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MrMelbertandGitHub bfdb237612 Spooky Scary Supreme Surgery (Rework) (#93697) 2025-12-19 18:42:58 +01:00
Aliceee2chandGitHub 6d85eb30dc Moves "adv. parts" and "adv. surgery" from required to discount experiments. (#93917)
## About The Pull Request

title says pretty much all

## Why It's Good For The Game

To begin with i'll say, that we should gatekeep advanced and more
powerful nodes from being researched, rather than we do with those 2
nodes. While having medbay/engineering/other jobs like bitrunning to
rely on science might sound like an interesting idea - it just doesnt
really work well. I faced quite a lot of rounds, where station stuck
with t2/basic surgeries, only because coroner/sci are too lazy to do the
basics, resulting in completely unrelated to sci crewmembers doing
experiments instead.

Yes, i've seen also a lot of highpop rounds with staffed science
department just fucking off for the next 50 minutes, rather than doing
something, that takes you like 30-60 seconds of your round and benefits
whole station, and honestly? I can understand them, not many people want
to do the same job routine from round to round, even if its quite easy.

Attempts to bring player intearctions with code are usually not ending
well, with these features becoming a nuisance rather than something
interesting. (see: removed Vend Shortages station trait). This PR is
aimed to turn experiments to a nice bonuses for faster researches
instead of keeping them as another required everyround routine.

## Changelog

🆑
balance: Adv. parts and adv. surgery experiments are now discounts,
instead of requirements.
/🆑
2025-11-16 22:40:01 +01:00
GhomandGitHub 14ed7f5abb Automated announcement systems now announce researched nodes. (#86093)
## About The Pull Request
The idea was born from a small conversation about bepis nodes having low
visibility, which somehow degressed into the idea of announcing
researched nodes to the channels of the interested departments thru the
announcement system machine, which is what I'm doing here, while also
adding documentation, defines and purging some, not all, instances of
camel cases from announcement_system.dm.

Oh, by the by, like the arrival and new head arrival messages, it can be
customized or disabled by interacting with the announcement system.

## Why It's Good For The Game
I think it's helpful to let players know when the research of their dept
is researched, and I think it's kinda interesting to announce bepis tech
on common like it's some hot stuff while it actually isn't just because
it's often missed out and miscellaneous.

## Changelog

🆑
add: Automated announcement systems now announce researched nodes to
their respective departments. You can stop this by either disabling the
announcement systems or by using a multitool on the circuitboard of the
console you're researching nodes from.
/🆑
2024-09-15 11:57:00 -07:00
7088097eb8 [NO SELF SURGERY] Cybernetically augmented humanoids have alternative surgeries (both standard and advanced) [NO SELF SURGERY], as well as other misc additions (#84980)
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## About The Pull Request

### Cybernetic variant surgeries

Many of the surgeries able to be performed on organic limbs now have a
version for robotic limbs. This includes;

### NONE OF THESE ARE SELF SURGERY OPTIONS

- Organ repair surgeries
- Stomach Pumps
- Blood filtering
- Autopsies
- Lobotomies
- Pacification
- Lipoplasty
- Amputation
- Brainwashing (including the Sleeper Agent protocol)
- Nerve Splicing and Nerve Grounding
- Vein Threading and Vein Muscle Membrane
- Ligament Hook and Ligament Reinforcement
- Cortex Folding and Cortex Imprint

These utilize mechanical steps and unique versions of their special step
that uses mechanical tools. But many of these are able to be performed
using standard surgery tools.

In fact, I've improved the chances for doing surgery using standard
tools for mechanical steps, recognizing that medical is often going to
end up with synths in medbay whether we like it or not.

### NONE OF THESE ARE SELF SURGERY OPTIONS

### Organ Repair Surgeries correct EMP Failure Cascades

When you repair a synthetic organ using the organ repair surgery, it
reverses the effects of organ failure from an EMP. That is, the
permanent failure of an organ. This allows for an alternative method to
replacing that organ wholesale, which makes treating synths a lot easier
for medical and EMPs less of a RNG death knell for people with
cybernetic organs. However, it still needs the surgery to correct the
error, so this isn't removing the danger of being EMP'd.

### Health Scanners report EMP Failure Cascades

Scanning someone with a cybernetic organ now actually tells you that the
organ is failing. Wow, why wasn't this already the case?

## Why It's Good For The Game

#### Surgeries

With the new techweb changes, augmented crew are becoming a lot, lot
more common place, as are the implantation of cybernetics. These are
required for research to be able to progress both medical and robotics
technology. Therefore, those using these items are becoming a lot more
common place.

However, our medical system is quite blind to these people as of the
moment. A lot of surgeries that are critical to recovering the
injured/dead do not work on them outright, and medical can't resolve the
problems that come with cybernetic organs entirely.

This change hopefully modernizes our surgeries to account for these
synthetic/cybernetically-altered crew members that neither forces people
to choose between taking them to medical or robotics (they're often
going to end up in medical regardless), and letting either department to
function as a place for these crew to obtain medical services.

Also gives them some cooler flavour to their surgeries, which I think is
the most important part of this change. It actually feels like you're
more than human without getting too much in the way of gameplay loops
and over complicating things.

Edit: To provide a bit of extra clarity on 'Why allow the advanced
surgeries?'

You can actually have the benefits of the advanced surgeries as an
augmented humanoid. The problem is that it has to take place before you
are augmented. They're not mutually exclusive, just slow to apply. There
isn't much reason for there not to be a method to apply them to robotic
people, particularly since augmentations are expected earlier in the
round than advanced surgeries.

#### EMP Failure and Detection

This mechanic is probably what people hate the most about cybernetics.
It is largely invisible, and forces you to have to go through a tedious
process of organ replacement on what could be any one of your organs,
since it wasn't being broadcast to the user which one is failing until
you are possibly already doubling over.

Now, it is easier for medical staff to identify if they have a
cybernetically enhanced patient in the midst of a failure cascade, and
have the means to resolve the problem. Robotics and cyborgs can too,
since sometimes they'll have the means usually to do the same operations
and detection.

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add: Robotic variants of many of the standard and advanced humanoid
surgeries. You cannot perform self surgery with these surgeries.
balance: It is easier to do robotic surgeries with normal surgery tools.
qol: It is now possible to detect EMP organ failure cascades via health
scanners.
qol: EMP organ failure cascades can be reversed by doing organ repair
surgeries targeting the failing organ.
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
2024-07-22 18:07:05 +01:00
AndrewandGitHub 0cb6e7f354 More techweb tweaks [NO GBP] (#84574)
## About The Pull Request

More QoL tweaks and rebalance towards easier unlocking of high tier
nodes by doing discount experiments.

## Why It's Good For The Game

More ways to unlock desired nodes.

## Changelog

🆑
balance: Techweb: High yield explosive is now a discount experiment for
Exotic Ammo node, giving more free points
balance: Techweb: Replaced the botany/xenobio discount experiments with
a new mutant scan experiment for the Gene Engineering node
balance: Techweb: Damaged mech scan is a discount experiment for tier 4
Mech Energy Guns node, giving twice more free points
balance: Techweb: Added a new anomaly scan experiment that gives full
discount for the Advanced Anomaly Shells, also moving the node to tier 5
balance: Techweb: Moved mech RCD to the Experimental Tools node
balance: Techweb: Moved handcuffs to T2 security node, leaving only
zipties in T1
balance: Techweb: Non-human Autopsy is a discount experiment instead of
a required one now
balance: Techweb: Parts scan experiments require 6 machines instead of 4
del: Techweb: Removed the New Toys node moving contents to sec and
medbay trees
qol: Made air horn craftable from a spraycan and a bikehorn
qol: Techweb: Better wording on the slime scan experiment
/🆑
2024-07-04 12:06:07 -07:00
d59f5ad806 Techweb nodes DEFINED & bug fix (#84177)
## About The Pull Request

1. Techweb strings are now defined in
`code/__DEFINES/research/techweb_nodes.dm` many thanks to @ShizCalev
2. All places that used those strings have been updated with the
definitions as well.
3. `code/modules/research/ordnance/scipaper_partner.dm` had some old
boosted ids, they have been updated as well along
with their values.

## Why It's Good For The Game

fixes #84153 

- I found this through a runtime, but basically the boosted nodes missed
unit test checks. Having them defined should in future ensure that any
changes to them alert the maintainers. This will help in furthur
modularizing the code.

- As for the nodes themselves, I have put the exact nodes as much as
possible so they dont differ much from previous gameplay and how they
worked. Researched nodes that used to give points to those experiments,
will continue to do so, but albeit at a slower rate. This is because the
research point generation rate overall now has been increased.

## Changelog
🆑 ShizCalev, SpaceLove
refactor: Techweb strings are defined now so to maintain modularity
balance: Research papers will have less overall point generation.
/🆑

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Co-authored-by: ShizCalev <ShizCalev@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-06-27 01:14:57 -04:00
AndrewandGitHub 5f36ef1d6e New Tech Tree (#84024)
## About The Pull Request

Reshuffles the tech tree nodes, adding reagent purity and cybernetic
organ scan experiments. The total point requirements barely changed.

Made the discount experiments unlock nodes for free, instead of
providing partial discounts, to provide more incentive to actually do
them.

Also devided all points by the amount generated per second, for
convenience. Now points correspond to seconds.

<details> 
  <summary>New tech tree</summary>
<img width="4320" alt="Tech New"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/3625094/77afdec7-9df3-47b7-8df0-5b9261e9e0d6">
</details>

## Why It's Good For The Game

- Breaks bloated general nodes into more specialized nodes, making the
tree more balanced
- Combines scattered nodes dedicated to a single design into specialized
nodes, reducing the number of nodes
- Reshuffles the unlocks within specialized tree to adjust progression
on some trees to follow the idead: Cheap nodes first, then nodes that
require experiments or nodes of neighbouring trees, then expensive nodes
with end-game tech.
- You no longer need a dissection experiment to unlock a microwave,
every experiment is relevant to the tree unlocked by it
- With specialized nodes, it is easier to pick a node for the new things
that people add
- Better foundation for potential per-department point system. It will
be easier to put it on top of a cleaner tree
- The nodes are separated in tiers, with progressively increasing costs,
so that early tech is cheap and easy to research with just points, but
later tech is more expensive, making the discount experiments for those
more likely to be performed.

## Changelog

🆑
balance: Reshuffled tech tree, making nodes more specialized
qol: Research points devided by the amount generated per second, so now
research points correspond to seconds
add: Introduced reagent purity scan experiments (required for Cryostasis
node)
add: Introduced synthetic organ scan experiment (required for top tier
cyber organs)
add: Added a variant of machinery scan experiment that accepts any
machines with upgraded parts (required for tier 3 parts)
del: Removed material scanning experiments from the tech tree
/🆑
2024-06-17 13:21:48 -04:00