## About The Pull Request
Adds a new station trait: Radioactive Nebula!
The station is located inside a radioactive nebula. Space background and
lighting is different shades of green. Objects in space will also glow
green. (This is kinda lying, since the glowing stuff isn't radioactive,
you just get an element that slowly irradiates you, though people and
certain objects that get the 'IRRADIATED' status may still double-whammy
you)
Do not go into space without rad-protected gear, or you will get very
sick very fast. RAD-protection MODsuit modules spawn in robotics and are
also immediately researched.
The nebula does protect against external threats, like pirates, ninja's
and nukies. They can still get to the station pretty well, but they
can't stay in space for extended periods of time
To make it more livable, public rad protection gear will spawn in
lockers around the station. Everyone will also spawn with potassium
iodide pills in their emergency box. Dynamics threat is also reduced by
30, so there's a proclivity towards more lower threat rounds when the
radioactive nebula is present. Radioactive resonance virus cannot be
generated though, since it kinda obliterates any and all challenge and
threat
**Shielding**
In order to protect the station from radiation, nebula shielding units
need to be constructed. Five spawn ready-to-built in engineering, and
more can be bought pretty cheap from cargo. (Normal radstorms are
disabled)
The gravity generator has 20 minutes of innate shielding, where every
nebula shielding unit adds another 20 minutes. 5 are needed to
completely block all radiation even when the gravity gen is down, but
constructing more is recommended in-case of sabotage/destructions/power
outtages.
Active nebula shielding will passively generate tritium. You can either
vent/ignore this, or use it for something. I'm not an atmos tech but I'm
sure you can do something with it
_What happens when no shielding units are constructed/they all fail?_
The station will suffer a 5 minute long radiation storm, with only
shuttles being excempt. The storm is nerfed strongly, and you can tank
the 5 minutes, but you'll be pretty sick. After the 5 minutes are over,
central command will send an emergency shielding unit which will block
the radiation for 10 minutes and warn the station to set up nebula
shielding.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The station being inside a radioactive nebula shakes up a pretty major
aspect of the game (that being the 'space' in space station 13). Hallway
decals are colored green, display screens will display radiation
markings, carps blend with the nebula, etc. Putting the station inside a
radioactive nebula shakes up the rules of the game and what people can
expect. Suddenly, you can no longer just go outside without taking meds
or getting proper radiation protection, encouraging people to stay cozy
and inside.
Inside, the crew gets the goal to set-up radiation shielding to defend
themselves against the nebula, rewarding a creative engineering
department with passive resource income and protecting the station
against massive radiation storms. I think it's nice to give engineering
something to set up. Even if they don't care, they can just plop it down
somewhere in a closed room and be done with it.
The radiation storm is pretty aggressive, but very survivable if you use
your potassium iodide pills, the extra radiation suits or whatever
chemistry has whipped up.
Most importantly, it gives the entire station a common enemy: the
nebula. Everyone is encouraged to prepare against the mechanics.
Chemistry can make meds, viro can make protective virusses, robotics
gets encouraged to make radprotected MODsuits, engineering gets to
set-up radiation shielding, assistants can look at space or whatever
assistants do.
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## Changelog
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add: Adds a new rare radioactive nebula station trait! Get ready and
PREPARE, before it gets in...
tweak: Nearstation space area lighting may look slightly different
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Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
Adds a latejoin form of Changeling flavored as a stowaway.
## Why It's Good For The Game
We don't have a latejoin form of Changelings. It ups the paranoia that
anyone can be a Changeling, latejoin or not. They're also one of the few
non-progression antagonists which would work perfectly as a late join.
## Changelog
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add: Stowaway Changelings will now appear as a late join form of
Changeling.
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Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jeremiah <42397676+jlsnow301@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
This PR updates the dynamic.json file to add in entries for midround
rulesets which got added later in the code but never added to the
config. Also, gives them the _proper_ ascii art in the code, which aids
in navigation.
## Why It's Good For The Game
No need for server hosts to scratch their heads at why some dynamic
rulesets just aren't present in the configuration for some reason.
## Changelog
🆑
config: All dynamic midround rulesets are now properly accounted for in
the dynamic.json config.
/🆑
What the title says. But why?
I generally have a rule when making a contribution, that is "don't make the game less fun"
I'm not salting, I didn't die to a swarmer.
... Yet that's the problem. Swarmers are the griefiest antag in the game, but when you complain that they're annoying or unfun, you're doomed to hear "lol they can't even hurt you though."
WELL THAT ACTUALLY MAKES THEM WORSE. I would rather die to a hundred xenos and space dragons than be forced to untie myself in maintenance for 45 seconds while the shuttle leaves.
Why It's Good For The Game
Unfun game modes should be removed from the game.
Being griefed by swarmers is annoying
Playing as a swarmer is not very exciting either. Click on iron.
lastly, because oranges authorized it
Changelog
cl
del: Removes swarmers! The griefiest, lowest fun value antagonist is removed from the game.
/cl
Removes all /datum/game_mode except dynamic. Eventually, all of mode and game_mode will be removed, and Dynamic will become an ingrained system. Every single other gamemode was unmaintained at best and poisoned other code at worst. Currently all tg servers run 24/7 Dynamic, so the time to act is now.
* Remove gamemode references from age checks
* Monkey
* Remove heretics
* Remove BBs
* Refactor uplinks and remove clown ops
* Remove nuke ops
* Removes and refactors cult
* Remove extended
* Remove and move out meteors
* Removes wizard
* Remove sandbox
* Remove changelings
* Remove traitors
* Remove revs
* Remove gangs
* Remove changing mode and voting for new gamemodes
* get_candidates signature fix
* Summon ERT and NERD in their own panel
* Remove some old unneeded age_check stuff
* Fix old signatures of get_uplink_items
* Use Extended like config for dynamic.json
* Fix discounted gear
About The Pull Request
Dynamic 2021, among much other things, splits the threat level into two separate budgets, one for round start and one for midround/latejoin. You can read the design doc, plus methodology and charts here: https://hackmd.io/@tgstation/S1C4dYJkO.
To server owners: this is incompatible with current dynamic.json configurations. This is not just because some fields have different values now, but because the older values are not balanced towards this system.
Inidividual list of changes (as I remember them):
Threat level is now split into two separate budgets, one for round start and one for midround/latejoin.
In TESTING, you can now run dynamic simulations to see the roundstart picks.
antag_cap is now based on an equation rather than a fixed list of antags per indice--the old system is not scalable. You can now pass it either a number for a fixed constant, or a list with "denominator" and an optional "offset" to fit the equation ceil(x / denominator) + offset, with x being population.
Midround/latejoin timers are now vars on /datum/game_mode/dynamic itself, and thus can be configured by head admins per server.
Removes some older, as far as I can tell completely unused admin tools relating to dynamic.
autotraitor_cooldown is now properly respected from config, and is based on an exact time rather than on ticks (450 used to be 15 minutes, now it's just 15 MINUTES).
The rulesets dynamic chooses are now in a dynamic.json file in round logs. Relies on tgstation/tgstation13.org#64 to be public.
Adds more logging to the autotraitor ruleset for admins.
Midround/latejoin chance modifiers are now configurable.
Labelled "Do Not Merge", as the design doc outlines the specific playtesting schedule I would like to perform.
Note to self: Remove the custom MOTD before merge.
Why It's Good For The Game
(Copied from design doc)
Dynamic currently dumps as much threat as it can into round start threats. This means that rounds at ~50 threat can have an absurd amount of antagonists round start, while leaving very little threat for midround/latejoin antagonists. What inevitably happens is just one of those picked decides to murderbone, leading to the inevitable 20 minute shuttle call. Furthermore, once those antagonists are dead, Dynamic doesn’t have any threat left to spend on new antagonists that keep the round flowing, promoting the mentality of “antags dead, I’m bored, let’s leave”.
The proposed solution of Dynamic 2021 is to split threat level into two separate budgets, one for round start and one for midround/latejoin. This split, like threat level, will also be done on a lorentz curve–meaning that while most rounds will have them evenly split, there is still the possibility of chaotic high antagonist round start rounds, or the possibility of a midround onslaught.
* baby steps.
* baby steps
* Nothing works yet.
* getting closer
* Base modes work
* Squashed some bugs, fixed config.
* small cleanup.
* dynamic.json, spaces to tabs
* Disabled events on dynamic.
Signed-off-by: TheChosenEvilOne <tceo-email@protonmail.com>
* Third and second ruleset probability.
Signed-off-by: TheChosenEvilOne <tceo-email@protonmail.com>
* Highlander ruleset stacking works correctly now.
Signed-off-by: TheChosenEvilOne <tceo-email@protonmail.com>
* Fixed a comment.
Signed-off-by: TheChosenEvilOne <tceo-email@protonmail.com>
* Allow changing variables in game mode with config.
Signed-off-by: TheChosenEvilOne <tceo-email@protonmail.com>
* Continue after invalid variable.
Signed-off-by: TheChosenEvilOne <tceo-email@protonmail.com>
* Changed how revolution ruleset ends the round.
Signed-off-by: TheChosenEvilOne <tceo-email@protonmail.com>
* fixed rule probs, stacking/ready bug, logging.
* More logging.
* Moved persistent check.
* Revs dont end on rev loss.
* Brothers count correctly no.
* Revs no longer makes borgs, deads or off-z players revheads.
* No headrev replacements.
* revs now refund on fail, reviews
* comment
* no game option changes.
