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grungussuss
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58501dce77 |
Reorganizes the sound folder (#86726)
## About The Pull Request <details> - renamed ai folder to announcer -- announcer -- - moved vox_fem to announcer - moved approachingTG to announcer - separated the ambience folder into ambience and instrumental -- ambience -- - created holy folder moved all related sounds there - created engineering folder and moved all related sounds there - created security folder and moved ambidet there - created general folder and moved ambigen there - created icemoon folder and moved all icebox-related ambience there - created medical folder and moved all medbay-related ambi there - created ruin folder and moves all ruins ambi there - created beach folder and moved seag and shore there - created lavaland folder and moved related ambi there - created aurora_caelus folder and placed its ambi there - created misc folder and moved the rest of the files that don't have a specific category into it -- instrumental -- - moved traitor folder here - created lobby_music folder and placed our songs there (title0 not used anywhere? - server-side modification?) -- items -- - moved secdeath to hailer - moved surgery to handling -- effects -- - moved chemistry into effects - moved hallucinations into effects - moved health into effects - moved magic into effects -- vehicles -- - moved mecha into vehicles created mobs folder -- mobs -- - moved creatures folder into mobs - moved voice into mobs renamed creatures to non-humanoids renamed voice to humanoids -- non-humanoids-- created cyborg folder created hiss folder moved harmalarm.ogg to cyborg -- humanoids -- -- misc -- moved ghostwhisper to misc moved insane_low_laugh to misc I give up trying to document this. </details> - [X] ambience - [x] announcer - [x] effects - [X] instrumental - [x] items - [x] machines - [x] misc - [X] mobs - [X] runtime - [X] vehicles - [ ] attributions ## Why It's Good For The Game This folder is so disorganized that it's vomit inducing, will make it easier to find and add new sounds, providng a minor structure to the sound folder. ## Changelog 🆑 grungussuss refactor: the sound folder in the source code has been reorganized, please report any oddities with sounds playing or not playing server: lobby music has been repathed to sound/music/lobby_music /🆑 |
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Ben10Omintrix
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91baa94ac5 |
event based incapicated and able_to_run (#86031)
## About The Pull Request this is a revival of #82635 . i got permission from potato to reopen this, he did almost all the work. i only just solved the conflicts and fixed all the bugs that were preventing the original from being merged (but it should be TMed first) ## Why It's Good For The Game slightly improves the performance of basic mob AI ## Changelog 🆑 LemonInTheDark refactor: able_to_run and incapacitated have been refactored to be event based /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: LemonInTheDark <58055496+LemonInTheDark@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: ZephyrTFA <matthew@tfaluc.com> |
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norsvenska
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5f80128fa9 |
Corrects 200+ instances of "it's" where it should've been "its" instead (#85169)
## About The Pull Request it's - conjunction of "it" and "is" its - possessive form of "it" grammar is hard, and there were a lot of places where "it's" was used where it shouldn't have been. i went and painstakingly searched the entire repository for these instances, spending a few hours on it. i completely ignored the changelog archive, and i may have missed some outliers. most player-facing ones should be corrected, though ## Why It's Good For The Game proper grammar is good ## Changelog 🆑 spellcheck: Numerous instances of "it's" have been properly replaced with "its" /🆑 |
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John Willard
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bd8c1aebff |
Instrument editor now uses TGUI (#81923)
## About The Pull Request Instruments now use TGUI as their editor which is pretty cool. It's mostly a 1:1 remake of the HTML UI except I did make a change to make the playback options a little more compact, leaving some more space for the editor before you have to scroll, and some other minor things that were made to make the UI hopefully nicer to look at and mess with. When there's a song to play - While playing, Repeat section can't be edited  Help section and UI when there's no song put in  ## Why It's Good For The Game It is yet another step in finishing up https://hackmd.io/XLt5MoRvRxuhFbwtk4VAUA?view Instruments especially were in a poor spot because they didn't respect things like ``IN_USE`` to not refresh if it's not the "UI" you are on, and such. ## Changelog 🆑 refactor: Instruments now use TGUI. /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com> |
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YesterdaysPromise
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71a1fee2f1 |
Explodes device.dmi (#80025)
## About The Pull Request I woke up today and thought 'what would be easy thing to do today so I can say I've done something?'. Then I remembered I saw several gangtool usages the time I split radio up, and I could remedy those. 7 hours later, device.dmi is split in a folder of its own, and I've also given unique sprites to door remotes and landing desginators. ## Why It's Good For The Game The device.dmi was kind of a mess. ## Changelog 🆑 /🆑 |
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YehnBeep
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9fe9150128 |
instrument beacons can fit in pockets (#76230)
## About The Pull Request This makes instrument delivery beacons fit in pockets. ## Why It's Good For The Game In a round I had both a door remote and an instrument delivery beacon. The door remote, however, would fit in my pocket, while the instrument delivery beacon wouldn't. The door remote seems like a far higher impact item, so it seemed odd to be that the beacon was balanced to take up much more inventory, and that they use the same graphic makes this feel counterintuitive. ## Changelog 🆑 qol: Instrument delivery beacons now fit in pockets. /🆑 |
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MrMelbert
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9440d42a8e |
Chaplain armor beacon now uses radial + previews possible armor sets, plus some choice beacon code cleanup. (#71674)
## About The Pull Request - The chaplain choice beacon now uses a radial to select the armor set, instead of a list, giving the user a preview of what each looks like.  - Lots of additional cleanup to choice beacon code in general. Less copy pasted code. - All beacons now speak from the beacon with their message, instead of some going by "headset message". Soul removed ## Why It's Good For The Game I always forgot when selecting my armor which looks like what, and choosing an ugly one is a pain since you only get one choice. This should help chaplains get the armor they actually want without needing to check the wiki. ## Changelog 🆑 Melbert qol: The chaplain's armament beacon now displays a radial instead of a text list, showing previews of what all the armor sets look like qol: (Almost) all choice beacons now use a pod to send their item, instead of just magicking it under your feet code: Cleaned up some choice beacon code. /🆑 Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com> |
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AnturK
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4d6a8bc537 |
515 Compatibility (#71161)
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>
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tattle
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ad5debaaa1 |
Add investigate_deaths (#71112)
## About The Pull Request Adds INVESTIGATE_DEATHS, an investigate category intended to better show causes of death.   Also makes suicide_act take a `mob/living` as an argument instead of a `mob`, and some minor style improvements since apparently I hate atomicity. ## Why It's Good For The Game Inspired by a mysterious death and dusting. More logging and leads for admins investigating deaths. Also fixes #59028 ## Changelog 🆑 Tattle admin: added investigate deaths to shed some more light on unusual demises, dustings, and gibbings /🆑 Co-authored-by: tattle <article.disaster@gmail.com> |
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tattle
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d91390a447 |
[IDB IGNORE] The Great Sweep: Moving dmis into subfolders (part 1) (#69416)
Moves singulo and supermatter dmis into obj/engine, renamed from obj/tesla_engine Moves Halloween, Christmas, and misc holiday items to obj/holiday Moves lollipops to obj/food Moves crates, closets, and storage to obj/storage Moves assemblies to obj/assemblies Renames decals.dmi to signs.dmi ...because they're signs and not decals Moves statues, cutouts, instruments, art supplies, and crayons to obj/art Moves balloons, plushes, toys, cards, dice, the hourglass, and TCG to obj/toys Moves guns, swords, shields to obj/weapons |
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MrMelbert
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f8f3dbed98 |
Completely removes proc_holders from existence. Refactors all wizard, xeno, spider, and genetics powers to be actions. Also refactors and sorts ton of accompanying code. (#67083)
* destroy proc holder pt1 - change proc_holder/spell to action/cooldown/spell - docs all the spell vars, renames some of them - removes some useless vars - start with pointed spells, as they're easy * kill proc_holder pt2 - kill a buncha vars and replace it with flags - convert a ton over - general code improvements * kill proc_holders pt3 - convert a good few more spells - rename some signals - handle statpanel - better docs * kiill proc_holder pt4: - restructure the file system of action.dm, separating a good amount of item actions and miscellaneous garbage into files where they belong slightly better. Also splits off item actions, cooldown actions, innate actions, etc. into their own files, overlal making it much better to work with - converts touch attacks to actions - converts blood crawl, jaunt subtype * kills proc_holder pt5 - clears up some icon issues so all the currently converted pages don't have errors - shapeshift - some more action cleanup * kills proc_holder pt5.5: - some documentation - reworks feedback to prevent oversight with teleports and stuff * kills proc_holder pt6: - converted cult spells - converted magic missile - converted mime spells - chipped away at the errors - removed some vars which were too general, replaced them with more locally applicable vars. for example "range" which could mean "projectile range" or "aoe radius" or whatever - instead of having a broad net which everyone applies to in a confusing matter, instead lets each spell delegate on their own. - merged magic/spell and magic/aoe, as the comment intended - more unified behavior for spell levelling * kill proc_holders pt 6.5: - replacing a buncha old proc_holders that have been updated to reduce some errors. sub 900 baby * kills proc_holder pt 6.75: - minor fixes * kills proc_holder pt7: - cuts down on some errors - refactors some wiz events * kills proc_holder pt 7.5: - malf ranged modules - some minor errors * kills proc_holder pt 7.75: - mor eminor error handling, cleaning up changes * kill proc_holder pt8: - refactors spell book - refactors spell implant - some more minor error fixing * kill proc_holder pt 8.5: - scan ability * Adds some robust documentation * kill proc_holder pt9: - converts some / most mutations over * kill proc_holder pt10: - sort out all the granters - refactor them slightly - fix some compile errors * Some set-unset sanity - going to need to test removing Share() * Removes transfer actions. It doesn't seem to do anything. - Transfer_actions was called when current = new_character so locially speaking the early return in Grant() should cause it to NOOP. Test this in the future though * Removes sharing from actions, docs actions better * Some better documentation for spell and spell components * Kills proc_holder pt11: - Finally finishes ALL THE SPELLS IN THE SPELL FOLDER - Fixes some more errors * kills proc_holder pt11.5: - minor error fixing and sanity * Method of sharing actions. Can be improved in the future, needs testing * Implements a way to update the stat panel entry for a spell. Also gets rid of VV stuff, as you can update the bigflags directly in VV now. * Curse of madness bug I put in. * kills proc_holder pt12: - sub 500 errors! - converts cytology mobs - converts and refactors spiders slightly - some minor fixing around the place as usual * kill proc_holder pt13 - Finishes heretic spells - Sub 300 errors! - some touch refactoring to account for mansus grasp * kills proc_holder pt14: - revenant - minor bugfixing for heretic stuff * kills proc_holder pt14.5: - some missed stuff for revenant + heretic * kills proc_holder pt15: - alien abilities - more minor fixing - sub 100 errors. The end is nigh * kill proc_holder pt16? 17: - Finishes cult spells - sub 50 errors! - refactors the way charge works - renames / moves some signals * kills proc_holder pt final: - sdql spells - no more errors! * Bugfixes round 1 * Various bugfixing - documentation done - give spell works - can cast spell gives feedback conditionally - is available takes into account casting ability * Some accidental reversions + fixes * Unit tests * Completely refactors jaunting - All bloodcrawling is now handled on the action itself instead of across various living procs - slaughter demons have their own blood crawls - jaunting dummies don't have side effects on destroy() anymore * Wizard spell logging and even more refactoring |
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ArcaneMusic
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5f4d5a42d4 |
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 👻
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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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Gandalf
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684eab3d31 |
Converts SFX keys into DEFINES (#65146)
About The Pull Request Simply converts all instances of soundkeys that use get_sfx from strings into defines. E.g. "sparks" is now SFX_SPARKS Why It's Good For The Game It makes life a lot easier when you're looking for a sound effect. You just type SFX_ and you get suggestions in VSC. Plus, it looks better. image Changelog Not player facing. |
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Ghom
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2fbd7b20bb |
Synthesizers and headphones can now have circuits! (#62825)
About The Pull Request A circuit and shell components have been added to Synthesizers (headphones and spacepods included, though with a reduced capacity because of their size), so they can now be used for wiremod. Just like for instant cameras, no shell design here. They are meant to be found in dorms or maybe ordered from cargo. Why It's Good For The Game The station outside the sci department has plenty of USB ports stuff but is lacking when it comes to circuits shell. This is another small step toward a better and more applicable wiremod. Changelog cl expansion: Synthesizers and headphones can now have circuits installed. /cl |
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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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Tim
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a285b3fbff |
Fix pAIs Loudness Booster to work properly (#60498)
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com> |
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Ghom
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484aaedeaf | The spooky component is now a spooky element. (#60465) | ||
Watermelon914
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375a20e49b |
Refactors most spans into span procs (#59645)
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) |
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Kylerace
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e13fe75590 |
use SIGNAL_HANDLER REEEEEE (#59242)
makes as many procs as i can find use the SIGNAL_HANDLER define which i assumed they all already did |
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TemporalOroboros
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e4079c87b8 |
update_appearance (#55468)
Creates update_name and update_desc Creates the wrapper proc update_appearance to batch update_name, update_desc, and update_icon together Less non-icon handling code in update_icon and friends Signal hooks for things that want to change names and descriptions 99%+ of the changes in this are just from switching everything over to update_appearance from update_icon |
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Mothblocks
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0f435d5dff |
Remove hideous inline tab indentation, and bans it in contributing guidelines (#56912)
Done using this command sed -Ei 's/(\s*\S+)\s*\t+/\1 /g' code/**/*.dm We have countless examples in the codebase with this style gone wrong, and defines and such being on hideously different levels of indentation. Fixing this to keep the alignment involves tainting the blames of code your PR doesn't need to be touching at all. And ultimately, it's hideous. There are some files that this sed makes uglier. I can fix these when they are pointed out, but I believe this is ultimately for the greater good of readability. I'm more concerned with if any strings relied on this. Hi codeowners! Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com> |
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TiviPlus
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0eaab0bc54 |
Grep for space indentation (#54850)
#54604 atomizing Since a lot of the space indents are in lists ill atomize those later |
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ArcaneMusic
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5338ad1696 |
Re-assesses 99% of vending prices through Arconomics to match player resources and round-length. (#54715)
* 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 |
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Ghom
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91bfedcd16 |
Refactored 'IsAdvancedToolUser' into a macro plus relative trait. Tweaked 'can_hold_items'. (#54665)
The PR aims to allow advanced tool users to be defined by traits rather than a hardcoded proc. Also necessary for the CanUseTopic refactor I'm working on, which will be PRed separately for atomization purposes. This PR also fixes an inconsistency with can_hold_items (since monkeys can actually hold items). |
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Rohesie
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3cc7733f34 |
Moblity refactor: hands blocked and restrained edition. (#53981)
Splits the restrained() proc into component traits: TRAIT_HANDS_BLOCKED for the general inability to use hands and TRAIT_RESTRAINED for the more specific condition that permits arrests.
Code moved away from the update_mobility() proc so it doesn't have to wait for an update, instead changing based on events. The idea is to eventually kill that proc.
Wrapper proc added for setting the handcuffed value so we can react to the event of it changing.
Kills the RestrainedClickOn() proc. That is now just an UnarmedAttack(), in where the ability to use hands can be checked. Monkeys keep their bite attack and humans their self-examine.
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Mickyan
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ce2e9aea10 |
Adds sound selection to certain instruments (#53690)
This gives instruments a selection of fitting instrument sounds, since we have a bunch that have been exclusive to the synth piano until now. For example, the harmonica can pick between the hardcoded and synthetized versions. It might also add a new special and rare instrument |
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silicons
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16eb86ddcf |
Baystruments - I had two tgstation forks for some reason and had to delete one and that nuked the last PR (#51459)
Instruments and sound channels refactor. |
