PlazaStation development thread - REDESIGN POLL

[Scones]

Bottom post of the previous page:

I really like the QM's window overview of the Cargo Bay

[DemonFiren]

QM's office is nice and big (privacy shutters?), but I'd rather you swap out the floor in what is probably meant to be a break room with carpet, and maybe add a central table and possibly microwave so that it feels more breakroomy.
I've yet to see a disposals mailing room, though.

Also, what's with that meandering bend in the crusher?

[lumipharon]

I like how the HoP office is directly linked to cargo, but the one wide corridors into the bridge is pretty bleh.

Also for better or worse, the grinder being deep in cargo like that instead of maint means it can very easily be used to make hilariously deadly disposal traps etc, without anyone finding out.

[Reimoo]

Cargo layout is basically done now.

All that's left is science, engineering, and some misc rooms.

[RocKeD]

This map is starting to look freaking awesome!

[Reimoo]

Thanks!

[Reimoo]

Oh jeez, time for atmos

What's my grade?

[Scones]

I hate that metastation windoor shit just make the pipes exposed to the rest of the room

[DemonFiren]

Let me see.

The air-to-portable-pump piping not going straight messes with my autism a little, but is otherwise fine.
Keep the vertical pure line straight (going down from the oxy/nitro mixer, the yellow pipe), so you can switch around the airmix storage injector pipe and keep waste-to-filter straight.
The right ports-to-waste pump (in the thermo/port branch) is facing the wrong way. As is the pump leading from pure/air to the mixing tank.

That aside, I really hope incinerator and turbine are somewhere close by.

[Reimoo]

Okay, atmosia Mk2

[DemonFiren]

Let me do the full checklist against Meta's distro chamber setup.

In there, you have:
Waste to Filter: Check.
Air to Distro: Check.
Mix to Filter: Nope.
Mix to Distro: Nope.
Mix to Port: Check.
Distro to Waste: Check.
Pure to Tank In: Check.
Air to Tank In: Check.
Tank In to Tank: Check...buuut, the wrong way around.

Additionally, what Meta doesn't have but you do:
Pure to Filter, which is...kind of unnecessary to add if you can just vent Mix to Filter - which you can't without going through Port here.
The other thing you're missing is a way to hook up the Mix tank to Distro.

[Reimoo]

Jeez, designing this is like trying to solve a puzzle.

If there were elbow pumps this would be so much easier.

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[DemonFiren]

Hm.

You know what, if you want I can take some time, recreate that atmos inbound piping on a test server and make you a layout.
Just be patient, it's gonna take some hours (sleep, it's late in the EU zone.)

[Reimoo]

Wait, I think I got it.

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[DemonFiren]

It's 7:30 in the morning and I don't have my glasses on, so take it with a grain of salt, but I see nothing wrong with this.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

I don't know why Filter pumps straight back into Distro, but sure.

[DemonFiren]

Uh, where does it? I don't really see that.

[Reimoo]

Sorry for the sudden hiatus.

It's just that after playing my map and walking around it for the first time I am really dissatisfied with it. It feels incredibly small - probably because of the lesser amount of hallway space as compared to other stations, even though it still has almost the same square area as box. I haven't even expanded the maint yet.

Plus, I left science and engineering with an awkward position in terms of spacing; they get little to no main hallway space. I simply couldn't come up with any designs that looked good and were functional.

Back to the drawing board I guess. I'll most likely redesign the entire thing.

[Blonkz]

Science has the greatest affinity with the silicons. I find it silly that the path to the core is in engineering on both box and meta.

Distribution of power. Sci has too much fun & power already, without any requirements to full fill a job.
Don't give them the AI proximity on top of that.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

AI access should be given to the librarian then, by that logic.

Hrmm....

[Reimoo]

I've completely started over. This time I started on the plaza first.

But a question I want to ask, the reason I posted in the first place, is do people still want this map? Or am I wasting my time?

[Septavius]

I'm still looking forward to seeing this map being developed.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

With the possibility of Map Rotation in the near future, yes, keep working on it

[duncathan]

The NT logo is off center and it hurts

[Reimoo]

I uploaded some new sketches in the OP and added a poll cause I am indecisive

[Celdur]

My advice is not to make maint of maints sake, its not its own department.
It should just be inbetween areas for wire/piping and sneaking purposes only.

That said, design 1 is the most interesting I think.

[Reimoo]

I figured some people would like the idea of a maintenance you could truly get lost in.

Not it's own "department" exactly, but just a large chunk of the station that seems to have been abandoned.