Goonhub
05-10-2023, 09:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-16-2023, 10:38 PM by Tyrant. Edited 2 times in total.
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MORE UP TO DATE VERSIONS OF THE MAP ARE FURTHER INTO THE THREAD
Aetherion as of 17th August 2023:
![[Image: 2023-08-17_13.26.04.png]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/469379618168897538/1141604185666769007/2023-08-17_13.26.04.png)
Original post continued below:
It was brought up recently (unprompted) that at below 20 pop there isn't really any good options other than atlas, and that atlas itself fills a very specific bracket all by itself. There is implied dev support for another map within this niche so I have started mapping a completely regular, space based, no gimmicks, lowpop station map with no fixed shape.
![[Image: image.png?width=1268&height=356]](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/726316516374478879/1110469534701342720/image.png?width=1268&height=356)
The current working title for it is Aetherion, after Aether, some greek god of something or another.
Here's progress on it so far [NOTE: VERY OUTDATED AT THIS POINT]. The most complete sections are sec and bridge at present. Future locations of unbuilt departments have been outlined in orange, purple and blue. And chapel is below medbay.
![[Image: image.png]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/705678465252196362/1106081413436018729/image.png)
Current focuses:
Any thoughts?
If you have any good ideas on rooms that can be combined to save space now is the time to suggest them.
Note: this is very much WIP and a lot of it can still be changed in these early stages.
Aetherion as of 17th August 2023:
Original post continued below:
It was brought up recently (unprompted) that at below 20 pop there isn't really any good options other than atlas, and that atlas itself fills a very specific bracket all by itself. There is implied dev support for another map within this niche so I have started mapping a completely regular, space based, no gimmicks, lowpop station map with no fixed shape.
The current working title for it is Aetherion, after Aether, some greek god of something or another.
Here's progress on it so far [NOTE: VERY OUTDATED AT THIS POINT]. The most complete sections are sec and bridge at present. Future locations of unbuilt departments have been outlined in orange, purple and blue. And chapel is below medbay.
Current focuses:
- Making it dense, but not cramped (very hard)
- Having it be comfortable to play on low pop without it feeling super empty. Includes picking the engine to be TEG instead of Nuke, and having lots of solars, it being dense, etc.
- Having a lot of the high access sections like bar and stuff being relatively close, while science and engineering (and all the pod bays and stuff) being a bit further out.
- Using lots of the lovely glass floors now that we have parallax.
- Centralised Bridge.
- Combining rooms in order to save space (classic example is the super common HoP courtroom combo, but I also plan for the medbay-morgue-crematorium-chapel to all be connected together in a sequence).
- Enough maintainence access for crimers to actually have a good time (looking at you, atlas).
- Fully functioning disposals and mail pipes despite it being small. Possibly even a belt hell system (external only though, as there is no crime hole).
Any thoughts?
If you have any good ideas on rooms that can be combined to save space now is the time to suggest them.
Note: this is very much WIP and a lot of it can still be changed in these early stages.