Maintainer Meeting (25 June 2022)

Time: 25 June 2022 18:00 UTC

Attendees:

• DrSmugleaf
• PJB
• Wrexbe
• ElectroSR
• Vera
• metalgearsloth (just got nitro)
• Shadowcommander (late)

Making wide attack click-based was a mistake | Remie

• Discord message
• Too much friendly fire with Kudzu
  • Kudzu needs to be fixed separately
• Most weapons shouldn’t have broad-angle wide attacks
  • Spears should have spear-like attacks
• Make it toggleable to let the user decide?
  • Need to pick a sane default
  • Experiment with making it a hold attack, when you release left-mouse button
  • Windup?
    • Experiment with it too

Disbanding scheduled playtests for now | moony

• Discord message
• Letting in a select amount of users at a time
• High pop has design and game administration problems
• We set the cap to 65 recently (raised to 130 during playtests)
• Some SS13 servers have such high pop counts
• We need high pop maps for this
• They are important to get players invested and check out new things
• Turn them into proper feature tests?
  • No because features will be broken and it will look bad
• Decision: Change playtests to be at the same time as progress reports

Tile damage kinds | moony

• Discord message
• RobustToolbox’s tiles are too limited and don’t have enough space
• Do we make a SS14-specific wrapper around tiles?
• Tile controllers?
  • A separate system from normal ECS is not convenient
• Make them use normal components and ECS?
  • We need to make our ECS not shit and implement transformless entities

ECS refactor | Jezithyr

• Two-layer ECS, archetypical for perf and sparse for entity glut, similar to the concept of worlds in some ECS
• In archetypical ECS, the problem is that adding more components to an entity at runtime is slow
  • We do this sometimes
  • Iterating and filtering entities is very fast
• With worlds we can have replays with their own world and entities
  • Multithreading
• C# binds for FLECS exist
  • Decision: Experiment with it
• Rewrite our own ECS with the important parts in C# instead?
  • NIH my beloved
  • Less performance overhead with marshalling
  • More work to maintain
• Do we need to cut down on remo
• Flecs fixed my marriage
  • Me irl
  • Good for containers with child entities
• Is this the next engine rewrite
• Back to Godot
• Try to not cause an API breakage
• A - Vera

Right-click for both entity menu and verb menu on entities is unintuitive | mirrorcult

• Discord message
• It’s unintuitive because you have to right click twice
• There’s no indication it’s possible to open the verb menu
• How do we solve this
  • Decision: Trigger on hover
  • Properly handle moving diagonally onto submenu (don’t make the submenu close instantly on hover leave)

Expanding who can merge PRs | moony

• Discord message
• Junior maints / trusted reviewers?
• We need more people to get content PRs through
• Expanding triage perms?
• Need more people to review
• Decision: Make review guidelines
  • Add big/breaking code changes to the codebase changes channel

Protect master branch | mirrorcult

• Discord message
• We are getting 500 PRs a month anyway help
• We need it to make downstreams have an easier time merging changes
• Prevents cringe pushes to master
• Too many commands to update the submodule
  • Solution: make a script, you can make PRs from the CLI too
• Decision: protect master branch

Early Access Roadmap

• emergency shuttle | sloth
  • auto shuttle movement
• gamemodes/antags
  • dynamic | mirror
    • !!nuke ops | Paul
    • lings?
      • needs DNA
    • blob | Remie
    • cult?
      • make it as good as vg for pjb
    • revs
      • we want a generic antag overlay system
      • loyalty implant
      • faction system
• EL BODY SYSTEM | mirror
  • some refactors were done by mirror, still some left
  • surgery died in the war of 1992
    • Mirror died in the war of 1993
  • limb damage…..
• Salvage proc gen | moony
  • Cargo Commander
  • Coded on outer-rim, just needs porting to upstream
    • moony’s entirely rewriting it anyways so don’t do that
• body system but again
• body system
• Grid merging
• Diagonal tiles
  • we have diagonal walls, tiles are harder
• ENGINE EDITOR | PJB
  • could benefit from full state reload
• movement refactor
  • Client side movement?
    • a smidgen
      • as a treat
      • acruid pls com bak
  • TILE MOVEMENT c#5551
• Tutorial
  • In game guides
    • Yes
    • Waiting on pretty labels
    • books/ebooks in pda
      • ebooks preloaded on pda for selected job
      • when rich text gets merged
        • 
• oldchat + ui refactor | Jezithyr, DrSmugleaf
  • we did it
  • lost in the canadian wilds
• combat rework (needs to be bikeshedded)
  • https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/issues/3378
• ghostrole bans
  • unify ghost roles prototype
• Admin traitor/role menu
  • Assign people roles
  • Objectives UI
• Job playtime requirements | Veritius
  • Playtime tracking
  • Per role playtime tracking
• experimental science
  • artifacts??!?!?
  • “Science is still a piece of shit” - Vera 28/05/2022
• action ui refactor, like ss13 maybe | Jezithyr
  • stuck in canada
• any% maintainer | Jezithyr
  • Stuck in canada
    • soon tm
• Prototype composition | Paul
  • https://github.com/space-wizards/RobustToolbox/pull/2678
  • https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/pull/7403
  • paul still not done with his thesis
• Server polls
• Round Statistics
  • Log votes, which maps are played the most…
• State mandated Xonotic matches | PJB
  • Please I have severe withdrawal symptoms
  • Replaced by private SS14 playtests
  • Man down
• The game runs like shit how do people play this
  • still does | PJB 28/05/2022
    • “how do people play this game” (high pitched scream) | PJB 28/05/2022
  • Slightly better | PJB 11/06/2022
  • It’s better but still not as good as I’d like it to be | PJB 25/06/2022

Crashes / Critical bugs: (when are we moving these to GitHub) => till next time