Code: https://github.com/Giacom/MiniStation
Discussion Thread: http://www.ss13.eu/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=71
Created By: Giacom
Website: http://www.ss13.eu/
Code: https://github.com/tgstation/-tg-station
IRC: irc://irc.rizon.net/tgstation13
What is it?
A mod of tgstation 13 ( https://github.com/tgstation/-tg-station ) that is modified for low population servers; with simplified jobs, maps, duties and command structure.
Who is the target audience?
Server hosters who want to host a server for a player count of around 5 to 20 people.
What about the map?
The map has been created from the ground up with population size in mind. There is a link to it below.
What are the jobs?
Many jobs have been combined or just plainly cut out. These are the remaining jobs with their duties next to them.
- Captain - Make sure your station is running.
- Lieutenant - You're second in command, protect the Captain and be his right hand man.
- Cargo Miner x2 - Running cargo bay and mining minerals for the station.
- Bartender - Keeping the bar, serving drinks and food. Hire the unemployeed to grow food for you, or do it yourself.
- Janitor - Cleans the station, removes litter and empty trash bins to be recycled by the crusher.
- Station Engineer x3 - Keeping the power running and fixing station damage.
- Security Officer x2 - Protecting the crewmembers and serving space law.
- Detective - Using forensic science to help security officers catch criminals.
- Scientist x2 - Research and development of new technologies and create bombs.
- Medical Doctor x2 - Healing the crew, performing surgeries and cloning dead crew.
- Chemist - Creating useful chemicals for the crew to use.
- Clown - Create laughter and boost the morale of the crew. Honk!
- Unemployed x∞ - Not in charge at all. Basically the assistant of TG. Get a job!
There will be 18 jobs (not including Unemployed) available on mini-TG station. There is a more simplified command system, with the Captain being the big boss and the Lieutenant being second in command. The heads will have control over all departments and jobs.
What else has changed?
Game Modes have been changed to accommodate the low population count. All except traitor, changeling, revolution and extended are disabled by default. You can change this in the config file.
There is much less of a player to traitor ratio, meaning there's only 1 traitor for every 10 players. Changelings will always come in singles. In revolution there will be two rev-heads. Due to no starting AI, there is no malfunction; so I don’t advise enabling it. There are no plans to add a starting AI but you are still able to construct an AI through research.
Current Goal:
- Polish the gameplay.
- Polish the map.
Can I Contribute?
Yes but I want to try and keep the mod as compatible with /tg/station as possible, meaning all features should be modular. Map changes are acceptable but it is hard for me to look at what was changed, so I'll need a list of changes you have made. You can then make a pull request and I will review it.
Map Screenshot:
First-time installation should be fairly straightforward. First, you'll need BYOND installed. You can get it from http://www.byond.com/. Once you've done that, extract the game files to wherever you want to keep them. This is a sourcecode-only release, so the next step is to compile the server files. Open ministation.dme by double-clicking it, open the Build menu, and click compile. This'll take a little while, and if everything's done right you'll get a message like this:
saving ministation.dmb (DEBUG mode)
ministation.dmb - 0 errors, 0 warnings
If you see any errors or warnings, something has gone wrong - possibly a corrupt download or the files extracted wrong.
Once that's done, open up the config folder. You'll want to edit config.txt to set the probabilities for different gamemodes in Secret and to set your server location so that all your players don't get disconnected at the end of each round. It's recommended you don't turn on the gamemodes with probability 0, except Extended, as they have various issues and aren't currently being tested, so they may have unknown and bizarre bugs. Extended is essentially no mode, and isn't in the Secret rotation by default as it's just not very fun.
You'll also want to edit admins.txt to remove the default admins and add your own. "Game Master" is the highest level of access, and the other recommended admin levels for now are "Game Admin" (a little below host) and "Moderator". The format is
byondkey - Rank
where the BYOND key must be in lowercase and the admin rank must be properly capitalised. There are a bunch more admin ranks, but these three should be enough for most servers, assuming you have trustworthy admins.
Finally, to start the server, run Dream Daemon and enter the path to your compiled ministation.dmb file. Make sure to set the port to the one you specified in the config.txt, and set the Security box to 'Safe'. Then press GO and the server should start up and be ready to join.
To update an existing installation, first back up your /config and /data folders as these store your server configuration, player preferences and banlist.
Then, extract the new files (preferably into a clean directory, but updating in place should work fine), copy your /config and /data folders back into the new install, overwriting when prompted except if we've specified otherwise, and recompile the game. Once you start the server up again, you should be running the new version.
The SQL backend for the library and stats tracking requires a MySQL server. Your server details go in /config/dbconfig.txt, and the SQL schema is in /SQL/tgstation_schema.sql. More detailed setup instructions are coming soon, for now ask in our IRC channel.
Included in the SVN is an IRC bot capable of relaying adminhelps to a specified IRC channel/server (thanks to Skibiliano) Instructions for bot setup are included in the /bot/ folder along with the bot/relay script itself