## About The Pull Request
Phobias have been refactored to use the new fear system instead of
handling their effects via simple triggers on themselves. The overall
idea is still the same, triggering upon seeing/hearing/saying a scary
word or thing, but instead of instantly sending you into a panic it adds
some fear and has a chance of triggering a new startle fear effect,
which mirrors some of the previous phobia effects that weren't already
included in other handlers.
To complete the phobic trio, I've added monophobia as a quirk - its
quite interesting compared to nycto- and claustrophobia, as it forces
you to stick to other people, thus indirectly incentivizing social
interactions, and could make for actually interesting moments.
Additionally, I've cleaned up some of the related code and added message
CDs to all other handlers that were missing them as to avoid chat spam
which could sometimes occur when the effect triggered far too
frequently.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Using the new system makes phobias much more immersive and interesting
to play around, as they no longer absolutely cripple you to the point of
making the game unplayable in case of some of them due to random stuns
or knockouts. It also makes them natively interact with other phobias
and quirks, which is a neat thing for character building.
Currently getting a phobia basically forces you to go to medbay as to
not risk randomly falling unconscious every once in a while if you roll
a common one (like cyborgs, blood, doctors or authority), and picking
one as a quirk is basically not an option.
## Changelog
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add: Monophobia is now availible as a negative (-3) quirk.
balance: Phobias now have accumulating, and less debilitating effects
due to conversion to the new fear system.
qol: Fear effects now have a cooldown between messages as to avoid chat
spam.
code: Cleaned up some of fear code.
refactor: Refactored phobias to use the fear system
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## About The Pull Request
This PR adds the fearful component which acts as a unified handler for
terror effects. This currently includes nyctophobia and claustrophobia
quirks, terrified status effect from nightmare's spell, and the
monophobia brain trauma. The component processes terror handler datums
which act both as terror sources and effects - jittering, stuttering,
vomiting, panic attacks, etc.
This means that nyctophobia and claustrophobia now act more like
terrified status/monophobia - causing jitters, stuttering, periodic
panic attacks, etc, and their effects stack (i.e. being in a closet in
the dark will increase your fear much quicker).
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## Why It's Good For The Game
Terrified status is very immersive and its effects perfectly fit
nycto/claustrophobia quirks, enough to be impactful to owner's gameplay,
but not roleplaying for them, which is what we want quirks to be. It
also makes them share their stress, which is how you'd expect them to
act. (I would also love to see monophobia moved from a brain trauma to a
quirk, as it perfectly fits latter instead of former, and acts as a
great incentive to interact with other people instead of doing autism
projects by yourself.)
I haven't moved phobias to this system yet, but it could be done in the
future without too many issues - should make phobias less painful to
deal with, and maybe make people actually interested in playing around
them instead of rushing a lobotomy because of how debilitating they are
(currently only interaction is getting hugged by someone you're afraid
of, which will increase your terror)
## Changelog
🆑
add: Nyctophobia and Claustrophobia quirks now have proper terror
effects instead of making you walk/suffocate. Immersion!
refactor: All sources of "terror"/"fear" now use a common component,
meaning they share their counters.
/🆑
SmArtKar