## About The Pull Request
There was a PR I wanted to make, but one of the features I wanted the
addition to have was for an affected mob to only speak aphasic, but
understand whatever languages they'd normally be able to understand.
This, in turn, required refactoring language holders to separately block
language speech and comprehension. This change, I decided, would be good
to split into its own PR.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Allows more fine-grained control over what languages an atom is blocked
from speaking or understanding. This will be useful for future PRs or
admin events.
## Changelog
no player-facing changes
## About The Pull Request
Silicons have 66% understanding of uncommon roundstart languages
## Why It's Good For The Game
Joke reason:
Serious reason: I understand why the original change was made, and the
points mentioned in the PR were very valid. But at the same time, I
think silicons being unable to parse most languages is a flavor fail. My
thoughts are using partial languages as a compromise would assuage the
concerns of the original PR while still giving us some of the flavor of
omniscient AI. If you disagree (Particularly you JohnFulpWillard) feel
free to close this.
(And of course we can always tweak the number. I had the thought of
adjusting the % of given languages depending on how close they are to
common - so languages like Voltaic are much lower, ~20%.)
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Cyborgs and the AI have regained understanding of various non-human
languages, but only partially (66%).
/🆑
Fixes#89445 (well, technically. It fixes the bug associated but these
`say`s should really be emotes.)
Three things:
1. Reworks how language translation works.
Rather than scrambling a sentence into a language entirely, sentences
are now scrambled on a per-word basis.
Additionally, the 1000 most common words of a language are *never*
re-scrambled across the duration of a round. Once it's set it's set in
stone.
Example: (Sample / Old / New)
This allows for a number of things:
- More consistent translations, making it (more) viable to actually
"teach" someone words for something
- Maintaining emphasis such as caps (but not `||`, `++`, or `__` - at
least not yet)
- The following:
2. Adds partial language understanding
Some languages can understand portions of other languages.
This pr adds the following:
- Those who understand Beachtongue can understand 50% of Common and 33%
of Uncommon words.
- Those who understand Common can understand 33% of Beachtongue and 20%
of Uncommon words.
- Those who understand Uncommon can understand 20% of Common and 20% of
Beachtongue words.
3. Bilingual quirk has been expanded to accomodate these changes.
There are now two more preferences:
- Language Speakable
- You can toggle this, so you only understand the language, rather than
understand AND speak.
- Language Skill
- If you choose to be unable to speak the language, you can set how much
of the language you can understand, down to 10%.
Playing around languages is fun, but due to the way our translation
works, ALL context is immediately lost for what the other person may be
saying.
If the other person is shouting in all caps? Output language is normal
chatting. This is lame!
Even if someone is unable to understand you, there's a LOT you can
convey just by how you speak, and getting that across in game is quite
difficult when all translations get mauled so badly.
So this changes that.
- Emphasis like caps lock is maintained, so you see someone shouting in
caps in a foreign language you can probably intuit something is wrong
(but not what is wrong!)
- Some languages can gleam bits of other languages, so you MIGHT be able
to pick out context if you pay close attention
- "Brother" languages will now feel more like "brothers" and not
completely divergent
- You can even "teach" someone words in your language - at least the
most common words! (Until next round)
🆑 Melbert
add: Languages can now have partial understanding of other languages.
More common English words are more likely to be mutually understood.
add: Those who understand Beachtongue can understand 50% of Common and
33% of Uncommon words.
add: Those who understand Common can understand 33% of Beachtongue and
20% of Uncommon words.
add: Those who understand Uncommon can understand 20% of Common and 20%
of Beachtongue words.
add: Bilingual quirk: You can now choose between being able to speak or
not speak the language
add: Bilingual quirk: You can now choose to have partial understanding
of your language, rather than full.
qol: If you speak in ALL CAPS in a foreign language, the translated
words will also be ALL CAPS.
qol: Many more forms of punctuation are now conveyed across
translations.
qol: The 1000 most common English words will now never be scrambled when
translating into other languages for the duration of the round. This
means you can actually "learn" some words if you are especially
attentive! (Until the next round at least)
refactor: Refactored language translations. Report if you see any super
odd looking translations.
fix: Force-says forcing you to speak common (such as cult invocations)
will now correctly force you to speak common (even if you don't know
common)
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds the Spinwarder language, and grants it to Space Russians (including
the mobs, Fugitive Hunters, and the BODA machine).
<details>
<summary>Lore Be Here, Abandon All Hope</summary>
**Spinwarder Russian**, also known simply as **Spinwarder**, was the
official language of the Third Soviet Union, and following the collapse
of that state, has remained the primary spoken language in its former
lands, including the Spinward Stellar Coalition, which is the closest
stellar governing body to SS13. This means its the language spoken by
your average Space Russian who you might find nearby to the station;
it's also the language used by devices made in and around the former
Third Soviet Union.
As an additional tidbit, the icon for the language:
is the state flag of the SSC.
</details>
## About The Pull Request
- Space Carps and Space Dragons no longer speak Common.
- Space Carps and Space Dragons now speak Carptongue, a language native
to Space Carps.
- Space Dragons also speak Draconic.
- Space Dragons can still understand common, they just can't speak it.
- Space Craps cannot understand common, unless they're a special carp
(Cayenne, Lia, Magicarps, those spawned from plushies)
- Ash Drakes and Ice Whelps also no longer speak Common, and instead
speak Draconic. They can still understand common.
- Carp Infusion now lets you speak and understand Carptongue.
- Fish Infusion now lets you speak and understand Carptongue.
- Fire Sharks now speak Carptongue instead of Common. They can still
understand common (to receive directions).
## Why It's Good For The Game
#89032 made me think "hey why CAN carps speak Common?"
So I thought "What if the Space Dragon spoke Draconic instead since it's
a big lizard"
But naturally the Space Dragon still needs to communicate verbally to
its carps and, well, carps aren't really lizards so they shouldn't get
Draconic right?
So I thought "Why not add a Fish language"
Now, various aquatic space creatures have a language that they can speak
between one another in privacy, while the Space Dragon can still
communicate to the crew for gimmicks via the curator (or draconic if
they want to speak to lizards)
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Adds Carptongue language, spoken by Space Carps.
del: Space Carps no longer speak or understand Common. Special carps
like Cayenne and Lia can still understand common.
add: Space Dragons can speak Draconic and Carptongue.
del: Space Dragons no longer speak Common. They can still understand it.
add: Ash Drakes and Ice Whelps now speak Draconic.
del: Ash Drakes and Ice Whelps no longer speak Common. They can still
understand it.
add: Fire Sharks now speak Carptongue.
del: Fire Sharks no longer speak Common. They can still understand it.
add: Fish and Carp Infusion now grant Carptongue, letting you speak to
(and understand) Space Carps.
add: Sleeping Carp grants you Carptongue, but as most human tongues
can't speak it, you'll only be able to understand Space Carps unless you
steal a fish tongue.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Making the code compile. EDIT: There's an on-going BYOND issue with
datum subtypes (not atoms) in which trying to override the parent value
with null won't work. Melbert has provided me a fix for it too (from:
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/86666/commits/d6c1dbf4fd641d160961d7964e145e93b86d672c)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Making the code compile and the CI succeed
## Changelog
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## About The Pull Request
This PR moves random name generation for species onto their languages.
What does this mean?
- For species with a predefined name list, such as Lizards and Moths,
nothing.
- For species without predefined name lists, such as Felinids, their
names will now be randomly generated from their language's syllables.
(In the prefs menu:)
Why?
- Well, we actually had some dead code that did this. All I did was fix
it up and re-enable it.
- Generates some pretty believable in-universe names for various
languages that are lacking name lists. Obviously defined lists would be
preferred, but until they are added, at least.
- Moves some stuff off of species, which is always nice.
- Also hopefully makes it a tad easier to work with name generation.
There's now a standard framework for getting a random name for a mob,
and for getting a random name based on a species.
Misc:
- Adds a generic `species_prototype` global, uses it in a lot of places
in prefs code.
- Makes `GLOB.species_list` init via the global defines
- Deletes Language SS
- Alphabetizes some instances of admin tooling using the list of all
species IDs
- Docs language stuff
- Deletes random_skin_tone, it does pretty much nothin
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Random Name Generation has been refactored. Report any
instances of people having weird (or "Unknown") names.
qol: Felinids, Slimepeople, Podpeople, and some other species without
defined namelists now automatically generate names based on their
primary language(s).
qol: More non-human names can be generated in codewords (and other misc.
areas) than just lizard names.
/🆑
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