About The Pull Request
Reboot of #43876
Adds a brand new map into rotation: Kilo Station! This map is intended as a medium population map that introduces a new and exciting formula to the cast of stations.
You can access a mostly up-to-date map on Renderbus
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Why It's Good For The Game
This map focuses on a few simple principals to help create a unique but enjoyable experience:
1. Compartmentalization: Cutting out the middle man of hallways, departments are organised on a room-to-room basis, and most rooms have multiple ways in and out. This reduces dead space and brings the department closer together while allowing for more ways to move around the department. Ideally, this transcribes into your co-workers being less "out of sight, out of mind" and keeping engagement, as you're constantly in a workspace instead of an empty hallway. I think this will open up a lot of interesting venues for gameplay of all sorts!
2. Organization: Kilo Station strives to deviate from the formula popularized by Meta Station, but not without reason. It brings a more technical mindset to map organization, re-arranging areas and placing others in ways that boost their usability. Security posts are organized within the departments in a way bring their relevancy up by boosting their coverage and visibility. Low traffic areas like the library, surgery recovery room, courtroom, council chamber and chapel are re-arranged in ways to not only boost their visibility but increase their functionality. Some minor areas like the medbay patient rooms and the cargo warehouse have passed away.
3. Resource Allotment & Scarcity: In previous iterations of my maps, I've toyed with the balance of scarcity regarding both essential and non-essential items. Kilo Station focuses on having less non-job essential items strewn about the station while increasing some of the volume of certain job essential items, specifically in relation to engineering and atmospherics players.
4. Functionality & Purpose: In addition with the organisation changes made above, "maintenance loot" and their respective gimmick rooms have been overrun with simplemob NPCs. While not overtly destructive, the NPC mobs provide no loot of their own, but provide enough challenge to gate certain rare but useful items while providing a new point of interest for certain players to engage with. As well, a number of asteroids and rocks are placed around the station with low-mineral chance, opening up the venue of opportunity while allowing more ways for players to contribute to the round meaningfully.
5. Atmosphere: Last but not least, these various motifs along with the general appearance and environment serve to cultivate a specific lived in atmosphere where destruction, murder, and intrigue is just another day on the job. This aims to give the station a more unique personality to help it become a new and fresh experience for players.
Recent Updates
Kilo Station was received fairly well during its initial PR and testmerge. As I now have time to properly contribute and maintain the map, I am PRing it again.
cl Okand37
add: Central Command has commissioned a new brand of Kilo-class stations. Rumours report the station design will be used in the up and coming Space Station 13 plasma research station.
/cl
* mostly fixes in this commit
* removes old_god from the dme
* russian shuttle improvements
* TODO: fix the hook gun
* shotgun finished, next commit shuttle
* bounty hunting shuttle
* back up to speed on the dmis
* readds poster 46 and adds the shuttle finally
* dmi fixes
* traps need fixing, work out whatever is happening with synths
* super final touches, see desc
map ports + proper spawners, pinpointer and traps functional. other misc changes
* removes verb stuff from non verb stuff
* review (see desc)
antimagic checks and it now the two objects move inside each other instead
* dmi conflicts
* PLUNGERS. BEGONE.
About The Pull Request
Fixes#45077Fixes#42498
Removes every single instance where a grille could end up on top an active wire in maintenance, making traveling maintenance a lot less of a hassle and less dangerous in general.
Maintenance bar has been removed due to redundancy and closeness to the actual bar. Wait till season 10 of SS13: Battle Royale to find out what exciting changes will come to the map!
Space-proof variants of the lizard critter has been added and are working diligently on the above-mentioned bullet-point.
As part of the white shuttle fix, Donutstation now has a custom shuttle with deep l o r e to explain what happened to the long-past crew.
Small adjustments to the static loot part of the 'excess storage' rooms near departments.
Some extra crates has been added around maintenance with respective maintenance loot spawners.
Why It's Good For The Game
Bug fixes relating to the map and some added map content to keep things 'fresh'.
Changelog
cl MMMiracles
add: Donutstation now has its own white shuttle with proper dock.
del: Donutstation's maintenance bar is under renovation.
tweak: Due to above renovations, the goose is temporarily loose.
tweak: Donutstation now has significantly less annoying maintenance grilles
/cl
Adds a new abductor themed shuttle to the game, available for 8k
credits! The shuttle is only unlocked after alien technology has been
researched!
The shuttle offers some unique items and layout compared to others
currently available. Two singular entrances with the brig in the back
means security needs to walk prisoners to the brig area to secure them.
Unique unlock mechanism encourages either bringing alien tech back from
Lavaland or stealing some from an abductor.
A few unique items aboard, including alien tools, the experimental
cloner, and a void core can provide interesting opportunity if utilized
in the window of time that the shuttle is on station.
* Decrease BYOS cost to 500
About The Pull Request:
Pretty self explanatory. Changes the cost of the Build your own Shuttle from 5000 to 500.
Why It's Good For The Game:
It's completely ludicrous to have a shuttle that has to be called within the first 10 minutes of the shift cost more funds than the station starts with. However, considering it comes with supplies and has certain benefits, it definitely shouldn't be free or give money either. This corrects the overcorrecting done with the previous BYOS balance change.
🆑 DeeDubya
tweak: Decreased the cost of the BYOS from 5000 to 500, making the shuttle a realistic option once more. Have fun!
/🆑
* Update shuttles.dm
* will this work?
* add shuttle console to meta
* add shuttle console to box
* remove glide size from box, add shuttle console to delta
* replace airlocks in lavaland common area
* remove step
* secure the gulag a bit more, add a beer fridge
* restore unix line endings?
* Update code/game/objects/structures/crates_lockers/closets/secure/freezer.dm
Co-Authored-By: Emmett Gaines <ninjanomnom@gmail.com>
* review
About The Pull Request
This makes it so the BYOS starts with some construction materials, is a bit smaller to be less of a hideously huge project to work on, and is pressurized so more people can help with it.
Price has been increase to -2500 from -7500.
Why It's Good For The Game
I often see the BYOS barely built, and even then usually only by one person who actually has a space suit. This often leaves it completely unprepared by the time the shuttle is actually called. This PR attempts to rectify that.
Changelog
cl WJohnston
tweak: Build Your Own Shuttle kit has been made smaller, comes with construction materials, and is pressurized.
balance: Lowered value from -7500 to -2500. It still doesn't come with a brig or console, so you cannot greentext antags or launch early.
/cl
* Larger mining shuttle with power connection when docked with the station. Only in use on boxstation right now.
* Whoops, forgot to add the actual shuttle!
* Fixes cable connections across shuttles
* Unlocks the APC in the mining shuttle.
About The Pull Request
Includes a set of kilo pattern shuttles for the arrival, cargo, ferry, labour, and mining types along with a new and purchasable emergency shuttle. Additionally, it adds a new type of syndicate infiltrator, codenamed the tortoise. All of these shuttles are accessible via the shuttle loader and work on any station barring the arrival and cargo variants. Shuttles in order from most important to least important:
emergency_kilo; a fully modeled shuttle including two small cargo bays, a more spacious infirmary, and regular security and E.V.A. amenities. Main bay seats 40, 2 E.V.A., 7 Holding Area, 6 Cockpit, 2 Infirmary.
"A fully functional shuttle including a complete infirmary, storage facilties and regular amenities." Priced at 5000 credits.
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infiltrator_advanced; nicknamed the "tortoise," this syndicate shuttle includes a beefier redesign of the original syndicate infiltrator complete with medical bay, armory, power systems, dual airlocks and a centralized preparation room. Important access-way doors function off of syndicate access (req_access=150). Design helps mitigate bomb damage while allowing for more close-quarters boarding combat. Currently accessible from the shuttle loader, may see itself added with a new syndicate shuttle selector depending on reception.
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mining_kilo; modernized mining shuttle interior with a small bundle of emergency supplies. With the new(er) directional shuttle docking system, should work on any station.
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labour_kilo; slightly reskinned labour shuttle, compatible replacement for any standard gulag shuttle. Features an additional seat and modernized interior.
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ferry_kilo; in addition to regular seating, features two rechargers, emergency supplies and radios, and a rear-placed ferry shuttle request console. Compatible with the universal ferry dock.
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cargo_kilo; a regular, run-of-the-mill cargo shuttle with a fancier interior. Crates are onloaded through the bottom blast door, and offloaded at the top. May be incompatible with certain docks or conveyors.
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arrival_kilo; a standard sized arrival shuttle meant for low to medium populations. Closets and arcade machine replace by conventional emergency supplies, easily accessible for new players.
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Why It's Good For The Game
The kilo-pattern emergency shuttle provides a new and fresh design to the choice of available, fully functional shuttles for purchase by the crew. In addition, the syndicate advanced infiltrator adds a new venue for syndicate operatives and opens up the possibility of various shuttles being added to the syndicate's arsenal for use to help compliment their unique gimmicks or operative styles.
This new shuttle is significantly more usable than the hideous lopsided garbage
we had before. The turrets can actually fire at nuke ops and won't kill ian
anymore. It also has shields you can enable to give you extra protection from
boarders or meteors, and the bridge can thoroughly lock itself down with blast
doors to enter it, and on the windows. These turrets can also be disabled in the
bridge, if you like.
This shuttle now costs 30k, up from 15k, since it's an actually useful shuttle
now. Gotta pay for your security!
- Normal shuttles that are not emagged will no longer throw things around.
People will still be knocked down.
- Emagged shuttles and poorly designed shuttles will also throw things
around on tables, as well as closets.
Shuttles were not mapped with the idea that their contents would be thrown
around violently every time they moved. This means that things like wheely
chairs, potted plants get chucked about the place. To get around this, the
"magnetic_catch" component was added, to partially bypass this effect in the
first place. But this component is only used in one place, in shuttle loading,
which means if a shuttle is custom built, suddenly and unexpectedly,
everything flies everywhere.
Instead, violent shuttle throwing should be limited to crappy shuttles,
(ie. asteroid with engines) and emagged shuttles. As such, I've removed
the magnetic component from tables and racks, to make shuttle throwing
more violent when it happens.
cl MMMiracles
add: A new(old?) map, Donutstation, is now in rotation.
/cl
Map Image
Comparison Image of Original
Progress
Departmental Layout
Atmos
Wiring
Detailing/fluff
Floor tiling
A faithful recreation of Donutstation, keeping some landmarks of the old map similar while bringing in all the new content and departments that come with it.
These, like in the other ships, are pretty weak (meta still has the strongest
monsters, but it's also the most well stocked ship). These zombies have no
infection chance, 60 hp instead of 100, and do 11 damage instead of 21 (could
be raised to 15, if you guys want). And like the other ships there are 4
monsters on it.
Now that shuttles are all loaded via template we no longer have a need for the
timid var on shuttles.
Well not all shuttles, it seems I forgot to template the backup shuttle so it
wouldn't have been working until now. This got fixed here as well.
Redesigned the white ship for metastation, this one's a salvage/cargo vessel!
The salvage pod is currently missing, however, as it doesn't work right now.
I'll add it further down the line. This ship is also filled with a few syndies
protecting it, one of them is ranged, the others are unarmed melee.
* Updates the caravan ruin to remove some of its equipment and re-add the 2nd fighter ship as was originally intended.
* Airlock naming, changed office chairs in dropship to shuttle chairs because they got flung whenever it took off.
* Removes the 2nd syndicate fighter as ninjanomnom will design a better system for it at a later date.
* Renames syndicate fighter to "shiv"
cl ninjanomnom
fix: Shuttles have proper baseturfs now.
fix: Mineral walls properly use their baseturfs when destroyed/drilled.
add: A new engineering goggle mode allows you to see the shuttle area you're standing in.
admin: Buildmode works a bit better with baseturfs now and can properly only remove the top layer of turfs when editing. Note that as a result the order you place turfs is important and a wall placed on space means when the wall is removed there will be space underneath.
/cl
This adds an area hook for turfs getting the PlaceOnTop proc called so shuttle areas are able to intercept it and add a special turf used for determining where the bottom of the shuttle is. I'm not too certain on this being the best way to handle it but the alternatives restrict the kind of turfs that are allowed to be on shuttles which I didn't want to do as it was part of the whole intent of the baseturf change to allow any turf type on shuttles.
The alternative to the area hook would require a tool which attaches turfs to a shuttle which is why there's a shuttle area viewing tool in this pr. I considered doing it this way first but decided it was too clunky.
In addition to other changes:
Tiled/Reinforced floors have proper baseturfs now.
A large amount of the remaining ChangeTurf calls were swapped over to various baseturf helpers so, for example, mining doesn't create a lavaland turf if somehow the mineral wall is on plating.
Escape pods, the aux base, and syndicate drop pod have been converted over to shuttle templates as well.
The error when the timid var is set incorrectly has been changed to a stack_trace.
The change turf file has been made all lowercase as per standard.
* Adds the saltmine shuttle
* Adds an orange, makes the revolver a reverse one
* henk
* honker
* pay me
* more cat and cat accessories
* memes
* Crybabies jeeez
* Salt is expensive
* There now it's an easter egg shuttle
* nani
* Refactors shuttles to be loaded in, rather than be on the station maps
- Shuttles are now loaded in by the shuttle subsystem.
You configure what shuttles are loaded in via
`/obj/configuration/shuttle_load` objects.
* Box arrivals shuttle is now imported from template
* Moves things out of the #ifdef
* Box emergency shuttle is now imported
* Box emergency shuttle is now templated
* Box ferry and whiteship now load from template
* More shuttles on Box done
* Apart from the pods, Box is now completely templated
* Delta now has all non-awkward shuttles loaded in
And Centcom..
* Removes no ops turfs, more error messages
* Fixes slightly chopped off external wall
* Massaging more shuttles into working correctly
* Debug messages are king
* Delta cargo shuttle now docks again
* First pass of Metastation shuttles
* Omegastation first pass
* Metastation now has its own shuttle
* Did most shuttles on Pubby
* Turns out Pubby arrival shuttle is slightly smaller than Box arrival
* Whoops, missed a stationary port
* TGMified the pubby arrival shuttle
* First pass, box is working
* All stations now have roundstart_template and no configuration objects
* Removes roundstart_move
* Why do we even have these unused keys
* Remove unused coded vars
* removes some excessive safety checks
* Missed some Centcom cargo dock stuff
* Got it working again
* That thing that Cyberboss wanted
* Noop turfs the shuttle templates
* And template noop for the area
* Attempts to assuage travis
* Warning!
* Please love me, Travis
* RIP Remie
* Adds disco inferno shuttle
* step be gone
* Minor wall replacement
* Add no diagonal walls
* Made the dance machine all access
* Makes the statues work as I originally intended in this shuttle
* Fixes a chair
* Changed door and made it to keep fire inside.
