Preference asset creation, which while consistently created in early assets, can be requested at any time before then and often is, currently takes about 15 to 25 seconds to produce. Because of extremely hard to reproduce BYOND icon bugs, most of this is done on the same tick.
Lowering the cost of initialization itself is very tricky. Some of it we can theoretically optimize, such as creating humans for antagonists, others we can't, such as the raw cost of icon blending.
Furthermore, adding new icons later down the line would just increase this initialization time even more.
Instead of optimizing the asset creation, which is an uphill battle, this instead chooses to amortize the cost by caching preference assets created per git revision. This means that preference assets will be created, with their long delay, only once whenever the code changes.
This is done on a config, defaulting to on so that production needs no changes, as the whole point of these being made at runtime at all is that it keeps assets/art styles consistent, and PRs making subtle bugs that break preference generation in some way is not uncommon. On development, your git revision will stay the same until you commit, no matter what code changes you make.
Just fixes some spelling for gangs. I also fixed misspellings for "posession" to "possession". Fixed "seperate " to "Separate" Fixed "Cemetary" to "Cemetery"
I find stuffing everything in game.log is a real problem when you need to actually find useful information about what happened to a specific Silicon. It's hard to tell what happened to Silicon throughout a round, even when crossreferencing attack/game logs, so having a Silicon log for all the information related to them would be really useful.
For example, a Cyborg can spawn unlinked on Robocop, go Janitor and crowbar someone to death with a Robodoctor AI. When looking through logs, an Admin can easily assume it was a rogue Engineering cyborg who disobeyed their laws to kill someone.
This also isn't adding a whole new log file, more than it is just renaming the law log file to silicon and adding more useful things into it, so it isn't logging bloat (if that's even a concern)
## About The Pull Request
Changes "motd.txt" from being hardcoded to being a list of files which are read sequentially.
CC @MrStonedOne for config changes
## Why It's Good For The Game
On production, our MOTDs contain several individual sections:
- Active Trial Admin threads
- General game information
- MRP specific information
I want to automate number 1, I want number 2 to be shared among all servers, and I want number 3 to be shared among all MRP servers.
Admins can now give players a popup if they are not responding to tickets.
Popup is cleared when player replies or ticket is resolved/closed.
As more and more of the chat screen is made irrelevant, new players read it less and less.
This means that a lot of new players are ignoring ahelps, which is something I've encountered myself.
Requested by oranges and inspired by the upcoming event. A new subsyetem, non-processing (for now), aimed at providing some toggle switches that can be flipped as a last ditch effort to save some CPU cycles by sacrificing some non-critical mechanics. Below you can see each individual toggle.
Screenshot of the admin panel:
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Surely there are more opportunities for toggles I missed, but adding new ones is not very difficult at all.
Why It's Good For The Game
Better performance during extreme pop, I hope.
Changelog
cl
code: Introduces the Lag Switch subsystem for when a smoother experience is worth trading a few bells and whistles for. Performance enhancement measures can be togged by admins with the Show Lag Switches admin verb or enabled automatically at a pop amount set via config.
config: Added a new config var: number/auto_lag_switch_pop
added this so that the value of INTERVIEW_QUESTIONS (and subsequently any other string list) can be overridden without much issue by additional config files.
i also changed the functionality of default on config_entry as it seemed to be counterintuitive to have it be set to the initial value of the config_entry. in my opinion this should be a compile-time default, and so i've refactored the code such that default now contains the actual default, and the config_entry_value is set at intialization.
cl
server: Added configs to disable laggy hard deletes once they lag the server too much.
admin: laggy hard deletes only output once per type path.
/cl
closes#58379
Unobvious problem spot
#define BUCKET_POS(timer) (((round((timer.timeToRun - SStimer.head_offset) / world.tick_lag)+1) % BUCKET_LEN)||BUCKET_LEN)
With tick_lag equal to 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, rounding of division is normal. But at other values it may be shifted either more or less due to the specifics of floating-point storage and processing. Numbers 0.1, 0.25, 0.5 have blank mantissa, unlike others which lead to numbers such as 245.0000004 when divided.
PS: tick_lag is rounded to the first two decimal places.
Fixes
Rewrote the circular doubly linked list to a regular doubly linked list, because it could cause timers to loop infinitely.
Fixed re-creation of a bucket if the timer does not have a callback.
Added debug stat indicator RST to MC SStimer.
Added optional ability to log dump all timers on crash.
Fixed subsystem logic when a bucket position is misplaced due to division and rounding inaccuracy. The system now captures such rounding errors and restores the correct timer position.
References
[RU] SS220 Paradise port process from TGstation and fixes:
ss220-space/Paradise#5ss220-space/Paradise#10ss220-space/Paradise#26ss220-space/Paradise#32ss220-space/Paradise#37
Contributors
@semoro: fixes
@Bizzonium: port
Changelog
cl Semoro and azizonkg
fix: Ported fixes of SStimer subsystem from RU SS220 Paradise
config: Added a new config var: flag/log_timers_on_bucket_reset
/cl
Adds a 2FA system for admins. When a config is enabled, a database storing your last CID and IP will be checked to see if you have connected through there before. If not, you will not be able to admin until you are verified. Verification is done by opening a website (decided by config), which is tasked with updating the database entry, which will then let you reverify.
MSO wants to implement this as a forum page, but the DM-side is completely agnostic to whatever the implementation is, just that it updates the database. This means that it could potentially be some TOTP stuff, even.
If the database is down, a backup file is checked for your most recent verified connection (IP + CID). If you are on this connection, you will be able to connect fine. If the database is down and you are on a new connection, someone with +PERMISSIONS can manually verify you through the Permissions Panel.
We've had repeated attacks of admins getting their accounts stolen, it's time.
Removes all /datum/game_mode except dynamic. Eventually, all of mode and game_mode will be removed, and Dynamic will become an ingrained system. Every single other gamemode was unmaintained at best and poisoned other code at worst. Currently all tg servers run 24/7 Dynamic, so the time to act is now.
* Remove gamemode references from age checks
* Monkey
* Remove heretics
* Remove BBs
* Refactor uplinks and remove clown ops
* Remove nuke ops
* Removes and refactors cult
* Remove extended
* Remove and move out meteors
* Removes wizard
* Remove sandbox
* Remove changelings
* Remove traitors
* Remove revs
* Remove gangs
* Remove changing mode and voting for new gamemodes
* get_candidates signature fix
* Summon ERT and NERD in their own panel
* Remove some old unneeded age_check stuff
* Fix old signatures of get_uplink_items
* Use Extended like config for dynamic.json
* Fix discounted gear
About The Pull Request
ID cards when equipped will check the player's living hours if the USE_LOW_LIVING_HOUR_INTERN flag is set. If their living hours is less than the first of the following (checked in order from 1st to 3rd until a valid value is found):
Config USE_LOW_LIVING_HOUR_INTERN_HOURS
Config USE_EXP_RESTRICTIONS_HEADS_HOURS
Hardcoded 15 hours
Then their ID card is tagged as Intern Assignment, unless they're a Head of Staff in which case they become an Assignment-in-Training.
PDAs, Wallets and Tablets also update any ID cards they hold, so equipping a PDA, Tablet or Wallet will also update any ID cards inside it.
This occurs automatically, even if the card does not belong to the owner. This only occurs when the user's assigned_role is a station job.
Done using this command sed -Ei 's/(\s*\S+)\s*\t+/\1 /g' code/**/*.dm
We have countless examples in the codebase with this style gone wrong, and defines and such being on hideously different levels of indentation. Fixing this to keep the alignment involves tainting the blames of code your PR doesn't need to be touching at all. And ultimately, it's hideous.
There are some files that this sed makes uglier. I can fix these when they are pointed out, but I believe this is ultimately for the greater good of readability. I'm more concerned with if any strings relied on this.
Hi codeowners!
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
This allows you to set this in config, save having to hardcode it
I also fixed a mistake where only one message was changed in the
messaging from the account linking system
About The Pull Request
Ports and improves my interview system that has been previously used in the summer ball and toolbox tournament events. Allows for a 'softer' panic bunker, wherein players who fall below the required living time limit can still join the server and be restricted to filling out a questionnaire. Upon completing the questionnaire, the player may be allowed into the server by an administrator. If the application is approved, they get a notification that they will be reconnected and upon reconnecting will have all verbs as they usually would. If the application is denied the user is put on a cooldown after which they may submit a new questionnaire.
Players who are being interviewed (herein interviewees) have no verbs other than those required for the stat panel to function, as well as a verb to pull up the interview panel. Interviews do not persist through restarts, and the ability to join that is granted by an accepted interview is only valid for the duration of that round.
Open interviews are listed under a new 'interviews' tab for admins, which is VERY similar to the existing tickets tab.
Below is what a player who is flagged as an interviewee will see when they join the server. They can do nothing but respond to the questionnaire or leave.
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This is what an administrator sees after an interview is submitted, they will also see a corresponding message within their chatbox, and an age-old BWOINK when an interview is submitted.
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The interviews tab, which is similar to the tickets menu. You can open the interview manager panel to view all active (including non-submitted) interviews, queued (submitted) interviews, and closed interviews.
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FAQ:
What happens if someone submits an interview when no admins are on? It's treated like adminhelps are, the message gets sent to TGS to be dispatched off to configured end-points (like Discord or IRC), and the user is notified that their interview was handled this way.
Can you configure the questions? Yes, in config/ there is now a interviews.txt file in which the welcome message and the individual questions can be set and modified.
Can this be turned on and off during a round? Yes, it can be toggled like the panic bunker. It requires the panic bunker to be raised in order to function.
Can interviewees have further questions asked to them? Yes, if you admin-pm them, which is possible using regular means or a conveniently placed button on the interview UI, they will be able to respond to the message.
Technical details
To use the interview system you must have the panic bunker enabled, this is an additional setting for the panic bunker. It can be set through the PANIC_BUNKER_INTERVIEW setting in config.txt, or alternatively enabled in-game as prompted during the panic bunker toggling process. It also can be toggled on its own using a verb added for this purpose, Toggle PB Interviews found under the server tab. These new actions are included in the logging for the panic bunker. I have also added a reporting stat to the world topic status keyword, which now reports if the interview system is on using the keyword interviews.
As mentioned above, for server operators, configure the questions and welcome message in config/interviews.txt.
Note to maintainers and those with big brains I had to add a call to init_verbs on the stat panel window being ready because seemingly a race condition exists wherein the add_verb of the 'view my interview' verb doesn't cause a refresh of the tabs (and therefore doesn't show the 'Interview' tab) when running in dream daemon but running it directly from visual studio code properly shows the tab. Adding a init_verbs call directly after adding the verb didn't seem to help.
A note for downstreams
If you don't use the HTML stat panel (which may not be a bad thing) then you will have to do some conversion from the HTML stat panel stuff used here to the old style stat panels. It's pretty trivial, but just be aware of that. You can see how I used to use the old stat panels in my PR from the summer ball, here, which should be helpful.
Why It's Good For The Game
This allows for a softer version of the panic bunker which impedes the flow of malicious players while allowing genuine players a chance to enter a round to gain enough time to not be affected by the panic bunker's restrictions.
Changelog
🆑 bobbahbrown
add: Added the interview system, a 'soft' panic bunker which lets players who would normally be blocked from joining be interviewed by admins to be selectively allowed to play.
/🆑
* Adds a living time value to the panic bunker, so you can keep people out based on time spent playing the game
* updates the admin verb, and enables %minutes% as an option
* Makes a proc call more clear
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
* than
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
This completely replaces the previous verification system, for one that
will interoperate with a discord redbot instance that uses the cogs
located at you github.com/optimumtact/orangescogs
This cuts out several steps in the system, but it also leaves alone the
existing notify system (which just uses a file list of discord ids) as a
record of who to notify
SQL changes required for the new database system
Version 5.10, 7 August 2020, by oranges
Changes how the discord verification process works.
Adds the discord_links table, and migrates discord id entries from
player table to the discord links table in a once off operation and then
removes the discord id on the player table
The user connects to any tg server, and uses the "Verify Discord
Account" verb, this generates a six word one time use token, with a 4
hour time validity period (defined as 4 hours from the timestamp value)
in the discord links table.
This one time token, and the ckey of the user are stored in
discord_links
At this point the entire DM side is done, this is all it does
Admins will now be able to look up a player's bans from several other servers via the player panel.
My hope is that porting this to as many servers as possible will encourage more servers to make their bans publicly viewable so they can be included in this system. Direct access to a server's database is not required (or even supported).
Supported servers:
BeeStation
/vg/station
OracleStation
FTL13
Fulpstation
TGMC
Planned support (WIP):
World Server
Yogstation
Halo: SSE
Any other server willing to make their bans publicly visible.
API: https://centcom.melonmesa.com
Source: https://github.com/bobbahbrown/CentCom
Changelog
cl ike709 and bobbahbrown
add: Admins can now see your bans on (some) other servers.
/cl
* CentCom Galactic Ban DB
* Sanitize and config
* Apparently TG has a http_request datum
* Tweaks
* An excellent suggestion
* Turns out BYOND is better at JSON parsing than I thought it was
* Fun fact: 4 out of 5 UIs don't bother to do this
CHAT_NEW_GAME_NOTIFICATIONS
I can't find the commit that untied the original config to the announcement, but this is how it originally was: db68cd1#diff-d91ba57ba114207ed6985097e129dd9cR137
Whoever did it obviously didn't read the send2irc (now send2chat) doc comment
Closes#51416
About The Pull Request
1 config change and 1 preference change:
Adds a config option AUTO_DEADMIN_TIMEGATE that, when defined, only enforces config force-deadmins for all roles/sec/command/silicon/antag for the first X seconds in the round. After this time expires, the game will defer to the individual's deadmin settings.
Adds a preference for admins to ignore being summoned by cult ghosts, starts disabled by default. Nice for when you're sitting around observing a cultist and don't want to be bugged by them suddenly summoning you!
I'm not 100% with dealing with prefs and configs but stock settings preserve previous functionality and must be manually enabled to have effect. Please look it over and offer advice if changes are needed!
Why It's Good For The Game
I don't like the auto-deadmin config option being on in the first place since it's annoying to get deadmin'd when I'm testing antag stuff, but I spoke to @Twaticus who indicated they like having it for roundstart, but agreed it was annoying when trying to test stuff later in the round. This is a simple compromise that lets config-controllers still force people to deadmin at the starts of shifts where most of the proscribed roles are assigned, while not bothering other admins who make themselves a blob at the thunderdome an hour in to test something.
As for the cult ghosts, I hate suddenly getting summoned as a cult ghost while I'm adminning, but other people like being able to be summoned while currently admin'd, so pref time.
Changelog
🆑 Ryll/Shaps
config: Added AUTO_DEADMIN_TIMEGATE which allows config force deadmin settings to only apply for the first X seconds in a round. Starts disabled
admin: New preference to ignore being summoned as a cult ghost while admin'd, starts disabled
/🆑
About The Pull Request
As requested by oranges this enforces a requirement, when configured, that a player must have a certain amount of living playtime in hours to auto-enroll into a discord role.
Why It's Good For The Game
Removes discord moderation requirement
Changelog
cl bobbahbrown
server: Discord role auto enrollment can now be configured to require a certain number of living hours.
/cl
About The Pull Request
When a user successfully links their BYOND accounts and discord accounts, they will now be automatically roled, based on config settings.
NOTE: This does not update pre-linked accounts, but I can write an external bot to do that if needed
RUST-G has also been updated in this PR, to be inline with this PR over at RUST-G tgstation/rust-g#23
Why It's Good For The Game
People with linked accounts can now be given a specific role in the discord, which is good for verification.
Changelog
🆑 AffectedArc07
add: Linking your discord and BYOND accounts will now give you a role in the discord
/🆑
cl
add: Added support for a widescreen toggle, actual widescreen will require a config change.
tweak: Auto-fit view is now the default. This will only apply to new players.
/cl
* Add a virus log, plus a log for facehuggers
Logs each infect event and contains detailed descriptions of the virus
I also added a log message for printing virus culture bottles including
who printed them
Finally i tacked on a change to adding a game log entry for facehuggers
because why not
* Further logging fixes and updates
Medbots now combat log
combat log no longer tries to run keyname on an object because that
doesn't make much sense
* Dead say no longer logs twice
* tabs to spaces
* disables the MMB exploit
* Adds a config option to set a minimum build, with the recommended minimum build for 512 users being 1421
* readds the post-block detection, and changes MMB -> Middle Mouse Button
* Makes it the standard, I guess
Co-Authored-By: nichlas0010 <nichlas00100@gmail.com>
* Update client_procs.dm
Spiritual successor and extension to #17798, an almost entire rebuild of the SQL ban system backend and interface.
Bantypes are removed per #8584 and #6174. All bans are now 'role bans', server bans are when a ban's role is server. Admin bans are a column, meaning it's possible to ban admins from jobs.
Bans now have only an expiry datetime, duration is calculated from this when queried.
unbanned column is removed as it's superfluous, checking unban status is now done through checking unban_datetime. unban_round_id column added. Each ip and computerid columns rearranged so ip is always first, like in other tables. Bans now permit a null ckey, ip and computerid.
Ban checking is split into two procs now is_banned_from() does a check if a ckey is banned from one or more roles and returns true or false. This effectively replaces jobban_isbanned() used in simple if() statements. If connected a client's ban cache is checked rather than querying the DB. This makes it possible for a client connected to two or more servers to ignore any bans made on one server until their ban cache is rebuilt on the others. Could be avoided with cross-server calls to update ban caches or just the removal of the ban cache but as is I've done neither since I think it's enough of an edge case to not be worth it.
The second proc is is_banned_from_with_details(), this queries the DB for a role ban on a player's ckey, ip or CID and returns the details. This replaces direct queries in IsBanned.dm and the preferences menu.
The legacy ban system is removed.
The interfaces for banning, unbanning and editing bans have been remade to require less clicking and easier simultaneous operations. The banning and jobban panel are combined. They also store player connection details when opened so a client disconnecting no longer stops a ban being placed.
New banning panel:
Key, IP and CID can all be toggled to allow excluding them from a ban.
Checking Use IP and CID from last connection lets you enter only a ckey and have the DB fill these fields in for you, if possible.
Temporary bans have a drop-menu which lets you select between seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years so you don't need to calculate how many minutes a long ban would be. The ban is still converted into minutes on the DB however.
Checking any of the head roles will check both of the boxes for you.
The red role box indicates there is already a ban on that role for this ckey. You can apply additional role bans to stack them.
New unbanning panel:
Unbanning panel is now separate from the banning panel but otherwise functionally the same.
Ban editing panel:
Actually just a modified banning panel, all the features from it work the same here.
You can now edit almost all parameters of a ban instead of just the reason.
You can't edit severity as it's not really part of the ban.
The panels have been tested but I've not been able to get my local server to be accessible so ban functionality isn't properly confirmed. Plenty of testing will be required as I'd rather not break bans.
cl
admin: Ban interface rework. The banning and unbanning panels have received a new design which is easier to use and allows multiple role bans to be made at once.
prefix: Ban search and unbanning moved to unbanning panel, which is now a separate panel to the old banning panel.
/cl
