Repair Restrictor Mod

[granite chasm]

Info, discussion and feedback on the RR mod

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2497179070

DESCRIPTION

Repair Restrictor allows you to set a limit to the number of damage repairs players can do as well as set penalties for when a player goes over that limit. It also includes a player-to-player teleport system and a game timer.

FEATURES

• Set how many damage repairs are allowed (from 0 to 99)
• Repairs are not counted if the player doesn't have any damage
• Repairs are not counted if the player has less damage than the adjustable allowance <NEW>
• Set how many repair limit breaches (strikes) are allowed (from 1 to 99)
• Set penalties combining timeouts, teleporting and height drops
• Includes an Activation/Deactivation button so that settings can be made and players can be ready before activating restrictor mode
• Includes a Countdown option for Activation which also acts as a race start or battle start countdown
• Includes a Game timer option which will automatically end the game by deactivating restrictor mode after the set amount of time
• The host can set a Common Jump Zone (a spawn point) to allow all players to gather together before or after a game
• The host can set a Penalty Jump Zone which can be used as a more severe penalty
• Each player can set their own Personal Jump Zone by clicking a button
• Each player can teleport to any other connected player's position if restrictor mode is not activated
• Repairs are detected even when a player transforms, respawns or uses build mode to fix damage
• Un-occupied structures are regularly removed to improve performance <NEW>
• In multiplayer each player can see every other connected player's current game stats
• Click on your own name button to access the Jump Zone buttons
• Click on another player's name button to access the 'jump to player' button (if restrictor mode is not activated)
• Once restrictor mode is deactivated player stats remain visible for score keeping (these reset at the next activation)

KNOWN ISSUES

• occasional wrong or missed damage/repair detections can occur

reserved...

[granite chasm]

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v2025.1.1 Hotfix

• fixed missing score data when deactivated
• changed default disposal range from 50m to 100m
• added host option to set disposal range (10 - 500m)
• fixed damage allowance 'accumulation' occasionally causing false damage repair detection
• tweaked code to improve performance slightly

v2025.1 Updates

NEW FEATURES:

DAMAGE DETECTION

• damage detection now based on block health instead of block count
• new host-adjustable "Damage Allowance" percentage (default 5%) to allow some amount of damage before a repair is counted

UI UPDATES

• use of subtle messages
• custom icon for subtle messages
• new HUD displaying game stats
• improved UI layout

EXCESS STRUCTURES REMOVAL

• When restrictor mode is "activated" any un-occupied structures are regularly removed
• an un-occupied structure is one that is 50m or more from the player that owns it
• this helps maintain performance by removing unoccupied spawned builds and left over broken structures

MISC

• use of 'true' spawn points for jump points (stops all player momentum when teleported)
• jump point positions can display an indicator ('off' by default - can be toggled 'on' or 'off')
• mod performance improvements

[zenith plume]

is it possible to detect rate of damage and velocity de/increase? could be used to detect a buggy collision

[granite chasm]

I guess for those things the mod would need to track multiple drops in health and velocity changes over a very short time period. Might cause performance issues.

[zenith plume]

hmm, maybe a customizable (but limited) tracking rate?

[granite chasm]

What do you mean by "a buggy collision"?

[zenith plume]

player-to-player impacts causing instant vaporization, colliding with the terrain and suddenly/instantly slowing down/damaging

that sort of thing

player-to-player impacts flinging players with high velocity as well

[granite chasm]

OK. Not really related to this mod but interesting idea. If you could track these buggy collisions what would you do with that info?

[zenith plume]

could restore previous player positions and velocity, like teleport them to their old position and old velocity? or just teleport them back but dont give velocity. related to the mod, could forgive a repair because it was moreso a bug than a mistake/combat

[granite chasm]

Hmmm. I don't really see those collisions as a big issue personally.

In a battle you'd expect to get destroyed sometimes by a lucky hit.

[zenith plume]

regarding player-to-terrain collisions, in my experience dethrone is especially bad with them and in a game mode where it actually matters. a mod that smooths out those bugs would be really nice

[granite chasm]

Yeah good thought. As long as the health/velocity monitoring didn't slow the game down it could work I guess. But I think the monitoring would slow the game down unfortunately.

[zenith plume]

idk? do you want to try and see if it isn't too bad for performance? who knows, maybe its possible

[granite chasm]

Well in RR I've already had to reduce the structure checking to an interval of over a second to avoid tanking game performance. It has to loop through a player's structures to tally up health and compare that to a baseline. To catch the buggy collisions while measuring velocity as well? I think it might become a slideshow. But maybe someone much better at coding that me can figure out a better way 🙂

[zenith plume]

hmm. maybe a simplified version where it only checks and restores velocity could work

most of the time when you get a terrain collision bug it doesnt deal that much damage

[granite chasm]

I'm not sure how you'd detect the difference between a terrain collision and a collision with an object or another structure

[zenith plume]

how expensive would it be to detect the distance from a structure (with a player in it) to other structures?

[granite chasm]

Not sure. I already do that for the excess structure disposal and it seems fine. But it detects distance from the player to all their structures and any structure further than a set distance (50m in this case) get's removed. I don't exactly know how to detect if another player is in a structure involved in a collision with this player. Might be some convoluted way to track each player's position and measure against that.

[zenith plume]

oh i was just thinking as a janky solution that if the players is x distance away from any other structure, and gets a large slowdown, restore its velocity

idk, how feasible would it be to use multiple raycasts to check space around the structure, to make sure it wasnt just a collision with a wall

[granite chasm]

Yeah that's what I was going to say - how would you know it wasn't a solid object like a wall. Raycasts could help with that but you're starting to talk about building a secondary collision detection system really. It would probably be as buggy as TM's one 🙂

Maybe there's some simple solution we haven't hit on yet though

[zenith plume]

alternate idea unrelated to rr and crash reversal: make player death easier to trigger. in sandbox players can't just die from getting their head squished into the ground. maybe for the mod players get killed if they get ejected of a seat? (e.g. seat is shot and broken, "open" seat hits the ground)

ooh, maybe also impact death: if their creation decelerates too quickly they get killed

[granite chasm]

Yeah that could be possible

[granite chasm]

~~Repair Restrictor Mod is now updated. Here's the new topic/thread for discussion and feedback: https://discord.com/channels/296562030624899072/1358589856992858428~~

[zenith plume]

im pretty sure thats the same thread as this is in right now