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Save Our Station!

Description
Save Our Station!

This mod adds a new gameplay mechanics to the Automated Emergency Broadcast System (AEBS) along with new areas to explore in the vanilla Knox Country Map.



Please Read - Build 42 Development
Before you go to the comments asking "B42??":

Yes, B42 support is planned. No, we don't have an estimated time for it.

We will not be pushing any more patches for B41, as we've already committed to the B42 code structure internally, and have not run across any relevant issues in the last year.

Planned B42 Content, per 30.Dec.2024:
  • Unique Basements for all existing Weather Stations,
  • New lore content (items, broadcasts, etc.),
  • Loads of quality of life changes & more!

Any B42 Unstable development of SOS will be done on a separate "unstable" branch of SOS on the Workshop. Once B42 goes stable, we will synchronise to this "stable" branch.

Any announcements regarding B42 Development will be posted here and also on the various PZ discords.

-- Back to the regular description --



Repair the Emergency Broadcast System
Do you...
  • ...find yourself late in the game with nothing to do?
  • ...want new areas to explore in Knox Country?
  • ...take your hourly weather updates and air traffic alerts for granted?

Save Our Station spices up your survival experience by causing the Automated Emergency Broadcast System to occasionally suffer service outages. Travel to weather stations scattered around Knox Country to find, diagnose, and fix the broadcast system.

Whilst the AEBS is built with emergency scenarios in mind, the backup systems can only last so long...

How it Works
At the end of every emergency broadcast, the system's integrity will be reported, communicating the status of the Emergency Broadcast System.

Once the power shuts off in Knox Country, there's a chance the Emergency Broadcast System will fail.

System Faults

When a system fault occurs, the network will run a self diagnosis - a process that may take several days. Upon completion, a location and diagnostic code will be broadcast.

Refer to NWS - National Weather Service - Diagnostic Manuals and NWS Registers to find and troubleshoot the issue.

The NWS Diagnostic Manual will tell you what is wrong, and the items needed to resolve thefault. The NWS Register will tell you where to find the weather station in trouble.

Enter the control room of the appropriate weather station, and perform the repairs by right clicking on one of the weather terminals. Once the repairs are complete, the next Emergency Broadcast will be broadcast loud and clear... until the next fault occurs!

System Inturruptions

For a more punishing experience, system interruptions can be enabled from within your sandbox settings. These interruptions are temporary system faults, during which the Emergency Broadcasts system will be unavailable.

What's New in Knox Country
Five new locations have been added to the vanilla map, in the outskirts of West Point, Riverside, Muldraugh, Rosewood, and REDACTED. In addition to weather stations, each location includes additional points of interest, such as a dirt race track, a diner, secluded homes, REDACTED, and much more!

New Items
To troubleshoot faults in the Emergency Broadcast System and find weather stations, two new items have been added to the game.

- NWS Diagnostic Manual -
  • The National Weather Service Diagnostic manual provides the information you need to interpret the diagnostic codes thrown by the Emergency Broadcast System during a fault.
- NWS Register -
  • The National Weather Service Register contains the locations of all civilian weather stations, as well as a general layout of the major roads in Knox Country.
    However, you will not find REDACTED on a typical NWS Register - but with some luck, someone may have written it down before the Knox Event started...

Since these are technical publications with a niche appeal, they are pretty rare.
Try your luck at the local bookstore, library, or home bookshelf. If you happen across a weather station, there's a good chance you'll find them in the control room, or in the trunk and glovebox of parked weather service vehicles.

Sandbox Options
Save Our Station now supports Sandbox Options for customizing your play style, such as:
  • Toggle for the Knox-Power Grid failure requirement.
  • Toggle for enabling/disabling Faults and Interruptions individually.
  • Reliability profiles for determining the frequency of faults and interruptions.
  • Time multiplier, for increasing or decreasing how rapidly faults and interruptions progress.
These options can be changed at any time, on both Dedicated and Host-Mode Servers, via the Admin Menu. Singleplayer users can set them when starting a new game, or can use a mod like Change Sandbox Options (by Star) to edit them in an existing world.

Mod & Map Compatibility
Save Our Station is compatible with many map mods.
Please see the stickied post in the Discussions section for a comprehensive list, and the Map Cells that are in use.

Frequently Asked Questions & Issues
We have moved the FAQ into the Steam Discussions section. Please see the appropriate stickied post!

If you are running into a bug/issue, please use our GitHub Issue Tracker[github.com]. Your issue may have already been resolved.

What languages are supported?
The following languages are already supported, with more on the way!
Check out the stickied post below to help localize Save Our Station.

  • English - EN
  • German - DE
  • Spanish - ES
  • French - FR Update Needed!

If you see English where it shouldn't be, it's because we need more help localizing this mod. See the relevant Steam Discussion Post for further information.

Credits
  • Spacew00t - Original mod creation, mapping, texturing, and Lua scripting.
  • YoshiWoof22 - Maintaining, code overhauls, Interruption system, Sandbox Options, German localization.
  • Krukrapok - Texturing the weather terminal and all around advice for improving my own textures.
  • throttlekitty - Answering my endless questions and providing awesome tiles!
  • Daddy Dirkiedirk - Textures and quality feedback.
  • Konijima & Chuck - Lua debugging for multiplayer support.
  • Xianah - French localization.
  • Nitropic - Spanish localization.
  • Lexx - Minor bugfix.
  • Olipro - Fixes for v41.78 update.
  • UNKNOWNFOX & Skizot - Vehicle texture help.
  • Special Thanks to everyone in the #mapping Discord channel, y'all are great!!!



Workshop ID
2398274461
Mod ID
SaveOurStation_Core
Mod ID
SaveOurStation_KnoxCountry
Map Folder
SaveOurStation_KnoxCountry_World
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YoshiWoof22  [author] Mar 25 @ 3:44pm 
@The_Real_Christopher_Biggins

Power repair is probably the most common question we get asked here in the comments.

Our usual stance on it so far has been "No, because its logically & realistically infeasible for a single everyday-person to restart an entire power grid from a total blackout, let alone maintain it and the substations".

Its also really difficult to balance it for actual gameplay, and far beyond the scope of my maintainer coding abilities or this mod in general.

If someone else wants to take up the mantle of making a mod for power or water repair, by all means go ahead - though I don't know if I would recommend using the SoS codebase for it.
Official_Jeremy_Beadle Mar 25 @ 3:00pm 
Could this a be used as a base to to do a power system using the new Electrical substations in build 42.? i have thought about this mod for a long time as i'm sure have others.
🖤 TAMI 🔪 Mar 21 @ 5:41pm 
Yes.
Xan Kriegor Mar 19 @ 4:04pm 
Does Weird Al own the station?
YoshiWoof22  [author] Mar 18 @ 4:17am 
@Stolas Suzie
All good, glad to hear it wasn't some obscure bug in the end lol.
Stolas Suzie Mar 18 @ 4:05am 
Its back on my bad just didn't realize it was stillllllllll restarting during that 24 hour period worried it was stuck in a loop from a mod conflict
YoshiWoof22  [author] Mar 18 @ 3:48am 
@Stolas Suzie

How long did you wait?
That message shows up after an interruption/outage and, depending on your Time Multiplier, usually stays for a while the network "restarts". The default time is around 24 in-game hours.

A report showing on just the first hour after server start is a side effect of how Save Our Station initialises its data, because we can't override the weather broadcasts until an hour has passed or PZ will have a stroke.
Stolas Suzie Mar 18 @ 3:41am 
Have an odd bug where the broadcast is stuck on a repeating message "Network outage restored, initializing systems" but it just keeps repeating every hour. I quit and started the server again and did get a weather report and report on the electric grid being offline. But then after that one report its back to that same repeating message. This is also in clear weather if that matters. Does this mean I missed a repair and the network is permanently down now???
YoshiWoof22  [author] Mar 4 @ 4:30am 
@Lu5ck
Yeah we noticed that during our general code review while we were preparing for B42.

It's already fixed internally, but we're still in a code freeze until B42 modding (specifically map reworking) is stable enough.

Shouldn't cause any issues in B41 though (at least nobody reported any).
Lu5ck Mar 3 @ 8:43am 
In your distribution, there are duplicate entries

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SWWS_Distributions.itemDiagnosticManual, 0.01,
SWWS_Distributions.itemWswuCard, 0.01,
}
},
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