It's that time of year again... finals szn is in full swing and I am absolutely SWAMPED. I'm going to try to get an update of PR2 out before the holidays, but I can't guarantee anything. Thanks for sticking around while I try to juggle 5 million different things! <3

In other news, my pfp is nearly a year old and back in season

I believe that PR2 needs some new songs. I have an extensive list of potential music from YouTube:

T-Rex - F777 (JesseValentineMusic)
Clutterfunk - Waterflame
Clutterfunk Part 2 - Waterflame
Viper - F777
Rose - Cornandbeans
Star Gate - F777
This Isn't Science Rocket - F777
This Isn't Science Rocket 2015 Edition - F777
X-Ray - Zizibum
Theory Of Everything - DJ-Nate
Theory Of Everything 2 - DJ-Nate
Theory Of Everything 3 - DJ-Nate
Chaoz Impact - ParagonX9
Chemical Plant Remix - Tempo Fox (DJBassFox28)
Xenogenesis - TheFatRat
Unity - TheFatRat
Time Machine - Waterflame
Flying Away - Cornandbeans
Final Battle - Waterflame

Thanks for looking and maybe listening to the music 

Hey, I'm lalafox! A lot of you may know me already on pr2 since I'm pretty active. I just started using the forums so thought I'd introduce myself and become a full member. I'm friendly and always up for a good race, so don't hesitate to challenge me if you're bored or smthn. I'm also really competitive so it's a lot of fun, especially if you are too. Anyways, yeah hi

It's really cute to see how this community is still together, I remember going on Jiggmin every single day after school and playing PR2. This community is awesome and PR2 is such a nostalgic game, it's quite amazing to see how this many years later people are still online too, probably reminiscing the past the same as me. The day the original site went down unexpectedly was really surprising to me as a kid, so being able to browse around here truly is a nostalgic ride. All these posts are bringing back memories, the weekly/biweekly contests, people designing skins for this game, some of members here I vaguely remember too. Thanks for everything, especially the admins of this site do to keep it up and running.

After a little discussion of it on JV2 Discord, we thought of a way to perhaps change the way the artifact location hunt works to make it more fun again, so we'll share this idea here.

Searching for arti levels is still fun, it just becomes pointless after the bubbles get won since you no longer get anything special for it, and since the hint gets fully revealed eventually as well and you've got no time limit, you can just "get it whenever" and the intense search stops.

We thought that the solution might be separating the bubble award to something else and changing the point of the artifact to something that the community in general would like. Perhaps restricting artis to only give exp, but the sooner you find it, the more exp you gain, so you still want to find it as fast as possible, but the finding process becomes a community effort instead of a 1st finder competition where "some people might have an unfair advantage".

I'd like to think the "usual first finders" don't actually want to ruin the fun for others (the bubbles are just so rare and appealing that it ends up this way), so if you could keep the first finder(s?) anonymous (perhaps until the full hint is revealed?), that way others can still keep searching while you secretly enjoy your early extra exp bonus.

This way we wouldn't need any unnecessarily complex level/user names or overly difficult levels, and keep it as a fun level hunting event that it was initially supposed to be.

As for what to do with the bubbles, I'm unsure right now, but I'm sure something can be figured out. And if anyone else has got any cool additional ideas for the new artifact hunt idea to make it even better, you can suggest it in this thread ^^

This is kinda hard to explain in a title so

(I have a feeling this has to do with the script that deleted low rank accs, because this user is rank 15 exactly)

Problem: I found a level in course title search, but when I clicked on the user and went to their levels (and moved to pg1) there was nothing. This also happened when searching the user directly

Type of Problem: Don't know

Expected Behaviour: The level to be on their levels by user search

Actual behaviour: It isn't

Steps to Reproduce: (Explained with this pic)
   

So I am on course title looking at levels (totally not to try find arti for that bonus 10k lol) and I find a dragon level I'm like  so I click on the user to see their levels are there aren't any even after I go to page 1, very weird.
I also tried searching them manually nothing came up either

When playing Pr2, it can sometimes be difficult to see your character because other players' characters may overlap your character.

Add in the option to "fade out"/"hide" (reduce the opacity of) other players a la Transformice (depicted below). 

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for all of you wonderful people who keep these games alive. Hoping you all had a great day and a lot of tasty food!