Frostline Racing Beta v0.3

Available in Premium

Frostline Racing Premium is currently in beta. Existing features are functional and tested, but bugs and breaking configuration changes may still occur before 1.0.

Premium Cosmetics

• Countdown, trail, lap, finish, and win cosmetics.
• /iceboat cosmetics cosmetic selection GUI.
• Per-player cosmetic selections saved in cosmetic-selections.yml.
• Permission-gated cosmetics with optional locked-item visibility.
• Cosmetic previews from the cosmetics GUI.
• Configurable cosmetic categories, items, slots, names, lore, particles, and GUI layout through cosmetics.yml.
• Configurable PLAYER_HEAD icons using base64 textures or texture URLs, with fallback materials.
• Optional Premium cosmetics lobby item that opens the cosmetics GUI.

Premium Setup Tools

• /iceboat admin setup <arena> visual setup dashboard.
• Premium setup wand through /iceboat admin wand <arena>.
• Visual setup preview through /iceboat admin preview <arena>.
• Setup GUI controls for display name, lobby spawn, spectator spawn, start positions, arena bounds, checkpoints, finish region, minimum and maximum players, ranked mode, waiting countdown, start-line countdown, and arena enable/disable.
• Confirmation flow for destructive setup actions.
• Customizable setup GUI items through setup-gui.yml, including custom player-head icons.

Ranked Racing

• Per-arena mode support through allowed-modes: casual-only, ranked-only, or both casual and ranked.
• /iceboat admin setranked <arena> <enabled|disabled>.
• Ranked mode toggle in the arena browser.
• Ranked join commands:
  
  Code:

  /iceboat join <arena> ranked
  /iceboat join random ranked
  /iceboat quickjoin ranked
  /iceboat quickjoin <player> ranked

• /iceboat rank [player].
• /iceboat rankedtop [page].
• /iceboat admin ranked setrating <player> <rating> --confirm.
• Conservative pairwise Elo-style rating updates.
• Ranked DNFs through the existing disconnect and DNF flow.
• Ranked PlaceholderAPI values when both Ranked and PlaceholderAPI are available:
  
  Code:

  %iceboat_rank_rating%
  %iceboat_ranked_races%
  %iceboat_ranked_wins%
  %iceboat_ranked_finishes%
  %iceboat_ranked_dnf%

PlaceholderAPI Integration

• Optional PlaceholderAPI integration included with Premium.
• Registers only when PlaceholderAPI is installed.
• Exposes Frostline Racing race, arena, player, statistics, and ranked values to other plugins.

Admin Diagnostics

• /iceboat admin about support report.
• In-chat [Copy diagnostics] button using Adventure clipboard copy.
• Customizable diagnostics output through messages.yml.
• Includes plugin version and edition, platform build, generated timestamp, server version, Java version, database storage, feature gates, active hooks, arena counts, arena list, session counts, and key configuration values.

Planned Premium Features

Multi-version support

• Support for older/newer Minecraft versions.

Dynamic Arena Instances

• Runtime cloned or loaded arena instances.
• Multiple simultaneous races on the same track.
• World instance management through direct world cloning or an optional compatible world-management plugin.
• Instance cleanup and reset after each race.
• Full multi-arena matchmaking built on top of arena instances.

Ranked Polish

• Seasons and season resets.
• Divisions or tiers.
• Better matchmaking beyond the current per-arena queue model.
• Ranked history and admin review tools.
• Optional ranked rewards after the core ranked loop is stable.
• Team ranked modes are not planned for the first ranked expansion.

Storage and Network Support

• Optional MySQL support if a server needs network-wide statistics or ranked data.
• Migration and export tooling improvements if multi-server storage becomes necessary.

PlaceholderAPI Polish

• Optional support for PlaceholderAPI values inside Frostline-configured UI strings.
• Additional placeholders based on live server feedback.

Cosmetics and Setup Polish

• More cosmetic categories and effect types.
• In-game cosmetics GUI editor.
• More per-arena Premium configuration overrides.
• Additional setup-dashboard shortcuts based on admin feedback.

Low-Priority Native Integrations

• Economy, permissions, crate, item, or server-specific APIs only if command rewards become too limited for real server workflows.
• Current configurable command rewards already cover most reward workflows.

Support

Premium buyers receive priority support for bug reports while Frostline Racing is actively maintained. Feature suggestions are welcome and are evaluated based on scope, usefulness, technical feasibility, and compatibility with the project roadmap.

Frostline Racing Premium is currently available for an introductory beta price of $9.99. The price is planned to increase to $14.99 with the 1.0 release. Buyers who purchase during beta will retain access to future Premium updates at no additional cost.[/LIST]