Why: Anomaly cores have few uses, science could use something combat related as a bribe for RnD now that they dont get any guns, and I want to see engineering pushing the engine towards near meltdown to try and harvest anomalies (would obviously need a way to make those capturable though).
I dont know where to put the node in the "web" really, so suggestions are welcome.
The reactive armour shell accepts anomaly cores to build various armours as follows
Flux - Tesla armour
Pyro - Fire armour
Gravity - Repulse armour (new in this PR)
Bluespace - Teleport Armour
Everything else - Defaults to stealth armour as a fallback
This removal is motivated by both gameplay and technical reasons.
Gameplay:
The stock market being a part of a station's Cargo department does not make sense, for either practical or lore purposes. The mechanic is bad because players are receiving cargo points from literally nothing. There no kind of freight handling or any other sort of bottleneck at all, just number entry on a computer from a seat. The stock market code is quite complex and a good attempt was made at simulating a stock market. However the attempt falls short, as it is still quite easy to manage stocks to grow points passively and safely. The stock market is also a multiplicative source of income so any other cargo point source gets extra scrutiny over balance, undeservedly so. Other aspects of cargo have already repeatedly taken hits. Such nerfs include the decreasing marginal returns for most exports and the base export price of plasma. I've noticed cargo doesn't care as much about exporting plasma as much as they used to.
Technical:
There seems to be a major issue with stock growth, particularly one bug in particular that grows stock prices to astronomical levels. As I mentioned before, the stock market code is quite complex, not to mention long. @Iamgoofball himself does not seem to making an earnest attempt to properly maintain and fix the issues, instead constantly making controversial band-aid fixes and removals (pot, kettle here I know). I would normally make a fix attempt as the code seems interesting but I do not agree with the stock market being a part of the game for gameplay reasons and thus have no interest. I have other ideas for cargo but they are still in the ideas stage so they are worth nothing. Still, I think removing the stock market and making room for other cargo features is the best move.
* new boards
* new boards installed
* new designs (wow) (woah)
* added the new design ids to the biotech node
* tested
it works, also, that typo fucking stopped it from compiling
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experimental: nodes now make more sense
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removed redunant nodes from some nodes preq, lowered price on really useless nodes, mech guns and weapons nodes now respect standards
plasma cutters are in a different node than adv plasma cutters
nutriment plus pump is in a different node than the basic pump
switched xray with beam lasers in adv beam unlock
lowered price of useless nodes: the one that unlocks tablets and the one that unlocls databases
temp gun is now under beam guns
emp gun is under electric weap
mech guns are now in the right place
put gps in basic bluespace
moved welding gas mask
removed diagnostic glasses from industrialed engineering bcs u unlock them somewhere else
new:
lowered price of huds amd increased night vision (no overall price change) bcs integrated huds are rpumdstart shit why would nt have a node for something that already exist?
same for cyborg upgrades, i felt like no one ever does them so the basic modules (everything except vtec ) cost less and vtec costs more
* Extensive surgery additions
* ,
* bioware
* restrict
* implants
* oops my hand slipped
* "i only changed a few lines, surely it's gonna compile, let's just push it and be done with it" --me, once again
* zombie surgery
* Adds brainwashing antag datum
* Antur Reviews
* @Antur part 2
* wow
* adds cryostatis shotgun darts, because shooting tiny water+potassium bombs into people is funny
* lowers amount from 15 to 10
* Update ammo_casings.dm
Researching an upgrade disk from RnD allows you to upgrade the Express Supply Console (#33436).
Instead of normal drop pods, which crash then stick around until you dissassemble them, the console will call down new Bluespace Drop Pods, which will teleport out after crashing (and bring about a slightly smaller crash-explosion too!)
🆑 MrDoomBringer
add: The RnD department can now develop firmware upgrades to the Express Supply Console, unlocking advanced cargo drop pods!
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why: adds a little bit more techweb-integrated progression to cargo, also part of a compromise from #34374.
oh, also repaths bsdroppod.dm to supplypod.dm
The technologies which unlock the design are shown. Lathe types are
shown visually. If the design is constructible, a button to go to the
lathe search screen is shown.
The header has been made tighter, shows current research production, and
doesn't show disk status. Researchable technologies in the overview show
their point cost. Tech summaries are tighter, and unlocked designs are
represented visually with tooltips.
