The town at night
The town has a day and a night now: a 40-minute day shared by everyone, lamps that come on at dusk, night matches under the floodlights, and timber buildings with lantern-lit rooms.
The town got a full relook in two releases on 25 September, with lighting, a clock everyone shares, new buildings and new grass and pitches.
Day and night
One day in Karoball lasts 40 minutes of real time, and it's the same time for everyone on the server. In minutes, it splits like this:
- At dusk the street lamps come on.
- At night the pitches are played under floodlights, and fireflies come out.
- The changing room, the market hall and the shop are rebuilt in wood, with lanterns at the doors and lantern-lit rooms inside.
- In Settings > Graphics you can turn off Lighting to switch all of it off, or turn off Day and Night to keep it midday.
New grass, new pitches
The second release that day, 0.1.13, went outside:
- A painted lawn all round the town.
- Striped turf on every pitch, edged with a timber kerb.
- Floodlight towers drawn from all four sides, throwing cones of light and a haze over the pitch at night.
- Soft shadows under the buildings.
- The same evening the town was spread out round the square to give everything more space.
Note: The pitches have been repainted three times since: fresh mowing stripes and tufts of taller grass in 0.1.21 (Major update 0.1.24), then worn goalmouths and painted lines in 0.1.26 (Goal celebrations, a daily shop and pitches that look played on), and the whole look in 0.1.37 (A new look for every pitch, the players and the town), when the timber kerb became a wooden post-and-rail fence.
