Security treating gangs like revs has had a very negative impact on the experience of gang rounds. With an easy and convenient deconversion method, gangs are easily stomped as they rapidly run out of members to convert. So I'm going to try something different and see how things go if implants in gang mode acted as they are in cult.
- Implants can still prevent conversion, but can no longer deconvert or identify gangsters
- If a recruitment pen fails, the error message the gang boss receives will distinct loyalty implanted individuals from enemy gangsters.
[c9795d3] Writing and formatting tweaks
[65aae64] Tweaks to messages and notices, formatting, and cleanup. (+2 squashed commit)
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[995a61b] I guess I should call them for what they are (9mm)
[0f04213] - tweak: "While attempting a Hostile Takeover, gangs do not gain influence. Instead, the takeover timer will be reduced by how many territories they control."
- tweak: "Tommy guns no longer deal stamina damage."
[202c743] Recruitment Pen cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds for every additional member your rival gang has over yours with a minimum of a 5 second cooldown
[c1a3af3] Pen cooldown = 2 minutes
Fixed gang dominators reporting the wrong time on examine() (+4 squashed commit)
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[78c043e] Pen Cooldown returned to 60 seconds
Spray can cost halved to 5 influence
[4e65dff] - Capped outfits in stock to 10
[1f347a9] Changelog
[615c971] - Added white suits to gang outfits
- Gang outfits are free, but are limited in stock (that replenishes over time) (+2 squashed commit)
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[1f347a9] Changelog
[615c971] - Added white suits to gang outfits
- Gang outfits are free, but are limited in stock (that replenishes over time) (+2 squashed commit)
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[202c743] Recruitment Pen cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds for every additional member your rival gang has over yours with a minimum of a 5 second cooldown
[c1a3af3] Pen cooldown = 2 minutes
Fixed gang dominators reporting the wrong time on examine() (+4 squashed commit)
Squashed commit:
[78c043e] Pen Cooldown returned to 60 seconds
Spray can cost halved to 5 influence
[4e65dff] - Capped outfits in stock to 10
[1f347a9] Changelog
[615c971] - Added white suits to gang outfits
- Gang outfits are free, but are limited in stock (that replenishes over time) (+2 squashed commit)
Squashed commit:
[1f347a9] Changelog
[615c971] - Added white suits to gang outfits
- Gang outfits are free, but are limited in stock (that replenishes over time)
Some tweaks after getting some play tests done.
- Recruitment cooldown increased to 2 minutes
- Gangsters in game modes outside of Gang War cannot recall the shuttle
-Adjusts pressure resistance, which determines how easily things can get pushed around by atmos.
-Most items (handheld stuff) are less resistant, while most larger items (mobs, structures, machinery) are more resistant.
-Removes the cooldown on air pushing stuff, which should make it feel more 'responsive', as opposed to the current push->pause->push->pause effect it does now.
-MAGBOOTS/NOSLIPS NOW PREVENT SPACEWIND PUSHING! !!!
-Adds a little wooshy breeze sound to when you would get pushed
Fixes runtime when putting beaker in autolathe.
Fixes spray can empty message appearing when placing it on a table.
Fixes experimentor manual not having a title.
Fixes runtime with engine goggles updating nearby objects visibility.
Fixes runtime when looking at picture from the AI camera.
Updating the 'can_be_placed_into' list for items so their afterattack don't do anything when placing them in experimentor, autolathe, destructive analyzer.
Fixes soap starting to clean the table when placed on it.
Fixes drinking glasses having capitalized names.
- Fixes hostile animals weakening non carbons, and adjusted weakening values 1958.
- fixes being able to drop defib paddle by resting, fix a runtime linked to this.
- can no longer pick card from deck while resting, same for paper bin and bedsheet bin.
- examining extinguisher and atmos watertank nozzle gives you the amount of water remaining.
- Increased pen cooldown to (15*Gang size)+45 seconds
- Promotion cost now counts how many times you bought that item instead of how many bosses you have, so you can't stockpile on cheap gangtools before promoting anyone
- Gang mode changelog
- Recruitment doesn't cause an obvious seizure any more
- Removed reduced usage on territory spraycans
- Spraycans will notify you if the area you are spraying at is not a valid one for tagging
The coding isn't done yet, but the design is. So comment on the design while I smooth out the code.
tldr; Gang mode rewrite to follow my original vision: Slower and longer rounds with less deathmatching, and a resource both teams have to fight over
NEW OBJECTIVE: CLAIM HALF THE STATION AS TERRITORY
- Gang bosses can spawn special spray cans that can be used to tag areas
- Any gang member can tag areas.
- Gang tags must be removed before another one is placed in the same area
- Game mode no longer automatically ends when the boss dies. It now ends when either the station evacs, or one gang claims more than 50% of the station areas
- Boss can promote gangers into his lieutenants, which basically means adding more bosses
- Lieutenants can do anything bosses can except promote others to lieutenant
NEW RECRUITMENT TOOL: PENS
- Recruitment pens replace flashes
- Looks exactly like a pen. Stab people to recruit them.
- Recruitment is silent but obvious to the perceptive (Causes a brief seizure)
- Cooldown between uses that gets longer as the gang gets larger
NEW TOOL: GANGTOOL
- Replaces the recaller device. Can still recall the shuttle.
- Provides overview information about the gang (membership size, income amount and time)
- Can spawn pistols and ammo
- Can spawn additional recruitment pens
- Can spawn additional gangtools (For personal use, or promoting a single ganger to lieutenant)
NEW CURRENCY SYSTEM: NAME IS WIP
- Gangtools purchase items with new currency with the placeholder name "Supply Points (SP)"
- Supply points are collected every 5 minutes. The more territory a gang has claimed, the more points they get.
- Supply points are accumulated per-gang. Having more gangtools does not intrinsically give you more points to use.
Holidays are now actual datums with procs and vars and everything.
Holidays run a proc called celebrate() when it's time to celebrate them. Currently none of them do anything but that should change, wink wink.
Holidays can now run for more than a day. The important ones, april fools, christmas, halloween, new years, and easter, all last at least a week. The idea is so people can celebrate christmas in game without having to, you know, actually play on fucking christmas. And also to put a time limit on how long stuff like the annoying spookoween closet skeletons will stick around so it doesn't overstay its welcome and become annoying as shit like last year.
The event SS now allows more than 1 holiday to run at a time. This matters for new years + christmas, easter + april fools, easter + 4/20, and any holiday that can happen on friday the 13th. The events get stored in a list that's only initialized if there's an active holiday so testing for potential holidays is still pretty easy.
Added more easter dates so we won't have to add more until 2040. The current batch run out in 2017.
Cheridan