## About The Pull Request
This PR refactors ``effect_system``s to be a bit easier to use by
getting rid of ``set_up``, allowing ``attach()`` to be chained into
``start()`` and refactoring most direct system usages in our code to use
helper procs.
``set_up`` was unnecessary and only existed to allow ``New``'s behavior
to be fully overriden, which is not required if we split
sparks/lightning/steam into a new ``/datum/effect_system/basic`` subtype
which houses the effect spreading behavior. This allows us to roll all
logic from ``set_up`` into ``New`` and cut down on code complexity.
Chaining setup as ``system.attach(src).start()`` also helps a bit in
case no helper method exists
I've added ``do_chem_smoke`` and ``do_foam`` helpers, which respectively
allow chemical smoke or foam to be spawned easily without having to
manually create effect datums and reagent holders.
Also turns out we've had some nonfunctional effect systems which either
never set themselves up, or never started, so I fixed those while I was
at it (mostly by moving them to aforementioned helper procs)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Cleaner code, makes it significantly easier for users to work with. Also
most of our effect system usage was copypasta which was passing booleans
as numbers, while perfectly fine helper procs existed in our code.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Refactored sparks, foam, smoke, and other miscellaneous effect
systems.
refactor: Vapes now have consistent rigging with cigs using the new
system.
fix: Fixed some effects never working.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Improves some blackbox logging for bitrunner domain creation, by also
logging how much information they had when they chose it.
Also some minor code improvements, by making methods for whether the
name/reward of a domain is visible.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Right now, if we just look at blackbox logs, we cannot easily tell if a
domain is being deliberately avoided when possible, as we cannot tell if
it's run unintentionally or intentionally. Now we will record that
information, so we can act on it, and hopefully perform actions to
improve the domains that people attempt to avoid.
## About The Pull Request
Added support for turning basic mob bosses into virtual megafauna. Moved
blood drunk miner's loot dropping behaviour up to /basic/boss to support
this better in future.
Fixes#94878
## Why It's Good For The Game
It's not very useful if admins have to spawn the cache manually or lose
the time and points spent on the domain.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: The Sanguine Excavation bitrunning domain will drop the cache on
killing the boss again.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
<img width="565" height="201" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f747992c-82d7-4cd2-9d5c-b94b7de37cdd"
/>
<img width="618" height="108" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8d5c4e25-87ea-4e53-b9e6-e95e26b3e69f"
/>
- N-spect scanners can no longer print reports
- Clown N-spect scanners have been removed as printing reports was their
primary function
- Security no longer get bounties to loot the brig's equipment. The
contraband bounty is still available.
- Patrol bounties have been reworked.
- A patrol bounty will give you an area and a number of steps that you
must take in an area.
- To complete the bounty, you must walk to the area and take that many
steps. It's that simple.
- Your ID card will update you as you progress the bounty.
- You are rewarded more for larger areas, and less for teeny tiny areas.
- Walking back and forth the same two tiles will not count towards
progress.
- When done, all you need to do is go back to the civ console and press
"send". You don't need to add any items to the pad.
- All security officers can get general patrol bounties (service + maint
+ hallways). Departmental officers can get patrol bounties for their
department.
- And yes, it tracks if your *id card* moves. This means you can strap
your ID card to a drone and it'll count. Get creative if you're lazy.
- ID trims how handle bounty generation. This changes very little,
besides allowing certain trims for certain jobs to add specific
bounties.
- There's now setters for bounties and bank accounts.
- Fix Bountious Bounty trait by having a `get_reward`
## Why It's Good For The Game
Sec bounties to loot a bunch of miscellaneous things from the brig is...
odd. All it does is deprive your team of equipment should you need it.
On the other hand, patrol bounties are really flavorful, but a bit
cumbersome thanks to needing a hand scanner. By integrating the process
of patrolling *into* the officer's ID card, it means you can just grab a
bounty and go about your business.
The idea is that this'll streamline the process of patrolling a bit and
make it more natural and fun (well, as fun as "walking around" can be.
Which is fun to me...)
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
del: N-spect scanners can no longer print reports. All it does now is
scan for contraband.
del: Clown N-spect scanners have been removed.
del: Security no longer get bounties to loot the brig's equipment.
Though the contraband bounty is still available.
add: Security's patrol bounties have been reworked. Now, they just
require you to walk around an area for a bit. No scanning necessary.
refactor: Adds setters for bounties and bank accounts. Report any
situations where your bank account is not set correctly.
refactor: ID trims now handle bounty generation. Report any situations
where you get a weird pool of bounties.
fix: Bountious Bounties station trait works again
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
It's just a partial cleanup of
anti-[STYLE](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/blob/master/.github/guides/STYLE.md)
code from /tg/'s ancient history. I compiled & tested with my helpful
assistant and damage is still working.
<img width="1920" height="1040" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/26dabc17-088f-4008-b299-3ff4c27142c3"
/>
I'll upload the .cs script I used to do it shortly.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Just minor code cleanup.
Script used is located at https://metek.tech/camelTo-Snake.7z
EDIT 11/23/25: Updated the script to use multithreading and sequential
scan so it works a hell of a lot faster
```
/*
//
Copyright 2025 Joshua 'Joan Metekillot' Kidder
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
//
*/
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
class Program
{
static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
var readFile = new FileStreamOptions
{
Access = FileAccess.Read,
Share = FileShare.ReadWrite,
Options = FileOptions.Asynchronous | FileOptions.SequentialScan
};
FileStreamOptions writeFile = new FileStreamOptions
{
Share = FileShare.ReadWrite,
Access = FileAccess.ReadWrite,
Mode = FileMode.Truncate,
Options = FileOptions.Asynchronous
};
RegexOptions regexOptions = RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.Compiled;
Dictionary<string, int> changedProcs = new();
string regexPattern = @"(?<=\P{L})([a-z]+)([A-Z]{1,2}[a-z]+)*(Brute|Burn|Fire|Tox|Oxy|Organ|Stamina)(Loss)([A-Z]{1,2}[a-z]+)*";
Regex camelCaseProcRegex = new(regexPattern, regexOptions);
string snakeify(Match matchingRegex)
{
var vals =
matchingRegex.Groups.Cast<Group>().SelectMany(_ => _.Captures).Select(_ => _.Value).ToArray();
var newVal = string.Join("_", vals.Skip(1).ToArray()).ToLower();
string logString = $"{vals[0]} => {newVal}";
if (changedProcs.TryGetValue(logString, out int value))
{
changedProcs[logString] = value + 1;
}
else
{
changedProcs.Add(logString, 1);
}
return newVal;
}
var dmFiles = Directory.EnumerateFiles(".", "*.dm", SearchOption.AllDirectories).ToAsyncEnumerable<string>();
// uses default ParallelOptions
// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.paralleloptions?view=net-10.0#main
await Parallel.ForEachAsync(dmFiles, async (filePath, UnusedCancellationToken) =>
{
var reader = new StreamReader(filePath, readFile);
string oldContent = await reader.ReadToEndAsync();
string newContent = camelCaseProcRegex.Replace(oldContent, new MatchEvaluator((Func<Match, string>)snakeify));
if (oldContent != newContent)
{
var writer = new StreamWriter(filePath, writeFile);
await writer.WriteAsync(newContent);
await writer.DisposeAsync();
}
reader.Dispose();
});
var logToList = changedProcs.Cast<KeyValuePair<string, int>>().ToList();
foreach (var pair in logToList)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{pair.Key}: {pair.Value} locations");
}
}
}
```
## Changelog
🆑 Bisar
code: All (Brute|Burn|Fire|Tox|Oxy|Organ|Stamina)(Loss) procs now use
snake_case, in-line with the STYLE guide. Underscores rule!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
1. Adds `Heretical Hunt`, an easy difficulty domain that tasks you with
killing and sacrificing simulated crew members. The domain has a few
ways to conquer it, as you don't need to kill all the simulated crew
members and there's some hidden loot to make use of
It's an easy domain because
- You have quite decent armor,
- The mobs are pretty unintelligent,
- You can always fall back and heal passively on the rust tiles
- There are many ways to tackle it
Though it's not a complete pushover, the mobs can still overwhelm you if
you're not careful.
<img width="440" height="347" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a3f30204-0200-4197-80bb-aee083059164"
/>
2. Virtual beings are given a minor positive moodlet for killing people
instead of a negative one
## Why It's Good For The Game
1. I thought it'd be kinda fun if we had antag-themed domains which
soft-explains the gameplay loops or mechanics of certain antags, in this
case, heretics sacrificing people
2. You don't feel remorse for killing people in video games, right anon?
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Added a new easy difficulty bitrunning domain, "Heretical Hunt"
add: Digital mobs receive positive moodlets for killing people rather
than negative
fix: Madness Mask no longer affects corpses
fix: Fixed some heretic runtimes
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Completing a combat bitrunning domain grants 0.8 score bonus per player
that escaped without being hit
## Why It's Good For The Game
I figured it be a fun challenge to try to nohit these things, especially
the megafauna ones. For a bonus.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Nohitting a combat bitrunning domain rewards a higher score.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
- Added full support for RETA system
- Categorized all configs for search purposes
- Added channel check for most usages of get_announcement_system() calls
## Why It's Good For The Game
## Changelog
🆑
code: Little AAS code cleanup. Added full RETA support. Grouped configs
for search purposes.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
- Closes#92210
1) Bit Forge can be deconstructed with a screwdriver & crowbar like a
normal machine
2) Adds examines & screentips for netpod, bitforge(icon for panel open
state added) & quantum server on how to deconstruct them. New icon state
for when bitforge has its panel open is shown below
<img width="210" height="103" alt="Screenshot (497)"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bb44c78d-1f0e-468f-9a79-ebc5800edd09"
/>
3) Moved bitrunning machine designs into files that exist to hold that
type of code
## Changelog
🆑
code: moved designs & circuitboards for bitrunning into their correct
files
qol: adds examines & screentips for bitrunning netpod, bitforge & server
on how to deconstruct them
fix: bitforge can be deconstructed with a screwdriver & crowbar
/🆑
(cherry picked from commit bb38209bb4)
## About The Pull Request
- Closes#92210
1) Bit Forge can be deconstructed with a screwdriver & crowbar like a
normal machine
2) Adds examines & screentips for netpod, bitforge(icon for panel open
state added) & quantum server on how to deconstruct them. New icon state
for when bitforge has its panel open is shown below
<img width="210" height="103" alt="Screenshot (497)"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bb44c78d-1f0e-468f-9a79-ebc5800edd09"
/>
3) Moved bitrunning machine designs into files that exist to hold that
type of code
## Changelog
🆑
code: moved designs & circuitboards for bitrunning into their correct
files
qol: adds examines & screentips for bitrunning netpod, bitforge & server
on how to deconstruct them
fix: bitforge can be deconstructed with a screwdriver & crowbar
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
<img width="378" height="199" alt="1eSxYbsh0e"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e8a658ca-c1c4-48fe-bb51-c77c85a7f824"
/>
Noticed some hard dels here, does some light refactoring/code
improvement to ensure that doesn't happen.
Crates shouldn't really be owning a hard ref to the manifest in the
first place since they are detachable. Removes some code duplication in
favor of calling `tear_manifest()` which has the safety check to prevent
`forceMove()`ing a qdeleted manifest out of nullspace.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Less server hiccups.
## Changelog
Nothing players will notice besides less server hiccups.
## About The Pull Request
<img width="378" height="199" alt="1eSxYbsh0e"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e8a658ca-c1c4-48fe-bb51-c77c85a7f824"
/>
Noticed some hard dels here, does some light refactoring/code
improvement to ensure that doesn't happen.
Crates shouldn't really be owning a hard ref to the manifest in the
first place since they are detachable. Removes some code duplication in
favor of calling `tear_manifest()` which has the safety check to prevent
`forceMove()`ing a qdeleted manifest out of nullspace.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Less server hiccups.
## Changelog
Nothing players will notice besides less server hiccups.
Implements https://hackmd.io/@tgstation/SkeUS7lSp , rewriting Dynamic
from the ground-up
- Dynamic configuration is now vastly streamlined, making it far far far
easier to understand and edit
- Threat is gone entirely; round chaos is now determined by dynamic
tiers
- There's 5 dynamic tiers, 0 to 4.
- 0 is a pure greenshift.
- Tiers are just picked via weight - "16% chance of getting a high chaos
round".
- Tiers have min pop ranges. "Tier 4 (high chaos) requires 25 pop to be
selected".
- Tier determines how much of every ruleset is picked. "Tier 4 (High
Chaos) will pick 3-4 roundstart[1], 1-2 light, 1-2 heavy, and 2-3
latejoins".
- The number of rulesets picked depends on how many people are in the
server - this is also configurable[2]. As an example, a tier that
demands "1-3" rulesets will not spawn 3 rulesets if population <= 40 and
will not spawn 2 rulesets if population <= 25.
- Tiers also determine time before light, heavy, and latejoin rulesets
are picked, as well as the cooldown range between spawns. More chaotic
tiers may send midrounds sooner or wait less time between sending them.
- On the ruleset side of things, "requirements", "scaling", and
"enemies" is gone.
- You can configure a ruleset's min pop and weight flat, or per tier.
- For example a ruleset like Obsession is weighted higher for tiers 1-2
and lower for tiers 3-4.
- Rather than scaling up, roundstart rulesets can just be selected
multiple times.
- Rulesets also have `min_antag_cap` and `max_antag_cap`.
`min_antag_cap` determines how many candidates are needed for it to run,
and `max_antag_cap` determines how many candidates are selected.
- Rulesets attempt to run every 2.5 minutes. [3]
- Light rulesets will ALWAYS be picked before heavy rulesets. [4]
- Light injection chance is no longer 100%, heavy injection chance
formula has been simplified.
- Chance simply scales based on number of dead players / total number
off players, with a flag 50% chance if no antags exist. [5]
[1] This does not guarantee you will actually GET 3-4 roundstart
rulesets. If a roundstart ruleset is picked, and it ends up being unable
to execute (such as "not enough candidates", that slot is effectively a
wash.) This might be revisited.
[2] Currently, this is a hard limit - below X pop, you WILL get a
quarter or a half of the rulesets. This might be revisited to just be
weighted - you are just MORE LIKELY to get a quarter or a half.
[3] Little worried about accidentally frontloading everything so we'll
see about this
[4] This may be revisited but in most contexts it seems sensible.
[5] This may also be revisited, I'm not 100% sure what the best / most
simple way to tackle midround chances is.
Other implementation details
- The process of making rulesets has been streamlined as well. Many
rulesets only amount to a definition and `assign_role`.
- Dynamic.json -> Dynamic.toml
- Dynamic event hijacked was ripped out entirely.
- Most midround antag random events are now dynamic rulesets. Fugitives,
Morphs, Slaughter Demons, etc.
- The 1 weight slaughter demon event is gone. RIP in peace.
- There is now a hidden midround event that simply adds +1 latejoin, +1
light, or +1 heavy ruleset.
- `mind.special_role` is dead. Minds have a lazylist of special roles
now but it's essentially only used for traitor panel.
- Revs refactored almost entirely. Revs can now exist without a dynamic
ruleset.
- Cult refactored a tiny bit.
- Antag datums cleaned up.
- Pre round setup is less centralized on Dynamic.
- Admins have a whole panel for interfacing with dynamic. It's pretty
slapdash I'm sure someone could make a nicer looking one.


- Maybe some other things.
See readme for more info.
Will you see a massive change in how rounds play out? My hunch says
rounds will spawn less rulesets on average, but it's ultimately to how
it's configured
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Dynamic rewritten entirely, report any strange rounds
config: Dynamic config reworked, it's now a TOML file
refactor: Refactored antag roles somewhat, report any oddities
refactor: Refactored Revolution entirely, report any oddities
del: Deleted most midround events that spawn antags - they use dynamic
rulesets now
add: Dynamic rulesets can now be false alarms
add: Adds a random event that gives dynamic the ability to run another
ruleset later
admin: Adds a panel for messing around with dynamic
admin: Adds a panel for chance for every dynamic ruleset to be selected
admin: You can spawn revs without using dynamic now
fix: Nuke team leaders get their fun title back
/🆑
(cherry picked from commit 4c277dc572)
## About The Pull Request
Implements https://hackmd.io/@tgstation/SkeUS7lSp , rewriting Dynamic
from the ground-up
- Dynamic configuration is now vastly streamlined, making it far far far
easier to understand and edit
- Threat is gone entirely; round chaos is now determined by dynamic
tiers
- There's 5 dynamic tiers, 0 to 4.
- 0 is a pure greenshift.
- Tiers are just picked via weight - "16% chance of getting a high chaos
round".
- Tiers have min pop ranges. "Tier 4 (high chaos) requires 25 pop to be
selected".
- Tier determines how much of every ruleset is picked. "Tier 4 (High
Chaos) will pick 3-4 roundstart[1], 1-2 light, 1-2 heavy, and 2-3
latejoins".
- The number of rulesets picked depends on how many people are in the
server - this is also configurable[2]. As an example, a tier that
demands "1-3" rulesets will not spawn 3 rulesets if population <= 40 and
will not spawn 2 rulesets if population <= 25.
- Tiers also determine time before light, heavy, and latejoin rulesets
are picked, as well as the cooldown range between spawns. More chaotic
tiers may send midrounds sooner or wait less time between sending them.
- On the ruleset side of things, "requirements", "scaling", and
"enemies" is gone.
- You can configure a ruleset's min pop and weight flat, or per tier.
- For example a ruleset like Obsession is weighted higher for tiers 1-2
and lower for tiers 3-4.
- Rather than scaling up, roundstart rulesets can just be selected
multiple times.
- Rulesets also have `min_antag_cap` and `max_antag_cap`.
`min_antag_cap` determines how many candidates are needed for it to run,
and `max_antag_cap` determines how many candidates are selected.
- Rulesets attempt to run every 2.5 minutes. [3]
- Light rulesets will ALWAYS be picked before heavy rulesets. [4]
- Light injection chance is no longer 100%, heavy injection chance
formula has been simplified.
- Chance simply scales based on number of dead players / total number
off players, with a flag 50% chance if no antags exist. [5]
[1] This does not guarantee you will actually GET 3-4 roundstart
rulesets. If a roundstart ruleset is picked, and it ends up being unable
to execute (such as "not enough candidates", that slot is effectively a
wash.) This might be revisited.
[2] Currently, this is a hard limit - below X pop, you WILL get a
quarter or a half of the rulesets. This might be revisited to just be
weighted - you are just MORE LIKELY to get a quarter or a half.
[3] Little worried about accidentally frontloading everything so we'll
see about this
[4] This may be revisited but in most contexts it seems sensible.
[5] This may also be revisited, I'm not 100% sure what the best / most
simple way to tackle midround chances is.
Other implementation details
- The process of making rulesets has been streamlined as well. Many
rulesets only amount to a definition and `assign_role`.
- Dynamic.json -> Dynamic.toml
- Dynamic event hijacked was ripped out entirely.
- Most midround antag random events are now dynamic rulesets. Fugitives,
Morphs, Slaughter Demons, etc.
- The 1 weight slaughter demon event is gone. RIP in peace.
- There is now a hidden midround event that simply adds +1 latejoin, +1
light, or +1 heavy ruleset.
- `mind.special_role` is dead. Minds have a lazylist of special roles
now but it's essentially only used for traitor panel.
- Revs refactored almost entirely. Revs can now exist without a dynamic
ruleset.
- Cult refactored a tiny bit.
- Antag datums cleaned up.
- Pre round setup is less centralized on Dynamic.
- Admins have a whole panel for interfacing with dynamic. It's pretty
slapdash I'm sure someone could make a nicer looking one.


- Maybe some other things.
## Why It's Good For The Game
See readme for more info.
Will you see a massive change in how rounds play out? My hunch says
rounds will spawn less rulesets on average, but it's ultimately to how
it's configured
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Dynamic rewritten entirely, report any strange rounds
config: Dynamic config reworked, it's now a TOML file
refactor: Refactored antag roles somewhat, report any oddities
refactor: Refactored Revolution entirely, report any oddities
del: Deleted most midround events that spawn antags - they use dynamic
rulesets now
add: Dynamic rulesets can now be false alarms
add: Adds a random event that gives dynamic the ability to run another
ruleset later
admin: Adds a panel for messing around with dynamic
admin: Adds a panel for chance for every dynamic ruleset to be selected
admin: You can spawn revs without using dynamic now
fix: Nuke team leaders get their fun title back
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds support for PVP bitrunning domains. If min/max candidates are set
above 0, the virtual domain will search for any ghost spawners inside
and cause a randomly-selected ghost that signed up via poll to spawn
there. If no ghosts are signed up the process is cancelled.
Also adds content for them:
An outfit wardrobe that lets you select one of several possible outfits,
once.

Not confident in my code, it's been in the works (as part of a
now-canned library heretic domain thing) for over a year
## Why It's Good For The Game
PvP domains are an underexplored concept. The beach domain is cloying
and overly simple. This adds support for newer and cooler domains as
long as there are ghosts for them.
## Changelog
🆑
code: Adds support for PVP Bitrunning Domains
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds support for PVP bitrunning domains. If min/max candidates are set
above 0, the virtual domain will search for any ghost spawners inside
and cause a randomly-selected ghost that signed up via poll to spawn
there. If no ghosts are signed up the process is cancelled.
Also adds content for them:
An outfit wardrobe that lets you select one of several possible outfits,
once.

Not confident in my code, it's been in the works (as part of a
now-canned library heretic domain thing) for over a year
## Why It's Good For The Game
PvP domains are an underexplored concept. The beach domain is cloying
and overly simple. This adds support for newer and cooler domains as
long as there are ghosts for them.
## Changelog
🆑
code: Adds support for PVP Bitrunning Domains
/🆑
Melee attack chain now has a list passed along with it,
`attack_modifiers`, which you can stick force modifiers to change the
resulting attack
This is basically a soft implementation of damage packets until a more
definitive pr, but one that only applies to item attack chain, and not
unarmed attacks.
This change was done to facilitate a baton refactor - batons no longer
hack together their own attack chain, and are now integrated straight
into the real attack chain. This refactor itself was done because batons
don't send any attack signals, which has been annoying in the past (for
swing combat).
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Batons have been refactored again. Baton stuns now properly
count as an attack, when before it was a nothing. Report any oddities,
particularly in regards to harmbatonning vs normal batonning.
refactor: The method of adjusting item damage mid-attack has been
refactored - some affected items include the Nullblade and knives.
Report any strange happenings with damage numbers.
refactor: A few objects have been moved to the new interaction chain -
records consoles, mawed crucible, alien weeds and space vines, hedges,
restaurant portals, and some mobs - to name a few.
fix: Spears only deal bonus damage against secure lockers, not all
closet types (including crates)
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Melee attack chain now has a list passed along with it,
`attack_modifiers`, which you can stick force modifiers to change the
resulting attack
This is basically a soft implementation of damage packets until a more
definitive pr, but one that only applies to item attack chain, and not
unarmed attacks.
This change was done to facilitate a baton refactor - batons no longer
hack together their own attack chain, and are now integrated straight
into the real attack chain. This refactor itself was done because batons
don't send any attack signals, which has been annoying in the past (for
swing combat).
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Batons have been refactored again. Baton stuns now properly
count as an attack, when before it was a nothing. Report any oddities,
particularly in regards to harmbatonning vs normal batonning.
refactor: The method of adjusting item damage mid-attack has been
refactored - some affected items include the Nullblade and knives.
Report any strange happenings with damage numbers.
refactor: A few objects have been moved to the new interaction chain -
records consoles, mawed crucible, alien weeds and space vines, hedges,
restaurant portals, and some mobs - to name a few.
fix: Spears only deal bonus damage against secure lockers, not all
closet types (including crates)
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This prevents the Grassland Hunt VDOM from auto-completing when the
domain is shut down.
This is because the target mobs are "killed" as the map unloads, and
those kills would count towards the domain's win condition. Now, mobs
just qdel wholesale when the domain unloads. No death, no funeral.
This ALSO happened because, on the Grassland Hunt domain, the crate
point beacon was located directly over the delivery zone. This means
that, as the map unloaded, it would dust (kill) the target mobs until
the crate spawned in the safehouse (basically the last area to unload),
"winning" the domain as it unloads. Now, the beacon has been moved to
directly outside the safehouse.
I wasn't sure how to handle this so I went with both solutions at the
same time.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Bitrunning isn't a lot of work, but starting and stopping the domain is
a bit too easy to warrant a reward.
## Changelog
🆑 Rhials
fix: The grassland hunt domain no longer auto-completes just by closing
the domain.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This prevents the Grassland Hunt VDOM from auto-completing when the
domain is shut down.
This is because the target mobs are "killed" as the map unloads, and
those kills would count towards the domain's win condition. Now, mobs
just qdel wholesale when the domain unloads. No death, no funeral.
This ALSO happened because, on the Grassland Hunt domain, the crate
point beacon was located directly over the delivery zone. This means
that, as the map unloaded, it would dust (kill) the target mobs until
the crate spawned in the safehouse (basically the last area to unload),
"winning" the domain as it unloads. Now, the beacon has been moved to
directly outside the safehouse.
I wasn't sure how to handle this so I went with both solutions at the
same time.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Bitrunning isn't a lot of work, but starting and stopping the domain is
a bit too easy to warrant a reward.
## Changelog
🆑 Rhials
fix: The grassland hunt domain no longer auto-completes just by closing
the domain.
/🆑
People can now pet held mothroaches and pugs if they want to, or use
items on them, hopefully without causing many issues. After all, it only
took about a couple dozen lines of code to make...
...Oh, did the 527 files changed or the 850~ lines added/removed perhaps
catch your eye? Made you wonder if I accidentally pushed the wrong
branch? or skewed something up big time? Well, nuh uh. I just happen to
be fed up with the melee attack chain still using stringized params
instead of an array/list. It was frankly revolting to see how I'd have
had to otherwise call `list2params` for what I'm trying to accomplish
here, and make this PR another tessera to the immense stupidity of our
attack chain procs calling `params2list` over and over and over instead
of just using that one call instance from `ClickOn` as an argument. It's
2025, honey, wake up!
I also tried to replace some of those single letter vars/args but there
are just way too many of them.
Improving old code. And I want to be able to pet mobroaches while
holding them too.
🆑
qol: You can now interact with held mobs in more ways beside wearing
them.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
People can now pet held mothroaches and pugs if they want to, or use
items on them, hopefully without causing many issues. After all, it only
took about a couple dozen lines of code to make...
...Oh, did the 527 files changed or the 850~ lines added/removed perhaps
catch your eye? Made you wonder if I accidentally pushed the wrong
branch? or skewed something up big time? Well, nuh uh. I just happen to
be fed up with the melee attack chain still using stringized params
instead of an array/list. It was frankly revolting to see how I'd have
had to otherwise call `list2params` for what I'm trying to accomplish
here, and make this PR another tessera to the immense stupidity of our
attack chain procs calling `params2list` over and over and over instead
of just using that one call instance from `ClickOn` as an argument. It's
2025, honey, wake up!
I also tried to replace some of those single letter vars/args but there
are just way too many of them.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Improving old code. And I want to be able to pet mobroaches while
holding them too.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: You can now interact with held mobs in more ways beside wearing
them.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
this fixes a bunch of code incorrectly calling qdel directly on a list,
and adds a stack trace to qdel if someone does pass a list to it
## Why It's Good For The Game
because I'm pretty sure qdel ends up calling fucking `del()` as `/list`
is not a `/datum`
## Changelog
No user-facing changes.
## About The Pull Request
MODsuits now calculate their slowdown by querying modules by sending a
signal on themselves instead of having modules try and keep up with
control unit's speed updates (which broke in a fabulous fashion after
MODsuits were allowed to deploy by piece)
Also added a separate trait to prevent objects from being speed
potion-ed to combat stabilized red crossbreed issues, and removed a
duplicate list helper (40 lines down in the same file lol)
Closes#89979Closes#90036
## Changelog
🆑
fix: MODsuits should now be affected by stabilized red crossbreeds
fix: MODsuit slowdowns should no longer behave weirdly with ash
accretion/magboots/armor booster modules.
refactor: Refactored MODsuit slowdown calculations to be query-based
instead of modules directly modifying part speed values.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Noticed that bitrunning virtual spawners were runtiming if the server
was already emagged. Basically, the guardrail component is added
(virtual_entity), then immediately deleted because it's emagged, leading
to a race condition in `JoinParent()` where parent is null. I still want
to keep this "valid, but delete me" state for components, so I made
`COMPONENT_REDUNDANT` (thx @LemonInTheDark).
I can't say for certain because I couldn't repro, but this /probably/
fixes#89992
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes a runtime
Allows devs to add components that execute an arbitrary amount of logic
while still qdeling themselves due to some in-game incompatibility issue
## Changelog
N/A
Converts `/datum/player_details` into `/datum/persistent_client`.
Persistent Clients persist across connections. The only time a mob's
persistent client will change is if the ckey it's bound to logs into a
different mob, or the mob is deleted (duh).
Also adds PossessByPlayer() so that transfering mob control is cleaner
and makes more immediate sense if you don't know byond-fu.
Clients are an abstract representation of a connection that can be
dropped at almost any moment so putting things that should be stable to
access at any time onto an undying object is ideal. This allows for
future expansions like abstracting away client.screen and managing
everything cleanly.
I standardized stuff in AASs code, and all current reference to it. Also
added interactions for bounty cubes, weather reports and request
consoles, all of it can be changed from AASs UI.
Also it's easier now to add new config entries for AAS to proceed, and
it's now downstream friendly.
Well, because kind of order in code and because it's funny to make
custom messages for... Almost everything?
BTW any entry can be blocked from ingame changes, by default you can't
change Broken Arrival shuttle and Security Officer arrival
announcements, how it was before. But may be we should allow it - it's
an open question.
🆑
add: Many things now handles via AAS: Bounty Cubes, Request Consoles,
Brig Cells, Vending Machines and Orion Trails alerts, Weather Reports,
Cargo Order Console
code: Now anyone can make their own entry for AAS
refactor: AAS internals, also cleanup
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Converts `/datum/player_details` into `/datum/persistent_client`.
Persistent Clients persist across connections. The only time a mob's
persistent client will change is if the ckey it's bound to logs into a
different mob, or the mob is deleted (duh).
Also adds PossessByPlayer() so that transfering mob control is cleaner
and makes more immediate sense if you don't know byond-fu.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Clients are an abstract representation of a connection that can be
dropped at almost any moment so putting things that should be stable to
access at any time onto an undying object is ideal. This allows for
future expansions like abstracting away client.screen and managing
everything cleanly.
## About The Pull Request
I standardized stuff in AASs code, and all current reference to it. Also
added interactions for bounty cubes, weather reports and request
consoles, all of it can be changed from AASs UI.
Also it's easier now to add new config entries for AAS to proceed, and
it's now downstream friendly.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Well, because kind of order in code and because it's funny to make
custom messages for... Almost everything?
BTW any entry can be blocked from ingame changes, by default you can't
change Broken Arrival shuttle and Security Officer arrival
announcements, how it was before. But may be we should allow it - it's
an open question.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Many things now handles via AAS: Bounty Cubes, Request Consoles,
Brig Cells, Vending Machines and Orion Trails alerts, Weather Reports,
Cargo Order Console
code: Now anyone can make their own entry for AAS
refactor: AAS internals, also cleanup
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
There are a couple of cases where ghost roles that give the temporary
body component prevent you from returning to the round when they really
shouldn't. The particular cases are:
- You entered a temporary body while you had no body, but could be
recovered via means such as podcloning
- You enter a temporary body, and while in that body, your original body
is permanently removed while your mind could be recovered via means such
as podcloning
- Basketball
This PR addresses those cases by allowing the temporary body component
to operate with a null `old_body`, and allowing the temporary body
component to be given to ghosts whose minds don't have bodies.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Erroneous DNRs caused by code oversights are probably very undesirable
to the playerbase.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Joining a minigame or taking certain ghost roles, while you have a
mind without a body, will no longer DNR you, just in case you can be
resurrected by some means.
fix: If your old body is permanently destroyed while you are playing a
minigame or as certain ghost roles, you will still return to your
character's original mind, just in case you can be resurrected by some
means.
fix: The basketball minigame now gives its players and referee temporary
bodies.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Where I forget about a pr for 5 months.
This started because there was a pr that made it so skills transfer
between the real and the digital, and so I thought it'd be really funny
if I could train boxing in virtual reality... but there's no easy way to
get boxing gloves or anything like it in the virtual world...
So! I decided to make a disk for it, but then thought about fishing and
gaming and-
Anyhow it all went downhill from there and here we are now: Gimmick
Disks. (And a refactor of disk loading)
This implements a new type of bitrunning disk that instead of a single
item or ability, grants a full set of thematic items/abilities!
Unhelpfully cosplay as a wizard! Game inside your game! Down a digital
protein shake and box some simplemobs!
As the name "Gimmick" implies, these are primarily intended to help
shake up the sometimes stale bitrunner gameplay.
By letting you invoke, if you so desire, what to me is the most
enjoyable gaming experience: doing stupid shit with your buddies.
To facilitate the new type of disk I had to refactor disk loading, as it
was hardcoded to the item types.
Instead, we make disk loading send a signal to the bitrunner, and
register for this when held in their inventory.
This allows us to do things like making the lead acid battery give you
shock touch when held, without needing to make an explicit typecheck or
iterate over every item in the bitrunner's nested contents to see if
they have a loadable item.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I think it'd be really funny if you could train your boxing in the
digital realm.
As said above, I feel the bitrunner gameplay can get stale sometimes,
and this is how I hope to help people shake it up for themselves
sometimes. By giving them more stupid shit to do.
Doing stupid extended bits with other people is one of the things I
enjoy most out of ss13, and this is there to let the bitrunners do
exactly that with each other.
And sometimes you just have to roleplay as Gamers™️ entering virtual
reality to fight the virtual syndicate in bad cosplay while roleplaying
as a wizard smoking his magic weed, an overly edgy rogue, and the healer
desperately trying to keep them from exploding into a million pieces.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Bitrunning item/ability loading has been refactored. Please
report any issues.
add: Added Bitrunning gimmick loadout disks. These disks contain full
sets of equipment for all your digital cosplay needs, each including
questionably helpful equipment. Currently includes Sports (Boxer,
Skater, Archer, Fisher, Gamer) and Dungeon Crawling (Alchemist, Rogue,
Healer, Wizard).
add: Taking a lead acid battery into the netpod with you now gives your
bit avatar shock touch.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes issues with var typing and proc arguments, discovered using
OpenDream's WIP TypeMaker feature (using improvements I haven't PR'd
upstream yet).
## Why It's Good For The Game
Codebase maintenance.
## About The Pull Request
This PR kills the abstract internal and external typepaths for organs,
now replaced by an EXTERNAL_ORGAN flag to distinguish the two kinds.
This PR also fixes fox ears (from #87162, no tail is added) and
mushpeople's caps (they should be red, the screenshot is a tad
outdated).
And yes, you can now use a hair dye spray to recolor body parts like
most tails, podpeople hair, mushpeople caps and cat ears. The process
can be reversed by using the spray again.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Time-Green put some effort during the last few months to untie functions
and mechanics from external/internal organ pathing. Now, all that this
pathing is good for are a few typechecks, easily replaceable with
bitflags.
Also podpeople and mushpeople need a way to recolor their "hair". This
kind of applies to fish tails from the fish infusion, which colors can't
be selected right now. The rest is just there if you ever want to
recolor your lizard tail for some reason.
Proof of testing btw (screenshot taken before mushpeople cap fix, right
side has dyed body parts, moth can't be dyed, they're already fabolous):

## Changelog
🆑
code: Removed internal/external pathing from organs in favor of a bit
flag. Hopefully this shouldn't break anything about organs.
fix: Fixed invisible fox ears.
fix: Fixed mushpeople caps not being colored red by default.
add: You can now dye most tails, podpeople hair, mushpeople caps etc.
with a hair dye spray.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
On a downstream, we have an antagonist, that is a less competent
wizards. This antagonist's preview outfit has a beer bottle in their
hand, which has caused runtimes, as the bottle did not have any reagents
instantiated, and it tried check its length for sloshing. After putting
in a check for the `initial` argument of `on_equip`, I have noticed that
the problem goes deeper: the various procs that handle putting something
in your hand do not pass along if the items is put in your hand as a
preview or not. This PR adds a new optional var to these procs, ensuring
that unwanted behaviour during previews won't trigger.
I also swapped `visualsOnly` to snake case, as it looked inconsistent
with the rest of the code style.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Making the argument that ensures avoiding side effects during previews
work with all kinds of items is good.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: if an outfit puts a reagent container in the preview dummy's hand,
it will not try to slosh
code: outfits putting items in your hand will respect the visual_only
argument
/🆑
3591 individual conflicts
Update build.js
Update install_node.sh
Update byond.js
oh my fucking god
hat
slow
huh
holy shit
we all fall down
2 more I missed
2900 individual conflicts
2700 Individual conflicts
replaces yarn file with tg version, bumping us down to 2200-ish
Down to 2000 individual conflicts
140 down
mmm
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
not yt
575
soon
900 individual conflicts
600 individual conflicts, 121 file conflicts
im not okay
160 across 19 files
29 in 4 files
0 conflicts, compiletime fix time
some minor incap stuff
missed ticks
weird dupe definition stuff
missed ticks 2
incap fixes
undefs and pie fix
Radio update and some extra minor stuff
returns a single override
no more dupe definitions, 175 compiletime errors
Unticked file fix
sound and emote stuff
honk and more radio stuff
## About The Pull Request
<details>
- renamed ai folder to announcer
-- announcer --
- moved vox_fem to announcer
- moved approachingTG to announcer
- separated the ambience folder into ambience and instrumental
-- ambience --
- created holy folder moved all related sounds there
- created engineering folder and moved all related sounds there
- created security folder and moved ambidet there
- created general folder and moved ambigen there
- created icemoon folder and moved all icebox-related ambience there
- created medical folder and moved all medbay-related ambi there
- created ruin folder and moves all ruins ambi there
- created beach folder and moved seag and shore there
- created lavaland folder and moved related ambi there
- created aurora_caelus folder and placed its ambi there
- created misc folder and moved the rest of the files that don't have a
specific category into it
-- instrumental --
- moved traitor folder here
- created lobby_music folder and placed our songs there (title0 not used
anywhere? - server-side modification?)
-- items --
- moved secdeath to hailer
- moved surgery to handling
-- effects --
- moved chemistry into effects
- moved hallucinations into effects
- moved health into effects
- moved magic into effects
-- vehicles --
- moved mecha into vehicles
created mobs folder
-- mobs --
- moved creatures folder into mobs
- moved voice into mobs
renamed creatures to non-humanoids
renamed voice to humanoids
-- non-humanoids--
created cyborg folder
created hiss folder
moved harmalarm.ogg to cyborg
-- humanoids --
-- misc --
moved ghostwhisper to misc
moved insane_low_laugh to misc
I give up trying to document this.
</details>
- [X] ambience
- [x] announcer
- [x] effects
- [X] instrumental
- [x] items
- [x] machines
- [x] misc
- [X] mobs
- [X] runtime
- [X] vehicles
- [ ] attributions
## Why It's Good For The Game
This folder is so disorganized that it's vomit inducing, will make it
easier to find and add new sounds, providng a minor structure to the
sound folder.
## Changelog
🆑 grungussuss
refactor: the sound folder in the source code has been reorganized,
please report any oddities with sounds playing or not playing
server: lobby music has been repathed to sound/music/lobby_music
/🆑
## About The Previous Pull Request
#85308 reverted by #85929

~~Causes the round to not start when a player isn't eligible for any
jobs at a specific priority level due to runtimes trying to `pick()`
from an empty list aborting the entire job assignment stack.~~
(Fixed???? by
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/85947/commits/e0e9f2f430079d4ab7097abe12e75f934131a638)
Maybe we should test merge this for a mo just to make sure no more
cheeky runtimes pop up before merging.
## About The Pull Request
This PR does a couple of minor things:
Makes the job debug logging a bit easier to follow.
Minorly brings some SSjob code up to code standards, converting proc
names to snake_case and doing some otherm is cleanup.
Refactored some stuff into different procs, updated some comments.
And some major things:
Changes the job assignment logic.
Old behaviour
> Assign dynamic priority roles
> Force one Head of Staff (if possible)
> Assign all AIs
> Assign overflow roles (bugged in 2 ways)
> Shuffle the available jobs list once, at the start of the random job
assignment loop
> Pick and assign random jobs for random players from High prefs down,
with a priority on Head of Staff roles
> Handle everyone that couldn't be assigned a random job
New behaviour
> Assign dynamic priority roles
> Assign all Head of Staff roles to players with High prefs
> If no Head of Staff was made in the above way, force one Head of Staff
(if possible)
> Assign all AIs
> Assign overflow roles (fixed)
> Prioritise and fill unfilled head roles at each job priority pref
level, from High prefs down.
> Build a list of all jobs that each unassigned player could be eligible
for at the above pref level.
> Pick a job from that list at random and assign it to the player.
> Handle everyone that couldn't be assigned a random job.
In reality there should be little impact on overall job assignment, the
code changes read more as semantics. For example, the priority check for
filling Head slots will have the same candidate pool in both old and new
versions, but in the new version we're more clearly saying that Heads
are important and we want to prioritise filling them for the sake of
round progression even though the outcome in new and old is the same.
A key change will lead to an increase in assistants - Overflow fixes.
Currently the code block to do early assignments to the Overflow role
doesn't work - or works but not as you'd expect. The idea was is that
because enabling the Overflow role in the prefs menu is an On/Off toggle
that sets the job to High priority when enabled and prevents any other
High priority pref, players that have the Overflow role enabled will
**always** get it. It's their highest priority job with infinite slots.
So we do a pass right at the start to give everyone with the Overflow
role enabled that role and save us wasting time later on in random job
code giving them that same role but with more work.
The problem is the code for this only assigns the Overflow role to
people with it set to Low priority in their prefs, resulting in log
readouts like:
```
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.469] DEBUG-JOB: DO, Running Overflow Check 1
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.469] DEBUG-JOB: Running FOC, Job: /datum/job/assistant, Level: Low Priority
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.472] DEBUG-JOB: FOC player job enabled at wrong level, Player: Radioprague, TheirLevel: Medium Priority, ReqLevel: Low Priority
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.472] DEBUG-JOB: FOC player job enabled at wrong level, Player: Caluan, TheirLevel: High Priority, ReqLevel: Low Priority
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.473] DEBUG-JOB: FOC player job enabled at wrong level, Player: Caractaser, TheirLevel: High Priority, ReqLevel: Low Priority
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.473] DEBUG-JOB: FOC player job enabled at wrong level, Player: Apsua, TheirLevel: High Priority, ReqLevel: Low Priority
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.475] DEBUG-JOB: FOC player job enabled at wrong level, Player: Bebrus2, TheirLevel: Medium Priority, ReqLevel: Low Priority
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.475] DEBUG-JOB: AC1, Candidates: 0
```
Where nobody gets pre-assigned the overflow role because their prefs are
all set to the High priority from being toggled... Except wait a second,
some people have it at Medium priority when it should just be a No
Role/High Priority Role toggle?
And herein we meet a problem. My hypothesis is that traits and stuff
that change the overflow have allowed players to set the "ordinary"
overflow role of Assistant to Medium and/or Low priority.
This still shows as enabled in the prefs menu, but leads to an outcome
where a player with assistant enabled is assigned Cook instead.
```
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.775] DEBUG-JOB: DO, Running Overflow Check 1
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.775] DEBUG-JOB: Running FOC, Job: /datum/job/assistant, Level: Low Priority
...
[2024-07-27 09:49:43.475] DEBUG-JOB: FOC player job enabled at wrong level, Player: Bebrus2, TheirLevel: Medium Priority, ReqLevel: Low Priority
...
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.987] DEBUG-JOB: Running AR, Player: Bebrus2, Job: /datum/job/cook, LateJoin: 0
```
So players with the Overflow job pref set to Low (an unexpected state,
should be disabled or High) would be guaranteed to get that role if none
of the higher priority Head of Staff/AI/Dynamic roles took over via the
bugged "force overflow for people with the pref enabled" proc.
Players with the Overflow job pref set to High would be guaranteed to
get that role if none of the higher priority Head of Staff/AI/Dynamic
roles took over via the random job assignment code giving them their
Highest priority role thanks to the infinite job slots of the Overflow.
And players with the Overflow job pref set to Medium (an unexpected
state, should be disabled or High) would get Assistant if the shuffle
step of the available jobs list put Assisstant before any of the other
jobs they had prefs enabled for at Medium that weren't already filled,
otherwise they'd get another random job.
This code is now changed to ignore the priority the player has set when
looking for people to fill the overflow role. As long as it **is**
enabled, the player will get it unless they're forced into a dynamic
ruleset role (AI when malf rolls) or a Head of Staff role due to their
other prefs (they have RD set to med or low, and no other player has a
Head of Staff at high so they get randomly picked and miss the overflow
role).
This will increase the number of assistants in shifts where their pref
state has Assisstant in the bugged Medium priority, but doesn't change
it for bugged Low and not-bugged High/On priority.
On the other side of the coin, we have how the random jobs are picked.
They're kinda not random, and I noticed this reading the logs then
reading the code.
The list of available jobs to pick from is randomly shuffled - but only
**once**. All players pull from a list of jobs in the same order. So you
end up with a log block like this:
```
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.985] DEBUG-JOB: DO pass, Player: Pierow, Level:3, Job:Botanist
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.985] DEBUG-JOB: Running AR, Player: Pierow, Job: /datum/job/botanist, LateJoin: 0
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.985] DEBUG-JOB: Player: Pierow is now Rank: Botanist, JCP:0, JPL:2
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.986] DEBUG-JOB: DO pass, Player: Daddos, Level:3, Job:Botanist
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.986] DEBUG-JOB: Running AR, Player: Daddos, Job: /datum/job/botanist, LateJoin: 0
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.986] DEBUG-JOB: Player: Daddos is now Rank: Botanist, JCP:1, JPL:2
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.986] DEBUG-JOB: FOC job filled and not overflow, Player: Bebrus2, Job: /datum/job/botanist, Current: 2, Limit: 2
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.987] DEBUG-JOB: FOC player job not enabled, Player: Bebrus2
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.987] DEBUG-JOB: DO pass, Player: Bebrus2, Level:3, Job:Cook
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.987] DEBUG-JOB: Running AR, Player: Bebrus2, Job: /datum/job/cook, LateJoin: 0
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.988] DEBUG-JOB: Player: Bebrus2 is now Rank: Cook, JCP:0, JPL:1
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.988] DEBUG-JOB: FOC player job not enabled, Player: Redwizz
[2024-07-27 09:49:47.988] DEBUG-JOB: FOC job filled and not overflow, Player: Redwizz, Job: /datum/job/cook, Current: 1, Limit: 1
```
The list is shuffled into an order of something like `list("Scientist",
"Botanist", "Cook", "Sec Officer", ...)` then iterated over for each
player. So every random job selection goes:
> "Does Player1 have Scientist enabled and at the right priority? No?
Okay, Botanist? Yes? You get botanist."
> "Does Player2 have Scientist enabled and at the right priority? No?
Okay, Botanist? Yes? You get botanist."
> "Does Player3 have Scientist enabled and at the right priority? No?
Okay, Botanist has no slots left so we'll remove it from the list. Okay,
Cook? Yes? You get cook."
> "Does Player4 have Scientist enabled and at the right priority? No?
Okay, Cook has no slots left so we'll remove it from the list. Okay, Sec
Officer? ..."
This can lead to stacked individual departments if it gets randomly
rolled to the start of the list in the shuffle, and completely empty
departments if they end up at the end.
On high pop shifts this is probably less of an issue. Player prefs add
noise to this and as departments at the front fill up, those at the back
pick up some of the lower pref players.
But have you ever had a shift where there's just like... No fucking sec
even though there's tons of players? The logging (before I made changes
in this PR) was a bit ass, but my hypothesis there is that sec officer
was shuffled right at the end of the random job list, so every other
department was filled up before sec officers were picked.
To mitigate this, I made the list shuffle every single time the game
picks a random available job for the player. This should lead to a more
balanced selection of available jobs by avoiding situations where the
code is biased towards packing some departments by accident.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Overflow fixes mean people who go to their prefs and see the Overflow
Role is On will all have the same experience - They will be the Overflow
role.
More random random job selection should prevent individual departments
having a jobs be stacked when it would have otherwise been possible for
a more balanced selection but the code unintentially biased random
departments to be overstaffed and understaffed each shift.
## Changelog
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fix: Having the Overflow Role set to On will properly ensure you get
that role at a High priority as intended by the game code.
fix: Job selection is now a little bit more random. Fixes an
unintentional bias in random job assignment that could lead to
feast-or-famine for roles where everyone is assigned one job and nobody
is assigned another job.
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