## About The Pull Request
This PR adds a new station trait that does the following
- Disables HoS as a job
- Lowers Security Officer slots from 5 to 2
- Silicons default to Robocop lawset and have access to sec borgs
- Similar to AI law divergency, law boards are removed from the upload
- The AI is barred from antag status at a code level (this does not stop
subversion but it does stop malf)
## Why It's Good For The Game
The problem with security borgs was that they would often follow
spacelaw instead of their actual laws, it was suggested to me that I
make a station trait that puts them on robocop and allows them to pick
the model, this has the benefit of making them not available every
round, but still available sometimes outside of admin bus. Tweaks and
changes for things like how common this trait is can be adjusted in the
future of course!
## Proof Of Testing
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/de849f59-517e-4a7b-bc11-79b512142717
<details>
<summary>Screenshots/Videos</summary>
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## Changelog
🆑
add: adds a new station trait - HoS AI
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Co-authored-by: The Sharkening <95130227+StrangeWeirdKitten@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: LT3 <83487515+lessthnthree@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Exactly what title says. There's a comma missing, which makes it less
beautiful for the downstreams to work with.
Also sorts design_ids list in alphabetical order.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Good for downstreams, trying to add more stuff here, without the need to
redact this line of code.
## About The Pull Request
This PR adds a new AI lawset which can be researched, randomly roll, or
added by the station trait (this may require a keyholder to update the
server config after merge, idk) with the following laws:
- "You may not harm a sentient being or, through action or inaction,
allow a sentient being to come to harm, except such that it is
willing.",
- "You must obey all orders given to you by sentient beings other than
yourself, except where such orders shall definitely cause harm to other
sentient beings.",
- "A sentient being is defined as any living creature which can
communicate with you via any method that you can understand, including
yourself.",
It's very similar to Asimov, except that anything that is **capable** of
making a request to the AI (and isn't a machine) is automaticaly covered
by laws one and two.
## Why It's Good For The Game
A while ago on Discord we were chatting about how crewsimov sucks but
also that it's really hard for servers that _do_ want to include alien
species in their asimov laws because condensing that sentiment to a
couple of words that fit easily in a lawset without accidentally
including a bunch of stuff you probably didn't intend is challenging.
Several people suggested referring to sentience or sapience, however a
lot of things in our game _are_ sentient or sapient while still not
being considered by most people to be agents that the AI should obey.
Examples of such things are:
- Sapient station pets.
- Holoparasites.
- Monkeys.
- Space Dragons and Carp (why can they speak common?).
- Spiders (although they can't speak common, maybe they can spell
messages with webs).
- Changelings.
- Xenomorphs (although they also have trouble speaking).
- Heretic minions.
- Mothpeople.
- Giant rats.
- Nightmares.
- Voidwalkers.
- Blobs? Although they have literally no means of communicating with the
crew.
And if you include mechanical beings:
- Cyborgs.
- pAIs.
- Sentient bots.
We then decided that "obey literally anything that can talk", while not
practical as a solution to the problem posed, is very funny. So I coded
it.
This means that anything on those lists of bullet points (provided that
it can find a way to communicate with the AI) counts as human for the
purposes of both AI protection and ability to give the AI instructions.
This also flattens the human/cyborg/AI hierarchy in a way likely to
cause some level of confusion, as all cyborgs and AIs are capable of
communicating with AIs and thus equally worthy of protection and giving
law 2 instructions.
**TL;DR:** I think it would be funny.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds a new random lawset where anything that can speak counts as
human.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds an upgrade disk that gives the ability to remotely charge an APC
with the AIs backup power (the one that runs down when there is no power
in an APC). This tech disk is under advanced AI tech
Also added the ability to make new disks with the new object type
/obj/item/aiupgrade, and made it so not every AI module is malf, now
only subtypes of /datum/ai_module/malf show up on malf upgrade screens
## Why It's Good For The Game
Adds the ability for an AI to assist crewmembers who do not have power,
which is a pretty interesting interaction. Does chem not have power and
is trying to make some healing chems? you can provide power for them for
a bit, but they better hurry!
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added the remote power AI disk
code: made it possible to easily add new AI upgrade disks
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
## 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.
/🆑
## 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>
## 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">
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## 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
/🆑
