- Makes QDELETED use isnull(x) instead of !x, giving about 0.2 to 0.25s
of speed.
- Make disposal constructs only update icon state rather than go through
expensive overlay code. Unfortunately did not have much effect, but is
something they should've been doing nonetheless.
- Makes RegisterSignal only take signals directly as opposed to
allocating a fresh list of signals. Very few consumers actually used
this and it costs about 0.4s. Also I think this is just a bad API anyway
and that separate procs are important
`\bRegisterSignal\((.*)list\(` replaced with `RegisterSignals($1list(`
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`.proc/whatever` format is no longer valid, so we're replacing it with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>
* canUseTopic now uses TRUE/FALSE instead of defines that just say TRUE
The most idiotic thing I've seen is canUseTopic's defines, they literally just define TRUE, you can use it however you want, it doesn't matter, it just means TRUE. You can mix and match the args and it will set that arg to true, despite the name.
It's so idiotic I decided to remove it, so now I can reclaim a little bit of my sanity.
About The Pull Request
Reorganizes the entire icons/mob folder.
Added the following new subfolders:
nonhuman-player (this was initially just called "antag", but then I realized guardians aren't technically antags)
simplemob
silicon
effects (for bloodstains, fire, etc)
simplemob/held-pets (for exactly that -- I wasn't sure if this should go in inhands instead)
species/monkey
Moves the following stuff:
All human parts moved into species, with moth, lizard, monkey, etc parts moved to corresponding subfolders. Previously, there were some moth parts in mob/species/moth, and others just loose in mob. Other species were similar.
icemoon, lavaland, and jungle folders made into subfolders of simplemob
All AI and silicon stuff, as well as Beepsky et al. into the silicon folder, simplemobs into the simplemob folder, aliens into the nonhuman-player folder, etc.
Split up animal_parts.dmi into two bodyparts.dmi which were put in their respective folders (species/alien and species/monkey)
Code changes:
Filepath changes to account for all of this
Adds a check when performing surgery on monkeys and xenos, because we can no longer assume their limbs are in the same file
Turns some hardcoded statues and showcases that were built into maps into objects instead
Things I'd like to do in the future but cant be assed right now:
Remove primarily-antag sprites from simplemob/mob.dmi (Revenant, Morph, etc.) and put them in the nonhuman-player folder
Split up mutant_bodyparts.dmi into different files for Tizirans, Felinids, monkeys, etc and put them in their own folders. Those may have once been meant primarily for mutated humans but that's now how they're being used right now.
Tendrils no longer immediately drop their chests, they will drop it once you have used an empty hand on the collapsing tendril. You can only spawn a chest once, but every unique mob that interacts can spawn one chest.
Have you ever noticed that the chemical smoke and chemical foam reactions are a lot less effective in confined spaces? This is because they currently attempt to spread to all tiles within n steps of their origin. If they can't expand onto a tile they get blocked and the expanding cloud/flood misses out on all the tiles that would be in range, but that can't be reached.
Obviously smoke and foam getting blocked by walls and the like makes intuitive sense, but it seemed a bit nonsensical that walls would basically delete a significant chunk of an expanding, amoebic mass. The solution I came up with is making smoke and foam expand until they cover a certain area, with a shared tracker for the target size and total size of the flood. The flood will simply expand as normal until it covers the desired target area. Blocked expansions just don't count and will be made up for with expansion elsewhere.
Attendant to these changes are a whole bunch of minor code improvement to smoke, foam, and one for wizard spells because I was already in the area and :pain:.
There have been some minor balance changes to the chemical smoke and foam reactions:
I converted them over to passing the desired area of the resulting smoke cloud/foam flood. The old equation for the resulting area was along the lines of 2sqrt(x)(sqrt(x) + 1) + 1 given reaction volume x and given unobstructed expansion. I've made them just pass around 2x instead. This is actually less than they used to try for, but now they're guaranteed to reach that unless the flood is fully contained. Not entirely certain if buff or nerf. Probably buff on the station.
Also, foam dilution is now based on covered area instead of target expansion range. Since this scales faster than it used to foam has been effectively nerfed at high volumes. To compensate for this I removed the jank 6/7 effect multiplier and increased the base reagent scaling a bit. Again, not certain if buff or nerf.
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
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# 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.
About The Pull Request
Converts more inputs to TGUI. Possibly all user-facing input lists in the game.
Did any surrounding text/number inputs as well
Added null choice support so users can press cancel.
Added some misc TGUI input fixes
Fixed custom vendors while I was there
I refactored a lot of code while just poking around.
Primarily, usage of .len in files where I was already working on lists.
Some code was just awful - look at guardian.dm and its non use of early returns
If there are any disputes, I can revert it just fine, those changes are not integral to the PR.
Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes#63629Fixes#63307
Fixes custom vendors /again/
Text input is more performant.
Part of a long series of TGUI conversion to make the game more visually appealing
Changelog
cl
refactor: The majority of user facing input lists have been converted to TGUI.
refactor: Tgui text inputs now scale with entered input.
fix: Many inputs now properly accept cancelling out of the menu.
fix: Fixes an edge case where users could not press enter on number inputs.
fix: Custom vendor bluescreen.
fix: You can now press ENTER on text inputs without an entry to cancel.
/cl
## About The Pull Request
stop forgetting to include mapload, if you don't include it then every single subtype past it by default doesn't include it
for example, `obj/item` didn't include mapload so every single item by default didn't fill in mapload
## Regex used:
procs without args, not even regex
`/Initialize()`
procs with args
`\/Initialize\((?!mapload)((.)*\w)?`
cleanup of things i didn't want to mapload:
`\/datum\/(.)*\/Initialize\(mapload`
Converts most spans into span procs. Mostly used regex for this and sorted out any compile time errors afterwards so there could be some bugs.
Was initially going to do defines, but ninja said to make it into a proc, and if there's any overhead, they can easily be changed to defines.
Makes it easier to control the formatting and prevents typos when creating spans as it'll runtime if you misspell instead of silently failing.
Reduces the code you need to write when writing spans, as you don't need to close the span as that's automatically handled by the proc.
(Note from Lemon: This should be converted to defines once we update the minimum version to 514. Didn't do it now because byond pain and such)
Adds a multilayer plumbing manifold, I also murdered the multilayer duct
You can now alt-click the plumbing RCD to change the layer it prints. I made a whole thing where right clicking changed the settings and you could use that to change machinery aswell. I even did that with the plunger, it was absolutely beautiful. Anyway that drained the life out of me because apparently there's no attack_obj_secondary and afterattack_secondary ALSO called attack_obj (left click). I just hate whoever made it with intensity
Plumbing now uses three layers. They should be easier to navigate. I tried to make layer connecting the same as cross-color connecting, but that would take more of my soul then there is to take
Currently does four things:
The reaction chamber now supports purity! It has a yellow (acid) and green (basic) input for buffers, aswell as a setting to automatically dispense either an acidic or alkalic buffer when above/below a certain pH! Now you can make a 100% pure meth factory! The buffer connects are on an alternate layer.
Probably going to be less loved, but I removed the reaction chambers ability to pick reagents from the net. Instead, it will pull untill a set volume is reached. Then it'll start reacting. While this means that players will have to be more creative and use a wider array of machinery.
Also new machine! Buffers! They fill the hole that reagent chambers left. They can be set with a threshold volume and will only start putting out chems when ALL of their neighbouring buffers also are also above this threshold. You might have a lot of one chem and have to wait for a more specialized chem to be produced, and with the cleverness of reaction chambers gone, bufferers can do just that: wait.
I also removed all but two layers. I want to make it obvious what layer the buffer connects are on. Also layers are basically unusable and I'm gonna give them a rework very soon. I'll put the things back in then when they actually have something to contribute
* Final Stage Capitalism.
* tweaks.
* Got overzelous in my fervor for blood
* well, this now has my full attention.
* Whoops missed a <<
* fixes issue because there were changes I missed
* Cobby: Departmental income is static.
* Whoops
* Various high cost premium prices and a few custom_prices have been adjusted to better suit the lack of income. Code cleanup on income so they're all in-line with cargo.
* First, this has been atomized out.
* UI is now fixed as god intended.
* Actually no, this is dynamic now. No more confusion.
* Conflicts fixed.
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
* tgui recompile.
* Hopefully aquires that green checkmark.
* --fixes the spacing.
* var cleanup and departmental budget assignment cleanup.
* merge conflict fix
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
* The Re-pricening
* Rewritten and adjusted for paycheck defines.
* I made the map changes finally.
* And the refills too.
* "OH YEAH REPLACING IT ALL WITH DEFINES AND SCALING IT THE EXCEL DOCUMENT WILL BE EASY, ARCANE!!!"
* And the premium ones too.
* Accidently spoiled a future pr due to dme bleedover
* multilayer machinery!
* adds layer mode to plungers for changing plumbing layers
* minor fixes
* Adds more feedback to plunger layer mode and places proper checks for layer changing
Adds netherworld critters as a swab. They take primarily maintenance, lavaland, and bartending reagents, they're supplemented by all geyser chems and minorly chemistry, and they are suppressed by any kind of generic growing meat (liquid gibs, nutriment, protein and peptides)
The abberant cells randomly pick a netherworld mob every time they are created. the big jackpot here is migo for the reasonable health and high damage, and the whiff are blank bodies for having good health but awful damage.
Why It's Good For The Game
Players love migos and other netherworld critters are aight. They're fairly strong, and so have a medium amount of reagents. Tried to get funky with it since they're supposed to be odd creatures.
(New swab for netherworld critters! Make sure you put them into a different vat system than your other ones, as they do not react well with normal reagents!)
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: LemonInTheDark <58055496+LemonInTheDark@users.noreply.github.com>
* there was an attempt
* adds ice moon map
adds config options for choosing mining maps
areas now have options that affect random generation on them
weather now has an option to not target indoor areas
adds base for icemoon ruins
turns many 1's into booleans
adds ice chasms
adds ztraits for weather stuff
* fixes up ice ruins to be ice moon compatible
adds lower z level to the ice moon mine
ice chasms now have a smoothed icon
megafauna only spawn in the underground portion of ice moon now
* openspace fixes
* adds new areas and underground specific ruins
* Adds the abandoned village ruin for Ice Moon
* adds abandoned village ruin and fixes some area and tile stuff to work with ice moon
* random mining maps are no longer picked in the config
you can no longer change the mining map before setup is complete
* adds above and below ground ruin as a test
* adds debug functionality for ice moon ruins
fixes a bug where multiz was impossible unless there were shared areas because of whitelisted areas
adds multiple whitelist areas for ruin placement in a list
all underground areas are now outdoors
underground plasma lava rivers are now only spawned in unexplored areas so ruins don't get destroyed by them
* adds unique spawners to icemoon to replace tendrils
adds 2 new mobs to icemoon the polar bear and wolf
adds a clothing flag for shoes that dont slip on ice
modifies mining site to be ready except for the boss
adds the ability for tunnel width to be a specification, ice moon can have 1 tile wide tunnels and rarely 2 wide tunnels
adds a no caves mineral for ice moon ruins
* wolves no longer run into lava or chasms
bears now enrage sooner
bear spawners can now actually be created
adds base for ice moon atmospherics
adds base for a new boss and achievements / score
really bad coder icon for ice boots added
* ice moon now has it's own planetary atmos! (thank god)
* new frost miner stuff
megafauna recovery time can now be tailored to have different cooldowns to ranged or melee attacks
by default sets both of them, with two arguments the first is ranged cooldown and the second is melee cooldown
* converts a bunch of lavaland maps to be compatible with ice moon
adds tendrils from lavaland to the bottom of ice moon with the other megafauna
* updates mob drops for ice moon mobs
updates config entry default value for ice moon
updates ice moon map to have new gulag
* updates station parallax for icemoon
removes extra lavaland ported ruins
updates to demonic frost miner
adds ladder to icemoon map near station
* updates ice moon map to have the ladder inside the mining base
plant flora dont spawn on the lower z level of ice moon now
you get sand from mining rocks now
buncha demonic frost miner changes holy cow
* adds the buried library
* improves map, fixes comment
* make this crap work with the station cause i have to lol it is pretty cool though and now i understand the mapping crap better
* updates ice ruin blacklist
* ice moon stop being too cold thanks
icebox changes, now actually has its own z level that can spawn ruins and such instead of just being openspace
tunnel width is now not stupid
* fixes a demonic frost miner bug where orbs werent exploding after death
atmosphere temp is now correct
fixes library ruin for icemoon
polar bear range is now fixed, only aggros in a short range and follows further than 3 tiles
reverts necropolis chest change
* Adds a new ruin: bathouse, barebones edition
* adds many new ruins
fixes a bug with tunnel creation that caused it to enter no tunnel allowed areas
finishes the frost miner and adds loot to him
you can now force a wabbajack option
* main z level now always has gravity for ice box
* hopefully the hot springs arent the buggiest thing in the world anymore
protects areas near the station from having openspace
* icebox takes less players
fixes the ladder positioning on every icemoon map
* snowstorms now only occur on the station level
fixes some issues with the icebox z level having openspace over the lower level mining base
* Update code/datums/map_config.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/datums/ruins/lavaland.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/game/objects/structures/lavaland/necropolis_tendril.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/game/turfs/closed/minerals.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/game/turfs/open/chasm.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/game/turfs/open/floor/plating/asteroid.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/megafauna/demonic_frost_miner.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/megafauna/megafauna.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/mining_mobs/polarbear.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/hostile/mining_mobs/wolf.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* Update code/modules/ruins/icemoonruin_code/hotsprings.dm
Co-Authored-By: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
* fixes areas on the lust ruin
polar bears now drop a goliath plate equivalent
wolfs now drop a watcher sinew equivalent
adds snow legions
adds a crusher trophy for the demonic frost miner that prevents movement
fixes a bug with asteroid mobs where the aggro icon would never show
adds ice to the snow cave tunnel generation
* starts work on the wendigo megafauna
* replaces snowball machine gun with more miner useful content
adds gentle var for knockback to prevent stunning on hit
polar bears move slower now
new icon for phase 2 demonic miner now
* fixes lust ruin areas
fixes whitespace
fixes nesting issues
adds underground specific mobs
* name / location fixes
demonic frost miner doesnt stun on knockback now
ice demons move faster
* fixes icebox having the wrong baseturf
* adds achievement defines to the wendigo
snowstorm for the lower z level again
adds a new helper for ranged target turfs
theres now a specific subtype for rivers
fixes a bug where ice and spawners spawned with rocks and other flora on top of them
adds indestructible ice rock turf
fixes a bug with ice demons teleport distance being incorrect
adds the start of wendigos attacks
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-Authored-By: Rohesie <rohesie@gmail.com>
* Update code/modules/mapping/ruins.dm
Co-Authored-By: Rohesie <rohesie@gmail.com>
* Fixes a dumb bug with ruins from a webedit review
The syndicate shuttle can now land on mineral turfs
* the final commit, all that im going to change after this is documentation for procs lol
makes both ice moon z levels below the station underground, and makes it so they generate rivers of their baseturf
* adds nice animation to wendigo scream
* small fixes
* finishes autodoccing everything i could find
* ok im done for real now
* adds anywhere ruins
does review stuff
* review stuff
* ok it removes the stuff now
* fix removal
* fixes from the git
* adds surroundings to the asteroid and lavaland sites
adds butchering gloves to wrath ruins
the lower icebox levels are no longer station levels
fixes capitals on blood drunk and frost miner boss medals
adds engineering outpost ruin by trollbreeder
adds boxstation job changes to icebox
polar bear transformation no longer has immunity to lavaland mobs
fixes ice whelp spelling mistake
* fixes engi outpost atmospherics
fixes missing plating on solar panels
changes slowdown for icemoon turfs
* fixes ruins areas so tunnels can spawn into some of them
adds lights to icebox below area
openspace turfs mine the thing below them now
* fixes wall boundings on asteroid and lavaland domes
* ur lame armhulen
* adds public mining area to icebox
adds computer vendors to icebox
* minor fixes
* fixes map type error
* removes slowdown entirely
increases ore chances
fixes openspace on main map
fixes a ton of active turfs at roundstart
modifies demonic frost miner loot to be cooler and more useful since the boss was hardly killed during tests
tunnels are wider underground now
openspace now deletes itself if it spawns above a ruin
* improve da ruins
* tries to fix multiple atmos issues with ruins
removes bz from the planetary atmos since it could cause unstoppable chain reactions which would cause massive lag
demonic frost miner drill now automatically scans everywhere around you
fixes tunnel generation issue
makes it so randomly generated turfs inherit their no_ruins flags
Co-authored-by: Jonathan Church <jchurch093@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: s <wesoda24@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: spookydonut <github@spooksoftware.com>
Co-authored-by: Rohesie <rohesie@gmail.com>
Implements the geysers and pumps I originally added along with the first draft of plumbing.
Geysers
A geyser can be plungered with a reinforced plunger to activate. At wich point, it'll either produce clf3, hollow water, protozine or rarely wittel.
Pumps
Adds the liquid pump to the plumbing RCD. Place on an active geyser and wrench it to start pumping the geyser of its delicious juicess. I also changed it to not use power, because it would be awful drawing kilometer long wires along with the ducts.
Chems
Hollow water works basically like blood and mutage, where you can mix it with 1 unit of holy water for more holy water.
Protozine has a .2 healing, down from omnizine's .5. The healing is just kind of a side thing and not really what this chem was implemented for.
If it wasn't obvious, this allows chemists to industrialize strange reagent creation, with hollow water being able to create limitless holy water alongside protozine being a valid replacement for omnizine. Getting 2 geysers with those chems and on lavaland is quite the hassle, and you still need to get some holy water from the chaplain as kickstarter. I honestly think this is fine, and otherwise I could add a unique botany catalyst, so they don't become useless in the process.
Wittel
Adds wittel, wich is rare. Does nothing, but can be processed into two fun/regrettable chems.
Adds gravitum. Metabolizes very slowly. Drinking it makes you weightless, and spraying it makes that object temporarily weightless. Make 10u by mixing 1 wittel with 10 sorium
Adds metalgen. Created by mixing it with mutagen and bluespace powder. Must then be mixed with 40u of a powedered material and 1u of liquid dark matter.
The material used becomes imprinted on the chem. It can then be applied to anything, except mobs, to turn it into that material. Radiation is bad, and no you can't turn the nuke into plasma to blow it up.
The chem is difficult to get and use, but it can turn the escape shuttle into solid gold wich looks really cool. You could also turn it into plasma and vaporize everything. It can be used to, with some effort, duplicate materials.
🆑
add: Adds geysers to lavaland! They can be activated by using a reinforced plunger found in the medical vendor. They can be harvested by using a new plumbing device, magically powered liquid pumps!
add: Adds Hollow Water to geysers, wich can be combined with Holy Water as catalyst for more Holy Water
add: Adds Protozine to geyers, a very weak version of Omnizine. Can be used in Strange Reagent mixing
add: Adds Wittel, a very rare geyser chem. Can be processed into gravitum, wich removes gravity. Can also be processed into metalgen, wich has a strange tendency to transform objects into the imprinted material.
/🆑
Why:
This is what I originally wanted to do. The idea was to have a lot more chems, but I can't focus on one thing for that long. Hopefully this'll empower the bored chemist and make the rounds just that more interesting. Hopefully this'll spark the creation of some other geyser chems aswell.
That and makes shaft miners not the only ones hunting on lavaland.
Drops byond hub support and adds score and top 50 browsers.
Requires DB changes and manual creation of migration script if we want to keep old achievements so no random merges please.
* bra
* ME GRAMMAR GOOD?
* asbestos in your lung
* Merge branch 'master' into CARPET
* Merge branch 'master' into CARPET
* bruh
* Revert "bruh"
This reverts commit 186de868197ee5904ae2e72060736dc3a505f66d.
* Revert "Revert "bruh""
This reverts commit a855f2b838f02b852fb16f4a15123ca5a26b858f.
* orange man, reasonable
* Update code/modules/reagents/chemistry/reagents/other_reagents.dm
Co-Authored-By: Fel <fludd121@gmail.com>
* Update code/modules/reagents/chemistry/reagents/other_reagents.dm
Co-Authored-By: moo <11748095+ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone@users.noreply.github.com>
* cobby is a good amnitni
* e
About The Pull Request
Converts every single usage of playsound's vary parameter to use the boolean define instead of 1 or 0. I'm tired of people copypasting the incorrect usage.
Also changes a couple of places where a list was picked from instead of using get_sfx internal calls
This was done via regex:
(playsound\(.+,.+,.+, ?)1( ?\)| ?,.+\)) to match 1
(playsound\(.+,.+,.+, ?)0( ?\)| ?,.+\)) to match 0
full sed commands:
/(playsound\(.+,.+,.+, ?)1( ?\)| ?,.+\))/\1TRUE\2/ 1 to TRUE
/(playsound\(.+,.+,.+, ?)0( ?\)| ?,.+\))/\1FALSE\2/ 0 to FALSE
I'm not very good with regex and these could probably be optimized, but they worked.
Why It's Good For The Game
Code usability
* Adds a GPS component. Megafauna no longer needs gps implants.
* Removes commented out code.
* Removes the last internal radio
* I was already wondering why the diff was so small
cl Time-Green
add: Adds plumbing pipes and some hidden plumbing related machines. They're not available in-game yet.
sprites: Geyser and geyser pump sprites created by Mey-Ha-Zah!
/cl
Adds the following objects:
Fluid ducts . Like atmos pipe, but for reagents. They're smart and can be seperated by layer and color
Geysers. They spawn on lavaland and can be harvested with liquid pumps or just beakers.
Liquid pumps. For pumping geysers. They need to be on a wire node and connected to a duct network.
Plumbable reagent dispenser subtype.
New plumbing RPD specific RPD.
Plungers. The reinforced plunger can be used for plunging geysers to activate them. They currently serve no other function and can't be worn as a hat yet.
They're all disabled and admin only.
Adds the following systems:
Ductnet datum. They pretty much say "hey, we're connected"
Plumbing component. You can turn any movable atom into a plumbable thing. Comes with overlays and everything. They're essential for everything that has input and outputs, except pipes. That means you can have machines connected to both atmospheric pipes and fluid ducts. They only connect with layer 3 ducts.
Fluid subsystem that handles the processing on the plumbing machinery and other plumbing related stuff.
Basically atmospherics but with reagents. Reagents are pressurized and thus transferred instantly, to avoid those stupid leftovers in pipes no one likes. I am PRing it now because if I were to add a dozen or so associated machines, it would be too much of a pain to manage/review in one PR. It would also be a massive waste if people didn't even want it in the first place.
Also yes all of this works (as far as I know)
Things I plan to add in later PR's
Layers / colors (maybe) done
Machinery (Stuff like chemical processors, filters, special mixing chambers and factories)
Make geysers more interesting, so chemists/atmostechs/cargotechs/assistants can go to lavaland and get some exotic stuff.
Pipe fractures. Damaged pipes could do the cartooney water soaker beam coming out to shoot at people cause why the fuck not.
Code concerns:
Connecting is handled through pipes only. Not sure if this is the best approach. This means plumbing devices cant directly connect to each other without pipes. I could add some exceptions to handle it. I could also take connecting away from pipes and make it a global proc, with alot of exceptions since it'd be handling both plumbing machinery and the ducts.
Reagent transferring. Basically the transfer is instantaneous from A to B. I did this because stuff getting stuck in pipes could pose some serious mixing problems with chemistry, since it's alot more delicate than atmos. I could understand if people would want it to be like atmos. It wouldn't be difficult to change.
Also for testing I suggest you set the pipe_dispenser to category 3 to print fluid ducts. My tests were done with
/obj/structure/geyser
/obj/structure/reagent_dispensers/plumbed/storage
/obj/item/plunger/reinforced
/obj/machinery/power/liquid_pump
/obj/item/pipe_dispenser/plumbing
that and standard tools for setting things up
* Tendrils are now structure based
* Re-adds tendril wipe achievement
neatens up ash walker variables
gets rid of unnecessary variables in hivelord
* Marks spawner children as admin spawned
