Testing has revealed that it reduces the sluggishness of the game, though it will spike from lag when the singularity is loose. Thanks to ChuckTheSheep for suggesting it.
Server owners who want to keep set background enabled can do so by changing the define.
* By converting the unix timestamp of the git log, I was able to get the date of the revision.
* It uses the new unix2date, which figures out the date, since you can't convert unix time to byond time through byond.
There is now a PRELOAD_RSC define in code/_compile_options.dm. Setting it to 0 will allow you to use on-the-fly rsc downloads, or the new remote rsc features.
Normally (PRELOAD_RSC == 1) the game will send you all the resources for the game that existed at compile time, this is the long-delay before joining the game...but it means that the game isn't sluggish later on due to trying to download icons and such. Which is good, but uses a lot of bandwidth.
On-the-fly behaviour (PRELOAD_RSC == 0) is when the game only downloads icons when you see something for the first time...this is often responsible for things being briefly invisible on slow connections.
Remote RSC behaviour (PRELOAD_RSC == 0 and some urls defined in config/external_rsc_urls.txt), is a mixture of the two above behaviours. It allows you to connect without downloading lots of resources immediately. However, once you connect it will select a url from a list of urls which hold zipped up copies of the tgstation.rsc. This allows the load of downloading those large files to be distributed across a few cheap web-servers or free upload sites...whilst the main game-server is freed up for other stuff. Should preloading from a remote url fail, behavior will revert to on-the-fly.
DNA modification uses normally distributed random numbers. Radiation strength dictates the standard deviation of the change in the hex character which is hit (higher output means greater chance for a large change) . Similarly, radiation duration dictates how likely we are to hit the hex-character we clicked on (longer duration means more likely to hit). Irradiation is strength*duration. All balancing is done via multiplier defines so you can rebalance it easily.
DNA blocks and structuring all use defines. Making modification/expansion easier. I'll likely expand this into a datum-based system to allow more interesting features, reduce code further and allow admins to interact with the way dna strings behave.
DNA strings can be spliced together using merge_text().
e.g. string 1: "Hello World"
string 2: "Seeya______"
result: "Seeya World"
This isn't used except for admin-spawnable SE injectors at the moment.
r_hair, g_hair, b_hair, r_facial, g_facial, b_facial, r_eyes, g_eyes, b_eyes were removed and made into 3 short hex-colors.
Skin tones now support colours other than shades of brown. I've had to restrict it heavily until other stuff is done. Skin tones include Albino Caucasian, Oriental, Mediterranean, etc.
Data disks and DNA injectors were reworked to use associative lists so transferring data is just a matter of doing list.Copy()
var/dna is now defined at /mob/living/carbon level. Only monkeys and humans may have dna currently. Support is there for all carbon-based lifeforms to have dna.
DNA modifier console has almost all controls on one screen.
UIs and UEs can be injected separately (appearance and name, respectively)
dna helper procs like ready_dna() and such were changed to make them more versatile. There is now a hardset_dna() proc as an alternative to ready_dna which can initialize dna with properties passed into it or update an existing dna string (useful for cloning and antag spawning)
Every block of SEs are in randomised positions.
Disabled automatic logging of world.log, as it produced undesirable behaviour.
Mr Muggles and God Emperor of Mankind disks removed.
Floor() removed. (it was completely uneccesary, that is what round() is).
Fixed spelling mistakes in modularchangling.dm (thanks tenebrosity)
Tanning removed from beaches (again)
Experimental: monkeys and humans do not have dna until first attempt to read dna (using check_dna_integrity(mob))
This is mainly due to the way everything is hardcoded into New().
Changelog.html updated
Signed-off-by: carnie <elly1989@rocketmail.com>
Removes the old tgstation database. It has been merged into the newer feedback database.
All mentions of the old database have been replaced with the new one.
This includes updating tgstation_schema.sql and dbconfig.txt.
Removes README feedback.txt as it is now covered by the new schema.
Removes the unused forum DB stuff, including forumdbconfig.txt.
Updates the config, including both config.txt and game_options.txt. Many options have been moved into the latter.
Updates configuration.dm to reflect these changes.
Removes the config var/feature_object_spell_system as it did nothing.
/proc/testing("message") will now only print message to world.log if #define TESTING is uncommented. This will allow coders to make in-depth debug messages for confusing bits of code. Said debug messages would not be visible on th elive server, but coders can enable them by compiling with #define TESTING uncommented. This should make debugging ikky horrible code easier (assuming people bother to use testing())
Temporarily removed the weightless (aka gravity failure) event, due to people hating it. ;(
Replaced references to KILL with PROCESS_KILL (I didn't realise I had already defined something like that). Setup.dm and global.dm are rather cluttered. I will be cleaning them up and will remove a few unused defines like #define KILL in my next commit.
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The "Your server failed to establish a connection with the x database." message will now only show if you have sql_enabled.
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- Turned down cache lifespan to 1. This will help the server when it has to constantly have people download the resource files and the dynamic cache.
- I was seriously upset about the server room in the new telecomms not being airless. As Kor allowed anyone to make the room airless, I did so. It shouldn't be a room anyone can walk into without the necessary equipment. (It also would give void suits a reason)
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Added in a proc for del() logging.
Non-carn related:
Moved biomass.dm to unused
Removed the code/game/gamemodes/events folder
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http://forums.nanotrasen.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12245#p189186
Ported all the random events to Pete/Gia's event system:
>Event system now supports weighting. default is 10. a weight of 5 is half as likely as default, 20 twice as likely....etc.
>Increased the frequency of events (dust happens over 60% of the time though)
>tidied up some ninja code: ninjas now get ~5 objectives. So they are hardmode.
>made the gravity toggle into a random event
>event system now supports round-start events
>event system now supports holiday events
>event system now supports events which can only happen after the round has lasted a certain number of ticks
>event system now supports max_occurrences for events. Setting any event's max_occurrences to 0 will stop it randomly occurring
>events now support being fed associative lists inside new(). This allows you to override their variables easily.
>wormhole events no longer cause loads of lag. They are extremely deadly. wormholes should be avoided
Other:
>replaced the procs for fetching candidates for ninjas and aliums with /proc/get_candidates(be_special_flag), it returns a list of active clients with that be_special preference enabled.
>minor fixes to minds
>your memories are displayed to you at Login()
>removed aliens_allowed
>removed ninjas_allowed
>pick_n_take() is now more efficient (uses Cut() rather than Remove()
Things I added:
- Made the pandemic call ..() instead of doing the checks itself.
- Made the staff of animation use more charge.
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- Increased the allowed w_class things in secure briefcases. Equalized the amount of stuff you can put in a briefcase with the backpack.
- The staff of animation will turn animations onto their side, if they were created by a different user.
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fixed giveruntimelog getruntimelog and getserverlog
Any admin with ADMIN rights can give anybody permission to view runtimes simply by typing .giveruntimelog The person given permission can then type .getruntimelog
Admins can type .getruntimelog without giving themselves permissions first
Moved a lot of the copypasta code into helper procs in __HELPERS/files.dm. There is one which allows a client to browse through folders on the server (in this case to look for logfiles). You can now also return to the directory you started at.
Note, for some weird reason, runtimes will no longer show in dreamdeamon. If this is a massive problem I can make it a compile option or something (or you can comment out the line if you're a coder). I know this is a massive pain but it sort of removes much of the effort in getting runtimes from other servers, since they all now have their runtimes saved in a way coders can easily access. It also sort of means we don't have to rely on people remembering to log runtimes and such. And all logs will be organised by month.
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Improvements to Telecomms. I wasn't happy with my relays and having telecomms send several messages on different Z levels was not effecient. I decided to overcome this by removing the need to attach Broadcasters and Transmitters to relays. Then I made relays just add to the signal data which z levels the message will be broadcasted on, instead of sending the message several times. It's a bit hard to explain but basically it should be better then ever, and adding more relays will not create serious performance issues. Since you can't control whether the Z level could only receive messages or only send them, I added options on the relay itself so you can set it. I then made an additional feature, which Nodrak gave me the idea for, which is that busses can change the frequency of a signal. It's an option on the Bus and you can set it to change the signal's frequency, which can create hilarious situations such as the command channel being redirected to the general channel. No way to duplicate a signal with a different frequency at the moment.
Since relays earlier depended on a stupid system in order to become a off-site relay, I instead just made it limited to the satellite Z level, which makes more sense.
Broadcasters and Receivers are linked to the HUB, but it's still possible to create a simple telecommunication system with a "Receiver -> Bus -> Processer -> Broadcaster" (though it will be slow)
OTHER
Smartfridge limit was lowered to 999, just below the infinite loop check limit. This is to prevent further issues that may occure.
Moved creating some icon datums above the SQL procs, just to make sure that the SQL itself isn't sleeping and causing issues with the datums being used before being loaded.
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I did find that your be special preferences, i.e: be alien, be traitor, be changeling and etc, are shared between preferences. I'll ask if this is intentional or not.
-Some minor stuff.
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They include such procs as sanitize_integer(num, min, max, default) which will check num is a number, round num to make it an integer, then check if it is between min and max (inclusive). If it fails the bound-checks it will return default. There are others, have a look.
PERSISTENT PREFERENCES: Every ckey which connects to the game gets its own persistent /datum/preferences datum.
It is archived in var/list/preferences_datums = list("ckey" = datum)
At connect it is automatically associated with the client defines.dm (or a new one is created if it can't find an archived prefs datum). This means clients will ALWAYS have a var/datum/preferences/prefs which references this datum. So you can use it without checking if(client.prefs)
This has simplified only a few bits of code. It will however, allow us to make preferences like see_deadchat ghost_ears etc, persistent. So they will not reset when you DC.
SAVEFILES: Changed the player savefile code a lot. Hopefully I've not fucked it up too much. Every single variable loaded from saves is now sanity checked using the new sanity procs. This should help prevent savefiles becomming obsolete by sanitizing input to meet current requirements, without deleting all the ok variables and making you start from scratch >_> NOTE: I still need to sort out the savefile version stuff. I'll probably figure it out before the server updates anyway. It sees to be fine without it.
You can no longer choose your blood type. It is randomised (with each bloodtype having a realistic probability of occuring). This is to make blood analysis (detective/medical) less pointless. It is chosen as soon as you connect. It remains persistent throughout each round so you won't be able to change it by logging in/out over and over.
Replaces some copypasta code with is_afk() (still a fair bit to do)
There are new hyperlink shortcut things. _src_=vars will direct your hyperlink to viewvars. _src_=prefs to your preferences datum. (These are the only way to access those bits of code via links). This means that the overall amount of operations in almost every Topic has pretty much halved and is much prettier.
Replaced and removed adminplayervars from datum/admins/Topic. It was superfluous. They now all point directly to the viewvars code using _src_=vars
Removed the changelog popup at round start. Instead a button on your game-window will glow white if there are new updates. To peruse at your convenience. This will speed up connect times.
Removed the AFK_THRESHOLD define. It is integrated into is_afk() now.
TODO: remove the prefs stuff from mobs and clients and update code to use client.prefs to access that info.
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- Standardized the database library code
- Deleted a few unused database related files (karma and forum activation), so they won't get in my way later. They work off of no longer existent database tables.
- Made it so the server maintains a constant connection with the database, which is established on world/New() and never broken, until the server ends. If 5 consecutive database connection attempts result in no connection getting established, the server will not attempt any more connections. Made all existing database connections use the global continuous connections. Currently we need two, as we have two databases, but the old database is going to get moved into the new one.
- Fixed the spaghetti-like report in the permissions panel, which happened when someone had many permissions enabled.
- Added database connection reports to display to dream daemon on server startup.
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SERVER HOSTS:
This commit replaces the existing admin-rank system. It is now more customizable.
Admin.txt essentially works the same as it always has. Each line should look like:
ckey - admin rank
There is now however, an admin_ranks.txt. This textfile allows you to define ranks like so:
admin rank +ADMIN +FUN +BUILD
the +KEYWORD are flags adding permissions to that rank. There are brief descriptions in the text-file explaining what they do.
You can now name the ranks anything you like, and give them the permissions you want them to have. This allows, for instance, ranks like:
Game Admin on disciplinary +ADMIN +BAN
This would give that game admin only the tools they need to admin. They would not have access to 'fun' verbs which control events and antags.
There's lots of things you can do. For instance, a coder rank whom can debug stuff but cannot do admin tasks:
Codermin +DEBUG +VAREDIT +SERVER
There's lots you can do. As it evolves it will hopefully become more flexible.
admin_ranks.txt defaults to use the old admin rank names.
Apologies in advance as there will be a lot of anomalies, such as ranks losing verbs they once had. Please let me know about any problems. I can fix them quite easily simply by moving verbs between the lists or splitting the lists up into new flags.
CODERS:
There is now a check_rights(flags) proc.
It check is usr is and admin and has -at least one of- the rights specified.
It checks > usr < not src, so keep that in mind!
If you need to check if something other than usr has specific tights, you can do if(holder.rights & R_ADMIN) etc.
KNOWN ISSUES:
+FUN probably needs to be split up into +MOBS and +EVENTS
In-game promotion/demotion is currently disabled. It will be readded after everything else works ok.
Erro's sql rights changes stuff is currently commented out. It will be re-added.
There are still many many verbs which need updating.
Apologies in advance for any inconvenience.
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>tried to make the comments less confusing.
>Removed the procs for rebuilding the lists (they weren't meant to be used and half were broken anyway).
>added a directory. It maps ckey to client like so directory[ckey] = client. It could be used for PMs, banning, and various other admin tools rather than using \ref[]
>var/list/admins is now a list of clients whom are admins.
>var/list/admin_datums is what var/list/admins used to be. A map from ckey -> admin datum
Most of this is so I can add modular admin ranks in a non-horrendous way and fix some existing issues.
>var/list/client_list is now var/list/clients (laziness sorry)
>removed some needless loops and stuff.
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>Replaced dd_text2list, dd_text2listcase, tg_text2listcase and tg_text2list with text2list and text2listEx. text2list will return a list of each and every character in the string if you set separator=""
>added return_file_text(filepath) which returns text from a file after doing some checks: does the file exist? is the file empty? It prints helpful error messages to the world.log if it runs into problems
>Replaced dd_file2list(filepath, seperator) with file2list(filepath, seperator). It just calls text2list(return_file_text(filepath), seperator). rather than copypasta
>Replaced time_stamp() so it's not as retarded
>Lots of the world setup stuff uses file2list now, rather than file2text -> sanity -> text2list
>Added error() warning() testing() procs. These print messages to world.log with a prefix. e.g. ## ERROR: msg.
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/obj/admins is now /datum/admins because that's what datums are for you silly people
Moved var/datum/marked_datum from /obj/ to /datum/admins
admin datums are persistent throughout the round. They are stored in the var/list/admins rather than the ranks. This is so admin preferences may be moved into the datum to have them persist even after Login/Logout/Disconnects.
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Removed all the voting-related adminverbs. It's all built into ooc vote verb.
Admins can now make custom votes for literally anything.
If a vote draws it will pick one of the winners at random.
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All /world/ stuff that I've found is now in code/world.dm instead of being scattered throughout the code in 6-7 files.
*****IMPORTANT*****
This means that hub.dm is now part of world.dm. Server hosts using the hub will likely have to redo the hub/password variables!
Again, that stuff is now located in code/world.dm
*******************
The tester list has been removed as it is not in use.
/code/defines
- Moved atom.dm code into /code/game/atom.dm and atom_movable.dm
- Moved hub.dm code into /code/world.dm
- Moved the /defines/tanning into objects/item/sheets/leather.dm
- Moved /defines/area/ into game/area/
- Moved turf.dm code into the code/game/turfs folder and divided it up into meaningful places
A lot of the files in /code/game were placed in new areas since they really didn't have a reason to be there.
- algorithm.dm:
- - The world stuff is in world.dm.
- - countJob() and AutoUpdateTK() were removed entirely (unused).
- - AutoUpdateAI() is now in /mob/living/silicon/ai.dm
- atom_procs.dm was split into atom.dm and atom_movable.dm
- cellautomata.dm
- - World stuff was moved into world.dm
- - Atom stuff was moved into atom.dm and atom_movable.dm
- - Atom verbs were moved into code/game/verbs/atom_verbs.dm
- chemistry.dm
- - Beaker box code was moved into storage/misc.dm
- - The trash can and 'alechemy' paper were removed. (unused)
- Landmarks.dm was moved into /objects/effects/landmarks.dm
- prisonshuttle.dm, specops_shuttle.dm, syndicate_shuttle.dm and syndicate_specops_shuttle.dm have been moved into game/machinery/computer/
- status.dm and topic.dm code were moved into world.dm
- step_triggers.dm are now in objects/effects/step_triggers.dm
- throwing.dm was split into appropriate files (carbon mob code, atom_movable.dm, ect)
- vote.dm is now in code/datums
/code/game/asteroid was split up.
- turf.dm was moved into game/turfs/simulated/asteroid.dm
- artifacts were split up
- - Wish granter is now in game/machinery
- - The stealth box is gone (unused)
- - The list of 'space suprises' was moved into astroid.dm
- asteroid.dm, being the only file left, was moved into /code/game
and finally...
modules/mob/organs files are now in code/datums/organs
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