Somewhere on the station, a gas canister is faulty and ruptures, releasing its contents (no explosion).
* Added as an event_manger event. This version is nice on low severity and picks a canister with nobody nearby.
* Also added as a gamemaster event.
* Added helper method to check area occupancy.
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.
* Makes the paper shredder constructable and deconstructable.
* Switches to some new sprites which are animated!
* Machine now requires power, icons respond to power on/off etc.
Ports and adds some more events, including dust, meteors, carp, etc.
Tweaks meteors, now has a 10 minute warning beforehand and meteors only approach from one direction now.
Adds ability for admins with R_SERVER perms to be able to set a persistant 'news' announcement that works similarly to admin memos, but for the public. This is ideal for telling the public things such as when an event is scheduled, directing people to a forum thread, new lore changes, new policies, etc.
The news window allows to define a title, and the body of the text, using an admin verb. The author and date are added automatically.
Any players can read the news window in the lobby. The button will bold itself, and display (NEW!), if the player has not seen the news before. This is done by comparing a hash of the body that the client remembers verses a hash the current news body.
Circuits generate a research design datum when the game starts up instead of me having to manually define them every time I make a new circuit. Hopefully this reduces missing circuits due to mistakes. The circuit box also spawns specific circuits using a similar method for similar reasons.
Other things this does:
Splits the reagent related manipulation circuits to their own category, which cleans up a few repeated New()s.
- Port of all of the uniform items that we did not have.
- Aether, Sweater, Ward-T. Frontier, Focal, Heph. Grayson, M. Bill, PCRC outfits/uniforms ported. (Loadout, some restricted)
- All of the military jumpsuits and uniforms have been ported. (Not Avail).
- Plain utility outfits are available in the loadout, as well as the pt outfits (except for marine).
- Hazard, Sterile, Saare, and Confederate outfits ported. (Not Avail).
- Port of baystation head slot items. Some in hand sprites created for a few (soft caps). A couple other sprites adjusted so they fit more hairstyles.
- Sol berets. (Loadout)
- Baseball caps, major bills, sol, fleet, expeditionary (Loadout)
- helmets, merc, tact, sol, nt. (Not Avail)
- Utility, wheelcaps, garrison, drill, dress. (Not Avail)
- Resprites for the detective's fedoras.
- Four custom welding hoods, (Loadout, access restricted).
- Two new cowboy hats, taken from Europa code. (Loadout)
- Whole scale port of clothing items from bay.
- Solgov armor vests, as well as a 'tactical vest' (None avail. in game)
- Alternate atmos, engineering, mining, medical, and security suits. (Due to their stats, only available through cargo).
- Three new hazard vest colors, blue, green, white. (Load out option)
- 'Service jackets' Black and Green (Load out option).
- Solgov fleet dress uniforms, surgical apron, marshal jacket (None avail. in game, may change with the surgical apron in the future.)
- As a side change the Construction, HAZMAT, Biohazard, and EMT voidsuits are also now available from cargo. HAZMAT and Biohzard come with slightly adjusted stats to sort of reflect what they are designed for.
Adds what I hope to be able to make a sort of intelligent system that in the future will be able to decide what event would be the best to choose at any given moment. A lot of this will probably get rewritten later.
You can use the new debug verb Show GM Status to have it show some data about itself, such as player activity across the whole server.
Currently, the system cannot actually run any events, as they don't exist and it's been disabled. The plan is to have the events themselves do most of the heavy lifting for stuff like set-up and weights.
When the overarching system is more refined, a lot of new events will be madem and most of our old ones will be ported, and improved upon too.
For now, adding this lets me see what the system thinks about a round that has people playing on it and not just me on a test server.
