Scoreboard flickering

Hey,

Currently some of my users have been experiencing flickering in their scoreboard. I would like to know how I can resolve this. My current code:

Code:

YamlConfiguration messages = SettingsManager.getInstance().getMessages();
       
        List<String> list = messages.getStringList("global.buildScoreboardText"); //content of scoreboard
        for (String string : scoreboard.getEntries()) {
            scoreboard.resetScores(string);
        }
       
        int place = 0;
        for (int i = list.size(); i > 0; i--) {
            setScore(list.get(place)
                    .replace("%arena%", arena.getName())
                    .replace("%players%", arena.getPlayers() + "")
                    .replace("%max_players%", arena.getMaxPlayers() + "")
                    .replace("%subject%", arena.getSubject() != null ? arena.getSubject() : "?")
                    .replace("%seconds%", arena.getActiveTimer() == null ? "0" : arena.getActiveTimer().getSeconds() + "")
                    .replace("%blocks_placed%", arena.getPlot(player).getGamePlayer().getBlocksPlaced() + "")
                    .replaceAll("&", "§"), i);
            place++;
        }
        player.setScoreboard(scoreboard);

 

It's probably flickering because you're updating it too often

 

@Scimiguy I'm updating it once a second, is that too much?

 

@stefvanschie Only update the board whenever one of the different types changes, also i would advise you update the actual scores, not setting the players scoreboard every second.

 

@stefvanschie Setting the scoreboard of a player means destroying their previous scoreboard and making it again, this is why it flickers.

 

So I would need to make a list with the scores check if one of them is different and then only change that one?

 

@stefvanschie Sort of yeah, i don't know why you would create a list, you can simply just override the original score.

 

How would I override the list? There can be the same numbers in the list multiple times, so I can't just do setScore().