Difficulty

== Overview ==
Difficulty is a core mechanic of Average Plate Gaem. It controls the rate at which events occur, and increases the chance of modifiers at the start of a round. Because difficulty controls the pace that events happen, it also controls the pace that Power Juice is gained. With some maps/modifiers, difficulty can play another role. In the Jenga map, the difficulty controlled the speed that objects were thrown at the Jenga tower. Additionally, the speed of the rising lava modifier is affected by difficulty. Difficulty also greatly affects how many credits a player earns from a round.
When a new server is made, it starts out with a difficulty of 1.0, the lowest difficulty possible. Between rounds, difficulty increases based on how long the last round lasted. The longer the previous round, the greater of an increase to difficulty. Once a 5.0 round is played, it is most likely the difficulty will reset to slightly above 1.0 based on how long the round lasted, but there is a 1/15 chance of a 6.0 round happening. If a 6.0 round happens, everyone in the server will receive the "the eyes of the flame" badge, and the winner of the 6.0 round will receive the "the echo of my body, ringing" badge. It is possible to get multiple 6.0 rounds directly after each other, because the requirement for a difficulty 6.0 round to occur is a difficulty 5.0 or more round to be played before.
Any player that has the "VIP pass" gamepass and creates a vip server can set the difficulty to any difficulty between 1.0 and 10.0 when they use the command /dif followed by the difficulty they desire.
The current difficulty can be seen at spawn, and in the top right corner if a round is in progress. It is also displayed at the top of the screen when a round begins, and shown once the player dies/wins.
== Trivia ==
* The previous difficulty panel was horizontal and located to the left side of spawn instead of vertical and to the right. It additionally had text that would show how the king was feeling (e.g. "the king is satisfied"). The king would be more satisfied when the difficulty was lower, and would be more unsatisfied when the difficulty was higher.
* There's a "secret" difficulty in the game, nan difficulty. You can set it with vip commands in your private server. Nan difficulty is basically difficulty 10, nan stands for "not a number".
* Each difficulty has it's own accompanying soundtrack.