tells a player what their role gives them. Older
games and servers do not connect to newer ones.
Also fixes a name clash that kept the server config tests from
compiling.
- announce-to <player> <text>: the announcement card goes to that player only.
- Announcements are no longer posted in chat, only shown as the card; the
now pointless "card" setting is gone (old files' value is ignored).
- ReSkateServer.json "commands": the owner's own /commands, each with a reply
and/or server commands run as the console ({player}, {map}, {arg}), an
optional admin-only flag, and never listed in /help.
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The console (stdin, mp server, scripts) can now start the real vote and poll
cards instead of faking them with chat lines:
vote <map|kick|tod|<custom vote>> [argument]
poll <question> | <answer> | <answer>... and poll end
poll-run <command with {answer}> | <question> | <answer>...
A server vote keeps every check a player's has (the vote is on, min_players,
one vote at a time, the map pool, the tod list, the custom choices, admins
cannot be kicked) but has no cooldown and no yes of its own; its starter is 0.
A server poll may be asked whatever "polls" says. Chat reads "The server
started a vote to ..." / "The server asks: ...". poll-run runs its command
for a clear winner, as the console, and nothing on a tie or no answers; it
is refused from anywhere but the console.
start_vote, start_poll and end_poll take a Guest * (nullptr: the console)
and return why they did not start; every player message and log line is
unchanged.
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Builds on the 2.0.0 vote card. Protocol 46: a server's vote can now be a
poll, and the roster carries who may start polls, the owner's own votes
and the current announcement.
Custom votes (votes.custom): the server owner defines /vote <name> [choice]
in ReSkateServer.json. When one passes, the server runs its command as the
console; {map} is the current map and {arg} the player's choice, which must
be one of the vote's "choices", so players never put free text into a
command. They show in /help, /vote list and the "/" menu.
Polls: /poll <question> | <answer> | ... with 2 to 6 answers. A poll runs
nothing. Players answer by clicking a row on the vote card or with /1, /2...;
the card shows each answer's count, then the result for a few seconds.
votes.polls says who may start one (off, admins, everyone), poll_seconds how
long it runs, and /poll end ends it early (its starter or an admin).
More vote settings: each vote may have its own seconds, cooldown_seconds and
min_players; starter_votes_yes says whether starting a vote counts as a yes.
The "votes" admin command sets all of them.
Announcements: "announce <text>" posts a chat line and shows a card at the
top of every player's screen. The new "announcements" section holds messages
the server posts in turn every interval_minutes while players are on;
"card": false keeps them to chat. Managed with the "announcements" command.
Older configs gain the new settings with their defaults on first start.
Server/README.txt documents them.
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Linux and Steam Deck. 2.0.0 did not start under Proton: the launcher said
"ReSkate could not attach to Skate". The block on EA's online services hooks
five of Windows' name lookups and took any failure as fatal, and Wine's ws2_32
has no GetAddrInfoExA. Only getaddrinfo, the one Skate.exe resolves names
through, is required now. The other four are extra cover for anything else in
the process: one that is missing or cannot be hooked is left as it is, with a
line in the log. A function the system does not have cannot be called, so
nothing is left unblocked. On Windows all five are hooked as before.
Vote card. It sat on top of chat and looked like neither the menu nor the
notices. It is now on the middle of the screen's right edge, whatever chat is
doing, as a flat dark tile with a strip of colour down its left: blue while
running, green passed, red failed, grey cancelled. The question is in the
heading font, the bar is under it with the tally below, and Yes and No are
menu tiles with their binds on white keycaps. The server's line that starts a
vote says "the card at the right of your screen".
Hall of Meat. Its row in the Insert overlay now says when No Bail (or noclip,
which includes it) is stopping the bails it scores. The tab it is on,
MOVEMENT, is now GAMEPLAY, and the card FLIGHT & BAILS.
Votes on a dedicated server show as a card above chat instead of being
followed through chat lines.
- The card has what is voted on, the Yes and No counts, how many are needed,
a bar of how far Yes has got, and the seconds left. When the vote ends it
shows Passed, Failed or Cancelled for four seconds.
- Yes and No are two buttons, labelled with the player's binds. The answer
given is highlighted and can be changed. They can be clicked whenever the
cursor is free (chat, menu or console open).
- Two new binds, "Vote yes" and "Vote no", in the binds list: F1 and F2
unless changed, to keys or controller combos like the others. They are
read only while a vote is running, and not while typing.
- /yes and /no still work and show on the card. The player a kick vote is
about sees the card and has no vote in it.
- Console: "mp vote yes|no", "bind voteyes <n>", "bind voteno <n>".
Server:
- The roster carries the running vote (id, kind, tally, seconds left,
starter, target, label) and the one just finished with how it ended.
- A chat line is no longer sent for each change of the tally; the lines for
a vote starting and ending stay.
Fix: a dedicated server's roster may list more players than its limit.
The extra slots for reserved players and admins (33 of 32) made a roster the
protocol refused to encode, so with one in use the server logged
"Server error" every pass and stopped part-way through each one until
somebody left. Lobbies hosted by a player are still held to their size.
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