## About The Pull Request
Added the FOSBURY skillchip, found in hacked toy vendors.
This skillchip allows you to bypass the emote cooldown when flipping or
spinning. However, if used too often, it will lower the chip's
integrity. At first, this is harmless, emitting sparks only, but at a
certain point, your head starts smoking, your brain begins
short-circuiting, and once the chip has lost all integrity your head
will explode in a shower of gore, giving you a cranial fissure!
Added the Chipped quirk. It allows you to spawn with one skillchip. Of
note here is that the only chips you can spawn with are the 'default'
skillchips found in the toy vendor, you can NOT spawn in with the
fosbury chip or with the musical one.
Added the Chip Connector quirk. It contains a new implant, the chip
connector, which allows you to install and take out skillchips at any
time. Being EMPed will cause it to drop one random skillchip, and if you
try using it while it's malfunctioning you'll take out a bit of your
brain instead. It can also be made at the exosuit fabricator after basic
research.
Renamed the organ slots for brain implants and made the connector
implant take the CNS slot.
## Why It's Good For The Game
> Added the FOSBURY skillchip, found in hacked toy vendors.
This skillchip allows you to bypass the emote cooldown when flipping or
spinning. However, if used too often, it will lower the chip's
integrity. At first, this is harmless, emitting sparks only, but at a
certain point, your head starts smoking, your brain begins
short-circuiting, and once the chip has lost all integrity your head
will explode in a shower of gore, giving you a cranial fissure!
During the time flipping was bugged to have no cooldown or delay, it was
really funny seeing people flip at increasingly higher speeds. Many
people miss it, and to be honest, so do I. But everything needs limits
or it stops being funny and ends up being overdone. To this end this
skillchip lets people relive those days of glory, until they go out in a
beautiful explosion. The chip will last a very long while if well taken
care of, and there are plenty of warning signs before it gets too risky
to use, but we know what players are actually gonna do, and I am looking
forward to it.
> Added the Chipped quirk. It allows you to spawn with one skillchip. Of
note here is that the only chips you can spawn with are the 'default'
skillchips found in the toy vendor, you can NOT spawn in with the
fosbury chip or with the musical one.
Chips can be kind of neat sometimes, and I think always having one as
part of your character can make for some fun things as the consistency
of it makes it more likely to stick in your mind to do stuff with.
> 'but can't you just go to the vendor at the start of every shift?'
Sure. But we have loadouts. We have tagger, musician, and many other
things that are 'roundstart bloat', and while that by itself is not an
excuse, it's part of the design of character setup: Minimizing the time
spent running around the station for things your character is supposed
to have for their personality/roleplay/gimmick. They're paying the cost
of quirk points for it, anyways.
> Added the Chip Connector quirk. It contains a new implant, the chip
connector, which allows you to install and take out skillchips at any
time. Being EMPed will cause it to drop one random skillchip, and if you
try using it while it's malfunctioning you'll take out a bit of your
brain instead. It can also be made at the exosuit fabricator after basic
research.
I like the idea of having a gross usb drive on the back of your brain
that you shove chips into and out of, especially if it drops pieces of
your brain when malfunctioning. It also adds a little bit of extra
relevance to skillchips now that you don't need to spend 15 (!!!)
seconds inside a skillstation to add one. The cost is, as stated, quite
literally losing your brain on EMP's and the moderately expensive sum of
4 points.
> Renamed the organ slots for brain implants and made the connector
implant take the CNS slot.
It annoys me that there were organ slots for 'anti drop implant'. Now
they're just slots for anything meant to connect to the
cerebellum/central nervous system, making it less brute forcey and also
adding the start of some fun exclusivity between brain implants.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added the FOSBURY skillchip, found in hacked toy vendors. This
skillchip allows you to bypass the emote cooldown when flipping or
spinning. However, if used too often, it will lower the chip's integrity
and cause malfunctions.
add: Added the Chipped quirk. It allows you to spawn with one base
skillchip. (not the one above)
add: Added the Chip Connector quirk. It contains a new implant, the chip
connector, which allows you to install and take out skillchips at any
time.
code: Renamed the organ slots for brain implants and made the connector
implant take the CNS slot.
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Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
# Conflicts:
# code/datums/emotes.dm
## About The Pull Request
The idea was born from a small conversation about bepis nodes having low
visibility, which somehow degressed into the idea of announcing
researched nodes to the channels of the interested departments thru the
announcement system machine, which is what I'm doing here, while also
adding documentation, defines and purging some, not all, instances of
camel cases from announcement_system.dm.
Oh, by the by, like the arrival and new head arrival messages, it can be
customized or disabled by interacting with the announcement system.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I think it's helpful to let players know when the research of their dept
is researched, and I think it's kinda interesting to announce bepis tech
on common like it's some hot stuff while it actually isn't just because
it's often missed out and miscellaneous.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Automated announcement systems now announce researched nodes to
their respective departments. You can stop this by either disabling the
announcement systems or by using a multitool on the circuitboard of the
console you're researching nodes from.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This is a researchable upgrade for janitorial cyborgs. It gives them
slightly more than double the amount of lights, and it is researchable
in the same suite of upgrades.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I often found myself wanting more lights, or wanting to fix small broken
windows as a cyborg, and this PR adds a solution.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Add a capacity upgrade for janitorial cyborg light replacers
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I got annoyed at not being able to plung vents when there's a clog. This
PR corrects that. I copied all of the cyborg mop attributes to make
this. This is my first PR on this server, but I did test it on a local
server, and it indeed, plungs.
## Why It's Good For The Game
More content for janitorial cyborg. They really should have a plunger,
to be honest. It just makes sense to me.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added a cyborg plunger for janitorial modules
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Cyborg endoskeletons no longer require a research node to be made,
making them possible to create at roundstart.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I feel like placing these behind a node doesn't really do anything
that's worth having it there. There's very little to do at roundstart
other than making cyborgs or clean/medibots at roundstart, so most of
the beginning of a shift turns into "trying to get R&D to research the
thing you need to do arguably the most important part of your job". I
haven't been able to find a single benefit for doing this. Arguably,
it's like this to prevent people from "wasting resources on cyborgs that
never get built", but I can't say I've ever been on a round with more
than 30-40 people where I didn't build at least two borgs.
What actually ends up happening is one roboticist makes everything but
the endoskeleton while the other tries to get access to the R&D computer
to research cybernetics so they can finish making a cyborg. It was also
argued that augmentation is more often requested at roundstart than
borging, which I have seen maybe twice in the last three years.
## Changelog
🆑 Vekter
balance: Removes the research requirement from cyborg endoskeletons,
meaning they can be built at roundstart again.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Title
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fixing typos - Untility Cyborg Upgrades -> Utility Cyborg Upgrades
## Changelog
🆑
spellcheck: fixed a typo in borg research
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds the Herculean Gravitronic Spinal Implant. A personal gravity
dampener that affords the user improved physical performance without all
the effort of actually working out.
This implant improves the user's ability in a variety of minor but
useful ways Including;
1) Faster climbing speeds with climbing hooks and ladders. (Athletics
now also influences this time)
2) Slightly less damage from falling from a height.
3) Faster fireman lifting and placing onto tables.
4) An easier time working out and stronger in boxing.
5) Standing up just a bit faster.
6) Throwing things just a little further.
7) Tackle performance, including offense, defense and safety if you
miss.
You can improve the implant by using a gravity anomaly core on it,
transforming it into an Atlas implant. This implant has considerably
better bonuses compared to the baselines fairly minor even if numerous
benefits. It also forces personal gravity to normal values.
As a result, the total number of gravity anomaly cores is now 6.
Has some little floating rocks around your head while active.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I attempted to add something fairly similar in the past, but didn't
quite like simply making an entirely combat related implant. Instead,
I've changed the concept towards generally improving some minor physical
world interactions. Things that you may not really think about or
notice.
I really enjoy getting just slight tweaks to the small little gameplay
activities that come up every so often, and even if this won't appeal to
most players, I know someone will see this and think to find a way to
make the most of the implant in some way that I didn't even think about.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds the Herculean Gravitronic Spinal Implant; an implant that
makes you better at athletics. You can upgrade it into an Atlas implant
using a gravity anomaly core.
balance: Gravity anomaly cores have had their max number of cores
reduces from 8 to 6.
balance: Your athletic ability allows you to climb faster.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Provides an alternative way to get the 200 points for the final
augmentation node.
Also reduced the tier of the prior tech node, it was put to tier 4 by
mistake
## Why It's Good For The Game
More options to get the desired node.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Techweb: Moved upgraded cyber organs to tier 3 from tier 4
qol: Techweb: Added fully augmented android scan discount experiment for
Advanced Cybernetic Organs techweb node
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
1. Techweb strings are now defined in
`code/__DEFINES/research/techweb_nodes.dm` many thanks to @ShizCalev
2. All places that used those strings have been updated with the
definitions as well.
3. `code/modules/research/ordnance/scipaper_partner.dm` had some old
boosted ids, they have been updated as well along
with their values.
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes#84153
- I found this through a runtime, but basically the boosted nodes missed
unit test checks. Having them defined should in future ensure that any
changes to them alert the maintainers. This will help in furthur
modularizing the code.
- As for the nodes themselves, I have put the exact nodes as much as
possible so they dont differ much from previous gameplay and how they
worked. Researched nodes that used to give points to those experiments,
will continue to do so, but albeit at a slower rate. This is because the
research point generation rate overall now has been increased.
## Changelog
🆑 ShizCalev, SpaceLove
refactor: Techweb strings are defined now so to maintain modularity
balance: Research papers will have less overall point generation.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: ShizCalev <ShizCalev@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Reshuffles the tech tree nodes, adding reagent purity and cybernetic
organ scan experiments. The total point requirements barely changed.
Made the discount experiments unlock nodes for free, instead of
providing partial discounts, to provide more incentive to actually do
them.
Also devided all points by the amount generated per second, for
convenience. Now points correspond to seconds.
<details>
<summary>New tech tree</summary>
<img width="4320" alt="Tech New"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/3625094/77afdec7-9df3-47b7-8df0-5b9261e9e0d6">
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
- Breaks bloated general nodes into more specialized nodes, making the
tree more balanced
- Combines scattered nodes dedicated to a single design into specialized
nodes, reducing the number of nodes
- Reshuffles the unlocks within specialized tree to adjust progression
on some trees to follow the idead: Cheap nodes first, then nodes that
require experiments or nodes of neighbouring trees, then expensive nodes
with end-game tech.
- You no longer need a dissection experiment to unlock a microwave,
every experiment is relevant to the tree unlocked by it
- With specialized nodes, it is easier to pick a node for the new things
that people add
- Better foundation for potential per-department point system. It will
be easier to put it on top of a cleaner tree
- The nodes are separated in tiers, with progressively increasing costs,
so that early tech is cheap and easy to research with just points, but
later tech is more expensive, making the discount experiments for those
more likely to be performed.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Reshuffled tech tree, making nodes more specialized
qol: Research points devided by the amount generated per second, so now
research points correspond to seconds
add: Introduced reagent purity scan experiments (required for Cryostasis
node)
add: Introduced synthetic organ scan experiment (required for top tier
cyber organs)
add: Added a variant of machinery scan experiment that accepts any
machines with upgraded parts (required for tier 3 parts)
del: Removed material scanning experiments from the tech tree
/🆑
