Automated Evac & Crew Transfers [Moony]

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+# Automated Evac & Crew Transfers [moony, unapproved]
+A common problem within SS13 at the moment is the "evacuate the minute there's a problem" mentality. This comes from two places:
+ 1. Evacuating is often easier than actually fixing the problem.
+ 2. Fixing the problem is tedious (and sometimes impossible, say power's out and there's no engine at all.)
+
+This document is primarily focused on point #1, but point #2 needs to be addressed for this to have any weight.
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+# Crew Transfers
+SS14 is capable of loading multiple stations simultaneously, and only takes a few seconds to load even the largest maps. It is possible to leverage this: Transferring the crew from the old map to a new one to extend playtime.
+From some testing (running crew transfers manually in-game) this has a tendancy to tack another hour onto the round's total length without much ire from players (as they retained control over evacuation for the duration of the round.)
+## Problems with this approach
+- Extending the round length reduces play opportunities, as people have to wait longer to play again after death.
+    - This could potentially be solved by allowing a respawn after the next crew transfer (with an enforced 30 min wait period). Could easily explain this away as offsite cloning.
+- This conceptually only works for mid-high pop.
+    - Likely needs a minimum player count for transfers to occur.
+- To avoid grief and round-ending incidents, the crew transfer shuttle needs to be decently large. During testing, Atlas (a *station*) was used for this purpose, which is nigh impossible to implement autopilot for.
+    - One could shrimply implement autopilot anyways (Extremely technically complex)
+    - Have people engage in self-transfer to the vessel via smaller, cargo-shuttle sized vessels (likely would only work on MRP and higher.)