initial commit - cross reference with 5th port - obviously has compile errors

code/_globalvars/misc.dm

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+var/admin_notice = "" // Admin notice that all clients see when joining the server
+
+var/timezoneOffset = 0 // The difference betwen midnight (of the host computer) and 0 world.ticks.
+
+	// For FTP requests. (i.e. downloading runtime logs.)
+	// However it'd be ok to use for accessing attack logs and such too, which are even laggier.
+var/fileaccess_timer = 0
+
+var/TAB = "    "
+
+
+
+var/map_ready = 0
+/*
+	basically, this will be used to avoid initialize() being called twice for objects
+	initialize() is necessary because the map is instanced on a turf-by-turf basis
+	i.e. all obj on a turf are instanced, then all mobs on that turf, before moving to the next turf (starting bottom-left)
+	This means if we want to say, get any neighbouring objects in New(), only objects to the south and west will exist yet.
+	Therefore, we'd need to use spawn() inside New() to wait for the surrounding turf contents to be instanced
+	However, using lots of spawn() has a severe performance impact, and often results in spaghetti-code
+	map_ready will be set to 1 when world/New() is called (which happens just after the map is instanced)
+*/