changes:
rscadd: "Ported a new chat system, Goonchat, that allows for cool things like changing font style, size, spacing, highlighting up to 5 strings in the chat, and DARK MODE."
rscadd: "Repeated chat messages can now get compacted. You can disable this in goonchat settings."
rscadd: "You can change icon style to any font on your system."
tweak: "The game window has been altered a bit to adjust for this."
rscdel: "Removed skin style prefs as they are no longer used."
* Added bash versions of all the map preparing and merging scripts in 'tools/mapmerge2/'.
* Renamed all Linux map preparation bash scripts.
* All Linux map preparation bash scripts now assume the file is being executed from the mapmerge2 directory, making the same assumption the .bat files make.
* The map merge Linux bash script now assumes the script is being run from the mapmerge2 directory, making the same assumption the .bat file makes.
When to_chat gets converted to a proc, then the construct of to_chat(some, link(url)) will no longer work. Or will produce odd results.
As a result, the send_link macro is now created. Replaced existent instances of the previous construct and added a simple grep check for this as well. It won't catch all, probably, but it'll catch the most common instances.
This PR will lead us towards the Promised Day, for in its wake there shall be much celebration and ecstasy as this world becomes a world suitable for developer hegemony. The first strike is thusly;
All << is converted into to_chat().
Okay, this update is kinda big. Summary:
- Trimmed unused keys in Exodus telecomms
- Adds script that will run mapmerge2 on Travis to check branch for unused keys or key overflow, etc.
- Fixes matching indentation style in tag-matcher and converts it to use Python 3.6
- Converts mapmerge2 to be used by Python 3.4 and above. Instead of 3.6
- Removes Windows 1252 characters from Communication-blackout.dm that were not able to be seen in UTF-8 format.
Note: the last commit will fail because currently main level is broken
Example of no map issues:

Example of issues:

Overview
Makes it so that the infestation overhaul is better coded and works better with any station. Instead of picking from a set of 8 areas (2 which don't exist) it picks from any of the station areas without players currently in them.
It also removes some of the more dumber spawns (yithians who exist in the sea, and diyaabs which I don't fucking know.), and replaces them with even dumber spawns such as BLUESPACE BEARS and HIVEBOTS.
Details
Spawns are based on event severity. A minor severity spawns mice and lizards. A moderate one spawns space bats and baby slimes. A major one spawns bluespace bears and hivebots. The chosen spawns can be any area on the station, however some places are limited. The limitation is based on area as well as if there are any players currently present in the area. Don't want bluespace bears to teleport on people.
Adds Asteroid Dungeons framework to the game. Mappers can make their own asteroid dungeons to the game. Currently there are no asteroid dungeons that can be loaded.
Anyone can make a dungeon like anyone could make a change to a map. A readme file is included inside the maps directory for information regarding how to add your own dungeon to the map.
There's an added config function in the example config that determines whether or not asteroid dungeons spawn. I also included 2 bat files in mapmerge and mapmerge2 that backup the asteroid dungeons spawns so that they can be used in mapmerge.
Adds TG's mapmerge2, a new TGM-compatible merger that handles things like dictionary expansion much better than the old tool, as well as supporting a git merge hook for map files.
This PR does not remove the old merger as this one is more annoying to setup.
Converts the news network into a subsystem
Loads news from a database at the start of the round
No longer ties the PDAs to the tcoms system to access the news (which was broken anyway)
Removes the trivial news event
Adds the already existing virology / xenobiology containment events to the rotation
changes:
Maps are no longer compiled in, instead loaded directly from the DMMs at runtime.
Z level defines have been moved from the config to map datums.
Unit tests now use typecaches.
DMMS now actually works.
DMMS has been updated slightly.
DMMS is now capable of loading simple lists of non-text types.
DMMS is now faster when loading many types without mapped in attributes and when loading area instances.
Asteroid generation is now defined on the map datum instead of being hard-coded in SSasteroid.
Holodeck presets are now defined on the map datum.
Atmos machinery now uses Initialize().
(Rebased and reopened#3347)
Attempted to fix pipe and door rendering
Fixed Table, carpet rendering
Ported full map-capture tool from bay, with python script to merge captured images.
CHANGES:
Spiders will no longer create massive stacks of cocoons under dead comrades. Fixes#2448
Limbs infested with spider eggs will now take longer to burst. When they do burst, the limb is gibbed.
Infested limbs will give out more warning now past a certain stage.
Modified the spider event. The moderate severity one will now no longer spawn nurses, so they can't multiply.
Added a major severity spider event. It spawns more spiders than the moderate severity one along with nurses.
* Replace SSingulo with SScalamity; processing cleanup
- SScalamity now handles blobs as well as singularity-types.
- Processing subtypes have been simplified to not require a stop_processing definition.
* this is probably important
* Remove cascade disabling SSgarbage
* Fixed a bug where dust() did not qdel the target mob
* Misc fixes
* Fix decals surviving break-to-plating
* Subsystem flag tweaks
* Apparently subsystems are new'd before config is.
* Fix paper icons
* Speculative fix for insane lag
* Better machinery stat
* Make organs not use SSoverlay
* Misc bugfixes & tweaks
* Nightmode fixes
* Changelog for SMC
* Port /tg/'s improved MC crash handling
* Add some more SS Recover() procs
* supply_controller -> SScargo
* More New() -> Initialize()
* pAI and robot construction overlays
* Fix cargo unit tests
* Merge the DMM Suite's atom/New() into atoms_init
* Lighting pre-baking
* Lighting initialization logging
* Fix some bad SS init orders
* Fix SSlighting logging; rename Processes to MC
* Speculative fix for insane GC lag
* Prebaked openturf/icon_smooth & fix lighting prebake
* SS init status; SSatoms LATEQDEL
* Fix bug with MC init stat panel
* Fix parallax
* Misc
* Ignore SS_NO_DISPLAY during init
* apparently this is important
* REEEEEE
* Image GC fixes; broadcaster radio-new sanity
* RCON Cleanup
* Move pAI recruiter into subsystem
* Move global solars list into sun subsystem
* Make chickens not use a global
* Demote SSdisposals to SS_BACKGROUND; garbage-debug cleanup
* Speed up space init a little
* Fix bad timer flags on floor drying
* Subsystem panic-restart verb for mins
* Explosion speedup
* Minor subsystem & MC logging tweaks
* SSopenturf improvements
* Make pipenet actually initialize (whoops)
* Minor tweaks
* Implement lighting rounding
* comments are hard okay
* Minor lattice tweaks
* Fix some timer issues & better closet init
* Timer sanity
* Request console tweaks + Storage init sanity
* Minor SSmachiner RCON improvements
* Further reduce world-start timer count
* Standardize subsystem logging
* Garbage hard delete profiling from /tg/
* Timer hang detection & recovery
* Log machines that sleep in process() and fuck up SSmachinery
* Fix an issue with external airlocks sleeping in process()
* Failsafe logging
* Minor tweaks
* Revert "Request console tweaks + Storage init sanity"
This reverts commit 98d3579e35.
* Re-implement RC changes
* Fix SQL FT saving
* Fix SSmachinery sleep in disposals
* Minor SS tweaks
* Paper fixes
* Blood drying fixes
* Merge gameticker and SSticker
* Minor global list init cleanup
* Lagcheck biogenerator & bags
* Tweak SScargo init order; RIG Initialize()
* Caching tweaks
* Remove rogue comma
* Initialize fixes
* Lighting destroy cleanup
* Fix emagging airlocks
* Initial SSicon implementation
* Tweaks & Fixes
* Fire + Air alarm queued icon updates
* Overlays + Queued icon cleanup
* Runtime & background fixes
* Kill some meaningless set statements
* Kill some image qdels
* Bump up lighting rounding val
* Fix adv. scanner destroy runtimes
* Remove unneeded icon update limiting
* Move icon smoothing into helpers
* Show a warning if DM 510 compiles without memory leak hack enabled
* Re-organize subsystems & MC defines a little
* Airlock SFX
* Log of Changes
* Make SSicon_update disable itself when not doing anything
* Fix respawn verb runtime when used early in server-init
* Add more information to MC's stat_entry()
* Replace direct refernces to gcDestroyed with QDEL* macros
* plant_controller -> SSplants
* More plant tweaks
* Add more humor to changelog
* Move parallax globals into SSparallax
* Lighting responsiveness tweaks
* Fix parallax init order & better MC init panel stat
* Make mobs GC
* More overlays + Remove intercom spawn()
* SSfast_process; make pinpointers not use spawn-recursion to process
Also made the SM Cascade beach process with SSprocessing instead of a spawn loop.
* Update changelog
* Mob GC tweaks
* Del() cleanup
* Fix insomniac ZAS connection edges
* Minor pAI cleanup
* Convert more things to SSoverlay; fix duplicated overlay in field gens
* SM Bluespace turf tweaks
* Update SSgarbage debug globals list
* Human-type qdel tweaks
* Subsystem suspension; stat_entry improvements
* SQL Statistics cleanup
* Fix runtimes with ambrosia
* More disable() -> suspend(); fix nightmode again
* Human qdel fix; minor tweaks
* Update turbolift to work with StonedMC
* Make lifts use timers instead of a subsystem
* Make SSassets start earlier
* Convert the radio controller into a subsystem
* Fix some missing CHECK_TICKs in asteroid generation
* MC stat tweaks; make shouldnt_see a typecache
* Kill some redundant debug-controller entries
* radio_controller -> SSradio
* Better SSgarbage hard-del logging from /tg/ upstream
* Logging tweaks + GELF
* Misc client caching improvements
* Slime SSoverlay
* Oven icon fixes
* Implant fixes
- Death implants will no longer spam Common on death of user.
- Death implants should handle a deleted user better.
* Holder tweaks + Welding tool Initialize()
* Fix some bad subsystem logging
* Fix suit cooling units spawning without cells
* Starlight tweaks
* Gibber infinite gib fix
* More SSoverlay stuff
* Make crates use CUT_OVERLAY_IN
* Make SSarrivals suspend instead of disable
* Make openturf use split/phased tick checks
* Speculative fix for unwet timer runtimes
* Blood overlay tweaks/fixes
* Update crusher to play nice with SMC + SSoverlay
* Openturf improvements and fixes
* Minor turbolift tweaks
* Lighting performance improvements + ChangeTurf tweaks
* this is probably important
* Fix wall weld noises on changeturf
* More ChangeTurf tweaks
* Explosion tweaks
* Pre-game lobby tweaks
* Openturf tweaks
* Prevent admins from starting the game before init finishes
* Fix Travis
* Kill an unused var
* Fix ChangeTurf runtimes on openturfs
* Fixes
* Browser datum fixes, asset caching
* Update changelog
* Changelog
* Lobby tweaks
* Ticker tweaks; kill ticker var
* Further lobby tweaks
* Cascade tweaks
* air_master -> SSair
* Reduce overhead from radio autosay
* alarm_manager -> SSalarm
* bomb_processor -> SSexplosives
* corp_regs -> SSlaw
* ZAS overlay fixes
* Small wall icon optimization
* Fix effects master
* Assembly tweaks
* Megavend fixes
* Shuttle fixes
* Camera alert performance improvements
* Fix some world.log spam from lighting overlays
* Fix some Initialize() procs
* Openspace responsiveness tweaks
* Make HE pipes animate through openturfs
* Kill a spawn
Fixes runtime errors with cargo stock. Was caused by the type of armor boosts changing.
Probably fixes the issue of mobs dying when picked up. I added some robustness and safeties to it
Tweaks event probabilities, adjusting the major event distribution (rarer bears), raising some others and slightly reducing the overall chance of major events.
Fixes the tools/indentation.awk script to not demand a comma at the end of perfectly valid comments.
Makes it report unnecessary commas in lists.
Readds it to the Travis build list.
Introduces a few updates from /tg/station13 with regards to runtime logging, and then modifies the runtime logging code to work properly. Developers now have access to both condensed and uncondensed runtime logs, with the former being updated at the end of each round.