Areas.dmi right now houses all of our mapped turfs icons (which is roughly 400 icons). Not an issue, but it's incredibly large and clunky to navigate right now. This isn't an issue for the average coder and/or player code diving, but it is for mappers wanting to add new turfs. Currently, the file has some organization, but its still an overall mess. This PR aims to slice the behemoth with multiple .dmi files corresponding to specific areas.
I also plan to repath /area/* -> /area/station/* for station turf only. This is to clean it up, as most other turfs follow this format (that being /area/turf_zone/*).
I'm also writing an update paths file as I go along.
This PR refactors firestacks into two status effects: fire_stacks, which behave like normal firestacks you have right now, and wet_stacks, which are your negative fire stacks right now. This allows for custom fires with custom behaviors and icons to be made.
Some fire related is moved away from species(what the fuck was it even doing there) into these as well.
Oh and I fixed the bug where monkeys on fire had a human fire overlay, why wasn't this fixed already, it's like ancient.
Also changed some related proc names to be snake_case like everything should be.
This allows for custom fire types with custom behaviours, like freezing freon fire or radioactive tritium fire. Removing vars from living and moving them to status effects for modularity is also good.
Nothing to argue about since there's nothing player-facing
* makes hud images only apply by z level
* makes some of the atom_hud procs have better names
* fixes warning with the hud_user list and adds better documentation
* better docs for hud_images
* removes TODOs
* docs for hud_list
* adds support for linked z levels so mobs can see lower ones
* fixes merge conflict and shittily makes only shocked airlocks get added
* adds support for setting images in the hud as active and inactive
* gets rid of unatomic spatial grid change
* maybe i should actually try COMPILING my changes
* fixes merge skew and makes it compile again
* fixes huds refusing to remove from users who changed z level
* improves z level and registration logic
* fixes antag huds not appearing
* Fixes antag huds not properly setting. We now use hud_list in init, so it needs to be set before the new call, not after. Not sure why the use of appearance key was split like this, but none else knows either so none can stop me
* Ensures that hiding a basic appearance also hides the atom's active list too
* Fixes antag huds going poof
Ensures that remove_atom_from_hud will return false if the passed atom
isn't managed by it
This fixes antag huds disappearing randomly, since they assumed that if
the parent call of remove_atom_from_hud returned true, we should delete
ourselves. This is a safe assumption for them to make, since they should
only ever have one atom.
Does kinda bork if we call remove_atom_from_hud in a way that is unsure
if the passed atom is actually in that list. We were forced into doing
this by how atom huds use the qdeleting signal.
* makes basic alternate_appearance's only update themselves when setting their hud image to active and makes them not add themselves to the global huds_by_category list
* fixes mistake with hud_users list being set non associatively (bad)
* as anything in bot path loops
* Fixes merge skew problems
* Makes bot paths non global
This way they can show themselves to only the bot that "owns" them, ya
feel me?
* Fixes huds not showing up sometimes, cleans up some code
Post Kapu's limb refactor, we were calling prepare_huds twice in a human
init call chain. What was happening was this:
call prepare_huds() // Human
I gained a new hud image
I set active hud icons to mirror it
call prepare_huds() // Living
I overwrote the new hud image
I attempted to set active hud icons, which failed because it assumes
this can never happen
*cries*
* Renames add_hud_to_atom to show_to
My hope is this will make understanding hud code a bit easier, by tying
the behavior to a "verb" more closely. Also renamed a few vars
* remove_hud_from_mob -> hide_from
* Nitpicks a few comments
* Whoops/fuck/shit/damn it all/hhhhhhhhhhhh
* Moves check down, improves stack trace a bit
Co-authored-by: KylerAce <kylerlumpkin1@gmail.com>
* Refactors dizziness into a status effect
* Refactors the dizziness setter to use the new kind
* Drunkness.
- Should drunk continue to work off of a magic value or be swapped to duration? I've not yet decided: For understandability it's preferabale for "drunk" to use a timer (they are drunk for 3 more minutes), but both adding drunk and decreasing drunk currently use weird calculations which would be difficult to carry over.
- Ballmer is a liver trait
* Dizzy was a setter, not an adjuster
* Does all the drunk effects over
- refactors examine text fully
- refactors stabilized blacks because of this
* Removed
* repaths, fixes some issues
* Minor fixes
* Some erroneous changes
* Fixes some dizziness errors
* Consistency thing
* Warning
* Undoes this change, I dont like its implementation
* max_duration
* Max amount
* Should be a negative
* max duration
* drunk doesn't tick on death
* Rework dizziness strength
* Erroneous dizzy change
* Fixes return type
#65523 made some changes to bodypart names that messed with the grammar of a few messages around the codebase by inserting the species of a bodypart where it's really not needed. For example:
For most general combat/health cases, we don't need to worry about the species of a bodypart. So, this changes combat and wound messages back to simply displaying the relevant bodypart zone being attacked/affected. See below:
dreamseeker_2022-04-10_02-05-55.png
Let me know if I missed any!
Why It's Good For The Game
Better grammar
Changelog
cl Ryll/Shaps
spellcheck: Wound and combat messages will no longer mention the species of an attacked bodypart when not appropriate
/cl
* Separates robot_items.dm and cleans up the code
I want to do a refactor for an item here, but I'd rather split all of
this up first, so as not to have a boat load of changes to review all
together
About The Pull Request
Fixes#63868. Actual one liner fix for this one here. If this pr dies feel free to atomize this one.
AND it turns out to not be tim's fault.
Fixes#63548. But i really shouldnt say fixed. The original implementation was causing the invincible plating bug. When tim's refactor got in it instead relies on the element state, which was broken from the get go, removing the invincible plating bug which was in a sense "intended" its all messy man I hate this code. Thats why im removing the plating thing. Let the turf handle the turf change themselves this complicates things.
Mapped in glass floors have openspace (now baseturf bottom) as their baseturfs, while built ones have plating under them. Which doesnt make sense to be honest. Why would things be visible if a plating is under the glass. They are also crowbarrable on top of this, which to be fair is my main reasoning behind the PR.
To solve this, I am instead making glass floors replace the plating instead of building over it. This is made to be generalizable for every tile in game, as long as their initial baseturf is the same and the tile wants it to happen.
do after of three seconds is completely arbitrary. If any maint want it changed let me know.
Why It's Good For The Game
First one solves a bug
Second one makes more sense
And er, icebox is currently using the glass floors in sec, they can be crowbarred very easily. This might be a good idea from a gameplay perspective.
Changelog
cl
del: Removed adding glass floors to plating
balance: Allows you to replace plating with glass floors instead. 3 second timer.
del: Removed deconstructing the glass floors. No replacement for this one, use a rcd.
fix: Fixed metastation glassfloor spawning a weird turf when crowbarred.
/cl
This PR covers 4 Key features:
Price Rebalancing
Passive Income
Gas Exports
Lathe Tax
Relevant Design Doc (Slightly out of date as a result of the discourse on the subject).
https://hackmd.io/WlWgyRafTaiAqz6ouOqC-Q
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# Arconomy Version Two
This is mostly me organizing a long list of thoughts that I'm not sure if I can properly describe and get across, but lets just work with what we got and go from there.
## There should probably be a relationship to time and profit
So, part one of a series called "Arcane was completely wrong about game design", I made a rather large misstep in regards to designing arconomy, and nobody told me this until far, FAR after I had gone way too in on my own ideas:
"There needs to be a relationship between time and money". Because Space Station 13 is a game that is built around rounds, either long, LONG rounds on MRP or 30 min - 1 hour long rounds in LRP, your whole orientation of the game is built around time. The longer you spend in a single round, the more you can do and mold the station and the game in a specific direction, whether it's from an admin event, doing your job, or going off on a wierd character based tangent.
The issue here lies in a question I tried to answer in my previous design doc:
> "Command players start with lots of money, and make mountains of money, and as a result, have so much money by the end of the shift that they're practically immune to the effects of the economy.
> Assistant players start out with practically no money, find that the station is covered in costs that they'll never be able to practically afford, and decide that the economy is stupid and not worth utilizing altogether."
Two fundimentally different outlooks on the same problem, caused by the pay discrepency as it existed originally. Since we have so many different jobs all at different paygrades, the option that made the most sense at the time was to completely remove paychecks alltogether because they would multiplicitively exacerbate the previous issue.
While it would flood the in-game economy over time at high levels, it did add a sense of timescale to the existing in-game relationships. You **KNEW** that after x many minutes you would get that fancy hat, or that you would need to find cash in other ways to get it. Having that time-scale is helpful as we've moved to our 90 minute round average/goal. It also, similarly, means that we know exactly how many credits each job SHOULD have had access to before a major disaster calls for a shuttle call. But, in hindsight, that is a value that should be consistant for all players. If a single, unaided player looks at a 200 credit bill, that should have the same impact player to player, and not limit their access to jobs.
## Bounties just ain't that fun, but they stand to see improvement from where they are now
So, guilty as charged, bounty running doesn't quite have the same charm as it used to have. For our friends just joining us, cargo used to have a single, per round laundry list of items that would payout to the cargo budget each shift. Each list would start with 10 items, one of which would randomly be assigned higher priority with a higher payout, and it would be cargo's job to ~~Break into each department and steal that thing~~ cooperate with jobs around the station to aquire funds for station crisis or when you just want to dick around and make stacks of cash. This had a distinct charm to it, but one element of it that majorly reduced the replayability of bounties was that they were severely limited in scope. Once you did your ONE drink bounty or your ONE chemical bounty, you no longer needed to interact with that department.
My original goal was this: Make an unlimited bounty system, where crewmates were able to get a cut of their work as profit. To a degree, it's fairly successful! Crew do have a way to actively work with cargo to get paid for their labor, and they help cargo as a result by giving them free valuables. The issue lies in the fact that this has kinda flipped the relationship on it's head: Bounties stopped being cargo's job to outsource to the crew, and instead the crew's job that becomes dependent on cargo.
In general, many bounties simply weren't meant to be repeatable content in the first place. And certainly not meant to be used for every job. Offloading it as a kind of fetchquest minigame so that all jobs can offset the loss of passive income? It's not the best choice. For jobs like botanists or scientists it's tolerable at best, frustrating at worst. Just look at the state of things like experisci-slime experiments or scanning furniture.
It gets far worse when it's from the perspective of jobs that have *explicitly* limited supplies like security. No, a security player is not going to be allowed to haul away all the good metal handcuffs from the brig for a bounty, and no, you cannot take all the riot shotguns from the brig.
Now, a few of these things were fixed over time, with mixed successes. Bounties started to be cleaned up in order to prevent limited quantity items from being an option for repeat bounties. Jobs that lack exports started to get some content for still allowing them to have repeatable exports (Like the Scanners for Security Officers to go on patrols).
The BIG EXCEPTION to this is Restaurant Bots, but we'll hit that in a second.
## Getting everything on the same price scale has been a major improvement.
Unironically one of the best changes made has been the idea that even if we lack that good time-credit scale from before, we didn't really have a "standard" to work off of when something new is added to the game and the dev needs to determine how much to make that thing cost. That's why the current costs of objects and values on-station are scaled off of a single define, the value of a crate sold on the cargo shuttle.
> Yes, I'd like an APPLE. It's worth 3124151 CREDITS. NO, I don't know why the apple juice in the vendor is worth 415 CREDITS, nor do I CARE, GOOD MAN.
From the back end, everything is scaled off the same define now. Paygrades are defined off of a different scale still, but that's fine. You know, from the cargo end of things, that a cargo player needs to ship off X number of empty metal crates to purchase a laser crate, or a pizza crate. Definate relationships help in solidifying the singular value of a product.
If we decide that we want to rescale the in-game economy and provide space credits with more granularity, at least we know we can do it with a single line of code, and not looking at every single instance of something that charges the player money.
### Arconomy Tangent: We gotta nuke gas selling.
This has been a long time coming and I know people are going to be upset at me, but look man.
I have no idea how selling moles of gas works these days. It seems like with minimal resources, true atmos wizards are able to make singular cans of gasses with infinite moles of some kind of gas, and if it's exotic enough, they can make upwards of a million credits a can. I've seen multiple occasions where selling gas cans to cargo has allowed for players to buy a bike.
For our Gen-Z zoomers reading this, players were never meant to BUY the bike. The bike is just a reskinned scooter meant as a cute little pokemon joke. If a player can actually buy a bike in a round, that's a sign that someone, somewhere, fucked up.
We fucked up the whole system with atmos gas selling.
We've now gone through metas of extracting miasma from lavaland for credits, we've gone through a meta where cargo starts building their own hydrogen burn chambers for simply produced gasses, we've seen time and time again that processed gasses in the funny space simulator just tends to be abused to death and back. I've had talks with TheFinalPotato on this in the past, and it just feels like a system that would need to be rewritten from the ground up, or looked at in terms of the whole cargo department. If I don't get to it first, the next cargo design doc someone writes **SHOULD**.
## Giving jobs content that integrates into the economy can be really fun.
Tourism bots and the baked in ingredient shopping is fun! It's enabled for a fluff job that doesn't have too terribly much by way of serious responsibilites to integrate active income minigames into the gameplay of chefs and bartenders. It's fully optional, it's quick, and it's not even a full shift investment.
These secondary tasks, which utilize jobs core gameplay loops in a new way, while rewarding them within the in-game economy are a decent way to keep players engaged with their jobs, and allow for them to use credits as a player resource as well as a primary job resource.
**I AM NOT SAYING** that all jobs need to find tasks to arbitrarily reward players with credits for. The reason it works so well for jobs like the chef or bartender is because their job is already to make food and drinks, but they have so many options that they're not encouraged to make too wide of a variety of food, especially when botanists won't always make everything you need. The food market gives them an outlet to buy outlier ingredients and the tourists pay handsomely enough that you can offset your costs most or the time.
I'll break this down as well into the three different methods of money-making in game as well, to guide someone on how to make good, secondary income content.
| Primary | Secondary | Tertiary |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| This is something like passive paycheck income. You get this just purely for playing the game, and staying alive. | This is an active trade off between your job's specific content, where you are trading your time for something it is directly your responsibility to do. Eg. Tourist Bots. | An active task you are performing for income, but lacks the specialization of a job. EG. Bounties. |
Jobs that excell at more service based tasks and less production based tasks should aim to aquire more seconary style economy integration, like medical, science, or security.
## The options for moving money around the station are actually pretty decent, but could be streamlined
Bounty boards are pretty decent at being a way to pay crew members for single service jobs. However, bounty boards are pretty much dead content, in a sense. There's not much incentive to hunt down your department's bounty board.
Similarly, most crew would just prefer to hand credits out by hand to prevent most kinds of abuse of their own credit supply.
Long term and certainly a major personal outcome I'd like to see: Bounty boards and Newscasters should be merged together. Newscasters have some truely awful spaghetti and their being held together by shoe-strings and duct tape (This is slang for HTML). Bounty boards are... well they're functional, but they have the benefit of being built in TGUI. Merging the two's functions should cut down on wall-space, as well as improve the quality of a vast deal of code, and make money transfer on station slightly easier.
Honestly, pretty happy with vend-a-trays. They're pretty decent store-machines on station and do their job pretty well when they get used. All in all I'm happy with how they work.
Custom Vendors are clunky to a fairly major degree and I don't think most players get how to make them work on account of need a price tagger (not a sales tagger, that's the cargo item) to mark an object for it's sale value, then load it into a custom vendor sales unit, then load it into a custom vending machine, and that's only IF custom vending machines decide to work this year. Streamlining the tools, or perhaps just vending machines would certainly improve this as a service.
## Just ain't enough cool stuff to buy with credits.
An ever-present problem, that we're just kinda stuck with. There's a decent number of issues involved with making content that can safely be gated with just credits.
* If it's usable as a weapon, is it too dangerous to hand out to the crew at large?
* Does security get potential oversight?
* If it's illegal, does it go through cargo?
* Does it HAVE to go through cargo?
* If it's beneficial, is it going to invalidate the existance of a job? (Think old medkits!)
* Is there anything that players WANT that's not a weapon, benefical to the station but not too strong, or quite literally traitor equipment?
It's a tough question.
Some items make complete sense to implement on a per job basis as either uncommon or premium equipment, while other items could potentially be moved to station-wide unique purchasables.
# Takeaways:
Look, these are just some possible solutions that I'm considering. I think that working alongside a maintainer who could actually give a damn on getting this system orderly and possibly alligned with our current design philosophy (Who also understands that a not-insignificant amount of current economy was abitrarly written by goofball an actual decade ago) could help iron this out into a clear and consise set of goals and milestones to make the in-game economy workable. Not balanced, but workable.
* **Design a simple simulation for per round intake and outtake, to determine benchmark values for a 90 minute round.**
It would need to look something like this, as a kind of fucked up, Multi-Input Multi-Output Control Problem. Possibly could be done in simulink, but I'm not quite sure how to do that at this moment, so a less complex version might be fine.
* **Look back at implementing crewmember incomes, but at a flat, more consistant rate over all jobs**
My leading idea: 50 credit, uniform paygrade. No wild, unscaled pay rates based on what job is "important" or not.
That line of thinking means that certain jobs should have more expensive equipment over other jobs, but then we're right back to the captain thinking that a cup of coffee is practically free where an assistant thinks that a screwdriver from the vendor is going to put them out of house and home.
Improves time-relationship values with credits.
This could lead way to heads of staff having some degree of control to giving raises or paycuts to crew-members, but perhaps at a very, VERY gradual rate.
* **Perform another big-picture look at bounty cubes.**
Potentially try to put bounties back in the hands of cargo, while still providing payouts to crewmates who assist in completing jobs. This may require some minor refactoring of the pricetag component, perhaps to even allow for multiple crewmembers to recieve profit from a payout.
This means once again, look at making bounties workable for all jobs on the station, not making the objects requested literal lathe-fodder, and finding ways to benefit the station in some way with the task of bounty cubes, even if it's just for credits.
Deceptively hard task.
* **Add secondary tasks that integrate the economy into non-bounty-able jobs/departments**
Like it says on the tin, look into ways to add content that improves economy integration into existing jobs, without necessarily changing what those jobs DO. The bounties for those jobs can still exist as a tertiary thing, but should be made clear that they're... tertiary.
Chefs still make food and bartenders still serve drinks, but they have a way to hand them out for fun and profit.
Some thoughts and ways to handle this potentially:
*Science:* Perform intricate testing on anomalous materials using science equipment. Should NOT REWARD RESEARCH POINTS. Mr. OJ Headcoder will CHEMICALLY CASTRATE me, or you, if you do.
*Medical:* Complete tricky or non-standard surgeries on dummies for medical data. Think like that meme from the TV show, House.
"He needs Mouse bites to live. MORE MOUSE BITES."
*Engineering:* Repair wacky machines that use both station-standard parts as well as solving quick puzzles.
* **Look into more effective money sinks that are dynamic sensitive**
Think, for example, about the station ransom event that spawns space pirates.
What if instead of the captain just dumping credits from the cargo budget into the aether to prevent pirate spawns (They're bugged anyway to my knowledge to spawn anyway), crewmates had to cough up that dough before a time-limit, or risk a pirate spawn. For those of you who were scratching their heads at (Operational Costs!?) in the above controls diagram, this is the sort of thing I mean.
Little, smaller things that might need to be purchased, invested in, or otherwise drain credits from the station over the course of the round.
# Arconomy 2.0: Smarter, Better, Flashier.
## Roundstart
Players begin each shift with a set amount of money, with the value being mostly uniform over the course of a shift assuming no interaction with economy. Jobs are split up into only 3 paygrades, Minimal, Crew, and Command. Minimal is reserved for jobs that are meant to fill population counts but lack a specialization, like prisoner and assistant. When starting the shift, a player will start with 5 paychecks worth of savings. This system is not designed for persistance, so you will always be able to tell how much money a player starts out with. Every 5 minutes, aka every economy tick, the player will recieve one paycheck, which is capped out at the standard crew member paycheck. This means that even if you start the shift as the captain, and begin the shift with 500 credits, you will recieve the same 50 credits as regular crew members.
| Minimal Paycheck | Crew Paycheck | Command Paycheck | Frequency |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |--------|
| 125 Cr | 250 Cr | 500 Cr | Roundstart |
| 25 Cr | 50 Cr | 50 Cr | Passive Income |
## Product Prices
Products found in vending machines are defined by the amount of a player's paycheck they're meant to cost. Regular items use the PAYCHECK_CREW value, while more expensive or otherwise prohibitive items are defined by PAYCHECK_COMMAND. Items are defined in this uniform, horizontal fashion in order to maintain the equal value of credits over all jobs. A 100 credit medkit in medical should have the same value to a doctor as it does to a botanist.
Jobs apply a discount to vending within their own department, so an engineering would have a discount on tools, and a doctor would have a discount on sutures. Items that are important to gameplay progression in a role are less expensive to their intended users.
> **AUTHORS NOTE:** I am considering removing in-department discounts. In the benefit of making the value of purchasables more universal, deciding that credits shouldn't be spent within their own department just seems... rather fucking stupid.
> Possibly move the discount to only the first few minutes of the shift, or perhaps as some kind of gameplay benefit to slowly increase in-department discount through gameplay milestones? Who knows 👻
>
Some jobs have premium, high value items stocked in their vending machines that are not meant to be purchased at roundstart. These are meant to encourage players to save or combine resources to gain access. An example of this is insulated gloves. Other high value items can also be found in contraband through hacking vending machines. This remains unchanged.
## Markets
The cargo department has been changed in order to improve player involvement with the economy, as well as to give cargo more variety in their merchandise while preventing a singular stale meta of products to purchase from.
Yes, I'm looking at you, russian surplus crate.
Lets start with what's remaining the same:
* Cargo is a department that manages imports and exports of products, fulfilling departmental orders, and aquiring supplies dependent on the station's state.
* Cargo encompasses the station's mail, mining, and flow of orders, as well as drone exploration.
* A skilled cargo member is able to find high value items to sell back to centcom in exchange for more funds, to purchase those supplies.
* Centcom may request bounties which crew can fulfill in exchange for credits, if they wish for additional work.
**Now for the new design flow:**
Cargo starts out with a new mechanic called a market. Markets hold existing export datums as well as purchasable products. The values of items will fluxuate up and down based on the market status, with in-game events or player actions raising or lowering the values of specific markets.
At roundstart, cargo has a single market to sell to, which is Nanotransen. This will not incapsulate all the existing export datums in the game, just the *primary* exports that are used by players. Items that are exclusive to nanotrasen and required to play certain game modes, like mindshield implants or being able to sell crates, are included and will always be available to purchase.
Additional markets can be unlocked through gameplay sources, such as:
| Market Name | Source | Imports/Exports |
| -------- | -------- |- |
| The Syndicate | Emagging/Hacking the Console | Illegal Goods/Contraband |
| The Clown Planet Commerse | Discovering the clown planet ruin | Pies, Horns, Pranking Equipment |
|Terragov Sector Security Surplus | Killing any megafauna. | Weapons, Ammunition, Advanced Riot Gear. |
| Mekki Materials Co. | Recovered loot from Exodrones | Materials and industrial equipment. |
|Donk Co.| As a tip from tourist robots. | Foods and Drinks, Toys and Games.|
|Waffle Co.| As above. | Bootleg products and wacky merchandise. |
|The Research Consortium| Reward for completing any experiment tree. | Slime Cores, RnD Artifacts, Robotics Equipment |
...And more, if I can think of more.
The purpose being, of course, to split up cargo's purchasable goods to be more instanced and unique, while also create unique situations where due to profitable markets, very specific exports are needed to help the department make money.
End of document for now :@ArcaneMusic
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Price Shifting
So, in-game items that have prices have a major issue on their hands, being that they were decided by how much money that job should make. This means that many of the jobs in-game have been given prices scaled to their job's income. That income I adjusted by removing passive income in #54161. While this was helpful to moving towards an active in-game economy, it resulted in items falling into distinct price brackets. A high paying job like security's items could never be purchased by someone like a botanist, but a job like a security officer had more capital and buying power than most other jobs in-game combined when moving down those brackets. We've done a simple normalization of scale to help in bring things closer to a semblance of equality.
There are now 3 price brackets, PAYCHECK_LOW, PAYCHECK_CREW, and PAYCHECK_COMMAND. Command staff will still have a higher base level of money on-hand than other crew, and low paying wages that we on-station don't respect as being real jobs (assistant, prisoner) will have their items be intentionally cheaper to encourage active participation in the economy, but the difference in scale is now noticeably far closer to each other. This means that assistants can still interact with the economy as spenders, but if they want to be doing a lot of work with money, they'll need to put in work. Additionally, this means we arbitrarily enforce a system that allows for items to have uniformity in what they cost to other players. 50 credits for a wrench feels better when you know that other job critical items in-game are also around the same price, and it's equivalent to one paycheck.
Paychecks are reintroduced
Economy lost it's relationship to time. In a game where a single round takes 90+ minutes (Backed up not only by the head-coder's design direction as well as plenty of aggregate round data), having a relationship to time and how long it takes to afford something is a major consideration when you look at buying something. Also, we get to say that I was certifiably wrong in regards to the active economy thing, since we have very, VERY few active sources of content in-game that are very... fun? Bounties are literal fetch quests but something like tourists is at least more engaging and interactive with the round, and should be the direction we want economy-job integration to head in.
Between having inflation as a price manipulation mechanic already in the code, as well as prices being roughly equalized in terms of their costs between jobs and their impact on the round, this allows for the reintroduction of paychecks to an extent.
As an additional note, doing this meant tweaking down the syndicate briefcase of cash, so that instead of giving you 5000 credits for 1 TC, it now costs 5 TC to accompany the fact that this is now a rather significant amount of money, even on decently high population. Fun fact: the Syndicate Briefcase of Cash actually PREDATES the economy, and was NEVER ADJUSTED beyond the original implementation of the economy as a result!
Gas Exports.
ALRIGHT ARE YOU READY FOR SOME GRAPHS? I THOUGHT SO, YOU LOVE GRAPHS.
So, gas exports are fucked, have always been fucked, and consistently have proven to be capable of breaking the in-game economy for a long time. This is no secret, I've been pinged with players getting billions, actual billions of credits using it multiple times in as many years. See, any round where a player manages to buy the bicycle is a round where I've fucked up, or someone fucked and I let it get past me.
So here's how gas exports work right now.
So, all of this hinges on the value of a single mole of gas, and some gasses enable you to make extremely, EXTREMELY profitable gasses through atmospheric gas wizardry However, even those less profitable gasses are still in an extremely high magnitude of value.
Most gasses if you have a full can of it will net you OVER 10k credits. For scale, one crate being sold in cargo is 200 credits.
That's a minimum of crates for pumping gas into a hollow metal box and praying it doesn't explode.
So we adjusted the values accordingly.
The baseline value of a single gas has been tweaked downward significantly. Even these values are still arguably very high, but I can play with it at the discretion of LemonintheDark. The green line at the top represents gasses that previously sold for 100 credits per mole, antinobilium I believe, and working downwards. I am going to try and enforce 10 credits per mole as the absolute maximum hard cap on gas exports, regardless of how many gasses we try to add in the future. Because the alternative is getting a gunjillion credits by huffing miasma into a tank of steel. And we ain't having that shit.
Lathe Tax
Part of the testing for this PR involved me modeling the SS13 economy in a given round as a kind of controls problem, with each source of income introduced in the round as a kind of input (Passive Income, Bounties, Tourists) in order to get a handle on roughly how much income a single round of SS13 will see per player on the given designed round-length, in order to estimate how much things are going to cost. Modeling how much players spend on a given round is variable enough that it'd be too difficult to accurately test without just throwing this up on a server and getting live data.
However, from the appearance of my dataset, players would be making a LOT more money nowadays with all of the above changes implemented. In an attempt to curve that intake, I attempted to implement a small, low scale tax of printing items that would take a small amount of players income every time they print, as a way to add a basic economic side-effect to this mechanic.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a mixed decision. So, maintainers came up with an intended direction they want to see it, as they wanted to make sure that economy would remain a secondary system, that could still have an impact on round direction and the changes they want to see in the game.
So, here's the intent:
Lathe tax should exist in the form of printing things from protolathes outside of your department, not on autolathes or your own protolathe.
We want to promote people talking and collaborating to access things if it's outside the scope of their department and they still want it, with theft still being a viable avenue of gameplay.
Players will be charged 10 credits for printing a set of items not from their own protolathe, each. Printing an item can be paid for from your own ID card's bank account automatically, but the payment component has been buffed to handle physical money alternatives, as well as pulled money, similar to the luxury shuttle scanner gate's behavior.
Borgs are still enabled to print from lathes, however instead of it costing them credits, they now take a self-significant power cost in order to do so, preventing them from being used as a roving bank account for printing. I'll look into this further as we don't want to invalidate mechanics like borgs being able to do organ based surgery or building machinery, but we don't want them to become credit cards, so place that under advisement.
Tweaks and Updates:
(Suggested by Ziiro) If the revolutionaries win, centcom will no longer enforce the Lathe Tax.
(Suggested by about ~1000 people independently between my DMs, Reddit threads, the Feedback Thread, and elsewhere)
Printing items only taxes you once per print. EG: If you print 10 Kitchen Knifes as an assistant from the service lathe, you will only be charged once instead of 10 times.
For many of the reasons that I outlined above, this is a good change in a positive direction.
Players get more ability to interact with the economy without having to do content that's becoming increasingly depreciated in my absence.
Players also have a baseline consensus on what values of credits are high and low because jobs have been given an equalized standard in regards to the cost of certain items.
Price fluctuations through inflation will now be more meaningful in situations where the economy becomes more relevant.
The system will still encourage you to play a job that's productive to the status of the station through lower paycheck jobs existing as well.
Gas exports are now reduced to the point that their value is appropriate for the first time... actually ever. Nice.
The values of nearly every item purchasable by players has been rebalanced.
Players will now start with less starting money, but will receive a paycheck once every 5 minutes.
The value of gasses exported through the cargo department have been skewed way, WAY down in terms of price.
The Syndicate briefcase of cash now contains now costs 5 TC, up from 1 TC, for 5000 credits.
Printing items from lathes on station now costs a fee of 10 credits per item printed if it's from a lathe not under your department.
The payment component has received additional handling for physical credits, as well as pulled credits/ID cards for those without hands.
* Life() Optimization Part 1: Organ order
It turns out organ code is really quite dumb. Wastes a lot of time.
I'm going to be doing what I can to optimize it in this branch.
To start with:
If we can ensure organs are sorted according to organ_process_order inside
internal_organs_slot
We can do away with a needless get_organ_slot call in handle_organs, and
avoid needing to iterate over 30 entries, one per possible organ slot,
instead iterating just the ones we have
This saves roughly 5% of life
* Organ Optimization Part 2: base on_life()
Organ on_life, despite not looking it, is a remarkably hot proc. Called
something close to 9 times for each human on the map, it's worth taking
care to clean it up.
As things currently stand, we do two dumb things.
The first is manually checking for organ failure each iteration.
We do this because we allow organ damage to be modified outside of the
applyOrganDamage proc, which also calls check_failing_thresholds.
There's no reason to do this, so I've gone through and removed all
instances of it
The second is calling applyOrganDamage no matter what, to "heal" the
organ. Even if it isn't damaged.
The fix for this is simple, just an if check.
This saves roughly 10% of pre changes Life() cost
* Blood cleanup beta version
Blood code is slightly more sane, but it calls get_part_bleed_rate a
lot, and does other checks that are the same so long as the bleed rate
never changes. This is reasonably expensive
So, I'm going to make it event driven, and cache the bleed rate. But to
do that, I need to be able to react to limb ownership changes, and well,
there's a few that don't use the existing setter. This commit fixes that
* Blood cleanup beta 2.0
I'm starting on the work to make bleed rate cached
Adds NO_BLEED to the signal registration of set_owner
This lets us generically react to it
Makes changing your bleedstacks into a proc we can hook into
Fully implements it
* Blood optimization beta 3.0
Hooks into embedding/embed details updating, this ensures the embed
aspect of bleed rate is properly accounted for
* Blood optimization beta 4.0
Hooks wounds into refresh_bleed_rate, adds a setter for blood flow to
support this
I feel like there are places where this would be useful, but I'm not
totally sure
Kinda wanted to ask ryll
* Blood optimization, the final countdown
Fully caches bleed_rate. Because I can do this, we only need to call update_part_wound_overlay when bleed rate updates
This saves 15%! of human life tick. Get owned
* Optimizes body_temperature_alerts
It turns out that clearing alerts and sending signals every process is
wasteful. There's no reason to do it unless last process was a problem
one
The change for that is quite easy, literally just a new var on human.
Saves 2% of human life tick.
Very nice for the amount of time I put into it
BTW, I have a feeling that most of the overhead of bodytemp is caused by
human body temperature being higher then room temperature. Not sure
what to do about this though
* Does something similar to disgust
Basically, don't continusly send signals if you have no disgust
It's rare enough that this is all the caching we really need to do
Saves roughly 1% of life tick. Right on the edge of not worth it
* Some cleanup to how mob fires handle their lighting, adds a check to liver coder
* Cleans up update_gravity slightly
It's very close to outside a measurable deviation faster, but I honestly
just did it to make it easier to read
* Fuck you
* Very minor organ optimization
Instead of using internal_organs_slot for our organ iteration,
we use it to produce a sorted internal_organs list.
This is barely worth it, ends up being 0.7% of life saved.
I only did it because it makes a semi noticable impact on our current
numbers.
* Revert "Very minor organ optimization"
It turns out mutating internal_organs is important sometimes
The usefulness of this change is small enough that I don't want to spend
more time on it
So back it goes into the dirt
This reverts commit 622bd34adb8d8a3d5f2763ac659446ef3362e3cd.
* Properly returns false in IgniteMob
* Adds a parent call to setBleedStacks
I like it, it's a good idea
This PR adds the accounting console to the game, as a console that exists round start within the HOP's office. The accounting console allows for players to get 2 separate lists of information:
- A list of all the bank accounts associated with each crewmember on the station, listing their account balance, their job, and their paygrade modifier (Which is either 1 or 0.7, depending on their species)
- The audit log, a basic list of transactions of player purchases, listed listed in the following formal universally: [person] spent [cost]CR on [Purchase Source]. It's intentionally left without all the information so that players will need to investigate if they notice strange purchases coming from an account, as a kind of ghetto money forensics.
This PR focuses on cleaning up two procs - updateDialog and updateUsrDialog. Both of which are/were used updating for old HTML UIs. As these UIs got converted to TGUI over time, these old code fragments started to pile up, often due to coders simply overlooking them. This resulted in them being dead code doing nothing when called, or randomly opening up windows when they shouldnt, for example when a vending machine is screwdrivered and UI cannot even be interacted with.
However, there were also some desirable uses - like opening a window when an ID is inserted into civilian bounty console, which you are then gonna obviously use to pick a bounty. I kept these uses and replaced them with proper ui_interact, so they now always work, instead of them working only when you had them set as a currently used machine on mob. The list of these changes is:
Civilian Bounty Console will now always bring up its UI when you insert the ID.
Air Alarm and APC will now always bring up its UI when you unlock their controls.
Portable Chem Mixer, Chem Dispenser, Chem Heater, Improvised Chem Heater, Chem Spectometer and Chem Master will now always bring up their UI when you add or replace beaker to them.
Two old /Topic calls were cleaned up as well, as they were no longer relevant.
Removes dead or outdated code, adds sensible UX when working with certain UIs.
* Removes all thermal ballast piping from our maps
* Removes co2 recirculation from our maps, no reason to have it if ballast isn't a thing
* Removes all behavior that's linked to ballast
I don't think ballast is something that's useful to keep around, since
it functions to make cooling things harder for what amounts to no real
reason.
We still have space as an infinite source of cold, it's pointless to
gate it.
Anyway, this commit.
I'm removing all uses of two ports, cooling, efficency, work skipping, and
safeties.
This means dropping quite a lot of behavior.
There's no emag effect currently for instance, because it renabled some
previously buggy behavior that was caused by ballast, which I'm nuking.
Also doing away with metal h2, because even though I like the idea, it
has no purpose as of now.
Removing ballast has made a lot of the logic and checks that were done
in process_atmos pointless, so they can go too.
I'm keeping the barebones behavior of how power consumption works,
because I like it.
Efficency is going because it was almost always like 80% without
ballast, and I didn't think it was something worth having.
Cooling as a concept can go interestingly enough, because there's no
difference between heating and cooling, just the temperature we're
targeting.
I think that's about it? I'm also removing failure states, because they
too were linked to ballast
Oh, and I'm removing the redundant icon states and gags entries, since
well, they aren't used anymore. Also removed some from the js file
Canister tiers were first introduced by me when canister fusion was still a thing. Now they have become only a nuisance and tedium since the main reason they were added is gone. current limits are higher than old t1 but lower than old t2
I've now added an option in the UI to every canister to become shielded and consume the APC power so that its contents won't be able to destroy it, the higher the temperature and pressure inside, the higher the draw (it should peak around 25 kW)
Canisters now have a cell that can hold the shielding in areas without power for a time, can be upgraded, removed, replaced
Increases players (old and especially new) quality of life, removes tedium and follows the oranges will of canisters should draw power to contain high heat and pressure
remove canister tier, you still need to build a frame and use iron on it but nothing more.
canisters now have a toggle for shielding that will start to consume power if the temperature and pressure go over the labeled one (current limits are higher than old t1 but lower than old t2). Peak draw should be around 25 kW with fusion Canisters have an internal cell that allows it to hold shielding in areas without power for a time, powercells can be upgraded, removed, replaced.
shield sprite by @SnoopCooper
Disables hoarder. Before there was a 30% chance to roll hoarder, moved 20% to thief and 10% to a new theme called All Access Fan.
Adds the All Access Fan, who has the goal to steal 6 to 10 unique roundstart IDs. That means the ones you were given when you join the shift!
When the first thief is created, there is a 20% chance of a thieves guild being chosen. This is an abandoned room in maintenance all thieves know of, for meeting up. Thieves get a big mood boost from hanging out there!
* Moves more of the alt-click functionality for ejecting beakers from chem machines over to right click
* Allows silicons to use right-click to eject beakers
* Removes the range requirement for cyborgs to be next to the machine to right-click eject (They can eject the beaker regardless of range anyway through the UI, just makes it more convenient)
* Fixes a runtime I found while testing happening when right clicking anything while holding an empty beaker holder as a borg
Converts PDA functions and applications over to modular tablets and devices, namely the messaging function. HREF data code is quite honestly clunky and difficult to work with, as I've definitely experienced whilst working on this. By moving from this system over the easier to read (and frankly, easier to add to) TGUI system, you get cleaner looking and more user friendly UIs and a greater degree of standardization amongst other UIs.
Co-authored-by: Seth Scherer <supernovaa41@gmx.com>
Co-authored-by: GoldenAlpharex <58045821+GoldenAlpharex@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksej Komarov <stylemistake@gmail.com>
About The Pull Request
the toolbox turret now has an unique sprite by infraredbaron
it can now be only deployed with a combat wrench (included in the toolbox)
it fires way quicker, with a bit lower power, but faster shots (they dont hit you either)
it has more health and doesnt break from low integrity
it can be repaired with a combat wrench after a few seconds or folded back into toolbox form
adds said toolbox turret to the nukie uplink (nukie version ignores everything with syndicate faction)
https://streamable.com/0i3q07
Why It's Good For The Game
this turret was always really laughable, it costed 11tc while being pretty much worthless
now it should be a bit fun, and for nukies its a nice area denial tool
Changelog
cl Fikou, InfraredBaron
balance: the traitor toolbox turret is now worth something
expansion: nukies can now buy the toolbox turret
imageadd: new sprites for the traitor turret
/cl
Removes reduntant medicines from food. These are meds in foods that either have no business being there, or would typically be inherited from one of the ingredients. This allows botany and the chef to work together to make foods safe to consume for everyone. This does NOT touch things like brain burgers, brain cake, arnold pizza, donk pockets, lollipops, and gumballs.
This removes all the current boards and lawsets in the AI upload for all maps and replaces them with:
x1 reset board on the regular table
x1 asimov lawset on the regular table
x3 randomized harmless lawsets (marked green, no barriers, human-friendly lawset)
x3 randomized neutral lawsets (marked blue, windoor barrier, station-friendly lawset)
x3 randomized harmful lawsets (marked red, brigdoor barrier, antag-friendly lawset)
Additionally, I reorganized the AI lawset code and removed an old malfunction lawset code that existed since r4407 but wasn't used anywhere.
Attention Recruit: Welcome to Firebase Balthazord
Here you will lean how to:
-Kill corpo scum
-Kill corpo scum
-Kill corpo scu-
This has been on my docket for months. Ever since gave the Holding Facility a much needed facelift. I have been eyeballing the nukie base, waiting for that stroke of inspiration to hit me. It finally did. Gone are the aging walls of the old encampment. Nukies finally have what well-funded corpo-terrorists always dream of- a home.
It's more than a Home. This is a sweeping rework that is part of a series of reworks to revisit old locations and not only bring them up to date with our current asset roster, but to make them properly belong within the game world. The Nuke-Ops base may ultimately be a tiny chunk of the overall SS13 experience, but I'll be damned if it isn't a defining one. It's also a location that has the capacity to do one thing that I have always wanted to do. Purchase Property. You heard me right, you get to buy rooms now. The newly expanded Nuke-Ops base features, with @Mothblocks blessing, further expansions that you can purchase from your local Syndicate Uplink. Spend your TC, expand your capabilities, and utilize your expertise in order to create
the most mind-boggling disky heists there are.
Possible expansions to your terrorism suite include:
-Ordinance Lab
-Bio-Terrorism Lab
-Chemical Manufacturing Plant
Definite expansions to your Nuke-Ops Firebase include:
-Crew Bunks
-Lab Wing
-War Table
-Upgraded "Disembarkment" Bay"
you can now run the proc update_clothing to use the slot_flags of an item to properly update a mob's icons
this is used by spraycans coloring an item, instead of running regenerate_icons
less weighty than regenerate_icons form of updating an item that you dont really know where is.
lets us support modsuits worn on stuff that isnt the back in the future
* Adds 3 new Polish foods
Add pierogies, zurek, and stuffed cabbage to craftable foods
* oopsies editing newlines
* Update misc.dm
* Update soup.dm
* Update misc.dm
* oops forgot the flour in the zurek
* this bit was a bit unnecesary
* Refactor slurring + cultslur to be a status effect
* Refactors stutter to be a status effect
* Adds a VV helper and a setter
- also adds heretic slurring text
* Adjustments to the heretic slurring
* classified VV key correctly
* "Normal" -> "Drunk" slurring
* social anxiety fix
* Adjusments and an accidentally reverted fix
* comment
* Fixes drunk file + two other minor issues
* merge skew time
* comments
* Generalizes this proc for the future.
* Missed stuff
* Numbers adjusted the wrong direction
* missed a single one
* incorrect numbers
* changes add/remove to "adjust"
* reworks hilbert's hotel ruin
* warooio
* you can now run multiple trams on the same z at the same time, trams are linked by id
* fuck
* sure
* you are a simulacra
* FUG
* dock
