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 JacquerelandGitHub
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Allows gorillas to kill themselves with items (#96736)
## About The Pull Request This PR moves most of the code for using an item to commit suicide from `human` to `living`, so that anything with hands can use what it is holding to commit suicide. This was surprisingly painless, as most `suicide_act` procs were already written without the assumption that the person killing themselves was a human even though they couldn't be anything else. This might occasionally mean that in some cases (like drones) it may reference anatomy that they don't have (like necks) but I think that's not a big deal and don't worry about it. ## Why It's Good For The Game It's funny. ## Changelog 🆑 balance: Anything with hands can now use the things it is holding to commit suicide /🆑 |
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Leland KembleandGitHub
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Moves a small few things from attackby() to item_interaction() (#96663)
## About The Pull Request Ten files. No mechanical changes this time around, so the most notable thing about this is a change to the way laying pipe cleaners works. I guess since there's only ten, I can list them. But I'm not going to. ## Why It's Good For The Game You probably don't regard the way pipe cleaner laying works to be sacred ## Changelog 🆑 code: Ten files have been moved from attackby() to item_interaction() /🆑 |
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SyncIt21andGitHub
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Axes grind & juice vars into procs (#94592)
## About The Pull Request Inspired by #94233. `grind_results`(list) & `juice_typepath`(typepath) are only used when grinding & juicing after which the atom is deleted. This means if that object is not processed these vars occupy memory & don't do anything. Now these values are only generated on demand by calling their respective procs. Considering how these vars are on the obj level the memory savings are quite significant ## Changelog 🆑 refactor: grinding & juicing have been refactored to occupy low memory. Report bugs on github code: improved grinding & juicing code /🆑 |
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BloopandGitHub
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Audits wash/cleaning signals + refactors wash() to ensure no needless mob updates occur (#91259)
## About The Pull Request This has the potential to create a lot of needless mob updates which is not great. Now should only update a mob's clothing if it was actually washed. This PR 1) ensures that all wash() procs return a bitflag. 2) ensures that `wash()` proccalls which result in expensive operations like icon updates only do so when it is necessary ## Why It's Good For The Game Updating mob sprites is expensive, and doing it when nothing has been changed is bad. ## Changelog Nothing really player facing |
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MrMelbertandGitHub
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Re-refactors batons / Refactors attack chain force modifiers (#90809)
## 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) /🆑 |
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GhomandGitHub
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You can now interact with held mobs beside wearing them (feat: "minor" melee attack chain cleanup) (#90080)
## 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. /🆑 |
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SmArtKarandGitHub
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Adds better attack animations and alternate attack modes (#88418)
## About The Pull Request This is the first PR in a series attempting to modernize our damage and armor, both from a code and a gameplay perspective. This part implements unique attack animations, adds alternate attack modes for items and fixes some minor oversights. Items now have unique attack animation based on their sharpness - sharp items are now swung in an arc, while pointy items are thrust forward. This change is ***purely visual***, this is not swing combat. (However, this does assign icon rotation data to many items, which should help swing combat later down the line). Certain items like knives and swords now have secondary attacks - right clicks will perform stabbing attacks instead of slashing for a chance to leave piercing wounds, albeit with slightly lower damage - trying to stick a katana through someone won't get you very far! https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1f92bbcd-9aa1-482f-bc26-5e84fe2a07e1 Turns out that spears acted as oversized knives this entire time, being SHARP_EDGED instead of SHARP_POINTY - in order for their animations to make sense, they're now once again pointy (according to comment, originally they were made sharp because piercing wounds weren't very threatening, which is no longer the case) Another major change is that structure damage is now influenced by armor penetration - I am not sure if this is intentional or not, but attacking item's AP never applied to non-mob damage. Additionally, also fixes an issue where attack verbs for you and everyone else may differ. |
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grungussussandGitHub
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Reorganizes the sound folder (#86726)
## 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 /🆑 |
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Wallening Revert [MDB Ignore][IDB Ignore] (#86161)
This PR is reverting the wallening by reverting everything up to
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YesterdaysPromiseandGitHub
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/Icon/ Folder cleansing crusade part, I think 4; post-wallening clean-up. (#85823)
Hello everybuddy, your number three rated coder-failure here to clean up some mess. This PR accomplishes some of the more major structural clean up changes I wanted to do with /obj/ folder, but decided to wait on until wallening gets merged, and so, time has come. Several things to still be done, although I know these cleaning PR's are quite a load, so will wait for this one to get done with first. ## Why It's Good For The Game Saner spriters, better sprites, less annoyance. Also deleted a whole load of redundancy this time around, a lot of sprites which existed simultaniously in two places now got exit their quantum superposition. |
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Adds UPSIDE_DOWN movetype for negative gravity / makes Atrocinator affected by less things (#79785)
## About The Pull Request Fixes #79764 I was going to tackle this issue by slamming `TRAIT_NO_SLIP_ALL` on Atrocinator users and calling it a day, but like, that didn't feel proper. So I thought hey, we could just give them the flying movetype, even though they technically aren't flying it means they're unaffected by things that flying would make you unaffected by. Nope, this means the mob technically "negates gravity", so no falling and no feetsteps. Let's try floating - this give us feetsteps but no falling upwards. So instead of going back to square one, with `TRAIT_NO_SLIP_ALL`, I decided to go for the more complex route of just adding a movetype. Hence, move type `UPSIDE_DOWN`. This covers situations where a mob would be "floating" above the ground, but still walking. ...Negative gravity. This means overall the Atrociator acts more as you'd expect - you don't slip on ice, you don't trigger bear traps or mouse traps, you can walk over railings, unaffected by conveyor belts, etc. ## Why It's Good For The Game Makes the Atrocinator a lot more consistent with how you'd expect for it to work. Admittedly it is a bit niche use of movetypes, but it can possibly be expanded to more things in the future, who knows? I applied it to mobs on meat spikes (even though they don't move), just for proof of concept. ## Changelog 🆑 Melbert fix: Atrocinating mobs will now behave more as you'd expect. Meaning they don't slip on wet patches, can't trigger bear traps / landmines / mouse traps, ignore conveyors, and can walk over tables and railings. fix: Floating mobs are unaffected by conveyor belts, acid (on the ground), glass tables fix: Floating mobs won't squish stuff like roaches anymore fix: Fixes bear traps triggering on floating / flying mobs /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com> |
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Light replacer & item patches (#75960)
## About The Pull Request Somehow this code break's every week, hopefully this should be the last 1. Fixes #75951 It wasn't just a problem with Jani Borg light replacer but the normal one's too. Now they all accept glass sheet's & light tubes (including broken one's) when you attack them with a light replacer and not just when you pick them up with hand (which Borg's can't do obviously) and then clicking them on the light replacer. 2. Glass sheet's & shard can be put inside backpack's or other storage item's and now they will all be consumed from the storage and not just light tubes & bulbs 3. Make's feedback message's more informative and display them for all insert event. they weren't displayed when a broken light tube was put in the light replacer 4. Only glass shards are accepted by the light replacer and not plasma, titanium shards etc. we should not use `istype()` for this purpose 5. Removed redundant` Initialize()` proc from `obj/item/light` 6. VV editing var's works properly 7. Blue beam for bluespace light replacer last's just 0.5 seconds so it doesn't look awkward ## Changelog 🆑 fix: light replacer accepts glass sheets & light tubes when you attack them with a light replacer fix: only glass shards can fill the light replacer not other shard types qol: glass sheet's & shards inside storage items like backpacks are also consumed when you attack the light replacer with it qol: feedback messages when inserting lights, glass sheet's, shards into the light replacer are more descriptive and displayed for all insert event's qol: blue beam for bluespace light replacer last's just 0.5 seconds so it doesn't look awkward refactor: renamed `add_shards()` to just `add_shard()` for adding 1 shard at a time refactor: removed redundant` Initialize()` proc from `obj/item/light` refactor: VV editing var's works properly /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Time-Green <timkoster1@hotmail.com> |
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ShizCalevandGitHub
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d927f28951 |
Makes update_icon_updates_onmob more robust (#75324)
Safeguards against #74965 happening in the future. Noticed a bunch of these were using ITEM_SLOT_HANDS. This is incorrect, as the element already automatically updates held items. grep'd it to catch future instances. Likewise, a number of objects weren't passing slot_flags to the element, meaning it wasn't actually updating those things properly when they were being worn. I've simplified this so now the element will automatically update all slot_flags, and passing an additional slot to the element when being added is only needed for additional slots that might need to be updated. This also means if slot_flags change, the element will now update correctly as well. 🆑 ShizCalev code: The update_icon_updates_onmob element will now automatically update all slots in an item's slot_flags var. This does fix multiple things that weren't updating properly. Passing a slot to the element is now only necessary if you want to add additional slots to be updated. /🆑 |
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JacquerelandGitHub
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Golem Rework (#74197)
This PR implements this design document: https://hackmd.io/@Y6uzGFDGSXKRaWDNicSiEg/BkRr176st Put briefly, this will remove every existing golem subtype and consolidate golems into a single species with cool new sprites. NOT implemented from that PR is the ability to eat Telecrystals, I couldn't come up with an appropriate visual that can stack with the existing ones, but that should be a reasonably trivial add for a future artist & developer. New Golems have a food-based mechanic where their hunger decays pretty quickly and can only be replenished by eating minerals. They start moving slower as they get hungrier, until eventually they become completely immobilised and need to be rescued. Eating different kinds of minerals will visually change your sprite and give you a special effect in a similar way to old golems, but temporary. While transformed, you can't eat any other kind of mineral which would transform you (but can still consume glass). To see the full list of effects, look at the hackmd above. In service of these sprites working I have refactored the `species/offset_features` feature by killing it and delegating that responsibility to limbs instead. Rather than applying an offset to items due to your species, it is due to your weird head or arms. This makes overall more sense to me, but it inflates the code changes in this PR somewhat. It doesn't make a lot of sense to atomise unfortunately because that code also seemed to be entirely unused until I tried to use it in this PR, so you wouldn't be able to tell if my changes broke anything. I might make a downstream sad by doing this. All of the actual numbers in this PR are made up and only loosely tested, it will need some testmerges to gather feedback about whether it sucks or not. Other relevant changes: I reworked how bioscrambling works based off bodypart bodytypes, to automatically exclude golem limbs in either direction. There's really no way to have those work on humans or vice versa. Organs still fly though. |
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ArcaneMusicandGitHub
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Minerals have been refactored so costs and minerals in items are now in terms of mineral defines. (#75052)
Ladies, Gentlemen, Gamers. You're probably wondering why I've called you all here (through the automatic reviewer request system). So, mineral balance! Mineral balance is less a balance and more of a nervous white dude juggling spinning plates on a high-wire on his first day. The fact it hasn't failed after going on this long is a miracle in and of itself. This PR does not change mineral balance. What this does is moves over every individual cost, both in crafting recipes attached to an object over to a define based system. We have 3 defines: `sheet_material_amount=2000` . Stock standard mineral sheet. This being our central mineral unit, this is used for all costs 2000+. `half_sheet_material_amount=1000` . Same as above, but using iron rods as our inbetween for costs of 1000-1999. `small_material_amount=100` . This hits 1-999. This covers... a startlingly large amount of the codebase. It's feast or famine out here in terms of mineral costs as a result, items are either sheets upon sheets, or some fraction of small mats. Shout out to riot darts for being the worst material cost in the game. I will not elaborate. Regardless, this has no functional change, but it sets the groundwork for making future changes to material costs much, MUCH easier, and moves over to a single, standardized set of units to help enforce coding standards on new items, and will bring up lots of uncomfortable balance questions down the line. For now though, this serves as some rough boundaries on how items costs are related, and will make adjusting these values easier going forward. Except for foam darts. I did round up foam darts. Adjusting mineral balance on the macro scale will be as simple as changing the aforementioned mineral defines, where the alternative is a rats nest of magic number defines. ~~No seriously, 11.25 iron for a foam dart are you kidding me what is the POINT WHY NOT JUST MAKE IT 11~~ Items individual numbers have not been adjusted yet, but we can standardize how the conversation can be held and actually GET SOMEWHERE on material balance as opposed to throwing our hands up or ignoring it for another 10 years. |
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Audio File Cleanup (#74863)
## About The Pull Request Removes a bunch of sound files that we don't use and moves some sound files into better locations. I'm hoping to get an archive repo for sounds going, much like the [map_depot](https://github.com/tgstation/map_depot) and [SS13-sprites](https://github.com/tgstation/SS13-sprites). EDIT: The old sound files are being moved here: https://github.com/tgstation/SS13-sounds Also increased the volume of the clownana rustle sound and clipped off some dead air from shockwave_explosion ## Why It's Good For The Game Removes a total of 1.95MB worth of unused sound files from the codebase. ## Changelog 🆑 Tattle soundadd: increased the volume of the clownana rustle /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: tattle <article.disaster@gmail.com> |
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BloopandGitHub
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New inhand icons for light tubes, makes latex balloons craftable, and various other fixes/improvements (#74576)
## About The Pull Request This ended up turning into a bit of a junk drawer of a PR I'll admit, but there's really not a whole lot to it. There are three parts: ### Part I - Inhand sprites for light tubes. Adds inhand sprites for light tubes. No more cardboard tube placeholder. This is self explanatory-they have unique sprites for all 3 states (normal, broken, and burnt out). The broken version has sharpness now. Also refactored light_items.dm a bit, it was using a bespoke proc called `update` to do icon updates. Now it has been _updated_ to use `update_appearance` instead.  ### Part II - Latex Balloons Latex balloons, a very old piece of code that was full of typos, has had some life breathed back into it. It is a fun little item, and I saw no reason to let it rot. It can now be crafted using a latex glove and some cable. Also, you can pop them using anything sharp... such as a broken light tube! Aha! We've come full circle.  ### Part III - update_inhand_icon proc A new atom helper function, `/atom/proc/update_inhand_icon(mob/target = loc)` I was struggling to find an existing proc that could update inhand icons of a mob that was holding any given atom, without necessarily having a ref to the mob yet. So I ended up writing one that did that, and finding the spots in the code which were using a similar way of doing it (that is in fact how I stumbled upon the latex balloon item). ...........But then Iearned of the `/datum/element/update_icon_updates_onmob` component and ended up using that instead. There are still some very niche cases where you might not be able to use the component where the proc would come in handy however e.g. in transforming.dm--and if anything, I think it could serve as a good spot to leave a comment informing would be users of `update_icon_updates_on_mob` as an alternative. For that reason especially I thought it worth keeping. ## Why It's Good For The Game New inhand sprites, and a fun little craftable balloon. What's not to like? ## Changelog 🆑 add: latex balloons can now be crafted using a latex glove and some cable. You can fill them with air using a tank. They also have a new sound effect. imageadd: light tubes have a new inhand sprite fix: broken light tubes now actually have sharpness to them as they are basically spikes of glass. refactor: refactored latex balloon code /🆑 |
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515 Compatibility (#71161)
Makes the code compatible with 515.1594+
Few simple changes and one very painful one.
Let's start with the easy:
* puts call behind `LIBCALL` define, so call_ext is properly used in 515
* Adds `NAMEOF_STATIC(_,X)` macro for nameof in static definitions since
src is now invalid there.
* Fixes tgui and devserver. From 515 onward the tmp3333{procid} cache
directory is not appened to base path in browser controls so we don't
check for it in base js and put the dev server dummy window file in
actual directory not the byond root.
* Renames the few things that had /final/ in typepath to ultimate since
final is a new keyword
And the very painful change:
`.proc/whatever` format is no longer valid, so we're replacing it with
new nameof() function. All this wrapped in three new macros.
`PROC_REF(X)`,`TYPE_PROC_REF(TYPE,X)`,`GLOBAL_PROC_REF(X)`. Global is
not actually necessary but if we get nameof that does not allow globals
it would be nice validation.
This is pretty unwieldy but there's no real alternative.
If you notice anything weird in the commits let me know because majority
was done with regex replace.
@tgstation/commit-access Since the .proc/stuff is pretty big change.
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com>
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Add investigate_deaths (#71112)
## About The Pull Request Adds INVESTIGATE_DEATHS, an investigate category intended to better show causes of death.   Also makes suicide_act take a `mob/living` as an argument instead of a `mob`, and some minor style improvements since apparently I hate atomicity. ## Why It's Good For The Game Inspired by a mysterious death and dusting. More logging and leads for admins investigating deaths. Also fixes #59028 ## Changelog 🆑 Tattle admin: added investigate deaths to shed some more light on unusual demises, dustings, and gibbings /🆑 Co-authored-by: tattle <article.disaster@gmail.com> |
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RhialsandGitHub
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Rigged to Blow: Lightbulb Rigging/Reagent Handling Overhaul (#69833)
About The Pull Request First and foremost, guts out the previous, arguably cursed "rigged" functionality from light tubes. Light tubes now have a capacity of 20 reagents. Light tubes will now splash their contents upon shattering, instead of just releasing plasma gas into the air (if rigged). Lightbulbs with reagents inside of them will now transfer with them to the light fixture they're inserted into, which will slowly heat the contents to a maximum of 1000 degrees. Heating the plasma reagent manually leads to it harmlessly boiling out of the container and dissipating, effectively ruining the original functionality. To account for plasma boiling over (when it should be bursting into flames) a SEALED_CONTAINER reagent container flag has been added. This is mostly just to prevent the plasma from leaving the container until it is ignition-ready. As a result, light tubes rigged the old way no longer harmlessly explode, and instead produce a small, (mostly) self-contained fire in the area surrounding the light. Light tubes (and light fixtures with reagents in their lightbulb) now show their reagent contents upon examine. It's only fair to reward attentive people with a chance to avoid impending disaster, but on the other hand lightbulbs are transparent and you should just be able to look through them anyways. As a bonus, all of this SHOULD be handled in a way that doesn't put any unnecessary strain on machine processing or anything. Rejoice. Why It's Good For The Game Lightbulbs being reagent holders was a huge missed opportunity, with their only use being for the disappointingly ineffective plasma-rigging functionality. This expands on the idea, and reworks the original functionality to be much more interactive. Bigger sandbox! Deeper sandbox! Changelog cl add: Rigging light fixtures now works with more reagents than just plasma. Light fixtures will heat the reagents of their inserted lightbulb, up to a maximum of 1000 degrees. Lightbulb tubes now hold 20 reagents to make this more usable. add: Lightbulbs will now splash their contents on whatever they're shattered by. Their contents are also now visible upon examination. |
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Arconomy: The bigger balance PR (REVISED EDITION) (#65795)
This PR covers 4 Key features:
Price Rebalancing
Passive Income
Gas Exports
Lathe Tax
Relevant Design Doc (Slightly out of date as a result of the discourse on the subject).
https://hackmd.io/WlWgyRafTaiAqz6ouOqC-Q
-- START DOCUMENT --
# Arconomy Version Two
This is mostly me organizing a long list of thoughts that I'm not sure if I can properly describe and get across, but lets just work with what we got and go from there.
## There should probably be a relationship to time and profit
So, part one of a series called "Arcane was completely wrong about game design", I made a rather large misstep in regards to designing arconomy, and nobody told me this until far, FAR after I had gone way too in on my own ideas:
"There needs to be a relationship between time and money". Because Space Station 13 is a game that is built around rounds, either long, LONG rounds on MRP or 30 min - 1 hour long rounds in LRP, your whole orientation of the game is built around time. The longer you spend in a single round, the more you can do and mold the station and the game in a specific direction, whether it's from an admin event, doing your job, or going off on a wierd character based tangent.
The issue here lies in a question I tried to answer in my previous design doc:
> "Command players start with lots of money, and make mountains of money, and as a result, have so much money by the end of the shift that they're practically immune to the effects of the economy.
> Assistant players start out with practically no money, find that the station is covered in costs that they'll never be able to practically afford, and decide that the economy is stupid and not worth utilizing altogether."
Two fundimentally different outlooks on the same problem, caused by the pay discrepency as it existed originally. Since we have so many different jobs all at different paygrades, the option that made the most sense at the time was to completely remove paychecks alltogether because they would multiplicitively exacerbate the previous issue.
While it would flood the in-game economy over time at high levels, it did add a sense of timescale to the existing in-game relationships. You **KNEW** that after x many minutes you would get that fancy hat, or that you would need to find cash in other ways to get it. Having that time-scale is helpful as we've moved to our 90 minute round average/goal. It also, similarly, means that we know exactly how many credits each job SHOULD have had access to before a major disaster calls for a shuttle call. But, in hindsight, that is a value that should be consistant for all players. If a single, unaided player looks at a 200 credit bill, that should have the same impact player to player, and not limit their access to jobs.
## Bounties just ain't that fun, but they stand to see improvement from where they are now
So, guilty as charged, bounty running doesn't quite have the same charm as it used to have. For our friends just joining us, cargo used to have a single, per round laundry list of items that would payout to the cargo budget each shift. Each list would start with 10 items, one of which would randomly be assigned higher priority with a higher payout, and it would be cargo's job to ~~Break into each department and steal that thing~~ cooperate with jobs around the station to aquire funds for station crisis or when you just want to dick around and make stacks of cash. This had a distinct charm to it, but one element of it that majorly reduced the replayability of bounties was that they were severely limited in scope. Once you did your ONE drink bounty or your ONE chemical bounty, you no longer needed to interact with that department.
My original goal was this: Make an unlimited bounty system, where crewmates were able to get a cut of their work as profit. To a degree, it's fairly successful! Crew do have a way to actively work with cargo to get paid for their labor, and they help cargo as a result by giving them free valuables. The issue lies in the fact that this has kinda flipped the relationship on it's head: Bounties stopped being cargo's job to outsource to the crew, and instead the crew's job that becomes dependent on cargo.
In general, many bounties simply weren't meant to be repeatable content in the first place. And certainly not meant to be used for every job. Offloading it as a kind of fetchquest minigame so that all jobs can offset the loss of passive income? It's not the best choice. For jobs like botanists or scientists it's tolerable at best, frustrating at worst. Just look at the state of things like experisci-slime experiments or scanning furniture.
It gets far worse when it's from the perspective of jobs that have *explicitly* limited supplies like security. No, a security player is not going to be allowed to haul away all the good metal handcuffs from the brig for a bounty, and no, you cannot take all the riot shotguns from the brig.
Now, a few of these things were fixed over time, with mixed successes. Bounties started to be cleaned up in order to prevent limited quantity items from being an option for repeat bounties. Jobs that lack exports started to get some content for still allowing them to have repeatable exports (Like the Scanners for Security Officers to go on patrols).
The BIG EXCEPTION to this is Restaurant Bots, but we'll hit that in a second.
## Getting everything on the same price scale has been a major improvement.
Unironically one of the best changes made has been the idea that even if we lack that good time-credit scale from before, we didn't really have a "standard" to work off of when something new is added to the game and the dev needs to determine how much to make that thing cost. That's why the current costs of objects and values on-station are scaled off of a single define, the value of a crate sold on the cargo shuttle.
> Yes, I'd like an APPLE. It's worth 3124151 CREDITS. NO, I don't know why the apple juice in the vendor is worth 415 CREDITS, nor do I CARE, GOOD MAN.
From the back end, everything is scaled off the same define now. Paygrades are defined off of a different scale still, but that's fine. You know, from the cargo end of things, that a cargo player needs to ship off X number of empty metal crates to purchase a laser crate, or a pizza crate. Definate relationships help in solidifying the singular value of a product.
If we decide that we want to rescale the in-game economy and provide space credits with more granularity, at least we know we can do it with a single line of code, and not looking at every single instance of something that charges the player money.
### Arconomy Tangent: We gotta nuke gas selling.
This has been a long time coming and I know people are going to be upset at me, but look man.
I have no idea how selling moles of gas works these days. It seems like with minimal resources, true atmos wizards are able to make singular cans of gasses with infinite moles of some kind of gas, and if it's exotic enough, they can make upwards of a million credits a can. I've seen multiple occasions where selling gas cans to cargo has allowed for players to buy a bike.
For our Gen-Z zoomers reading this, players were never meant to BUY the bike. The bike is just a reskinned scooter meant as a cute little pokemon joke. If a player can actually buy a bike in a round, that's a sign that someone, somewhere, fucked up.
We fucked up the whole system with atmos gas selling.
We've now gone through metas of extracting miasma from lavaland for credits, we've gone through a meta where cargo starts building their own hydrogen burn chambers for simply produced gasses, we've seen time and time again that processed gasses in the funny space simulator just tends to be abused to death and back. I've had talks with TheFinalPotato on this in the past, and it just feels like a system that would need to be rewritten from the ground up, or looked at in terms of the whole cargo department. If I don't get to it first, the next cargo design doc someone writes **SHOULD**.
## Giving jobs content that integrates into the economy can be really fun.
Tourism bots and the baked in ingredient shopping is fun! It's enabled for a fluff job that doesn't have too terribly much by way of serious responsibilites to integrate active income minigames into the gameplay of chefs and bartenders. It's fully optional, it's quick, and it's not even a full shift investment.
These secondary tasks, which utilize jobs core gameplay loops in a new way, while rewarding them within the in-game economy are a decent way to keep players engaged with their jobs, and allow for them to use credits as a player resource as well as a primary job resource.
**I AM NOT SAYING** that all jobs need to find tasks to arbitrarily reward players with credits for. The reason it works so well for jobs like the chef or bartender is because their job is already to make food and drinks, but they have so many options that they're not encouraged to make too wide of a variety of food, especially when botanists won't always make everything you need. The food market gives them an outlet to buy outlier ingredients and the tourists pay handsomely enough that you can offset your costs most or the time.
I'll break this down as well into the three different methods of money-making in game as well, to guide someone on how to make good, secondary income content.
| Primary | Secondary | Tertiary |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| This is something like passive paycheck income. You get this just purely for playing the game, and staying alive. | This is an active trade off between your job's specific content, where you are trading your time for something it is directly your responsibility to do. Eg. Tourist Bots. | An active task you are performing for income, but lacks the specialization of a job. EG. Bounties. |
Jobs that excell at more service based tasks and less production based tasks should aim to aquire more seconary style economy integration, like medical, science, or security.
## The options for moving money around the station are actually pretty decent, but could be streamlined
Bounty boards are pretty decent at being a way to pay crew members for single service jobs. However, bounty boards are pretty much dead content, in a sense. There's not much incentive to hunt down your department's bounty board.
Similarly, most crew would just prefer to hand credits out by hand to prevent most kinds of abuse of their own credit supply.
Long term and certainly a major personal outcome I'd like to see: Bounty boards and Newscasters should be merged together. Newscasters have some truely awful spaghetti and their being held together by shoe-strings and duct tape (This is slang for HTML). Bounty boards are... well they're functional, but they have the benefit of being built in TGUI. Merging the two's functions should cut down on wall-space, as well as improve the quality of a vast deal of code, and make money transfer on station slightly easier.
Honestly, pretty happy with vend-a-trays. They're pretty decent store-machines on station and do their job pretty well when they get used. All in all I'm happy with how they work.
Custom Vendors are clunky to a fairly major degree and I don't think most players get how to make them work on account of need a price tagger (not a sales tagger, that's the cargo item) to mark an object for it's sale value, then load it into a custom vendor sales unit, then load it into a custom vending machine, and that's only IF custom vending machines decide to work this year. Streamlining the tools, or perhaps just vending machines would certainly improve this as a service.
## Just ain't enough cool stuff to buy with credits.
An ever-present problem, that we're just kinda stuck with. There's a decent number of issues involved with making content that can safely be gated with just credits.
* If it's usable as a weapon, is it too dangerous to hand out to the crew at large?
* Does security get potential oversight?
* If it's illegal, does it go through cargo?
* Does it HAVE to go through cargo?
* If it's beneficial, is it going to invalidate the existance of a job? (Think old medkits!)
* Is there anything that players WANT that's not a weapon, benefical to the station but not too strong, or quite literally traitor equipment?
It's a tough question.
Some items make complete sense to implement on a per job basis as either uncommon or premium equipment, while other items could potentially be moved to station-wide unique purchasables.
# Takeaways:
Look, these are just some possible solutions that I'm considering. I think that working alongside a maintainer who could actually give a damn on getting this system orderly and possibly alligned with our current design philosophy (Who also understands that a not-insignificant amount of current economy was abitrarly written by goofball an actual decade ago) could help iron this out into a clear and consise set of goals and milestones to make the in-game economy workable. Not balanced, but workable.
* **Design a simple simulation for per round intake and outtake, to determine benchmark values for a 90 minute round.**
It would need to look something like this, as a kind of fucked up, Multi-Input Multi-Output Control Problem. Possibly could be done in simulink, but I'm not quite sure how to do that at this moment, so a less complex version might be fine.
* **Look back at implementing crewmember incomes, but at a flat, more consistant rate over all jobs**
My leading idea: 50 credit, uniform paygrade. No wild, unscaled pay rates based on what job is "important" or not.
That line of thinking means that certain jobs should have more expensive equipment over other jobs, but then we're right back to the captain thinking that a cup of coffee is practically free where an assistant thinks that a screwdriver from the vendor is going to put them out of house and home.
Improves time-relationship values with credits.
This could lead way to heads of staff having some degree of control to giving raises or paycuts to crew-members, but perhaps at a very, VERY gradual rate.
* **Perform another big-picture look at bounty cubes.**
Potentially try to put bounties back in the hands of cargo, while still providing payouts to crewmates who assist in completing jobs. This may require some minor refactoring of the pricetag component, perhaps to even allow for multiple crewmembers to recieve profit from a payout.
This means once again, look at making bounties workable for all jobs on the station, not making the objects requested literal lathe-fodder, and finding ways to benefit the station in some way with the task of bounty cubes, even if it's just for credits.
Deceptively hard task.
* **Add secondary tasks that integrate the economy into non-bounty-able jobs/departments**
Like it says on the tin, look into ways to add content that improves economy integration into existing jobs, without necessarily changing what those jobs DO. The bounties for those jobs can still exist as a tertiary thing, but should be made clear that they're... tertiary.
Chefs still make food and bartenders still serve drinks, but they have a way to hand them out for fun and profit.
Some thoughts and ways to handle this potentially:
*Science:* Perform intricate testing on anomalous materials using science equipment. Should NOT REWARD RESEARCH POINTS. Mr. OJ Headcoder will CHEMICALLY CASTRATE me, or you, if you do.
*Medical:* Complete tricky or non-standard surgeries on dummies for medical data. Think like that meme from the TV show, House.
"He needs Mouse bites to live. MORE MOUSE BITES."
*Engineering:* Repair wacky machines that use both station-standard parts as well as solving quick puzzles.
* **Look into more effective money sinks that are dynamic sensitive**
Think, for example, about the station ransom event that spawns space pirates.
What if instead of the captain just dumping credits from the cargo budget into the aether to prevent pirate spawns (They're bugged anyway to my knowledge to spawn anyway), crewmates had to cough up that dough before a time-limit, or risk a pirate spawn. For those of you who were scratching their heads at (Operational Costs!?) in the above controls diagram, this is the sort of thing I mean.
Little, smaller things that might need to be purchased, invested in, or otherwise drain credits from the station over the course of the round.
# Arconomy 2.0: Smarter, Better, Flashier.
## Roundstart
Players begin each shift with a set amount of money, with the value being mostly uniform over the course of a shift assuming no interaction with economy. Jobs are split up into only 3 paygrades, Minimal, Crew, and Command. Minimal is reserved for jobs that are meant to fill population counts but lack a specialization, like prisoner and assistant. When starting the shift, a player will start with 5 paychecks worth of savings. This system is not designed for persistance, so you will always be able to tell how much money a player starts out with. Every 5 minutes, aka every economy tick, the player will recieve one paycheck, which is capped out at the standard crew member paycheck. This means that even if you start the shift as the captain, and begin the shift with 500 credits, you will recieve the same 50 credits as regular crew members.
| Minimal Paycheck | Crew Paycheck | Command Paycheck | Frequency |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |--------|
| 125 Cr | 250 Cr | 500 Cr | Roundstart |
| 25 Cr | 50 Cr | 50 Cr | Passive Income |
## Product Prices
Products found in vending machines are defined by the amount of a player's paycheck they're meant to cost. Regular items use the PAYCHECK_CREW value, while more expensive or otherwise prohibitive items are defined by PAYCHECK_COMMAND. Items are defined in this uniform, horizontal fashion in order to maintain the equal value of credits over all jobs. A 100 credit medkit in medical should have the same value to a doctor as it does to a botanist.
Jobs apply a discount to vending within their own department, so an engineering would have a discount on tools, and a doctor would have a discount on sutures. Items that are important to gameplay progression in a role are less expensive to their intended users.
> **AUTHORS NOTE:** I am considering removing in-department discounts. In the benefit of making the value of purchasables more universal, deciding that credits shouldn't be spent within their own department just seems... rather fucking stupid.
> Possibly move the discount to only the first few minutes of the shift, or perhaps as some kind of gameplay benefit to slowly increase in-department discount through gameplay milestones? Who knows 👻
>
Some jobs have premium, high value items stocked in their vending machines that are not meant to be purchased at roundstart. These are meant to encourage players to save or combine resources to gain access. An example of this is insulated gloves. Other high value items can also be found in contraband through hacking vending machines. This remains unchanged.
## Markets
The cargo department has been changed in order to improve player involvement with the economy, as well as to give cargo more variety in their merchandise while preventing a singular stale meta of products to purchase from.
Yes, I'm looking at you, russian surplus crate.
Lets start with what's remaining the same:
* Cargo is a department that manages imports and exports of products, fulfilling departmental orders, and aquiring supplies dependent on the station's state.
* Cargo encompasses the station's mail, mining, and flow of orders, as well as drone exploration.
* A skilled cargo member is able to find high value items to sell back to centcom in exchange for more funds, to purchase those supplies.
* Centcom may request bounties which crew can fulfill in exchange for credits, if they wish for additional work.
**Now for the new design flow:**
Cargo starts out with a new mechanic called a market. Markets hold existing export datums as well as purchasable products. The values of items will fluxuate up and down based on the market status, with in-game events or player actions raising or lowering the values of specific markets.
At roundstart, cargo has a single market to sell to, which is Nanotransen. This will not incapsulate all the existing export datums in the game, just the *primary* exports that are used by players. Items that are exclusive to nanotrasen and required to play certain game modes, like mindshield implants or being able to sell crates, are included and will always be available to purchase.
Additional markets can be unlocked through gameplay sources, such as:
| Market Name | Source | Imports/Exports |
| -------- | -------- |- |
| The Syndicate | Emagging/Hacking the Console | Illegal Goods/Contraband |
| The Clown Planet Commerse | Discovering the clown planet ruin | Pies, Horns, Pranking Equipment |
|Terragov Sector Security Surplus | Killing any megafauna. | Weapons, Ammunition, Advanced Riot Gear. |
| Mekki Materials Co. | Recovered loot from Exodrones | Materials and industrial equipment. |
|Donk Co.| As a tip from tourist robots. | Foods and Drinks, Toys and Games.|
|Waffle Co.| As above. | Bootleg products and wacky merchandise. |
|The Research Consortium| Reward for completing any experiment tree. | Slime Cores, RnD Artifacts, Robotics Equipment |
...And more, if I can think of more.
The purpose being, of course, to split up cargo's purchasable goods to be more instanced and unique, while also create unique situations where due to profitable markets, very specific exports are needed to help the department make money.
End of document for now :@ArcaneMusic
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Price Shifting
So, in-game items that have prices have a major issue on their hands, being that they were decided by how much money that job should make. This means that many of the jobs in-game have been given prices scaled to their job's income. That income I adjusted by removing passive income in #54161. While this was helpful to moving towards an active in-game economy, it resulted in items falling into distinct price brackets. A high paying job like security's items could never be purchased by someone like a botanist, but a job like a security officer had more capital and buying power than most other jobs in-game combined when moving down those brackets. We've done a simple normalization of scale to help in bring things closer to a semblance of equality.
There are now 3 price brackets, PAYCHECK_LOW, PAYCHECK_CREW, and PAYCHECK_COMMAND. Command staff will still have a higher base level of money on-hand than other crew, and low paying wages that we on-station don't respect as being real jobs (assistant, prisoner) will have their items be intentionally cheaper to encourage active participation in the economy, but the difference in scale is now noticeably far closer to each other. This means that assistants can still interact with the economy as spenders, but if they want to be doing a lot of work with money, they'll need to put in work. Additionally, this means we arbitrarily enforce a system that allows for items to have uniformity in what they cost to other players. 50 credits for a wrench feels better when you know that other job critical items in-game are also around the same price, and it's equivalent to one paycheck.
Paychecks are reintroduced
Economy lost it's relationship to time. In a game where a single round takes 90+ minutes (Backed up not only by the head-coder's design direction as well as plenty of aggregate round data), having a relationship to time and how long it takes to afford something is a major consideration when you look at buying something. Also, we get to say that I was certifiably wrong in regards to the active economy thing, since we have very, VERY few active sources of content in-game that are very... fun? Bounties are literal fetch quests but something like tourists is at least more engaging and interactive with the round, and should be the direction we want economy-job integration to head in.
Between having inflation as a price manipulation mechanic already in the code, as well as prices being roughly equalized in terms of their costs between jobs and their impact on the round, this allows for the reintroduction of paychecks to an extent.
As an additional note, doing this meant tweaking down the syndicate briefcase of cash, so that instead of giving you 5000 credits for 1 TC, it now costs 5 TC to accompany the fact that this is now a rather significant amount of money, even on decently high population. Fun fact: the Syndicate Briefcase of Cash actually PREDATES the economy, and was NEVER ADJUSTED beyond the original implementation of the economy as a result!
Gas Exports.
ALRIGHT ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GRAPHS? I THOUGHT SO, YOU LOVE GRAPHS.
So, gas exports are fucked, have always been fucked, and consistently have proven to be capable of breaking the in-game economy for a long time. This is no secret, I've been pinged with players getting billions, actual billions of credits using it multiple times in as many years. See, any round where a player manages to buy the bicycle is a round where I've fucked up, or someone fucked and I let it get past me.
So here's how gas exports work right now.
So, all of this hinges on the value of a single mole of gas, and some gasses enable you to make extremely, EXTREMELY profitable gasses through atmospheric gas wizardry However, even those less profitable gasses are still in an extremely high magnitude of value.
Most gasses if you have a full can of it will net you OVER 10k credits. For scale, one crate being sold in cargo is 200 credits.
That's a minimum of crates for pumping gas into a hollow metal box and praying it doesn't explode.
So we adjusted the values accordingly.
The baseline value of a single gas has been tweaked downward significantly. Even these values are still arguably very high, but I can play with it at the discretion of LemonintheDark. The green line at the top represents gasses that previously sold for 100 credits per mole, antinobilium I believe, and working downwards. I am going to try and enforce 10 credits per mole as the absolute maximum hard cap on gas exports, regardless of how many gasses we try to add in the future. Because the alternative is getting a gunjillion credits by huffing miasma into a tank of steel. And we ain't having that shit.
Lathe Tax
Part of the testing for this PR involved me modeling the SS13 economy in a given round as a kind of controls problem, with each source of income introduced in the round as a kind of input (Passive Income, Bounties, Tourists) in order to get a handle on roughly how much income a single round of SS13 will see per player on the given designed round-length, in order to estimate how much things are going to cost. Modeling how much players spend on a given round is variable enough that it'd be too difficult to accurately test without just throwing this up on a server and getting live data.
However, from the appearance of my dataset, players would be making a LOT more money nowadays with all of the above changes implemented. In an attempt to curve that intake, I attempted to implement a small, low scale tax of printing items that would take a small amount of players income every time they print, as a way to add a basic economic side-effect to this mechanic.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a mixed decision. So, maintainers came up with an intended direction they want to see it, as they wanted to make sure that economy would remain a secondary system, that could still have an impact on round direction and the changes they want to see in the game.
So, here's the intent:
Lathe tax should exist in the form of printing things from protolathes outside of your department, not on autolathes or your own protolathe.
We want to promote people talking and collaborating to access things if it's outside the scope of their department and they still want it, with theft still being a viable avenue of gameplay.
Players will be charged 10 credits for printing a set of items not from their own protolathe, each. Printing an item can be paid for from your own ID card's bank account automatically, but the payment component has been buffed to handle physical money alternatives, as well as pulled money, similar to the luxury shuttle scanner gate's behavior.
Borgs are still enabled to print from lathes, however instead of it costing them credits, they now take a self-significant power cost in order to do so, preventing them from being used as a roving bank account for printing. I'll look into this further as we don't want to invalidate mechanics like borgs being able to do organ based surgery or building machinery, but we don't want them to become credit cards, so place that under advisement.
Tweaks and Updates:
(Suggested by Ziiro) If the revolutionaries win, centcom will no longer enforce the Lathe Tax.
(Suggested by about ~1000 people independently between my DMs, Reddit threads, the Feedback Thread, and elsewhere)
Printing items only taxes you once per print. EG: If you print 10 Kitchen Knifes as an assistant from the service lathe, you will only be charged once instead of 10 times.
For many of the reasons that I outlined above, this is a good change in a positive direction.
Players get more ability to interact with the economy without having to do content that's becoming increasingly depreciated in my absence.
Players also have a baseline consensus on what values of credits are high and low because jobs have been given an equalized standard in regards to the cost of certain items.
Price fluctuations through inflation will now be more meaningful in situations where the economy becomes more relevant.
The system will still encourage you to play a job that's productive to the status of the station through lower paycheck jobs existing as well.
Gas exports are now reduced to the point that their value is appropriate for the first time... actually ever. Nice.
The values of nearly every item purchasable by players has been rebalanced.
Players will now start with less starting money, but will receive a paycheck once every 5 minutes.
The value of gasses exported through the cargo department have been skewed way, WAY down in terms of price.
The Syndicate briefcase of cash now contains now costs 5 TC, up from 1 TC, for 5000 credits.
Printing items from lathes on station now costs a fee of 10 credits per item printed if it's from a lathe not under your department.
The payment component has received additional handling for physical credits, as well as pulled credits/ID cards for those without hands.
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