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Techhead edited this page Dec 15, 2016 · 13 revisions

This server is really laggy.

That's not a question, but:

  1. Do you mean that the tickrate is higher than you're used to?
  2. Are you getting input lag?
  3. Are you getting a low framerate?
  4. Are you getting lag spikes?

If you answered yes to 1, then it's not lag, it's just tickrate, not a lot we can do there as it's already as low as we can go while still being performant.

If yes to 2, this is legitimate network lag and there's not a lot we can do about it - it might be because you're a long way from the server or such, but it generally isn't on the server's end.

If yes to 3, make sure your client is updated to the latest BYOND beta - the lighting system we use is quite demanding and is known to cause serious clientside lag for low-end machines or people running out of date BYOND clients.

If yes to 4, this may be due to inround events like mass deletions or bombs, and is something that may need to be reported to the bug tracker.

Is there a map?

Kind of.

Is this the underwater server?

Kind of. The underwater map is still in development, but if you adminhelp and ask nicely we can turn the space map into an ocean.

My lighting is weird and everything is white/black/strange, what gives?

Update your BYOND version to 510+ and make sure you have hardware rendering turned on in your preferences.

I'm getting a blank screen on my PDA/consoles, what gives?

NanoUI is arse and the VPS the server runs on is also arse. The only way we've found to fix this (unreliably), other than time, is:

  • Download the codebase locally from https://github.com/Yonaguni/EuropaStation
  • Extract it somewhere. Open Dream Maker, which is installed with BYOND, then open the baystation12.dme file via Dream Maker.
  • Hit build > compile and wait for 200 years. If it completes with 0 errors and warnings you're fine.
  • Open Dream Daemon, click the ..., navigate to baystation12.dmb in the same folder as the .dme, and select it. Press the green GO button and wait another 200 years. DD will freeze/hang several times.
  • Copy admins.txt and admin_ranks.txt from config/example to config. Add your ckey to admins.txt in the format ckey - Host.
  • Click the yellow button to join.
  • Access the required interfaces to force them to load in your local cache.
  • Try to access them on the main server.

Hopefully this fixes the issue. In the meantime, if you need to access PDA features, some of them are available with right-click.

What the shit is an aspect?

A D&D 3.5-style feat that you can choose in character generation to give yourself gear, psi powers, better skills, etc.

What the shit is psi?

Psychic powers. You can buy ranks in character generation via the Aspect system, starting with Gifted (useless alone) and proceeding into Latent through to Grandmaster in each of the five psi trees. Alternatively, if you're an antagonist in a paramount round, you will get a head-worn cerebroenergetic enhancer which will give you ranks in all the power trees.

The trees are as follows:

  • Farsense: broken, don't use it. Will be mesons, xray, tracking people at range, etc.
  • Coercion: mind control. Disarm, blind, at max level make someone a mindslave.
  • Creative: create and manipulate energy. Make sparks, electrocute people.
  • Psychokinetic: telepathy. Get a psychic combi-tool, cut through walls, etc.
  • Redactive: healing. Stop internal bleeding, repair broken bones, fix organ damage.

Psi power comes out of a pool of points visible on your stat panel, and if you exceed the pool you'll backblast and fry your own brain.

How do I into gunsmithing?

Use a screwdriver/fork/coin/small edged object to field-strip a gun, then drag it onto you to remove parts and click parts on it to readd them. You can also position the parts using a screwdriver and paint them using paint, but this is apparently a bit buggy at the moment and may not work. Yes, we know that gunsmithing is absurdly overpowered, it'll get balanced down the track.

Someone put a hole into the floor and the ocean is coming in, what do I do?

Ocean turfs will act as infinite water sources until built over with lattices and floor tiles, like space. Water will evaporate if it reaches a low enough level, so until we add proper drains, your best bet is just to spread the flood around after fixing the source, and wait for it to evaporate, Dwarf Fortress style.

How do I do this other XYX thing? It's not like on other servers.

Some server-specific guides are visible on the right. A few quick links to get you started:

I want to help the server, what can I do?

You read this far and you're still interested in the server so much that you want to help? Wow! Well, there are several things you can do.

  • Coding: If you can write something that resembles code and know your way around Git, you can talk to submit PRs for review and there's a good chance they'll be merged. If you can't code or Git, you can ask around on our Discord and we'll see what we can do to help you learn. Bug fixes are always welcome, but helping with features is nice too!
  • Spriting: It's like coding, but for artists. See above, but replace code with sprites. There's a bunch of old things we want to give new sprites, and some new things that will need sprites. You'll definitely want to ask around if to help with this, due to stylistic concerns. Be prepared to show off screenshots of your sprites.
  • Mapping: Maps don't make themselves. People do. And even after the basic maps are done, there's still plenty of detail to be added in and refining to be done.
  • Money: Maybe you don't have the time or skill to help about with the above. That's okay! It turns out, servers cost money to rent, so if you chipped in, that'd help us out too.
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