Overview
Makes it so that the infestation overhaul is better coded and works better with any station. Instead of picking from a set of 8 areas (2 which don't exist) it picks from any of the station areas without players currently in them.
It also removes some of the more dumber spawns (yithians who exist in the sea, and diyaabs which I don't fucking know.), and replaces them with even dumber spawns such as BLUESPACE BEARS and HIVEBOTS.
Details
Spawns are based on event severity. A minor severity spawns mice and lizards. A moderate one spawns space bats and baby slimes. A major one spawns bluespace bears and hivebots. The chosen spawns can be any area on the station, however some places are limited. The limitation is based on area as well as if there are any players currently present in the area. Don't want bluespace bears to teleport on people.
Converts the news network into a subsystem
Loads news from a database at the start of the round
No longer ties the PDAs to the tcoms system to access the news (which was broken anyway)
Removes the trivial news event
Adds the already existing virology / xenobiology containment events to the rotation
CHANGES:
Spiders will no longer create massive stacks of cocoons under dead comrades. Fixes#2448
Limbs infested with spider eggs will now take longer to burst. When they do burst, the limb is gibbed.
Infested limbs will give out more warning now past a certain stage.
Modified the spider event. The moderate severity one will now no longer spawn nurses, so they can't multiply.
Added a major severity spider event. It spawns more spiders than the moderate severity one along with nurses.
Fixes runtime errors with cargo stock. Was caused by the type of armor boosts changing.
Probably fixes the issue of mobs dying when picked up. I added some robustness and safeties to it
Tweaks event probabilities, adjusting the major event distribution (rarer bears), raising some others and slightly reducing the overall chance of major events.
Only two more this time:
Random space dust attack.
Random gravity failure.
Moves space vines from moderate to major events, due to its now more dangerous nature.
Removes now irrelevant alien/ninja customized event handlers.
Adds Excel sheet for aiding in event probability calculations.
