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LemonInTheDark
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Parallax but better: Smooth movement cleanup (#66567)
* Alright, so I'm optimizing parallax code so I can justify making it do a
bit more work
To that end, lets make the checks it does each process event based.
There's two. One is for a difference in view, which is an easy fix since
I added a view setter like a year back now.
The second is something planets do when you change your z level.
This gets more complicated, because we're "owned" by a client.
So the only real pattern we can use to hook into the client's mob's
movement is something like connect_loc_behalf.
So, I've made connect_mob_behalf. Fuck you.
This saves a proc call and some redundant logic
* Fixes random parallax stuttering
Ok so this is kinda a weird one but hear me out.
Parallax has this concept of "direction" that some areas use, mostly
the shuttle transit ones. Set when you move into a new area.
So of course it has a setter. If you pass it a direction that it doesn't
already have, it'll start up the movement animation, and disable normal
parallax for a bit to give it some time to get going.
This var is typically set to 0.
The problem is we were setting /area/space's direction to null in
shuttle movement code, because of a forgotten proc arg.
Null is of course different then 0, so this would trigger a halt in
parallax processing.
This causes a lot of strange stutters in parallax, mostly when you're
moving between nearspace and space. It looks really bad, and I'm a bit
suprised none noticed.
I've fixed it, and added a default arg to the setter to prevent this
class of issue in future. Things look a good bit nicer this way
* Adds animation back to parallax
Ok so like, I know this was removed and "none could tell" and whatever,
and in fairness this animation method is a bit crummy.
What we really want to do is eliminate "halts" and "jumps" in the
parallax moveemnt. So it should be smooth.
As it is on live now, this just isn't what happens, you get jumping
between offsets. Looks frankly, horrible. Especially on the station.
Just what I've done won't be enough however, because what we need to do
is match our parallax scroll speed with our current glide speed. I need
to figure out how to do this well, and I have a feeling it will involve
some system of managing glide sources.
Anyway for now the animation looks really nice for ghosts with default
(high) settings, since they share the same delay.
I've done some refactoring to how old animation code worked pre (
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ArcaneMusic
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Arconomy: The bigger balance PR (REVISED EDITION) (#65795)
This PR covers 4 Key features:
Price Rebalancing
Passive Income
Gas Exports
Lathe Tax
Relevant Design Doc (Slightly out of date as a result of the discourse on the subject).
https://hackmd.io/WlWgyRafTaiAqz6ouOqC-Q
-- START DOCUMENT --
# Arconomy Version Two
This is mostly me organizing a long list of thoughts that I'm not sure if I can properly describe and get across, but lets just work with what we got and go from there.
## There should probably be a relationship to time and profit
So, part one of a series called "Arcane was completely wrong about game design", I made a rather large misstep in regards to designing arconomy, and nobody told me this until far, FAR after I had gone way too in on my own ideas:
"There needs to be a relationship between time and money". Because Space Station 13 is a game that is built around rounds, either long, LONG rounds on MRP or 30 min - 1 hour long rounds in LRP, your whole orientation of the game is built around time. The longer you spend in a single round, the more you can do and mold the station and the game in a specific direction, whether it's from an admin event, doing your job, or going off on a wierd character based tangent.
The issue here lies in a question I tried to answer in my previous design doc:
> "Command players start with lots of money, and make mountains of money, and as a result, have so much money by the end of the shift that they're practically immune to the effects of the economy.
> Assistant players start out with practically no money, find that the station is covered in costs that they'll never be able to practically afford, and decide that the economy is stupid and not worth utilizing altogether."
Two fundimentally different outlooks on the same problem, caused by the pay discrepency as it existed originally. Since we have so many different jobs all at different paygrades, the option that made the most sense at the time was to completely remove paychecks alltogether because they would multiplicitively exacerbate the previous issue.
While it would flood the in-game economy over time at high levels, it did add a sense of timescale to the existing in-game relationships. You **KNEW** that after x many minutes you would get that fancy hat, or that you would need to find cash in other ways to get it. Having that time-scale is helpful as we've moved to our 90 minute round average/goal. It also, similarly, means that we know exactly how many credits each job SHOULD have had access to before a major disaster calls for a shuttle call. But, in hindsight, that is a value that should be consistant for all players. If a single, unaided player looks at a 200 credit bill, that should have the same impact player to player, and not limit their access to jobs.
## Bounties just ain't that fun, but they stand to see improvement from where they are now
So, guilty as charged, bounty running doesn't quite have the same charm as it used to have. For our friends just joining us, cargo used to have a single, per round laundry list of items that would payout to the cargo budget each shift. Each list would start with 10 items, one of which would randomly be assigned higher priority with a higher payout, and it would be cargo's job to ~~Break into each department and steal that thing~~ cooperate with jobs around the station to aquire funds for station crisis or when you just want to dick around and make stacks of cash. This had a distinct charm to it, but one element of it that majorly reduced the replayability of bounties was that they were severely limited in scope. Once you did your ONE drink bounty or your ONE chemical bounty, you no longer needed to interact with that department.
My original goal was this: Make an unlimited bounty system, where crewmates were able to get a cut of their work as profit. To a degree, it's fairly successful! Crew do have a way to actively work with cargo to get paid for their labor, and they help cargo as a result by giving them free valuables. The issue lies in the fact that this has kinda flipped the relationship on it's head: Bounties stopped being cargo's job to outsource to the crew, and instead the crew's job that becomes dependent on cargo.
In general, many bounties simply weren't meant to be repeatable content in the first place. And certainly not meant to be used for every job. Offloading it as a kind of fetchquest minigame so that all jobs can offset the loss of passive income? It's not the best choice. For jobs like botanists or scientists it's tolerable at best, frustrating at worst. Just look at the state of things like experisci-slime experiments or scanning furniture.
It gets far worse when it's from the perspective of jobs that have *explicitly* limited supplies like security. No, a security player is not going to be allowed to haul away all the good metal handcuffs from the brig for a bounty, and no, you cannot take all the riot shotguns from the brig.
Now, a few of these things were fixed over time, with mixed successes. Bounties started to be cleaned up in order to prevent limited quantity items from being an option for repeat bounties. Jobs that lack exports started to get some content for still allowing them to have repeatable exports (Like the Scanners for Security Officers to go on patrols).
The BIG EXCEPTION to this is Restaurant Bots, but we'll hit that in a second.
## Getting everything on the same price scale has been a major improvement.
Unironically one of the best changes made has been the idea that even if we lack that good time-credit scale from before, we didn't really have a "standard" to work off of when something new is added to the game and the dev needs to determine how much to make that thing cost. That's why the current costs of objects and values on-station are scaled off of a single define, the value of a crate sold on the cargo shuttle.
> Yes, I'd like an APPLE. It's worth 3124151 CREDITS. NO, I don't know why the apple juice in the vendor is worth 415 CREDITS, nor do I CARE, GOOD MAN.
From the back end, everything is scaled off the same define now. Paygrades are defined off of a different scale still, but that's fine. You know, from the cargo end of things, that a cargo player needs to ship off X number of empty metal crates to purchase a laser crate, or a pizza crate. Definate relationships help in solidifying the singular value of a product.
If we decide that we want to rescale the in-game economy and provide space credits with more granularity, at least we know we can do it with a single line of code, and not looking at every single instance of something that charges the player money.
### Arconomy Tangent: We gotta nuke gas selling.
This has been a long time coming and I know people are going to be upset at me, but look man.
I have no idea how selling moles of gas works these days. It seems like with minimal resources, true atmos wizards are able to make singular cans of gasses with infinite moles of some kind of gas, and if it's exotic enough, they can make upwards of a million credits a can. I've seen multiple occasions where selling gas cans to cargo has allowed for players to buy a bike.
For our Gen-Z zoomers reading this, players were never meant to BUY the bike. The bike is just a reskinned scooter meant as a cute little pokemon joke. If a player can actually buy a bike in a round, that's a sign that someone, somewhere, fucked up.
We fucked up the whole system with atmos gas selling.
We've now gone through metas of extracting miasma from lavaland for credits, we've gone through a meta where cargo starts building their own hydrogen burn chambers for simply produced gasses, we've seen time and time again that processed gasses in the funny space simulator just tends to be abused to death and back. I've had talks with TheFinalPotato on this in the past, and it just feels like a system that would need to be rewritten from the ground up, or looked at in terms of the whole cargo department. If I don't get to it first, the next cargo design doc someone writes **SHOULD**.
## Giving jobs content that integrates into the economy can be really fun.
Tourism bots and the baked in ingredient shopping is fun! It's enabled for a fluff job that doesn't have too terribly much by way of serious responsibilites to integrate active income minigames into the gameplay of chefs and bartenders. It's fully optional, it's quick, and it's not even a full shift investment.
These secondary tasks, which utilize jobs core gameplay loops in a new way, while rewarding them within the in-game economy are a decent way to keep players engaged with their jobs, and allow for them to use credits as a player resource as well as a primary job resource.
**I AM NOT SAYING** that all jobs need to find tasks to arbitrarily reward players with credits for. The reason it works so well for jobs like the chef or bartender is because their job is already to make food and drinks, but they have so many options that they're not encouraged to make too wide of a variety of food, especially when botanists won't always make everything you need. The food market gives them an outlet to buy outlier ingredients and the tourists pay handsomely enough that you can offset your costs most or the time.
I'll break this down as well into the three different methods of money-making in game as well, to guide someone on how to make good, secondary income content.
| Primary | Secondary | Tertiary |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| This is something like passive paycheck income. You get this just purely for playing the game, and staying alive. | This is an active trade off between your job's specific content, where you are trading your time for something it is directly your responsibility to do. Eg. Tourist Bots. | An active task you are performing for income, but lacks the specialization of a job. EG. Bounties. |
Jobs that excell at more service based tasks and less production based tasks should aim to aquire more seconary style economy integration, like medical, science, or security.
## The options for moving money around the station are actually pretty decent, but could be streamlined
Bounty boards are pretty decent at being a way to pay crew members for single service jobs. However, bounty boards are pretty much dead content, in a sense. There's not much incentive to hunt down your department's bounty board.
Similarly, most crew would just prefer to hand credits out by hand to prevent most kinds of abuse of their own credit supply.
Long term and certainly a major personal outcome I'd like to see: Bounty boards and Newscasters should be merged together. Newscasters have some truely awful spaghetti and their being held together by shoe-strings and duct tape (This is slang for HTML). Bounty boards are... well they're functional, but they have the benefit of being built in TGUI. Merging the two's functions should cut down on wall-space, as well as improve the quality of a vast deal of code, and make money transfer on station slightly easier.
Honestly, pretty happy with vend-a-trays. They're pretty decent store-machines on station and do their job pretty well when they get used. All in all I'm happy with how they work.
Custom Vendors are clunky to a fairly major degree and I don't think most players get how to make them work on account of need a price tagger (not a sales tagger, that's the cargo item) to mark an object for it's sale value, then load it into a custom vendor sales unit, then load it into a custom vending machine, and that's only IF custom vending machines decide to work this year. Streamlining the tools, or perhaps just vending machines would certainly improve this as a service.
## Just ain't enough cool stuff to buy with credits.
An ever-present problem, that we're just kinda stuck with. There's a decent number of issues involved with making content that can safely be gated with just credits.
* If it's usable as a weapon, is it too dangerous to hand out to the crew at large?
* Does security get potential oversight?
* If it's illegal, does it go through cargo?
* Does it HAVE to go through cargo?
* If it's beneficial, is it going to invalidate the existance of a job? (Think old medkits!)
* Is there anything that players WANT that's not a weapon, benefical to the station but not too strong, or quite literally traitor equipment?
It's a tough question.
Some items make complete sense to implement on a per job basis as either uncommon or premium equipment, while other items could potentially be moved to station-wide unique purchasables.
# Takeaways:
Look, these are just some possible solutions that I'm considering. I think that working alongside a maintainer who could actually give a damn on getting this system orderly and possibly alligned with our current design philosophy (Who also understands that a not-insignificant amount of current economy was abitrarly written by goofball an actual decade ago) could help iron this out into a clear and consise set of goals and milestones to make the in-game economy workable. Not balanced, but workable.
* **Design a simple simulation for per round intake and outtake, to determine benchmark values for a 90 minute round.**
It would need to look something like this, as a kind of fucked up, Multi-Input Multi-Output Control Problem. Possibly could be done in simulink, but I'm not quite sure how to do that at this moment, so a less complex version might be fine.
* **Look back at implementing crewmember incomes, but at a flat, more consistant rate over all jobs**
My leading idea: 50 credit, uniform paygrade. No wild, unscaled pay rates based on what job is "important" or not.
That line of thinking means that certain jobs should have more expensive equipment over other jobs, but then we're right back to the captain thinking that a cup of coffee is practically free where an assistant thinks that a screwdriver from the vendor is going to put them out of house and home.
Improves time-relationship values with credits.
This could lead way to heads of staff having some degree of control to giving raises or paycuts to crew-members, but perhaps at a very, VERY gradual rate.
* **Perform another big-picture look at bounty cubes.**
Potentially try to put bounties back in the hands of cargo, while still providing payouts to crewmates who assist in completing jobs. This may require some minor refactoring of the pricetag component, perhaps to even allow for multiple crewmembers to recieve profit from a payout.
This means once again, look at making bounties workable for all jobs on the station, not making the objects requested literal lathe-fodder, and finding ways to benefit the station in some way with the task of bounty cubes, even if it's just for credits.
Deceptively hard task.
* **Add secondary tasks that integrate the economy into non-bounty-able jobs/departments**
Like it says on the tin, look into ways to add content that improves economy integration into existing jobs, without necessarily changing what those jobs DO. The bounties for those jobs can still exist as a tertiary thing, but should be made clear that they're... tertiary.
Chefs still make food and bartenders still serve drinks, but they have a way to hand them out for fun and profit.
Some thoughts and ways to handle this potentially:
*Science:* Perform intricate testing on anomalous materials using science equipment. Should NOT REWARD RESEARCH POINTS. Mr. OJ Headcoder will CHEMICALLY CASTRATE me, or you, if you do.
*Medical:* Complete tricky or non-standard surgeries on dummies for medical data. Think like that meme from the TV show, House.
"He needs Mouse bites to live. MORE MOUSE BITES."
*Engineering:* Repair wacky machines that use both station-standard parts as well as solving quick puzzles.
* **Look into more effective money sinks that are dynamic sensitive**
Think, for example, about the station ransom event that spawns space pirates.
What if instead of the captain just dumping credits from the cargo budget into the aether to prevent pirate spawns (They're bugged anyway to my knowledge to spawn anyway), crewmates had to cough up that dough before a time-limit, or risk a pirate spawn. For those of you who were scratching their heads at (Operational Costs!?) in the above controls diagram, this is the sort of thing I mean.
Little, smaller things that might need to be purchased, invested in, or otherwise drain credits from the station over the course of the round.
# Arconomy 2.0: Smarter, Better, Flashier.
## Roundstart
Players begin each shift with a set amount of money, with the value being mostly uniform over the course of a shift assuming no interaction with economy. Jobs are split up into only 3 paygrades, Minimal, Crew, and Command. Minimal is reserved for jobs that are meant to fill population counts but lack a specialization, like prisoner and assistant. When starting the shift, a player will start with 5 paychecks worth of savings. This system is not designed for persistance, so you will always be able to tell how much money a player starts out with. Every 5 minutes, aka every economy tick, the player will recieve one paycheck, which is capped out at the standard crew member paycheck. This means that even if you start the shift as the captain, and begin the shift with 500 credits, you will recieve the same 50 credits as regular crew members.
| Minimal Paycheck | Crew Paycheck | Command Paycheck | Frequency |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |--------|
| 125 Cr | 250 Cr | 500 Cr | Roundstart |
| 25 Cr | 50 Cr | 50 Cr | Passive Income |
## Product Prices
Products found in vending machines are defined by the amount of a player's paycheck they're meant to cost. Regular items use the PAYCHECK_CREW value, while more expensive or otherwise prohibitive items are defined by PAYCHECK_COMMAND. Items are defined in this uniform, horizontal fashion in order to maintain the equal value of credits over all jobs. A 100 credit medkit in medical should have the same value to a doctor as it does to a botanist.
Jobs apply a discount to vending within their own department, so an engineering would have a discount on tools, and a doctor would have a discount on sutures. Items that are important to gameplay progression in a role are less expensive to their intended users.
> **AUTHORS NOTE:** I am considering removing in-department discounts. In the benefit of making the value of purchasables more universal, deciding that credits shouldn't be spent within their own department just seems... rather fucking stupid.
> Possibly move the discount to only the first few minutes of the shift, or perhaps as some kind of gameplay benefit to slowly increase in-department discount through gameplay milestones? Who knows 👻
>
Some jobs have premium, high value items stocked in their vending machines that are not meant to be purchased at roundstart. These are meant to encourage players to save or combine resources to gain access. An example of this is insulated gloves. Other high value items can also be found in contraband through hacking vending machines. This remains unchanged.
## Markets
The cargo department has been changed in order to improve player involvement with the economy, as well as to give cargo more variety in their merchandise while preventing a singular stale meta of products to purchase from.
Yes, I'm looking at you, russian surplus crate.
Lets start with what's remaining the same:
* Cargo is a department that manages imports and exports of products, fulfilling departmental orders, and aquiring supplies dependent on the station's state.
* Cargo encompasses the station's mail, mining, and flow of orders, as well as drone exploration.
* A skilled cargo member is able to find high value items to sell back to centcom in exchange for more funds, to purchase those supplies.
* Centcom may request bounties which crew can fulfill in exchange for credits, if they wish for additional work.
**Now for the new design flow:**
Cargo starts out with a new mechanic called a market. Markets hold existing export datums as well as purchasable products. The values of items will fluxuate up and down based on the market status, with in-game events or player actions raising or lowering the values of specific markets.
At roundstart, cargo has a single market to sell to, which is Nanotransen. This will not incapsulate all the existing export datums in the game, just the *primary* exports that are used by players. Items that are exclusive to nanotrasen and required to play certain game modes, like mindshield implants or being able to sell crates, are included and will always be available to purchase.
Additional markets can be unlocked through gameplay sources, such as:
| Market Name | Source | Imports/Exports |
| -------- | -------- |- |
| The Syndicate | Emagging/Hacking the Console | Illegal Goods/Contraband |
| The Clown Planet Commerse | Discovering the clown planet ruin | Pies, Horns, Pranking Equipment |
|Terragov Sector Security Surplus | Killing any megafauna. | Weapons, Ammunition, Advanced Riot Gear. |
| Mekki Materials Co. | Recovered loot from Exodrones | Materials and industrial equipment. |
|Donk Co.| As a tip from tourist robots. | Foods and Drinks, Toys and Games.|
|Waffle Co.| As above. | Bootleg products and wacky merchandise. |
|The Research Consortium| Reward for completing any experiment tree. | Slime Cores, RnD Artifacts, Robotics Equipment |
...And more, if I can think of more.
The purpose being, of course, to split up cargo's purchasable goods to be more instanced and unique, while also create unique situations where due to profitable markets, very specific exports are needed to help the department make money.
End of document for now :@ArcaneMusic
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Price Shifting
So, in-game items that have prices have a major issue on their hands, being that they were decided by how much money that job should make. This means that many of the jobs in-game have been given prices scaled to their job's income. That income I adjusted by removing passive income in #54161. While this was helpful to moving towards an active in-game economy, it resulted in items falling into distinct price brackets. A high paying job like security's items could never be purchased by someone like a botanist, but a job like a security officer had more capital and buying power than most other jobs in-game combined when moving down those brackets. We've done a simple normalization of scale to help in bring things closer to a semblance of equality.
There are now 3 price brackets, PAYCHECK_LOW, PAYCHECK_CREW, and PAYCHECK_COMMAND. Command staff will still have a higher base level of money on-hand than other crew, and low paying wages that we on-station don't respect as being real jobs (assistant, prisoner) will have their items be intentionally cheaper to encourage active participation in the economy, but the difference in scale is now noticeably far closer to each other. This means that assistants can still interact with the economy as spenders, but if they want to be doing a lot of work with money, they'll need to put in work. Additionally, this means we arbitrarily enforce a system that allows for items to have uniformity in what they cost to other players. 50 credits for a wrench feels better when you know that other job critical items in-game are also around the same price, and it's equivalent to one paycheck.
Paychecks are reintroduced
Economy lost it's relationship to time. In a game where a single round takes 90+ minutes (Backed up not only by the head-coder's design direction as well as plenty of aggregate round data), having a relationship to time and how long it takes to afford something is a major consideration when you look at buying something. Also, we get to say that I was certifiably wrong in regards to the active economy thing, since we have very, VERY few active sources of content in-game that are very... fun? Bounties are literal fetch quests but something like tourists is at least more engaging and interactive with the round, and should be the direction we want economy-job integration to head in.
Between having inflation as a price manipulation mechanic already in the code, as well as prices being roughly equalized in terms of their costs between jobs and their impact on the round, this allows for the reintroduction of paychecks to an extent.
As an additional note, doing this meant tweaking down the syndicate briefcase of cash, so that instead of giving you 5000 credits for 1 TC, it now costs 5 TC to accompany the fact that this is now a rather significant amount of money, even on decently high population. Fun fact: the Syndicate Briefcase of Cash actually PREDATES the economy, and was NEVER ADJUSTED beyond the original implementation of the economy as a result!
Gas Exports.
ALRIGHT ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GRAPHS? I THOUGHT SO, YOU LOVE GRAPHS.
So, gas exports are fucked, have always been fucked, and consistently have proven to be capable of breaking the in-game economy for a long time. This is no secret, I've been pinged with players getting billions, actual billions of credits using it multiple times in as many years. See, any round where a player manages to buy the bicycle is a round where I've fucked up, or someone fucked and I let it get past me.
So here's how gas exports work right now.
So, all of this hinges on the value of a single mole of gas, and some gasses enable you to make extremely, EXTREMELY profitable gasses through atmospheric gas wizardry However, even those less profitable gasses are still in an extremely high magnitude of value.
Most gasses if you have a full can of it will net you OVER 10k credits. For scale, one crate being sold in cargo is 200 credits.
That's a minimum of crates for pumping gas into a hollow metal box and praying it doesn't explode.
So we adjusted the values accordingly.
The baseline value of a single gas has been tweaked downward significantly. Even these values are still arguably very high, but I can play with it at the discretion of LemonintheDark. The green line at the top represents gasses that previously sold for 100 credits per mole, antinobilium I believe, and working downwards. I am going to try and enforce 10 credits per mole as the absolute maximum hard cap on gas exports, regardless of how many gasses we try to add in the future. Because the alternative is getting a gunjillion credits by huffing miasma into a tank of steel. And we ain't having that shit.
Lathe Tax
Part of the testing for this PR involved me modeling the SS13 economy in a given round as a kind of controls problem, with each source of income introduced in the round as a kind of input (Passive Income, Bounties, Tourists) in order to get a handle on roughly how much income a single round of SS13 will see per player on the given designed round-length, in order to estimate how much things are going to cost. Modeling how much players spend on a given round is variable enough that it'd be too difficult to accurately test without just throwing this up on a server and getting live data.
However, from the appearance of my dataset, players would be making a LOT more money nowadays with all of the above changes implemented. In an attempt to curve that intake, I attempted to implement a small, low scale tax of printing items that would take a small amount of players income every time they print, as a way to add a basic economic side-effect to this mechanic.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a mixed decision. So, maintainers came up with an intended direction they want to see it, as they wanted to make sure that economy would remain a secondary system, that could still have an impact on round direction and the changes they want to see in the game.
So, here's the intent:
Lathe tax should exist in the form of printing things from protolathes outside of your department, not on autolathes or your own protolathe.
We want to promote people talking and collaborating to access things if it's outside the scope of their department and they still want it, with theft still being a viable avenue of gameplay.
Players will be charged 10 credits for printing a set of items not from their own protolathe, each. Printing an item can be paid for from your own ID card's bank account automatically, but the payment component has been buffed to handle physical money alternatives, as well as pulled money, similar to the luxury shuttle scanner gate's behavior.
Borgs are still enabled to print from lathes, however instead of it costing them credits, they now take a self-significant power cost in order to do so, preventing them from being used as a roving bank account for printing. I'll look into this further as we don't want to invalidate mechanics like borgs being able to do organ based surgery or building machinery, but we don't want them to become credit cards, so place that under advisement.
Tweaks and Updates:
(Suggested by Ziiro) If the revolutionaries win, centcom will no longer enforce the Lathe Tax.
(Suggested by about ~1000 people independently between my DMs, Reddit threads, the Feedback Thread, and elsewhere)
Printing items only taxes you once per print. EG: If you print 10 Kitchen Knifes as an assistant from the service lathe, you will only be charged once instead of 10 times.
For many of the reasons that I outlined above, this is a good change in a positive direction.
Players get more ability to interact with the economy without having to do content that's becoming increasingly depreciated in my absence.
Players also have a baseline consensus on what values of credits are high and low because jobs have been given an equalized standard in regards to the cost of certain items.
Price fluctuations through inflation will now be more meaningful in situations where the economy becomes more relevant.
The system will still encourage you to play a job that's productive to the status of the station through lower paycheck jobs existing as well.
Gas exports are now reduced to the point that their value is appropriate for the first time... actually ever. Nice.
The values of nearly every item purchasable by players has been rebalanced.
Players will now start with less starting money, but will receive a paycheck once every 5 minutes.
The value of gasses exported through the cargo department have been skewed way, WAY down in terms of price.
The Syndicate briefcase of cash now contains now costs 5 TC, up from 1 TC, for 5000 credits.
Printing items from lathes on station now costs a fee of 10 credits per item printed if it's from a lathe not under your department.
The payment component has received additional handling for physical credits, as well as pulled credits/ID cards for those without hands.
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AnturK
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Removes over/underlays on special planes from statues. (#66003)
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John Willard
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standardizes default unfasten wrench (#65425)
I'll do more in the future but I'll limit myself to this because I'm tired, bored, and don't want to make so many PRs touching the same things that I have to deal with conflicts each time one is merged. Just as an example, screwdriver's gotta be done as well, does the exact same thing wrenches do, I believe. Standardizes (and touches) each time default_unfasten_wrench is used. Fixes tool logs, since it relies on tool acts to exist, I'm trying to move as many tool acts to its proper proc. Like a spiritual successor to the tool superpack PRs. Co-authored-by: Luc <89928798+lewcc@users.noreply.github.com> |
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Ghom
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cbaee87b8d |
Fixes large persistent paintings being shown off the wall (#65868)
* fixes persistent paintings not being offset. * no |
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Ghom
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4d41a2186a |
Changes the values of the pen colour variable from color name to hexadecimal (#65553)
About The Pull Request See the title. Hexadecimal values are better than color names for programming since they can be sanitized and are more easily converted to RGB(A) or HSV. Color names aren't really meant to be used in some functions and methods about colors. TL;DR: color names don't work with the Color common package in the TGUI folder. Why It's Good For The Game This will remove the need of a hacky bandaid from /obj/item/canvas/proc/get_paint_tool_color that only covers about half the pen colors anyway. Changelog cl fix: Fixed certain pens breaking painting on a canvas because of their peculiar colors. /cl |
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Ghom
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3bc48ce599 | Extra-large painting canvases: 36x24 and 45x27 (#65642) | ||
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Ghom
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d5a27d3149 |
Fixing a couple issues I've introduced with canvases. (#65626)
* Fixing a couple issues with canvases that I've introduced. |
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Ghom
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df5b87a9b6 |
Painting improvement: Added a palette component for spraycans and palette items. (#65577)
* Painting improvement: Added a palette component for spraycans and palettes. |
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Ghom
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ac88a9a57f |
Becoming the patron of a painting now lets you select a different, persistent appearance for the frame it's in. (#65305)
* Painting frame selection for patrons, painting json version update. |
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Tim
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ea176dad32 | Change hydroponics tray and chem dispenser AltClick behavior to be used by RMB (#64939) | ||
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Tim
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612808cbd2 |
Rotation component refactor and improvements (#64441)
This adds some new defines and flags for the rotation component that lets us remove lots of c/p code chunks. I also added documentation to all the rotation defines that currently exist and in other spots that had weird behavior. New rotation flags: ROTATION_GHOSTS_ALLOWED - checks if ghosts are able to manipulate objects in config and lets them rotate the object ROTATION_IGNORE_ANCHORED - this skips checking if an object is anchored (which normally prevents us from rotating) Used mainly for chairs. ROTATION_NO_FLIPPING - this removes the flip verb from possible right click rotation options. Used for pipes that have custom flipping verbs instead ROTATION_NEEDS_ROOM - this checks if an object needs to have an empty spot available in target direction. Used for windows and railings. Objects can now be rotated in the direction based on which LMB or RMB you click with when you ALT click it. LMB is counter clockwise. RMB is clockwise. Before some objects could only be rotated clockwise. Now any object that inherits the rotation component can be rotated in either direction. There was also a bug with wheelchairs that existed from when they were ported over from another codebase. The rotation logic was broken and never allowed anyone to rotate them. This has been fixed. Rotation for IV_drips was enabled however Alt Click was being used for another proc and rotation was ignored because of this. I removed the rotation component due to this since I didn't want to change the hotkeys for IV drips since those have an actual effect on gameplay interactions while rotation does not. Fingerprints are no longer added when something gets rotated. Only a few objects had this enabled but I believe this interaction was very spammy and unnecessary. I can readd this as a flag if needed but for now it's removed. Alert balloons have replaced a lot of rotation to_chat() messages for the same reason as fingerprints. Rotating objects has almost no effect on gameplay and will only clutter a player's message log. The hotkeys for pipe interactions had to be redone since Alt clicking was already being used in some situations. For regular pipes: Right clicking now changes the pipe layer. Alt clicking rotates the pipe. For Trinary pipes: Right clicking now flips the pipe device. Alt clicking rotates the device. ComponentInitialize() is a deprecated function and the AddComponent proc was moved to Initialize for several objects. |
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Jeremiah
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30253cf6a8 | Tgui input refresh (#64331) | ||
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Jeremiah
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cdfd5df7be |
Refactors pay stands + custom vendors (#63889)
I am disgruntled by the way pay stations work. They're not intuitive, they're a pain to build and have no interface. Basically: They don't get made, and the potential is lost.
Pay stands => Holopay
Summoned by right clicking your ID
Disappears if the card is out of range.
New TGUI window that offers more customization
Other bundled fixes:
Custom vendors become more user friendly
Code improvement
Lots of documentation + refactoring
New bundled number input will likely take place of animated number in tgui input number
Why It's Good For The Game
More RP opportunity for players, plus bug fixes. It's now much easier for players to start their own in game business selling substances clown shoes.
Changelog
cl
code: Created a new input component that accepts only integers. More usage to come.
refactor: Pay stands are now holographic. It's 2562! Create one by right-clicking your ID.
del: Circuit boards for pay stands.
refactor: Pay stands now have their own TGUI.
fix: Custom vendors now alert you when someone makes a purchase.
fix: Custom vendors now place items in your hand when you make a purchase.
/cl
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tralezab
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c3216c031c |
chisel, bane of statues (#64047)
* chisels deal 40x damage to statues |
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Jeremiah
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9c6fdb567d |
TGUI list conversions + bug fixes (#63354)
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 #63629
Fixes #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
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Jeremiah
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dcab86ba2c | More standard tgui input conversions (#63464) | ||
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AnturK
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39308f9dc6 |
Paintings improvements. (#63170)
About The Pull Request
Paintings can now do stroke painting.
Added painting management panel for admins.
Paintings now display author's character name, year of painting, medium and patron when hung on wall.
You can become new patron by paying more than the previous one.
Added painter's palettes to library vendor. (Sprites by @Mickyan )
Backend changes:
Images are now stored in /data/paintings/images/*.png instead of /data/paintings/[category]/*.png
Old categories are now just tags
Screens & Video
Changelog
cl
add: You can now become patron of your favorite painting by buying sponsorship from Nanotrasen Trust Foundation.
add: Painter's palettes are now available at library vendor.
qol: Can use strokes in paintings now
/cl
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vincentiusvin
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3bb8424d78 |
Makes welding plasma bars/statues/floors use flooder component (#63154)
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com> |
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esainane
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b6f761468e |
[MDB IGNORE] dir sanity, primarily on WALLITEMs (#62601)
About The Pull Request
Wall items mostly use the direction from the floor to the wall in the named mapping helper. Wall items mostly use the direction from the wall to the floor for the internal dir variable.
This leads to a headache when it comes to working out what conflicts with what, and what needs placing where.
Wall frames provided a member, inverse, which specified whether or not to invert the direction of the item when looking for conflicts. It was also used to specify whether to look for conflicts outside of the wall (cameras and lights appear external to the wall) or inside the wall (most wall items). This flag was set for Intercoms, APCs, and Lights. Since APCs and Lights expect a floor-to-wall direction, and Intercoms expect a wall-to-floor direction, this means that APCs and Lights were getting the correct direction, and Intercoms were getting the wrong direction.
Some implications of this setup were:
You could build an APC on top of another wall item, provided there was nothing external attached to the wall and the area didn't have an APC.
You could stack Intercoms indefinitely on top of the same wall, provided you weren't in a one-tile wide corridor with something on the opposite wall.
Or both! Here's twenty Intercoms placed on the wall, and a freshly placed APC frame after placing all Intercoms and deconstructing the old APC:
endless-stack-of-intercoms
Not everything used this inverse variable to adjust to the correct direction. For example, /obj/machinery/defibrillator_mount just used a negative pixel_offset to be visually placed in the correct direction, even though the internal direction was wrong, and never set! This also let you stack an indefinite number of defib mounts on the same wall, provided it wasn't a northern wall... except you could do this to northern walls too, since defibs weren't considered a wall item for the purposes of checking collisions at all!
Ultimately, every constructable interior wall item either used this inverse variable to adjust to the correct placement, set a negative pixel_offset variable to have its offset adjusted to the correct placement, or overrode New or Initialize to run its own checks and assignment to pixel_x and pixel_y!
Inventory: Table of various paths, related paths, and the adjustments they used
Unfortunately, untangling /obj/structure/sign is going to be another major headache, and this has already exploded in scope enough already, so we can't get rid of the get_turf_pixel call just yet. This also doesn't fix problems with the special 2x1 /obj/structure/sign/barsign.
Some non-wall items have been made to use the new MAPPING_DIRECTIONAL_HELPERS as part of the directional cleanup.
tl;dr: All wall mounted items and some directional objects now use the same direction that they were labelled as. More consistent directional types everywhere.
Why It's Good For The Game
fml
Changelog
cl
refactor: Wall mounted and directional objects have undergone major internal simplification. Please report anything unusual!
fix: You can no longer stack an indefinite amount of Intercoms on the same wall.
fix: Defibrillator Mounts, Bluespace Gas Vendors, Turret Controlers, and Ticket Machines are now considered wall items.
fix: Wall mounted items on top of the wall now consistently check against other items on top of the wall, and items coming out of the wall now consistently check against other items coming out of the wall.
fix: The various directional pixel offsets within an APC, Fire Extinguisher Cabinet, Intercom, or Newscaster have been made consistent with each other.
fix: The pixel offsets of Intercoms, Fire Alarms, Fire Extinguisher Cabinets, Flashers, and Newscasters have been made consistent between roundstart and constructed instances.
fix: Constructed Turret Controls will no longer oddly overhang the wall they were placed on.
qol: Defibrillator mounts now better indicate which side of the wall they are on.
fix: Some instances where there were multiple identical lights on the same tile have been fixed to only have one.
/cl
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John Willard
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6c0aba5da4 |
removes double spaces AFTER symbols (#62515)
* removes double spaces AFTER symbols * found more |
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Mickyan
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0169678237 |
Adds art stuff to the library games vendor (#62253)
* added game vendor art stuff * spaces, ai canvas to premium |
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Ghilker
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cb5fb1df2d |
modules/atmospherics major cleanup (#61904)
major cleanup of modules/atmospherics folder and all related files, still many missing -cleanup of procs name -cleanup of vars name -documentation of some of the procs -minor changes to some for() logic (no in game changes just early continue or as anything checks) No in game changes, only code and docs |
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tralezab
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6c01cc2c01 |
every case of initialize that should have mapload, does (#61623)
## 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` |
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Mothblocks
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5a4c87a9fc |
tgui Preferences Menu + total rewrite of the preferences backend (#61313)
About The Pull Request Rewrites the entire preferences menu in tgui. Rewrites the entire backend to be built upon datumized preferences, rather than constant additions to the preferences base datum. Splits game preferences into its own window. Antagonists are now split into their individual rulesets. You can now be a roundstart heretic without signing up for latejoin heretic, as an example. This iteration matches parity, and provides very little new functionality, but adding anything new will be much easier. Fixes #60823 Fixes #28907 Fixes #44887 Fixes #59912 Fixes #58458 Fixes #59181 Major TODOs Quirk icons, from @Fikou (with some slight adjustments from me) Lore text, from @EOBGames (4/6, need moths and then ethereal lore from @AMonkeyThatCodes) Heavy documentation on how one would add new preferences, species, jobs, etc A lot of specialized testing so that people's real data don't get corrupted Changelog cl Mothblocks, Floyd on lots of the design refactor: The preferences menu has been completely rewritten in tgui. refactor: The "Stop Sounds" verb has been moved to OOC. /cl |
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tralezab
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4d7f2952e4 |
[READY] Adds memory system, and engraving walls with chisels (#60302)
Co-authored-by: MonkeyThatCodes <monkey> Co-authored-by: MonkeyThatCodes <MonkeyThatCodes@deez.com> Co-authored-by: Watermelon914 <3052169-Watermelon914@users.noreply.gitlab.com> Co-authored-by: AMonkeyThatCodes <20987591+AMonkeyThatCodes@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Watermelon914 <37270891+Watermelon914@users.noreply.github.com> |
