Ensure Uniqueness Problem
Due to internal implementation issues, using either LONG or STATIC scoreboards can lead to problems with lines. This consists in lines which randomly disappear.
The problem comes from the fact that both LONG and STATIC scoreboard's lines are made up of three elements:
- A prefix (16 characters)
- A central part (40 characters)
- A suffix (16 characters)
These limits are set by minecraft, I cannot do anything against them.
In a scoreboard there are only central parts, and they cannot be duplicated. Separately, prefixes and suffixes are linked to the central parts and the scoreboard is ready to be seen by the user. But what if there are two or more lines with identical central parts? Minecraft adds to the scoreboard only one central part, so that when some prefixes or suffixes are linked to that central part only the last linked ones shows up. Here the bugged lines show up.
To avoid this problem, most of the times the code is made so that it never comes up until the line is longer than 40 characters, but usually this isn't the case. This is why the ensure-uniqueness option is here. It will add from 2 up to 4 characters per line to ensure that no central part is equal to another. It reduces the maximum line length, but is better that having some pesky bugged lines.
