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Total Members Voted: 257

[Pick Yer Poison]

The current one does actually wrap around. The main corridor goes all the way around it.

[beorn080]

He means that if you walk off the end of a hallway going east, you come back on the west side of the map traveling east.

[PTTG??]

It would be impressive to make it so that projectiles and flows can cross over this border, or even better, have the view stitch the sides together seemlessly.

That said, a simpler thing like a few special airlock squares that would transport you to the other side would be acceptable.

Interesting thing about centripetal gravity space stations is that if you step off the edge, you fall. More scientifically, you're flung on a tangent from the edge of the ring.

I suppose that careful maneuvering could allow you to hover next to the spinning ring.

[alfie275]

I think that may be too confusing.

We could have maintance tunnels/engineerin/atmospheric control/robotics on a Z level below with trap door floor tiles (just to not have random ladders in middle of floor) that look like regular floor, but with a handle.

[Deon]

I think that may be too confusing.

We could have maintance tunnels/engineerin/atmospheric control/robotics on a Z level below with trap door floor tiles (just to not have random ladders in middle of floor) that look like regular floor, but with a handle.

This looks like the best solution.

Also, if you allow going over the edge it would add too much complexity. Why not to make it just a circle corridor? It would be fine to have those who wander off the map edge to be "lost in space".

For the station, lower z-level for maintance and upper z-level for command bridge sound reasonable. Also I'd vote for the space access avaliable only on the middle level. Because otherwise it would be too complex to allow it to change z-level once outside the station.

[zchris13]

Yes.  Most or all maintenance tunnels should be above or below the station, mirroring the hallways above.  Engineers need a good maze to be ambushed in during Nuke rounds, and a nice place to be paranoid freaks during every other type of round.

Aw yeah.

I really like this design, and nobody commented on it.

[zchris13]

Balls

[Sukasa]

Yeah, we haven't fully addressed how to make people be able to move up and down in space.  I was thinking something along the lines of just having ladders, etc along the outside of the ship, and you use those.  If you're floating in space, then you're outta luck.

Also, potential ship design.  It's 5 stories tall not counting the engines.  Crew services are at the front in the two raised sections, the hangar and engineering are on the lowest level (hangar includes the supply warehouse), Security and the courtroom are on the first floor of the aft superstructure, and the bridge is on the top level.  Maintenance passages would be interwoven around the ship.

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Note that apart from the engines I didn't bother to place anything other than basic shapes so the point would be brought across.  The small pink spheres are meant to represent escape pods, of which there are 16 total in this design.

[zchris13]

I sort of don't really like escape pods, unless we use a multi tile, shuttle like design, like the one I designed.



I redesigned it.

[Sukasa]

Hm, on the topic of maintenance following halls..  neat idea, but it seems a bit wasteful to me, unless you had other stuff on the maintenance level too.

[x2yzh9]

I'm going to agree with zchris here.

[Sukasa]

I sort of don't really like escape pods, unless we use a multi tile, shuttle like design, like the one I designed.

The problem with the multi-tile ones is that they're somewhat harder to work with at the code level.  It wouldn't be impossible, though.

[Grakelin]

The shuttle-like design needs a lot of work before it's worth commenting on. Where are the hallways? Are there only six rooms? Why do escape pods work here, but not elsewhere?

[Sukasa]

If you mean zchris's, I think that's meant to just be an escape/arrival/etc shuttle, not a whole map.  That would imply that the six "rooms" are actually just chairs.

Any thoughts/suggestions for the overall shape for the design I posted?

[Grakelin]

Aaah, that makes sense.

I think I would almost prefer if, instead of a shuttle, we had escape pods activated via timer which would shoot you to a safe location to end the game, instead of an entire shuttle which docks with your ship. The shuttle works for the station, but the ship is sort of weird.

At the same time, though, the victory conditions rely on people being on the escape shuttle. I would suggest a self destruct system linked to the escape pods, but that would make it too easy for the traitor.