/tg/Station 13

The repo also now includes an enormous amount of automated testing that runs on maps each time you open a PR. It catches a huge number of common mistakes and issues before they make it out. But not everything. Not even close to everything. I'm pretty sure Icebox wasn't around in 2015, so we've also ...

Since Mothblocks wandered into mapping-general and dropped this question on the mappers, there have been several discussions and PRs about access. Our current access is inconsistent across stations, handling access while mapping is agonizing and involves doing var-edits with access.dm open in anothe...

Ah I see. Well, thanks for clearing up my misperceptions on these. Actually, I misunderstood Fikou's response to my question on the PR. You can upload an away mission as you would currently it will load it, and will make correct use of the secret flags, and be cleared at the end of the round. They ...

I assumed Secret Gateways were for one-off special missions uploaded as events, not a persistent pool of secrecy-gated content. If its a large repo of stuff thats available online and will be played over and over then doesnt that kinda loosen the point, since after an appearance or two people will ...

This sparked quite a discussion in mapping general. There was a consensus that having maps outside of version control is bad. Having some random folder that files and configs are dumped in is not ideal from a maintenance standpoint, not to mention the keyholder and access related problems. The org o...

Richie is consistently on Bagil and you've got half the regulars in this thread endorsing him, including me.

I agree with both points.

Kilo starts to strain at around 45 players, particularly if you've got very large numbers of assistants. I do not think it should be an option above 50. It is also an easy station to run at low pop, and I was surprised to find the configs had set it to 25-pop as a minimum.