- Creates new advanced shield generators, designed to replace old hull and bubble shield generators.
- Upgrades the floor mounted and handheld shield diffusers.
- Makes underfloor shield diffusers actually constructable.
- Handheld diffusers orderable via uplink.
- Removes supply packs and research datums for the old generators, but leaves their code in place for maps that still use them.
- Integrates with the meteor and electrical storm events.
- Integrates with mob AI (they know how to attack it)
- Creates a global meteors list to make it easier to find them.
- Adds point defense mainframe, batteries, projectiles, circuitboards, and R&D designs.
- Adds sound effects and icons for the new machines.
- Original code and sprites ported from Baystation. Adtapted to our code, added icon states and QoL elements.
- Move overmap defines to _defines folder. Rename old file to turfs.dm since that is what it contains.
- Definition of overmap event objects and the overmap event handler.
- Upgrades to SSevents and SSskybox to tie in the overmap events.
- Enhancement to /datum/event itself to support affecting_z and victim ship.
- Upgrade to the five event types used on the overmap to support new vars.
- Upgrade to dust and meteor spawning code to support targeting z-levels.
* Okay evidently walk_to(A, B) doesn't stop when A reaches B, but keeps running in the background forever until it is manually canceled! Therefore in order to be garbage collected, we must cancel walking on any object that might have initiated it.
* Fixes this on chemsmoke and spiders.
* The same story applies to walk_towards; fixed for dust, meteors and immovablerod, and also to walk_away; fixed for flashbangs.
* Also fixed chemsmoke actually getting qdeled at the right time.
Links many map-specific details such as the station name, z-level information, and allowed jobs from global vars to map datum vars, which should help us maintain multiple maps at once in the future, which will be needed for the future Southern Cross.
Note that a config change will be needed to change GENERATE_ASTEROID to GENERATE_MAP, otherwise no changes should be required to continue normal map usage.
To change to a different map, it's suggested to tick the file that ticks all the other needed files, which for the Northern Star is called northern_star.dm.
When a meteor event triggers it now selects a main edge to arrive from, with a 20% probability to come from either neighboring edge. Will never arrive from the opposite edge.
The meteor event end time is now made more useful, and is based on a longest delay between meteor waves scenario.
The meteor event now supports multiple station Z-levels.
Removes the meteor sounds, as they can rarely be heard over the explosions anyway.
This increases the number of meteors which survive to reach the station, as there is some tendency for them to spawn on the same location (but not necessarily fly in the same direction).
Merges the two meteor events into one, and now takes severity into consideration instead.
Including the basic meteors there are also new types ranging from flaming to radioactive which may drop appropriate types of ore.
