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Post by Steelpoint » #118176

What does the Atmospherics department, and atmo in general, offer the game aside from being the biggest contributor to in game lag?

Plasma flooding for the occasional Malf AI.

My proposal is to go for the Goonstation route and gut Atmo from the game and simply gut the atmo area from the station and look to implementing Goonstation's 'air generators' that slowly build up air in areas and that they hock up from maintenance.

Its doable and would go a long way in cutting off the atmo system which really contributes to the bad lag/stutter movement the game has.
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Post by invisty » #118181

Is it possible to turn off atmos for a round? If so, what are the effects?
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Post by Saegrimr » #118209

invisty wrote:Is it possible to turn off atmos for a round? If so, what are the effects?
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Post by Tornadium » #118215

Is there a way to simplify the existing system to reduce lag rather than gutting the core features it provides?

Like what causes the most server load from atmos? Just updates on the tick?
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Post by JackHunt » #118239

I'd say atmos goes a long way towards a few thematic goals. Without atmos there really isn't much lifesupport for a space station and hull breaches and the like don't seem super threatening. It also provides one of Malf's biggest tool and a great micromanaging tool for dealing with common disasters (fires, breaches).
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Post by blobbernaut » #118295

yes it is needed because it's a huge part of the game and the most intricate and unique system on the station.
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Post by Scones » #118297

See, I was under the impression this was an atmospherics simulator
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Post by duncathan » #118300

Steelpoint, you've got a fundamental misunderstanding of how atmos works.
Code-wise, atmos can be split into three different parts. Those are environmental atmos (LINDA), pipenets (pipes and machinery), and gas mixtures. Gas mixtures are used by pipenets, environmental atmos, bombs, air tanks, breathing... Anything to do with atmos involves gas mixtures in some way.

You are suggesting we be rid of pipenets, under the pretense that they cause too much lag for what they offer in terms of gameplay; in fact, under the pretense that they are the single largest contributor to lag in the game.
That would be incorrect.
What really causes lag is ENVIRONMENTAL atmos. The most resource intensive procs by far in an average situation are all caused by LINDA, with a wee little bit of gas mixture proc calls by stuff other than LINDA. We're not getting rid of LINDA, period.

There is one major situation in which pipenets cause lag, and that is singuloose. However, we're fixing singulag pretty regularly. It's not too much of a stretch to say that in the near future we'll be able to fix pipenets causing loads of singulag.

This whole suggestion is pointless.
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Post by Aranclanos » #118301

sorry bud, but dunc is on point, pipes are fine lag-wise. It's the environmental air the one to blame.
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Post by MisterPerson » #118308

I do think gutting the pipenets (slightly or entirely, I haven't thought about it too much) would be good to make reconstruction of bombed areas less of a hassle and atmospherics itself easier to use, but those are gameplay reasons, not optimization ones. Pipesnets aren't really that bad lagwise. The code for them is still not great in any way, but whatever.
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Post by duncathan » #118311

MisterPerson wrote:The code for them is still not great in any way, but whatever.
You're gonna make me cry

e: what specifically is bad about their code besides a little bit of colon use (it happens like once iirc)
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Post by Phalanx300 » #118312

This game started out as a Atmospheric Simulator, cutting that feature is a no-no from me. Traditions and stuff. Also the fact that we're in space, in fact I'd support a more deadly atmos system.
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PostThis post was deleted by MisterPerson on Fri Sep 11, 2015 6:57 pm.
Reason: Don't be a hostile douchebag
Sorry but saying atmos brings no value and should be removed is more hostile and douchebag than anything I said.
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Post by Wyzack » #118320

Having negative opinions on a piece of video game code is hostile and douchey? Thank goodness the scott thought police are here to keep me safe from steelpoints opinions
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Post by Saegrimr » #118322

Don't kid yourselves, it was obviously for the "Mcfucking kill yourself" comment.
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Steelpoint wrote:What does the Atmospherics department, and atmo in general, offer the game aside from being the biggest contributor to in game lag?

Plasma flooding for the occasional Malf AI.
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Post by whodaloo » #118329

Steelpoint, champ, are you banned from goon or something? Why not just go play there?
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What is this?
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Wyzack wrote:Having negative opinions on a piece of video game code is hostile and douchey? Thank goodness the scott thought police are here to keep me safe from steelpoints opinions
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My point is calm the fuck down, he is literally voicing opinions on a piece of code.
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Post by Scott » #118354

And I am voicing my opinions about his opinions. I don't even care that he made wrong assumptions about the code, atmos is fun and that is value. Just because he doesn't play atmos, that doesn't mean it's not fun for other people.
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Post by Miauw » #118417

tbh atmos needs more uses that arent "kill everyone"
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Post by Steelpoint » #118418

I've been talking with some people in game and what not and its generally seen that the biggest drain on game resources is atmospherics, I'm simply stating how the atmo departments biggest claim to fame is how it can kill everyone for the occasional malf AI.
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Post by Miauw » #118419

yes, what is generally seen as the largest drain on resources is obviously true, right? because popular opinion determines what causes lag and what doesnt?
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Post by Jacquerel » #118421

The atmos department and the atmos system are not the same thing and it's silly to say that one is worthless because of the other.
Being an atmos technician is pretty boring and offers little of value except, as you said, flooding the station with plasma. The atmos system on the other hand is an extremely important core game mechanic.
This game simply wouldn't be nearly as good without air mechanics, deadliness of vacuum, and fires. The atmos system is one of the key reasons SS13 clawed itself to the top of a pile of multitudes of RP/Murder games back when people used BYOND for anything that wasn't SS13, and it's going to stay forever.
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Post by Aranclanos » #118443

>I've been talking with some people in game and what not and its generally seen that the biggest drain on game
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Post by Actionb » #118448

LINDA adds so much atmosphere (pun fucking intended) to the rounds... why would you not want to have it.
Playing an atmos tech can be a lot of fun, you just to have a knack for silly constructions and interest in the atmos system itself. Pipe reconstruction after bombings isn't a chore - it's your job and thanks to the fucking retarded and incomprehensible initial pipe layout you pretty much have to come up with a new design every time. Sure, your only apparent MO while antag is flooding the station with plasma. Then again, toxin's only MO is bombings. Engineering only has singulo. Genetics has only hulk rampages. Saying that atmos is only good for one thing is a bit of a moot point.
Atmosia isn't for everyone, much like I will never get into botany or chemistry. Most if not all people wanting to remove atmos don't even play atmos - are they entitled to say 'atmos doesn't add anything, remove now'?
We had a few months were stuff like bombs and singulo didn't lag at all - maybe we will get back to that point again. That said, the game lags even when there's no atmos alarms at all going off.... so meh.
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Post by Miauw » #118450

I still feel like we should search for some other creative things atmos techs can do, really. it sometimes feels like all you can do is proof atmos against subversion, but the only people capable of subverting atmos are you and the AI.
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Post by Scott » #118456

Proofing atmos againt subversion isn't a hard thing to do. Atmos Techs are supposed to optimize oxygen distribution and waste treatment and that goes beyond just increasing pump pressure to max. They can also work the turbine engine and when antags they can flood the station with bad gas. This also takes knowledge/experience, it's not just turning on the plasma pump.

Atmos techs have more shit to do than engineers.
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Miauw wrote:I still feel like we should search for some other creative things atmos techs can do, really. it sometimes feels like all you can do is proof atmos against subversion, but the only people capable of subverting atmos are you and the AI.
Anybody with an emag or a toolbelt can get into atmos and turn on a pump. Or if they want to go the extra mile - wrench it up and place a straight pipe into distro.

Hell atmos as a job is currently the best its ever been with the RPD and transit tubes.
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Post by Miauw » #118531

Scott wrote:Proofing atmos againt subversion isn't a hard thing to do. Atmos Techs are supposed to optimize oxygen distribution and waste treatment and that goes beyond just increasing pump pressure to max. They can also work the turbine engine and when antags they can flood the station with bad gas. This also takes knowledge/experience, it's not just turning on the plasma pump.

Atmos techs have more shit to do than engineers.
i actually had an idea to add some randomly spawned gas canisters to maint and a few mixing rooms in maint, so people that arent atmos techs can use those for some mayhem.
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Miauw wrote:i actually had an idea to add some randomly spawned gas canisters to maint and a few mixing rooms in maint, so people that arent atmos techs can use those for some mayhem.
I miss the old incinerator room. Why the fuck was that taken out again? I used to be able to make singletank bombs and death cans in there as a greyshirt.
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Combine Atmos Tech with Botanist and Atmospherics with Hydroponics, and require plants to recycle air.
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Saegrimr wrote:
Miauw wrote:i actually had an idea to add some randomly spawned gas canisters to maint and a few mixing rooms in maint, so people that arent atmos techs can use those for some mayhem.
I miss the old incinerator room. Why the fuck was that taken out again? I used to be able to make singletank bombs and death cans in there as a greyshirt.
because when paprika added the turbine, he figured we didn't need it anymore (???)
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Saegrimr wrote: I miss the old incinerator room. Why the fuck was that taken out again?
Saegrimr wrote: I used to be able to make singletank bombs and death cans in there as a greyshirt.
I'm guessing that's why, given the amount of shitler greyshirts we have on this server. I certainly don't want them having access to bombs and the ability to ruin atmospherics from roundstart.

More on topic, I love atmospherics, and as you were saying, with the RPD and transit tubes you have PLENTY to do. Atmos is far from optimized at roundstart, and you can spend (and I have) the entire round in there fixing things up and improving the system. Steelpoint, if you think atmos should be removed because there's not enough you can do with it, perhaps we should make more things that it could be utilized for rather than remove atmos altogether. Much in the same way that people have requested that toxins have more non-antag options, because removing altogether isn't really in the spirit of SS13 (being a plasma research station and all).
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Post by oranges » #118878

if you look at the profile linda procs tend to top it, so it's not a wrong statement to make

the issue is that ss13 without linda or atmos just doesn't feel like ss13 at all.
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Things to do as atmos tech:

Useful:
At roundstart, plumb the airmix mixer straight into Distro and set to 20/80 instead of 80/20. This not only makes plasma fires more fun for the family, but means breaches start suffocating people less, because the airmix only goes down to less than 16kpa of O2 once there's 20kpa of air, rather than about 60kpa.
Plumb the plasma tank into a gas mixer (not the mix tank, it gives the AI a heart attack) and pipe it into the turbine to generate power and hide the disk in.
Fix breaches (duuuuur)
Fight fires
Metalfoam your way into the AI core when it goes rogue
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Kill constructs with that monstrous axe
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resupply toxins if they manage to use all their plasma canisters without self-destructing
set air alarms to scrub
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Useless:
Build a toxins test chamber
Pipe art
Make a panic room in space and plumb it into the oxygen tank
Disposal traps/rides
try and assassinate poly using only the atmos system
be lynched when the No2 makes it to the bar instead

Compare this to, say, the librarian

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Not-Dorsidarf wrote:Things to do as atmos tech:

Useful:
At roundstart, plumb the airmix mixer straight into Distro and set to 20/80 instead of 80/20. This not only makes plasma fires more fun for the family, but means breaches start suffocating people less, because the airmix only goes down to less than 16kpa of O2 once there's 20kpa of air, rather than about 60kpa. Best of all, it gives you a sodding great tank of clean air to flush the pipes with if some crackhead contaminates the oxygen tanks with filter fun.
Plumb the plasma tank into a gas mixer (not the mix tank, it gives the AI a heart attack) and pipe it into the turbine to generate power and hide the disk in.
Fix breaches (duuuuur)
Fight fires
Metalfoam your way into the AI core when it goes rogue
use the backpack's metal foam as a poor-man's vent welding (now without lighting fires, and infinite supply!)
Kill constructs with that monstrous axe
kill condoms with that monstrous axe
resupply toxins if they manage to use all their plasma canisters without self-destructing
set air alarms to scrub
disposals traps/rides
transport tube shuttles

Useless:
Build a toxins test chamber
Pipe art
Make a panic room in space and plumb it into the oxygen tank
Disposal traps/rides
try and assassinate poly using only the atmos system
be lynched when the No2 makes it to the bar instead

Compare this to, say, the librarian

Useful stuff:
1)Provide a hiding place for contraband
2)Stun rogue borgs sometimes

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Dispense books
Read porno over radio.
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

Post by oranges » #118912

he quoted his own post, that absolute madman
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

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oranges wrote:he quoted his own post, that absolute madman
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

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is this a dank new meme
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

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Miauw wrote:is this a dank new meme
<wb> For one, the spaghetti is killing me. It's everywhere in food code, and makes it harder to clean those up.
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

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Scott wrote:Whoa
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

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Whoa
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

Post by Jacquerel » #119304

Jacquerel wrote:
Jacquerel wrote:is this a dank new meme
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

Post by MisterPerson » #119484

Let's get back on topic now
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

Post by CPTANT » #119487

I think one of the problems with the current atmos system is that it tries to be way too accurate. If somehow accuracy could be sacrificed for performance the whole deal would be a lot better.
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Re: Atmo: Lag Edition

Post by Tunder » #119489

duncathan wrote:Steelpoint, you've got a fundamental misunderstanding of how atmos works.

I'm convinced that he's not even playing the same game as the rest of us by this point :P
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