* Anomaly gear: Polymorphic Field Inverter (#77383)
## About The Pull Request
Adds a new device you can research called the "Polymorphic Field Inverter".
It requires Advanced Biotechnology and Anomalous Research to unlock.
Completing that research lets you print out a fancy belt. Using it for 5
seconds on a mob (dead or alive) which is organic in nature and isn't
some kind of human or megafauna (monkeys are fine) will store a copy of
its DNA. Scanning another creature will replace the original stored DNA.
Storing DNA does absolutely nothing unless you have also inserted an
active Bioscrambler core.
If the item is activated with a Bioscrambler core then equipping it
grants you the ability to transform into the same kind of creature as
the one you scanned (and back). As in spells such as Wildshape you share
health with your transformed form and if you die while transformed then
you die, so be careful when turning into something like a cockroach
which has one hit point.
It has an associated experiment which makes the research free, which is
to scan two humans with (non-prosthetic) organs that they didn't have
when the round started. You can accomplish this through surgery, DNA
infusion, or a bioscrambler anomaly. You can do it on some monkeys if
nobody is cooperating with you.
I copied a teeny bit of this code from #73969 although I didn't actually
end up needing most of it.
These are absolutely codersprites so if anyone wanted to make cooler
ones, let me know.
* Anomaly gear: Polymorphic Field Inverter
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
* Adds an extra malf AI ability: Remote emagging. Also tidies up emag code and coverts a lot of things to balloon alerts
* Update communications.dm
* Modular override
* Some modular adjustments, removes 'emagged' vars in favor of obj_flags
* whoops, mobs don't have obj_flags.
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Co-authored-by: nikothedude <59709059+nikothedude@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <vinylspiders@gmail.com>
* Experisci now works if at least one RD server works on your z level (#74123)
## About The Pull Request
Experiment handlers now work if at least one RD server works on your
z-level, rather than only checking the first. It was originally done in
a lazy way, and I'm going back on that now to make it more responsive
for players.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This will allow things like off-station and Lavaland to be added to
experisci stuff, which I think would be nice as we can make
mining-related experiments for mining tech just as how there's medical
experiments for medical tech.
It also lets off-station ghost roles do experiments if they don't want
to be a jackass and just waste points, which I think is a positive until
off-station techwebs are added.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Experimentors can connect to techwebs that have at least one RD
server on the level.
/🆑
* Experisci now works if at least one RD server works on your z level
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Co-authored-by: John Willard <53777086+JohnFulpWillard@users.noreply.github.com>
* Completing experiments after their associated nodes have been researched gives back a partial refund of the discount lost (#73814)
## About The Pull Request
So we're like simultaneously moving two vague directions with research.
One being "experisci grants discounts for prohibitively expensive nodes
so you want to do the experiments to discount them" and the other being
"Let's give Heads of Staff a way to research anything they want without
any communication to the research department, including the very
expensive nodes that scientists may be working on"
You already see the issue, right? You can't have your cake and eat it
too.
It sucks for scientists to be working on a complex experiment like
weapons tech for that huge 90% discount only for the HoS to stumble onto
the bridge and research it anyways. Your time is wasted and RND is
slowed down massively.
We can do something to assuage that.
This PR makes it so completing an experiment which discounts already
completed nodes will refund a partial amount of the discount that
would've applied.
For example, researching industrial engineering without scanning the
iron toilets will refund ~5000 points.
This can only apply once per experiment, so if an experiment discounts
multiple technologies, they will only get a refund based on the first
technology researched.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This accomplishes the following:
- Expensive research nodes with difficult experiments remain expensive
without completing the experiments. If no one does the experiment, they
act the same as before.
- Expensive research nodes with very easy experiments (but time
consuming) no longer put RND on a time crunch to beat the itchy trigger
finger of the Heads of Staff. Stuff like scanning lathes allow the
scientists to work more at their own pace: they can talk to people or
maybe stop at the bar or kitchen between departments without feeling
pressure to get it done urgently.
- Scientists are able to complete experiments which previously were no
longer deemed relevant if they need a point injection. Experiments left
behind are no longer completely useless bricks. Maybe even gives
latejoin scientists something to do.
- Scientists mid experiment can still complete it to not feel like their
time is wasted.
Overall I think this has many benefits to the current science system
where many have complaints.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
qol: Completing an experiment which discounts a researched tech node
will give a partial refund of the discount lost. For example,
researching the industrial engineering research without scanning iron
toilets will refund ~5000 points if you complete it afterwards. This
only applies once per experiment, so experiments which discount multiple
nodes only refund the first researched.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@ san7890.com>
* Completing experiments after their associated nodes have been researched gives back a partial refund of the discount lost
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Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@ san7890.com>
* Stock Part Datumization Complete (#72559)
So i accidently reverted all my commits in #72511 when resolving a merge
conflict So ummm yeah fuck my bad anyway
Finishes what was started in #71693 and completes the
[initiative](https://github.com/tgstation/dev-cycles-initiative/issues/1)
Except for `obj/item/stock_parts/cell` and its subtypes. All machines
now use `datum/stock_part` for its requested components & component
parts
Not sure if i caught every machine & stuff in the game so merge with
caution
🆑
code: datum stock part for every obj stock part
refactor: all machines & dependent experiments to use datum stock parts
/🆑
* Fixes a teeny tiny Funce mistake :)
Co-authored-by: SyncIt21 <110812394+SyncIt21@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: GoldenAlpharex <jerego1234@hotmail.com>
* Makes datum stock parts work for Stock parts Experiment purposes (#71907)
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#71845
Sets the machinery scanning experiments up to check for datumised stock
parts.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Scanning module experiment is broken on live due to datumised scanning
modules, as the experiment was not modified to check for datum stock
parts.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixed Advanced Scanning Modules Calibration Experiment not
registering upgraded machines to its progress
/🆑
* Makes datum stock parts work for Stock parts Experiment purposes
Co-authored-by: Sealed101 <75863639+Sealed101@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Zonespace <41448081+Zonespace27@users.noreply.github.com>
* Better RND logs & Experiment handheld connects to techwebs directly (#71502)
## About The Pull Request
- Adds better feedback to the experiment handler's UI when it can't
connect to a techweb
- Experiment handlers now refs techwebs directly, instead of servers, so
if the server in question breaks there won't have some wonky stuff
happening.
- Adds logs when rnd machines (so techfabs & servers) are disconnected
from a techweb, either on the machine's destruction or when it gets
linked to another techweb.
- Disconnects experiment handlers if the techweb they're connected to
has no more research servers suddenly.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Better RnD logging, better user feedback, and connecting to techwebs
directly instead of servers makes it more resilient to bugs.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Experiment handlers now give a more reasonable explanation for why
they can't find a server.
admin: Machines being disconnected from techwebs is now logged in
research.
/🆑
* Better RND logs & Experiment handheld connects to techwebs directly
Co-authored-by: John Willard <53777086+JohnFulpWillard@users.noreply.github.com>
* Adds support for non-science techwebs (+Config) (#71070)
## About The Pull Request
This is an expanding of
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/69708
Adds a config to not connect machines to a techweb at the start of a
round
Adds the ability to multitool a server to get its techweb in its buffer,
which can then be used on machines to sync them.
Adds support for some machines to not cry when they don't have a techweb
linked to it, in case they actually don't.
If the config to not have machines connected to the science server is
enabled, research servers will make their own techwebs instead. This is
barebones though and would need more work if this option is used.
For misc stuff:
- I replaced checking ``GLOB.machines`` for research servers, to instead
check ``SSresearch.servers``, where we can use ``as anything``.
- Removed unused vars on the RD server control
- I renamed the operating computer's .dm file to remove the capitalized
letter from it. It's now operating_computer instead of Operations.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This is adding support for 2 different cases that can be used in the
future:
1. Off-station roles, we can make roles like Oldstation have their own
techweb so they don't ruin science's efforts, or use their advanced
research to get things we don't want, or even possibly have some
blacklist webs for ghost roles (like teleporters) so that way we don't
need to have this dance where we have to give them a very specific
amount of materials for them to do things while not being able to get a
teleporter and leaving. I heard discussions that people wanted this a
while back, and one of the main things preventing this from happening is
the lack of support. Hopefully this is encouragement to make it a
reality, because I think it would be a really cool expansion of ghost
roles and a good way to prevent them from messing with the round in
progress.
2. Downstreams who want to do different things with Science. Personally
I made this PR with voidcrew(shiptest) in mind and think this would make
their lives easier. I didn't expand too much on this because I'm leaving
up mostly to the downstreams to figure out what they want to do with
these systems.
## Changelog
This generally isn't really player facing, since most of the changes
would only come into effect if the config is enabled??
🆑
fix: Research servers now only show servers connected to their techweb.
/🆑
* Adds support for non-science techwebs (+Config)
Co-authored-by: John Willard <53777086+JohnFulpWillard@users.noreply.github.com>
* Adds a special suicide to the Experi-Scanner (#71103)
## About The Pull Request
Adds a `suicide_act` to the Experi-Scanner.
<details>
<summary>LiveLeak footage</summary>
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/75863639/200129319-d112c8ea-e9f6-49a2-872b-8c2625f97e67.mp4
</details>
The victim's brain also gets placed into the resulting toilet's cistern.
<details>
<summary>Bodycam footage from the clean-up crew</summary>
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/75863639/200129302-4b9b37fe-9c02-4712-8502-e4732b9258f5.mp4
</details>
The resulting toilet will not drop meat sheets when deconstructed,
leaving only a pile of bones behind.
_might add some bone crunching sounds later_
## Why It's Good For The Game
More variety is nice. A use for the experiscanner-closed icon. An
ultimate sacrifice for a single toilet that you can scan towards an
experiment.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added a special suicide to the Experi-Scanner
/🆑
* Adds a special suicide to the Experi-Scanner
Co-authored-by: Sealed101 <75863639+Sealed101@users.noreply.github.com>
* Adds more multiz support (#69420)
* Adds more multiz support by making use of ``is_valid_z_level`` instead of simply checking if z is the same.
* Adds more multiz support
Co-authored-by: ShizCalev <ShizCalev@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fixes the stress experiment sometimes not working and rebalances it (#68691)
* Fixes the stress experiment sometimes not working, allowing it to have a scan leeway of 2% each way.
* Fixes the stress experiment sometimes not working
Co-authored-by: Ekaterina-von-Russland <109872269+Ekaterina-von-Russland@users.noreply.github.com>
* Combat mech research nodes now require mech-themed experiments rather than bomb experiments. (#67756)
* Mechs require a new Mech scanning experiment centered around damaging/destroying mechs, instead of being behind weaponry, which requires ordnance research.
* Combat mech research nodes now require mech-themed experiments rather than bomb experiments.
Co-authored-by: zxaber <37497534+zxaber@users.noreply.github.com>
* Makes the noblium gas shells experiment explicitly clear that it means hypernoblium (#67898)
* Makes the noblium gas shells experiment explicitly clear that it means hypernoblium
Co-authored-by: RandomGamer123 <31096837+RandomGamer123@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix unregister_events() running on null (#62356)
the unregister_events() proc is used to stop listening for a signal from a previously scanned atom for experiment purposes. if the experi-scanner wasn't used for scanning atoms for physical experiments previously, it would cause a runtime, trying to unregister a signal from a non-existant atom.
* Fix runtime on physical experiments' unregister_events() running on null
Co-authored-by: Sealed101 <75863639+Sealed101@users.noreply.github.com>
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