## About The Pull Request
Removes all arbitrary energy and power units in the codebase. Everything
is replaced with the joule and watt, with 1 = 1 joule, or 1 watt if you
are going to multiply by time. This is a visible change, where all
arbitrary energy units you see in the game will get proper prefixed
units of energy.
With power cells being converted to the joule, charging one joule of a
power cell will require one joule of energy.
The grid will now store energy, instead of power. When an energy usage
is described as using the watt, a power to energy conversion based on
the relevant subsystem's timing (usually multiplying by seconds_per_tick
or applying power_to_energy()) is needed before adding or removing from
the grid. Power usages that are described as the watt is really anything
you would scale by time before applying the load. If it's described as a
joule, no time conversion is needed. Players will still read the grid as
power, having no visible change.
Machines that dynamically use power with the use_power() proc will
directly drain from the grid (and apc cell if there isn't enough)
instead of just tallying it up on the dynamic power usages for the area.
This should be more robust at conserving energy as the surplus is
updated on the go, preventing charging cells from nothing.
APCs no longer consume power for the dynamic power usage channels. APCs
will consume power for static power usages. Because static power usages
are added up without checking surplus, static power consumption will be
applied before any machine processes. This will give a more truthful
surplus for dynamic power consumers.
APCs will display how much power it is using for charging the cell. APC
cell charging applies power in its own channel, which gets added up to
the total. This will prevent invisible power usage you see when looking
at the power monitoring console.
After testing in MetaStation, I found roundstart power consumption to be
around 406kW after all APCs get fully charged. During the roundstart APC
charge rush, the power consumption can get as high as over 2MW (up to
25kW per roundstart APC charging) as long as there's that much
available.
Because of the absurd potential power consumption of charging APCs near
roundstart, I have changed how APCs decide to charge. APCs will now
charge only after all other machines have processed in the machines
processing subsystem. This will make sure APC charging won't disrupt
machines taking from the grid, and should stop APCs getting their power
drained due to others demanding too much power while charging. I have
removed the delays for APC charging too, so they start charging
immediately whenever there's excess power. It also stops them turning
red when a small amount of cell gets drained (airlocks opening and shit
during APC charge rush), as they immediately become fully charged
(unless too much energy got drained somehow) before changing icon.
Engineering SMES now start at 100% charge instead of 75%. I noticed
cells were draining earlier than usual after these changes, so I am
making them start maxed to try and combat that.
These changes will fix all conservation of energy issues relating to
charging powercells.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Closes#73438Closes#75789Closes#80634Closes#82031
Makes it much easier to interface with the power system in the codebase.
It's more intuitive. Removes a bunch of conservation of energy issues,
making energy and power much more meaningful. It will help the
simulation remain immersive as players won't encounter energy
duplication so easily. Arbitrary energy units getting replaced with the
joule will also tell people more meaningful information when reading it.
APC charging will feel more snappy.
## Changelog
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fix: Fixes conservation of energy issues relating to charging
powercells.
qol: APCs will display how much power they are using to charge their
cell. This is accounted for in the power monitoring console.
qol: All arbitrary power cell energy units you see are replaced with
prefixed joules.
balance: As a consequence of the conservation of energy issues getting
fixed, the power consumption for charging cells is now very significant.
balance: APCs only use surplus power from the grid after every machine
processes when charging, preventing APCs from causing others to
discharge while charging.
balance: Engineering SMES start at max charge to combat the increased
energy loss due to conservation of energy fixes.
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Co-authored-by: SyncIt21 <110812394+SyncIt21@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Title
## Why It's Good For The Game
Less headache in the future for a macro thats not really obvious in what
it does
## Changelog
🆑
fix: signals in circuits now actually function
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## About The Pull Request
See title.
In order for this change to work, these components will not work if
there is no shell, but this will change nothing user-facing because all
player-facing circuits require shells to function in the first place
anyways.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes a cooldown bypass bug.
Closes#75580
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Fixed bypassing component cooldowns with module components.
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Co-authored-by: Watermelon914 <3052169-Watermelon914@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
## About The Pull Request
Adds the ability to use ranges between 0 and 5 for View Sensor circuits.
Currently these nodes are locked to 5 tiles and it is rather difficult
to limit the area this circuit effects either for speed reasons or
otherwise. This PR makes it a simple variable that remains capped at 5,
admins can raise the cap by modifying a variable.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I mostly use circuits as an admin, I can't for the life of me figure out
how to make a shorter range AOE circuit although I imagine its possible
by comparing x and y coordinates of things in the list and yourself this
is far to finicky. Players can also utilize this to, for example check
all objects on the tile the view sensor is on, "possible" at the moment
but way to finicky compared to a 5 tiles.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: You can now reduce the range of View Sensor circuits.
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Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com>
See title, these checks are based on those used by set_turf_examine_tab for the statpanel.
Fixes#68596 (in the specific case of the plasma image holder in the bug, it has MOUSE_OPACITY_TRANSPARENT)
Adds view sensor component to circuits which allows to get all visible(no ghost detectors, sorry) movable atoms in a 5 tile range. It only works when your circuit's shell is placed on the ground or is held in hands.
