How do I play/test/operate this?
Download NT Frontier on any modular computers. It should debrief you on what experiments are available and how to publish.
If you want to do a bomb experiment, make sure it's captured by the doppler array (as usual) and then print the experiments into a disk and publish it.
If you want to do a gas experiment, make the gas and either pump it into a tank and 1) overpressurize it with a "clear" gas like N2 or 2) overpressurize tanks with the gas itself. Make sure you do the overpressurizing in the compressor machine. When tanks are destroyed/ejected leaked gas will get recorded. Print it into a disk and publish it.
For publication, the file needs to be directly present inside the computer's HDD. This means you need to copy it first with the file manager.
Fill the data (if desired, it will autofill with boiler plate if you dont) and send away!
Doing experiments unlock nodes, while doing them well unlocks boosts (which are discounts but slightly more restrictive) which are purchaseable with NT Frontier.
If you are testing this and have access to admin tools, there are various premade bombs under obj/effect/spawner/newbomb
A doc I wrote detailing the why and what part of this PR.
https://hackmd.io/JOakSYVMSh2zU2YL5ju_-Q
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# Intro
## The Problem(s)
Ordnance, (previously toxins) seems to lack a lot of content and things to do. The gameplay loop consists of making a bomb and then sending it off for credits or using it to refine cores. Ordnance at it's inception originally relies on players experimenting and finding the perfect mix over multiple rounds, but once the recipe for a "do-everything" mix got out, the original charm of individual discoveries becomes meaningless.
Another issue with ordnance is the odd difficulty curve. As a new player, ordnance is almost impossible to decipher, but once you watch a tutorial or read a wiki and can mail a 50k into space, there pretty much isn't anything else to do. Most players will be satisfied at this point without the gameplay loop encouraging them to understand or play more. The only thing you can do afterwards is to sink your teeth in and understand why that particular mix explodes the way it does. This again has a significant difficulty curve, but if you do that, the department doesn't acknowledge or reward that in any way. There are pretty much two huge spikes, with the latter one not really existing inside the department.
TLDR:
* The content being same-y over rounds.
* Odd difficulty curve:
1. A new player is oblivious to everything.
2. Those in the middle can repeat the final goal consistently without needing to understanding why
3. There is nothing to justify spending more time in the department after reaching the midgame.
## Abstract
Scientific Papers aim to add a framework to run multiple experiments in ordnance. Adding more experiments scattered across various atmospheric aspects might allow players of various knowledge levels to still have something engaging to do. A new player should have an easier challange than to mail a 50K. While those that already can make bombs should have an easier time understanding why their bombs explode the way it does. Once they fully understand why, they can set their sights on taking advantage of another reaction to set their bomb off or hone one particular reaction down.
## Goals
* Have some intro-level challanges for new players.
* Have some semblance of late-game challanges for more experienced players.
* Explain the mechanics better for those in the middle of the road.
* Incentivize trying new things out in the department.
* Better integrate Ordnance with Experisci
## Boundaries / Dont's
* Do not incentivize people to learn ordnance by using PvP loots.
* Do not shake or change the reaction system by a huge amount.
* Disincentivize having a single god-mix that does everything.
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# Main design pillars
## A. Framework surrounding the experiments
### A.1. New experiments
Add new experiments to the ExperiSci module. These will come in two flavours: New explosions to do, and various gas synthesis experiments. Both of these are actually supported by the map layout of ordnance right now, but there is no reason to do anything outside of making a 50k as fast as possible.
### A.2. Rewards for experiments: Cash and Techweb Boosts.
Scientific papers will add a separate experiment handling system. A single experiment will be graded into various tiers, each tier corresponding to the explosion size or amount of gas made. Doing any tier of a specific experiment will unlock the discount for that specific reactions. A single explosion **WILL NOT** do multiple experiments (or even tiers) at once.
On publication, a partner can be selected. A single partner only has a specific criteria of experiments they want. The experiments will then be graded on "how good they are done", with the criteria being more punishing as tier increases. Publication will then reward scientific cooperation with the partnered partner. Players can spend this cooperation on techweb boosts. Techweb boosts are meant to be subservient to discount from experiments and will not shave a node's price to be lower than 500 points.
**Experiments will only unlock nodes, discounts are handled through this boost system.**
This is more for maintainability than anything.
### A.3. On Tedium
*This is a note on implementation more than anything, but I think this helps explains why several things are done.*
Due to the nature of atmospheric reactions in the game (they're all linear), tedium is a very important thing to consider. An experiment should have a sweet spot to aim for, but there should not be a point where further mastery is stopped dead on it's track with a reward cap.
Scientific Papers attempts to discourage this behaviour by having the "maximum score" scale off to infinity but with the rewards being smaller and smaller. The sweet spot is always there to aim for and should be well communicated with players, but on their last submission of an experiment topic players should be encouraged to do their best. There should always be a reward for pushing the system to it's limit as long as it doesn't completely nullify the other subdepartments. This is the reason why there is a hard limit on the number of publications and why the score calculation is a bit more complex than it needed to be.
## B. Gas Synthesis (Early-Mid Game)
Scientific papers will add one new machine that requests a tank to release x amounts of y gas. This will be accomplished by adding a tank pumping machine which will either burst or explode a tank, releasing the gas inside. The gas currently requested are BZ, Nitryl, Halon and Nob.
The overarching goal of this compressor machine is to present a gas synthesis challange for the players and to get them more accustomed to how a tank explodes. The gas synthesis part can always be changed in order to reflect the current state of atmospheric reactions.
## C. Explosion Changes (Mid-Late Game)
### C.1 Cause and effect.
The main theme of the explosion changes is establishing cause and effect of explosions. Reactions that happens inside a tank that's going to explode will be recorded and forwarded to a doppler array. Some experiments will require only a single cause to be present (think of it as isolating a variable). This is currently implemented for nobliumformation and pressure based bombs. Having other reactions occuring besides noblium formation will fail the first one, while having any reactions at all will fail the second one.
Adding more explosions here will be a slight challange because as of now the game has only two reactions that can reliably make an explosion.
### C.2 Tools upgrade.
Doppler array has now been retrofitted to state the probable cause of an explosion, be it reactions or just overpressurization on gas merging. These should help intermediate players figure out what is causing an explosion.
Added a new functionality to the implosion compressor:
Basically performs the gas merging and reaction that TTV does in a machine and reports the results back as if someone uses an analyzer on them. Here to give players feedback so they can try and understand what is actually going on in a bomb.
## D. Player Interaction
There should be more room for more than 1 player to play ordnance simultaneously. Previously players are also able to split tasks, but this rarely happens because tritium synthesis needs only the gas chamber to be reconfigured. Now, different players can pick different experiments and work on them. Players can also do joint tasks on one single experiment. Gases like noblium will need tritium production and also a cooling module online.
Ordnance can also coordinate with their parent department on what they really need, be it money or research bonuses.
# Potential Changes
The best-case changes that can be implemented if the current roster of content isn't enough is more reactions that can be used in bombs. Eliminating bombs entirely goes against the spirit of the subdepartment, while adding new ones will need a lot of care and consideration.
Another possible change is to implement a "gas payload" bomb. Bombs that has a set number of unreacting gas inside that will increase the heat capacity, reduce the payload, and neccesitates more bespoke mixes.
Adding more gas synthesis experiments is discouraged. The main focus of ordnance should be bombs, with gas synthesis being a side project for ordnance. These are present to ease the introduction to bombs and provide some side content.
There should be a somewhat well-justified goal in adding new synthesis experiments: e.g. BZ is there as a "tutorial" gas, Nitryl to introduce players to cooling/heating mixes, Halon to a more efficient tritium production, and Nob as a nudge to nobformation bombs and mastery over other aspects.
# Conclusion / Summary
Add more experiments to ordnance that players can take, accomplish this by:
1. Making the players perform gas synthesis or make bombs.
2. Have them collect the data, see if it fits the criteria. Explain why if it fits and why if it doesn't.
3. Have the player publish a paper.
Reward them based on how well did they do, give players agency both on the experiment phase and also publication phase.
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TLDR: Added new experiment to toxins, added the framework for those experiments existing. Experiments comes in gas synthesis and also bombs but with more parameters. Experiments needs to be published through papers, various choices to be made there.
Implementation notes:
Because of how paper works, ordnance experiments are handled outside of experiment_handler components. My reasoning for this is twofold:
The experiments will be completed manually on publication and if the experiment isn't unlocked yet it will still be completed.
Experiment handler datums have several procs which require an atom-level parent, and I figured this is the most sensible and cleanest way to implement this without changing the experiment handler datum too much.
Small change to /obj/machinery/proc/power_change() signal ordering to adjust the state first and then send the signal. Didn't found any other usage of this signal except mine but barge down my door if it broke something.
Rewrote the ttv merge_gases() code to be slightly more readable.
A small code improvement for thermomachine to use tofixed (my fault).
Ordnance have been updated to enable the publication of papers
Several new explosive and gas synthesis experiments have been added to ordnance
Anomaly compressor has been TGUIzed and now supports simulating the reaction of the gases inside the ttv.
New tank compressor machine for toxins. You can overpressurize tanks with exotic gases and complete experiments.
Several techweb nodes are locked and require toxin experiments to complete.
Toxins can purchase boosts for various techweb nodes.
You no longer need to anchor doppler arrays for it to work.
Doppler array and implosion compressor now supports deconstruction, implosion compressor construction added.
Doppler now emits a red light to denote it's direction and it being on. Doppler not malf.
Implosion compressor renamed to anomaly refinery.
Created a new program tab "Science" for the downloader app. Removed Robotics.
Reworked the code for bombspawner (used in the cuban pete arcade game)
Boritos finally decided to start supplying the station with their cornchips. This PR comes with 4 flavors of boritos that can be bought from vendors as well as a slight uplift for the sprite of Ready Donkmeal's trash variant, making it actually look like trash rather then a pristine box.
Also hey if you walk on boritos packages they pop! Thats cool right?
About The Pull Request
pick_weight_allow_zero was a backwards compatible hack, so it exists alongside pick_weight.
I would really like to just remove the old proc and just rename it, so I want to log what, if anything, is relying on this behavior, to see if it's a bug or if it needs to be handled especially in that case.
This takes the new random tracking beacon spawner and adds them to all maps. The only guaranteed tracking beacon that spawns is the one at arrivals. The rest have a 35% chance to spawn and are located in the following areas:
teleporter
AI Sat teleporter
escape
showcase
bridge
courtroom
bomb testing range
atmos
xenobio secure chamber
medbay
engineering
bar/cafe
EVA
virology
dorms
mech bay
lavaland
cargo
shooting range/security
chapel
disposals
hydro
garden
library
gateway
incinerator room
vacant office
More roguelike randomization for every round is good for the soul.
Basically makes the code less dumb, took a long time. I worked hard to make sure there were no unintended effects (minus the fact you can no longer get spoons from the experimentor). No player-facing effects
I thought it looked weird that all cultist and combat knives were subtypes of the kitchen knives
Bring _HELPERS/_lists.dm to latest standards by:
-Adding proper documentation and fixing existing one
-Giving vars proper names
-Procs now use snake case as per standard (many files that use those procs will be affected)
Maint loot spawners hang around and never get qdeleted after spawning their loot.
This does a little bit of simple code logic to limit copypasta and ensure that loot spawners never qdel late and that they qdel precisely when they intend to. Or when SSmapping intends for them to.
## 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`
First off, I am aware of the Feature Freeze for this month. This PR was initially started in #60401 about a month ago to break the changes into smaller PRs. The end result for this PR is a poor man's attempt at roguelike procedural generation. Enjoy!
Link to the README for how the new spawner system works.
Added the following new random mapping spawners:
pen, crayon, stamp, paper, pamphlet, briefcase, folder, wardrobe closet, wardrobe closet colored, backpack, narcotics, permabrig_weapon, permabrig_gear, prison, material, carpet, ornament, generic decoration, statue, showcase, paint, tool, tool_advanced, tool_rare, material_cheap, material, material_rare, toolbox, flashlight, canister, tank, vending_restock, atmospherics_portable, tracking_beacon, musical_instrument, gambling, coin, money_small, money, money_large, drugs, dice, cigarette_pack, cigarette, cigar, wallet_lighter, lighter, wallet_storage, deck, toy, toy_figure, booze, snack, condiment, cups, minor_healing, injector, surgery_tool, surgery_tool_advanced, surgery_tool_rare, firstaid_rare, firstaid, patient_stretcher, medical supplies, crate, crate_abandoned, girder, grille, lattice, spare_parts, table_or_rack, table, table_fancy, tank_holder, crate_empty, crate_loot, closet_private, closet_hallway, closet_empty, closet_maintencne, chair, chair_maintence, chair_flipped, chair_comfy, barricade, data_disk, graffiti, mopbucket, caution_sign, bucket, soap, box, bin, janitor_supplies, soup, salad, dinner
Removed deprecated wizard trap, vault, and armory spawners.
Simple_animals / mobs are the biggest lie in this code-base. They're far from simple and have an extreme god-object problem. Especially when you get to /hostile, where there is so many procs, vars, and what not, that you can't make any interesting additions without snowflaking the hell out of the code.
This PR hopes to help kill this problem by introducing a new /living subtype, /living/basic. The idea of this refactor is to slowly start moving all old simple_animals to this new system, moving over behaviors like charging and more extravagant mobs like megafauna over bit by bit similar to how newfood was implemented.
One of the other big goals of this refactor is to move many of the fringe simple animal behaviors into either AI datums, or components/elements. (Some of which still needs to be done in this PR).
As a proof of concept, I created the base mob/living/basic, and moved cockroaches over to the system. Since cockroaches have both a passive, melee and ranged mob.
This PR does slightly affect balance as the behavior isn't 1-on-1 due to it no longer running on the janky /hostile behavior, but I tried to keep the effects to a minimum, and the glockroach and hauberoach are not spawnable through many means as far as I know.
* lead stuff
* kronkus + loot table
* one drug sprite
* kroncaine
* drug items
* addiction stuff
* makes this compile
* plane master controllers
* small adjustments
* bro its a comment CHILL OUT
* temp
* desc and sprite update
* temp
* hmm
* invisible1
* invisible2
* fixes
* It compiles
* misc drug fixes
* signal
* synthesis
* fix
* span macros
* kroncaine filter removal + no speedup on cuffs n narsie rune
* makes the ampoule visible.
* hud-b-gone
* revert
* reverts more
* sound enviroment
* on_transfer & animated fade
* adrenal crisis + unknown
* blastoff signal
* blastoff adjustments
* filters
* small fixes
* animation parallel
* Taste, sounds and feel
* span proc
* final touches
* review and integration fix
* less blood, more fun
* moth and blood fix
* KronKaine and bLaSToFF spelling fix
* Assorted bLaSToFF fixes and range change
* suggestions from head head head coder
Co-authored-by: floyd <Floydje123@Hotmail.com>
A previous commit made maintenance loot spawn effects visibile to
observers, but transparent.
However, in practice this is a lot of visual noise for very little
benefit for observers, so after they've spawned, they disappear, akin to
the old behaviour.
(They are still there, just hidden, but it looks the same to the end
user.)
Maintenance loot spawners now fire at roundstart, rather than during the initialization of the Atoms subsystem.
Maintenance loot spawners do not qdel themselves during the spawning process, but persist, and merely hide themselves from living players.
As a cute side effect, this lets preround observers look at the colourful maintenance loot dice icons before the round starts. Observers can continue to see the loot dice post-round, but they are deliberately
very faint.
Add a new simple station trait, that replaces everyone's ID with a
wallet containing said ID, as well as their starting money, and if
they're lucky, a little bonus surprise.
In addition, adds a force variable to station traits, which will
always enable them, rather than having to edit weight and probability
of rolling a trait of that sign (postive, negative).
Co-authored-by: Rohesie <rohesie@gmail.com>
extends the tile reskinning functionality to iron, bronze, plastitanium, carpet and pod floors
makes a bit of tile code better
moves some paths around, like elevator shafts being plating instead of floor
adds rotating as a tile reskinning function available on chapel or side floors for example
lets players customize any rooms they would want much more than it is possible now, allowing for more creativity
* Makes tanks only process when needed, rather then doing it constantly
* Makes portable atmos machines only process when needed, makes adding and removing atmos machinery cheaper, makes the tank processing logic actually work properly
* Makes pipelines only react() when their mix changes, fixes a ton of misuses of update_parents that were causing about 10ms of load for atmos just from reconcile_air()
* Adds in a new reaction framework alongside the old one for profiling related reasons
* whoops
* Cleanup, removes the react profiling code, I've chosen a direction to go here
* Cleans up some code, adds comments describing how to interact with portable atmos machines/tanks and their
mixes, adds a blurb to Atmospherics.md about the topic as a whole, leaves a line of bread for someone to follow
if I get hit by a bus in 2 days (Knock on wood)
* Removes priority from reactions, moves priority groups to the defines file
* whoops
* Converts air_contents to _air_contents, replaces all the out of file things that used it with return_air()
* Replaces the canister air contents uses, converts it back to air_contents, I decided I didn't like the _
* Fixes
Makes tanks use obj_integrity instead of their own snowflaked version.
Makes tanks check for exploding when they are destroyed, rather than once every process.
Makes tanks always leak their gases when they are deconstructed.
Removes the ability for tanks to seal themselves back up over time.
Makes the bomb spawner actually produce functional bombs.
Removes the extraneous syndicate bomb spawner subtype.
Miscellaneous code improvements to tanks, bomb spawners, and the blastcannon.
Fixes the explosives compressor doubling the power of any bomb you put in it.
The changes to tank rupturing behavior shouldn't effect most tritium fueled TTVs including the 50K recipe. Toxins players don't need to worry about suddenly being incapable of getting points or refining anomaly cores. They should only really effect singlecaps, but I don't know enough about singlecaps to know what recipes I should test. I have confirmation that at least one mix is not effected by this.
The self-sealing properties of tanks have been removed. I'm not sure what the purpose of it was, I have heard that it was used to enable hand-portable plasmaflooding, but I'm not familiar with the practice.
As it turns out, the basic bomb spawners were broken on master! I have made the bombs they produce maxcap instead of just spring a leak. Since they maxcap by default now I have removed the syndicate subtype used to spawn the TTV produced by the cuban pete arcade game and replaced it with the normal timer subtype. Since none of the bomb spawner subtypes were used for anything else this shouldn't have any effect on the game.
On a similar note, I have discovered that the maxcap recipe on the wiki stopped working at some point since it was written. I will replace it with a functioning set of instructions.
Less snowflake code.
Bomb spawners are actually functional now.
Slightly better code.
The explosives compressor accurately reflects the power of the bomb you put into it.
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
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>
This PR adds station traits which are essentially small changes to a normal round that can be used to create small variations in how a round might play out, sometimes there might be only one, very simple trait, but you might have a round where they have a somewhat bigger impact, to make rounds feel slightly more different from each other.
The following traits have been added:
Positive:
Lucky winner - Free pizza and beer every 6-12 minutes
Galactic Grant - Larger starting funds for cargo
Premium internals boxes - emergency box has flare + radio as bonus
Bountiful bounties - Bounties pay 20% more
Strong supply lines - Imports 20% cheaper
Filled maint - More loot in maint
Fast shuttle - Cargo shuttle is faster
Free scarves - Free scarfs if a slot is free
Neutral:
Bananium shipment - Clown starts with 5 sheets of bananium (Neutral because this helps noone but the clown)
Unnatural atmosphere - Lava planet can get more restricted gasses
Unique AI - Random lawset at roundstart for AI
Ian adventure - Ian teleports to a random spot on the station
Glitched PDAs - PDA's have a different beep
Announcer intern - Changes the announcement messages to sound like they're from an intern at Centcom
Negative:
Carp infestation - Carp event is more common and can start earlier
Weak supply lines - Imports 20% more expensive
Blackout - Station lights are partially broken around the station
Empty maint - Less loot in maint
Overflow bureacracy mistake - Random overflow job (From a vetted list)
Late Arrivals - Everyone starts in arrivals
Random spawns - Random spawn location (by drop pod)
Slow shuttle - Cargo shuttle is slower
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: coiax <yellowbounder@gmail.com>
Oversight made by @TiviPlus when making #55147
var/hacked wasn't actually used in code and instead, all spawner vendors were instantly hacked.
fixes#56101
