TGS Legacy of Spring

[AzonStarfall]

About The Pull Request

A memory of where we were, and a celebration of where we are.

Here’s a fun bit of trivia - the Pillar of Spring used to be symmetrical! At least, in the ancient days of 2018. Ever since, incremental changes and new mechanical additions have slowly eaten away at the once iconic arrowhead shape of TGMC’s mainstay shipmap.

So, how about we go back to our roots?

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The TGS Legacy of Spring is a standalone rebuild of the Pillar of Spring, using the legacy arrowhead layout. This led to one slight issue; there just isn’t enough space on one level to cram everything into the distinct frame. With that in mind, the Legacy of Spring features full multi-z integration.

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The upper deck includes all of your usual nuclear war departments; General Marine Prep, Requisitions, Medbay, Transport Hangar, OB and CIC.

Conversely, the lower deck has the more niche areas; CAS Hangar, Drop Pods, Vehicle Bays, Specialized Marine Prep, Research, Factory Space, and SD.

We’ve done our best to have the general flow of the map approximate with what players are accustomed to on the current layout of the Pillar of Spring, though the changes for multi-z may have a slight learning (and balance) curve.

This map is not, at least for the time being, intended to act as a replacement of the Pillar of Spring. It is intended to act as a separate consolidation of several core elements of the Pillar of Spring's design, created from the ground up to incorporate all of the modern mechanics that TGMC has to offer.

A collaborative project from @AzonStarfall and @novaepee

Why It's Good For The Game

Maintaining the Pillar of Spring has become a challenge in recent years. The general format of the ship was not designed to incorporate several mechanics, and departments, that TGMC has added over time. While map maintainers have done an exceptional job of making everything fit, this has come at the expense of the original "feel" of the map - and while other newer maps exist that were designed with these in mind, they simply aren't the Pillar, in terms of visual identity and general format.

This project intends to provide a groundwork for the original Pillar of Spring's layout to show its face again in the current TGMC landscape, with no compromises to "just make it work".

In addition, despite having access to the multiz mapping system for some time now, there haven't been any commonly seen projects that make full use of it - typically relegated to high pop ground maps. This will hopefully provide a more common stage for the multiz system to be utilized, which should prove useful for long-term debugging and balance.

Changelog

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add: Added the TGS Legacy of Spring
add: Added a wall-mounted version of the marine blood vendor.
add: Added a dedicated marine factory vendor.
fix: Added a method to allow poddoor railings to trigger on transport elevator arrival/departure.
imageadd: Added various flavor mapping props.
config: Added new configuration settings for the TGS Legacy of Spring
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[RipGrayson]

Well you guys put a crapton of effort into this map and it shows. I have questions about some design here, but really a multi-z ship map of this complexity needs tested first to validate any concerns before I do anything like asking for remapping parts of the ship.

[novaepee]

[Lumipharon]

Some minor feedback. Also you're deleting random changelogs, please don't do that

[Lumipharon]

rest is good

[mudzbe]

self react cringe