Crew transfer to new round

[metalgearsloth]

Just a vague idea but instead of just restarting at centcomm a new shuttle arrivals and goes to the new station. This would also entail the lobby being playable and giving people the option of respawning or not.

Some additional notes:

• Lobby art should just be on the floor.
• Need a whitelist of allow stuff through (so people only take basic department uniforms and not syndie gear or wherever).

Probably just have the lobby with a shuttle on it that departs when the round starts and spawns arrived on the station.

[misandrie]

"Shifts" are an illusion, nanotrasen crew members shall be worked to death 24/7 in a never ending loop of stations.

[metalgearsloth]

I should also note we talked about it on discord in the past couple weeks (something something battlebus) but don't remember where.

[tom-leys]

So something like this?

1. Shuttle goes to Nanotrasen / Centcom
2. Some way to switch roles while there / new role lottery for a subset of survivors
3. Switch out survivor gear for role start gear? Keeping quite a bit of gear is somewhat cool
4. Survivors on the station get moved to lobby, old map gets wiped (perhaps sometimes we return to a damaged map?)
5. Shuttle leaves Centcom with survivors

6. New spawns on station / at arrivals

   Centcom and arrivals shuttles arrive at station about same time

One concern of course is that a fresh slate each time contains any memory leaks and helps make testing simpler around side effects. We might discover exciting new bugs that require a long playtime and perhaps multiple rounds to recreate.

A clean slate (as now) every few rounds would still be a good idea just to put a cap on how unstable everything can become.

One fun variation is that instead of wiping the old map, it has many entities deleted and is then paused for a whole round to make a re-apperance in a dirty / damaged state later on in the same shift. It could have certain tests done on it (same number of doors as at round start? Floor tiles is similar? No singuloose?)

[hord-brayden]

Preserving some form of static progress, even if it's visual, would be great. Unsure if this is in the same vein; maybe a "days since last incident" that could extend beyond the station and to the individual character showing how long this particular iteration of character has survived, round wise.