* Makes the "Ian's Adventure" station trait more interesting by making the dog deadchat controllable plus extra lives. (#62617)
About The Pull Request
Makes the "Ian Adventure" station trait more interesting by giving him deadchat control (democracy mode, 3 seconds cooldown on inputs) and a couple extra lives* to survive early round tiding.
*Basically, a new component that respawns the critter when he dies. The component itself is simple enough, but it sends a signal each respawn to allow other datums to expand this behavior how they want. I've contemplated adding a signal that can stop death, dusting and gibbing instead of respawning the mob at first but because death(), dust() and gib() were made with the assertion that the mob is always going to die I've quickly realized it'd require a refactor that's way too big and out of scope.
The deadchat control of corgis only include commands to change and drop hats, "speak" (random lines from the speak list of the mob) and spin (other than cardinal movement) for now. I'd have loved to add more complex commands (like, argumented) that can potentially be relayed to the AI controller, but I guess that'll have to wait until the thing gets refactored a little.
Why It's Good For The Game
"Ian's Adventure" is a really bland station trait at the moment. All it does is move Ian somewhere else at the start of the round. Even by the station traits standard of being small things this is insignificant, and also pretty bad considering Ian is not actually going on an adventure since he lacks the initiative to do anything being an npc dog.
This PR aims to breath fresh air into this station trait and push it toward a slighty more engaging direction, though it relies on observers to work, while still being a small """"cute"""" station trait.
Changelog
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expansion: The "Ian's Adventure" station trait now makes Ian deadchat controllable and gives him a couple extra lives (to survive early round tiding)
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* Makes the "Ian's Adventure" station trait more interesting by making the dog deadchat controllable plus extra lives.
Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
* Makes deadchat control's examine only shows up for ghosts (#57926)
This PR early returns the on_examine proc for deadchat control if the examiner is not an observer.
So, only ghosts (deadchat) are allowed to see if something is under deadchat control. Humans don't need to know (or shouldn't know) if deadchat is expanding its reach into the physical realm.
* Makes deadchat control's examine only shows up for ghosts
Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com>
* Deadchat plays everything - A simple way for admins to let deadchat control things. (#55314)
* Deadchat plays things
* Pocket lint
* View those variables
* Arr var
* Arrr save changes and don't code while drunk
* Loog dot exe
* Big ol' changes
* Deadchat plays everything - A simple way for admins to let deadchat control things.
Co-authored-by: Timberpoes <silent_insomnia_pp@hotmail.co.uk>
* Adds SIGNAL_HANDLER and SIGNAL_HANDLER_DOES_SLEEP to prevent signal callbacks from blocking (#52761)
Adds SIGNAL_HANDLER, a macro that sets SHOULD_NOT_SLEEP(TRUE). This should ideally be required on all new signal callbacks.
Adds BLOCKING_SIGNAL_HANDLER, a macro that does nothing except symbolize "this is an older signal that didn't necessitate a code rewrite". It should not be allowed for new work.
This comes from discussion around #52735, which yields by calling input, and (though it sets the return type beforehand) will not properly return the flag to prevent attack from slapping.
To fix 60% of the yielding cases, WrapAdminProcCall no longer waits for another admin's proc call to finish. I'm not an admin, so I don't know how many behinds this has saved, but if this is problematic for admins I can just make it so that it lets you do it anyway. I'm not sure what the point of this babysitting was anyway.
Requested by @optimumtact.
Changelog
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admin: Calling a proc while another admin is calling one will no longer wait for the first to finish. You will simply just have to call it again.
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* Adds SIGNAL_HANDLER and SIGNAL_HANDLER_DOES_SLEEP to prevent signal callbacks from blocking
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
