This PR moves the in-game Newscaster over to TGUI, which is one the most bothersome html to tgui projects on the codebase being that it's gone untouched for like... over 4 years now after the introduction of tgui. Newscasters are widely used in-game by players wanting to be deranged whistleblowers, noir detectives, and journalists. They're flavorful, fun, and we still use an html window to make them run so it looks like it's from 2003.
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.
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Changelog
Not player facing.
About The Pull Request
Continuation of #64375, extracting tool behavior from attackby() and moving it into discrete _act procs. This is about as many files as I had in the last version, as I still want this to be reviewable.
As before, I've tested everything in game and it works as it previously did.
Why It's Good For The Game
The more code moved out of attackby, the more modular things become.
Changelog
cl
refactor: Moves more tool behavior out of attackby().
/cl
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)
About The Pull Request
Closes#62528Closes#64229#60805 added \improper to a number of area names. This broke cameras for these areas, as apparently tgui does not respect \improper. This wraps the improper area name in a format string before it is assigned to the c_tag.
In this PR three mappers write one line of code. Thanks to @Sealed101 for doing the legwork.
Why It's Good For The Game
Security players will appreciate having their cameras back.
Changelog
cl Vire, san7890, mrmelbert, Sealed101
fix: Autonamed cameras should no longer show static in camera consoles.
/cl
About The Pull Request
Converts more inputs to TGUI. Possibly all user-facing input lists in the game.
Did any surrounding text/number inputs as well
Added null choice support so users can press cancel.
Added some misc TGUI input fixes
Fixed custom vendors while I was there
I refactored a lot of code while just poking around.
Primarily, usage of .len in files where I was already working on lists.
Some code was just awful - look at guardian.dm and its non use of early returns
If there are any disputes, I can revert it just fine, those changes are not integral to the PR.
Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes#63629Fixes#63307
Fixes custom vendors /again/
Text input is more performant.
Part of a long series of TGUI conversion to make the game more visually appealing
Changelog
cl
refactor: The majority of user facing input lists have been converted to TGUI.
refactor: Tgui text inputs now scale with entered input.
fix: Many inputs now properly accept cancelling out of the menu.
fix: Fixes an edge case where users could not press enter on number inputs.
fix: Custom vendor bluescreen.
fix: You can now press ENTER on text inputs without an entry to cancel.
/cl
This deletes bot_core entirely, instead the access required is on the bot itself
My previous refactor broke bot access cover requirements, and that bug is what inspired me to make this refactor.
This is a stupid thing to have on the bot, I have no idea why it is a thing, and has only ever confused me since the very start. I find this functions better, and makes the code more easy to understand.
Closes#63259
About The Pull Request
Paintings can now do stroke painting.
Added painting management panel for admins.
Paintings now display author's character name, year of painting, medium and patron when hung on wall.
You can become new patron by paying more than the previous one.
Added painter's palettes to library vendor. (Sprites by @Mickyan )
Backend changes:
Images are now stored in /data/paintings/images/*.png instead of /data/paintings/[category]/*.png
Old categories are now just tags
Screens & Video
Changelog
cl
add: You can now become patron of your favorite painting by buying sponsorship from Nanotrasen Trust Foundation.
add: Painter's palettes are now available at library vendor.
qol: Can use strokes in paintings now
/cl
Adds a skill tracker app for tablets.
I allowed all tablets to install it, but it is currently not pre-installed by default.
It is only available to tablets, with the conceptual compromise that it requires no extra hardware components, but uses sensors through your hands or something.
Just fixes some spelling for gangs. I also fixed misspellings for "posession" to "possession". Fixed "seperate " to "Separate" Fixed "Cemetary" to "Cemetery"
AI's doing research is logged to the RD, but Cyborgs doing it just shows up as 'Unknown', which makes no sense because some AI can order a Cyborg to do research on their behalf so the RD doesn't know who did it.
It also makes the RD's job easier to find out what rogue cyborg is doing research when told not to.
* Makes PDA crew manifest and crew monitoring computer respect trims for ordering and sorting
* Fix static typecheck issue
* Added initial rank tracking for IC command
Implements the Modernizing radiation design document ( https://hackmd.io/@tgstation/rJNIyeBHt ) and replaces the current radiation sources with the new system, as well as replacing/removing a bunch of old consumers of radiation that either had no reason to exist, or could be replaced by something else.
Diverges from the doc in that items radiation don't go up like explained. I was going to, but items get irradiated so easily that it just feels pretty lame. Items still get irradiated, but it's mostly just so that radiation sources look cooler (wow, lots of stuff around going green), and for things like the geiger counter.
Instead of the complicated radiation_wave system, radiation now just checks everything between the radiation source and the potential target, losing power along the way based on the radiation insulation of whats in between. If this reaches too low a point (specified by radiation_pulse consumers), then the radiation will not pass. Otherwise, will roll a chance to irradiate. Uranium structures allow a delay before irradiating, so stay away!
human huds will no longer runtime and die when prefs aren't initalised
SSEconomy will no longer have to deal with pathed jobs inside accounts
Some of the negative/neutral quirks that use the mind have been relegated to last_mind instead for runtime purposes
Mafia saymode will no longer runtime when someone uses it with no current mafia game
Autolathe secondary_attack will no longer runtime/work only because of runtimes
MULTIPLE CHECKS FOR QDELETED STACKS BEFORE ADDING FINGERPRINTS
More player_list client checks
A lazyinitlist for proximity monitors, as they used lazyremove which nulls the list when it hits zero things in it
A check for cigarettes in case temperature exposure causes a reaction that removes all reagents
Catwalks no longer runtime every time someone walks on them
/obj/machinery/atmospherics/components/binary/crystallizer will no longer runtime on secondary_attack if someone can't interact
cyborg models will no longer assume the thing they're inside is a cyborg and runtime when it isn't (cryopods)
When a simplemob falls into nullspace, it will no longer runtime (goliaths falling into chasms and etc)
runtime fix in techweb.dm when using a card without a sanity check
runtime fix with folders when they have nothing in them
runtime fix with glowing eyes when the LAZYADD doesn't get called in regenerate_light_effets() and so doesn't initalise the list
I'm adding a circuit component that can print text string on a paper object in a variety of colors and font typefaces (currently only web-safe ones are available, maybe i'll add some fancy ones in the future but they'd need to be imported either through @import of @font-face in a separate CSS not imported by every tgui UI).
It's important to note that because the UI sanitizes new text inputed by users and not what's already written on the paper (so the pen_color and pen_font don't be purged in the process), we can't safely have these strings "printed" into the info variable directly, because of that these values will be stored in two new list variables, one for the text and one for font color, face and the signature. When the paper sheet UI is opened, these will be sanitized and then parsed into the text, so the next time the paper is edited we can clear these two lists.
Obviously better than a hacky byond proc - parsemarkdown() is outdated af -, albeit a bit messy... like the rest of paper code.
Requires #62033.
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)
Once upon a time, when borgs could access machines from any distance once the window was open, borgs could self-detonate as a combat strategy. At some point, machine access for borgs was confined to being nearby the device, which removed self-detonation (except when near the console) as a side effect. This PR re-adds the ability for emagged and syndicate borgs by placing a confirm-type button into their RoboTact app (Actions section, under the Status tab).
Stunned or locked borgs cannot self-destruct.
Additionally, logging for borg detonations has been moved out of the robot console and into the borg self_destruct() proc, to avoid duplicate code, and emagged borgs now have their tablet theme and icon changed to syndicate versions.
bring code up to latest standards, move many procs to named files inside _HELPERS
no idea where to put some of these procs, help is appreciated
made more files to contain some unique code, deleted unsorted.dm, we can rest now
About The Pull Request
for(var/obj/machinery/power/apc/APC in GLOB.apcs_list) in get_apc makes chuck norris shed a tear
Why It's Good For The Game
tears are bad
Changelog
cl
code: /area now retains a local reference to the APC in the area, if any
/cl
This PR fixes a few misspellings of the words "availability" and "available" that I could find in the codebase. The only player visibile fix is for the Plexagon HR Core app, where "availability" was misspelled.
This PR is a spiritual successor to #53046
