Species that are neuter (at least from the human/player characters' perspective) will now properly spawn as neuter, and be neuter in the character setup screen.
This affects (tagged) IPCs, Dionae, Vox & Vaurca.
Also fixes some gender related grammar stuff.
I think all the procs that randomise based on gender will just default to one or the other and shouldn't have noticeably weird results.
This also fixes the bug where Diona players would be 'he/she', but NPC diona would be 'it'.
This PR will lead us towards the Promised Day, for in its wake there shall be much celebration and ecstasy as this world becomes a world suitable for developer hegemony. The first strike is thusly;
All << is converted into to_chat().
changes:
Maps are no longer compiled in, instead loaded directly from the DMMs at runtime.
Z level defines have been moved from the config to map datums.
Unit tests now use typecaches.
DMMS now actually works.
DMMS has been updated slightly.
DMMS is now capable of loading simple lists of non-text types.
DMMS is now faster when loading many types without mapped in attributes and when loading area instances.
Asteroid generation is now defined on the map datum instead of being hard-coded in SSasteroid.
Holodeck presets are now defined on the map datum.
Atmos machinery now uses Initialize().
changes:
Changed a lot of string building to use lists & Join() - this should reduce the number of strings generated at runtime.
Fixed a bug where the incidents menu was not populated.
Changed color boxes to use CSS & divs instead of one-cell tables.
This PR contains bugfixes for:
Drones being able to transmit empty messages when talking in local drone chat ("dronesay")
A possible runtime in dronesay, caused by a null-reference in player_list, or a mob not having a client
Underwear and Socks selection in Character Setup breaking when switching genders.
Character loadout is now sanitized each time before it gets displayed. Invalid selections will be reset to "None", when changing the character's gender.
The system used to be of complexity O(n^2). Essentially two for loops running per every argument. Which ended up being surprisingly slow (there were instances where I saw the argument parser as using quite a lot of CPU time).
This replaces it with a more linear algorithm. It's somewhere near O(n) where n is the length of the unparsed query. Which is more stable and faaaster. This comes with two changes, however:
Parameters inside the query now have to be delimited from both sides with : (colons). The alternative to this would be to use something like $n or just assume that space marks the end of a marker. Only the former is workable, the latter would break a few queries already.
Arguments in the argument array no longer have to be prefixed by : (colons). So, while in the query you would write :thing:, you'd initialize the array of args as: list("thing" = somevar). It could be made to work without it, but eh, I think this is fine.
Argument validation is slightly weaker. What I mean by this is that with the old system, unused keys would result in an error. This is no longer a thing. Missing keys will still result in an error, however.
One more improvement: double delimiting removes an edge case where if key A partially covers key B, depending on the order, key A would mangle key B.
Updated and tested all queries that I could find. So this should be good.
changes:
Engineering now actually gets engineering-type alert consoles instead of the non-functional base type.
Lighting is no longer broken by shuttles.
The ERT shuttle autoannouncer should no longer cause lighting runtimes.
Fixed some bad newlines in some character setup help texts.
Custom loadout tweaks now properly write to SQL.
Custom loadout is now saved as JSON.
Players are now shown a notice when the server was unable to load their custom loadout.
Drowsyness is now clamped to zero.
Added some new tips to the example.
Tweaked some tips' grammar.
Removed some tips that do not apply to our code base.
Probably fixes embraced vampire thralls not getting vampire verbs.
Fixes#1844.
Fixes#1835.
Probably fixes#1687.
Probably fixes#1824.
Fixes#1839
Adds Shells. Adds tags. Adds IPC subspecies. Adds HK-47's. Does not add IPC construction.
Beyond the obvious review of shells, the exact stats of the IPC subspecies need review. They were largely an afterthought, and quickly overshadowed by the shell project.
Update the schema
Modify player_preferences and character related tables
Readd the incidents + missing CCIAA tables to it
Fix loading
Fix saving
Make it impossible to edit character name after a while
Sanity check so you cannot enter without a valid (saved) character
Fix New Character button
Remove debug messages
Fixes#600Fixes#588
Adds client verb to access the character setup screen from anywhere.
Moves name validation to species level, making it possible for IPCs to have numbers in their name.
Adds gender validation, also adds support to add neuter/plural genders in the future if ever desired.
Now sanitizes preferences before applying them to a mob.
Fixes#11433.
