## About The Pull Request
1. Adds doppler radar towers to Lavaland and the Icemoon
Weather radios now need a doppler radar on the target z-level to get an
accurate reading. Without a radar tower, the expected timing of incoming
storms will be off by a random factor.
Lavaland and the Icemoon both have a few towers mapped into them.
The towers themselves can be constructed with plasteel if they some how
get destroyed. They also have an in built GPS.
Each tower requires a cable connection to function. They need a pretty
small amount of power to function.
2. Adds anomalous radar towers
Attaching a weather anomaly core to a radar tower results in an
anomalous radar tower.
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This allows you to cancel ongoing storms **or summon storms yourself**.
Each cancellation and summon uses a percentage of the core's charge.
After the charge runs dry, the core is destroyed, and the tower goes
back to being normal.
Yes, you can construct a radar tower on the station to summon storms on
the station, *including* rad storms.
All storms summoned abide by radstorm rules, meaning maint is safe.
Summoning onto the station uses significantly more charge.
3. Limits weather anomaly cores to 5
Because they are charge based and spamming weather events all round
would be annoying, slightly lowers the max core count.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Weather manipulation seems super appropriate for weather anomaly cores.
Initially it was just going to be the machine, but then I thought "what
if I want the frame of the machine to be available roundstart on
Lavaland to encourage cooperation with miners" and then I thought "what
if it tied into the weather radios, which opens up rare sabotage
methods"
So that's how we got here. The towers exist to facilitate the anomaly
use while also allowing enterprising traitors to sabotage, potentially
leaving their target unaware in a storm.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Adds doppler radar towers to Lavaland and the Icemoon. These towers
ensure weather radios have accurate readings.
add: Adding a weather anomaly core to a radar tower upgrades it, giving
you control of weather - allowing you to cancel storms or even spawn a
weather event of your choice. However, the core will expire after use,
requiring replacement.
add: You can construct radar towers with plasteel. Even on the station.
Yes, you can summon weather onto the station.
balance: Limits weather anomaly cores to 5.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
In my effort to make the /icons/ folder cleaner and more intuitive
instead of having to rely on recalling names of stuff and looking them
up in code to find them for poor sods such as myself, plus in spurt of
complusion to organize stuff, here goes. I've tracked all changes in
commit descriptions. A lot still to be done, but I know these waves go
over dozens of files making things slow, so went lighter on it.
Destroyed useless impostor files taking up space and cleaned a stray
pixel on my way.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Cleaner /icons/ file means saner spriters, less time spent. Stray pixels
and impostor files (ones which are copies of actually used ones
elsewhere) are not good.
## Changelog
🆑
image: Cleaned a single stray pixel in a single frame of a bite
telegraphing accidentaly found while re-organizing the files.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds a new item, the mining weather radio, to the mining points vendor,
QM locker, public mining docks, and lavaland.
This item can be used as a radio to communicate over supply channel with
other miners, cargo techs, or the QM. In addition to this, it has a
screen that displays warnings depending on the time left until an ash
storm or snow storm.
there is a separate wallmount version that does not have supply channel
access, but still displays updates on the weather.
you can examine either device to get an accurate readout of the
remaining time till the next storm.
## Why It's Good For The Game
letting miners know when a storm is coming allows them greater
flexibility when interacting with the station, and advance warning if
they are planning to head back to lavaland in the event of an ash storm.
It also strengthens the link between miners and the rest of the cargo
department by emphasizing use of the supply channel, and incentivizes
using it with the radio's built in microphone.
## Changelog
🆑 CoiledLamb, Jacquerel
add: Adds mining weather radio
/🆑
