## About The Pull Request
Someone said something stupid in a comment so I'm removing it
## Why It's Good For The Game
Not every religious reference is concerning, but the "allahu ackbar"
meme died out in the 2010s and was always kind of racist.
## Changelog
Doesn't need one.
## About The Pull Request
[A common problem with explosions is an overabundance of
sleeping](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/6499077a09469ff401c224c0510bc184c663b118)
In an attempt to solve this issue, let's not continue to sleep and do
work in door closing if the door is already deleted
(This is caused by firelocks activating due to other adjacent objects
deleting, triggering an atmos update, and closing the firelocks before
they get bombed. I don't have a elegant way of resolving that core
problem, so let's just minimize the impact)
[Nukes a stupid sleep loop in airlock
code](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/5b16360520526d6f5aa3b511049456b74f33f430)
When an airlock was depowered, it would enter a sleep loop, decrementing
its delay by 1 second every well, one second, so long as it had the
right wires flipped
This is very stupid
Instead, let's use signals off wire changes and a combo of timer and
remaining time var to do this with JUST a timer
Most of the changes here are just swapping over wires to a setter to
make signal registration work\
## Why It's Good For The Game
Less sleeping around explosions means less dropped ticks after a bomb
goes off. Good just in general
Also this excises dumb boomer code and adds some hooks for other devs to
use (we should use wires more man)
## About The Pull Request
See the title. Doing so by adding a new arg for damage type to
`check_shields()` and `hit_reaction()`. The other way would had involved
a couple istype checks for item or projectile damage type, but this is a
longer term solution and can tackle more than just that.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes#74876.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Stops shields getting broken by pillows and disablers.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds defines for gasses and replaces uses I've found to instead use the
defines.
Can you believe I made this PR while trying to work with Xenos? This
sucks!
## Why It's Good For The Game
There's a lot of different uses of things like "o2" and "plasma", and
they are pretty inconsistent. In some places, it's "hydrogen", in others
it's "h2". In some it's "plasma", others "plasm". This unifies it all
under defines so it has a less chance of breaking in the future.
## Changelog
Nothing player-facing.
This tracks the seconds per tick of a subsystem, however note that it is
not completely accurate, as subsystems can be delayed, however it's
useful to have this number as a multiplier or ratio, so that if in
future someone changes the subsystem wait time code correctly adjusts
how fast it applies effects
regexes used
git grep --files-with-matches --name-only 'DT_PROB' | xargs -l sed -i
's/DT_PROB/SPT_PROB/g'
git grep --files-with-matches --name-only 'delta_time' | xargs -l sed -i
's/delta_time/seconds_per_tick/g'
# MAINTAINER - USE THE BUTTON THAT SAYS "MERGE MASTER" THEN SET THE PR
TO AUTO-MERGE! IT'S MUCH EASIER FOR ME TO FIX THINGS BEFORE THEY SKEW
RATHER THAN AFTER THE FACT.
## About The Pull Request
Hey there,
This took a while to do, but here's the gist:
Python file now regexes every file in `/code` except for those that have
some valid reason to be tacking on more global defines. Some of those
reasons are simply just that I don't have the time right now (doing what
you see in this PR took a few hours) to refactor and parse what should
belong and what should be thrown out. For the time being though, this PR
will at least _halt_ people making the mistake of not `#undef`ing any
files they `#define` "locally", or within the scope of a file.
Most people forget to do this and this leads to a lot of mess later on
due to how many variables can be unmanaged on the global level. I've
made this mistake, you've made this mistake, it's a common thing. Let's
automatically check for it so it can be fixed no-stress.
Scenarios this PR corrects:
* Forgetting to undef a define but undeffing others.
* Not undeffing any defines in your file.
* Earmarking a define as a "file local" define, but not defining it.
* Having a define be a "file local" define, but having it be used
elsewhere.
* Having a "local" define not even be in the file that it only shows up
in.
* Having a completely unused define*
(* I kept some of these because they seemed important... Others were
junked.)
## Why It's Good For The Game
If you wanna use it across multiple files, no reason to not make it a
global define (maybe there's a few reasons but let's assume that this is
the 95% case).
Let me know if you don't like how I re-arranged some of the defines and
how you'd rather see it be implemented, and I'd be happy to do that.
This was mostly just "eh does it need it or not" sorta stuff.
I used a pretty cool way to detect if we should use the standardized
GitHub "error" output, you can see the results of that here
https://github.com/san7890/bruhstation/actions/runs/4549766579/jobs/8022186846#step:7:792
## Changelog
Nothing that really concerns players.
(I fixed up all this stuff using vscode, no regexes beyond what you see
in the python script. sorry downstreams)
This builds on what #69790 did and improved the code even further.
Notable things:
- `Topic()` is a deprecated proc in our codebase (replaced with
Javascript tgui) so it makes sense to rename `canUseTopic` to
`can_perform_action` which is more straightforward in what it does.
- Positional and named arguments have been converted into a easier to
use `action_bitflag`
- The bitflags adds some new checks you can use like: `NEED_GRAVITY |
NEED_LITERACY | NEED_LIGHT` when you want to perform an action.
- Redundant, duplicate, or dead code has been removed.
- Fixes several runtimes where `canUseTopic` was being called without a
proper target (IV drips, gibber, food processor)
- Better documentation for the proc and bitflags with examples
## About The Pull Request
Victim procs would cause a [runtime, click on me for a link to the
runtimebus
entry](https://runtimes.moth.fans/runtime/Invalid%20individual%20logging%20type%3A%20524288.%20Defaulting%20to%204096%20(LOG_GAME).%20(code%2F__HELPERS%2Flogging%2F_logging.dm%3A120)_______%2Fproc%2F_stack_trace)
when you tried to put a victim log in globally. This was the runtime
error for future reference, via
https://tgstation13.download/parsed-logs/manuel/data/logs/2023/01/06/round-197717/runtime.condensed.txt
-
```
The following runtime has occurred 3155 time(s).
runtime error: Invalid individual logging type: 524288. Defaulting to 4096 (LOG_GAME). (code/__HELPERS/logging/_logging.dm:120)
proc name: stack trace (/proc/_stack_trace)
source file: stack_trace.dm,4
usr: 0
src: null
```
`524288` is the bitflag for `LOG_VICTIM`.
I added in a custom error message for passing in LOG_VICTIM without
adding log_globally just so that we can pick up on it faster without
having to look up the bitflags. I think I prefer it failing loudly as
opposed to just returning, so that people can much more easily pick up
on this behavior being a wrong one. The pattern across the codebase
prior to this PR was pass in log_globally as false along with LOG_VICTIM
in the args to `log_message()`, so I decided to enforce doing that in
this PR. Alternative fix could be to just early return on LOG_VICTIM,
but that would leave a larger footprint and might be better suited for a
different PR, preferably after this one at least gets all of our ducks
in a row.
## Why It's Good For The Game
runtimes bad, actual logging of important stuff good.
apologies if i screwed up how LOG_VICTIM is meant to be used, but
something is definitely wrong and should be addressed. i'm pretty sure
victim logs are only done in addition to a proper log that gets sent
globally, and this is good just for visibility?
## Changelog
Nothing that players would notice.
Necessary for #72292 to work effectively, and probably not very useful
out of that context. Split out of its own PR because this is long and
boring.
I want to make sure that we're catching actual mistakes there, and not
just experiencing side effects of how shitty the attack chain is.
## About The Pull Request
So, a huge issue with memories and - what I personally believe is the
reason why not many have been added since their inception is - they're
very annoying to add!
Normally, adding subtypes of stuff like traumas or hallucinations are as
easy as doing just that, adding a subtype.
But memories used this factory argument passing method combined with
holding all their strings in a JSON file which made it just frustrating
to add, debug, or just mess with.
It also made it much harder to organize new memories keep it clean for
stuff like downstreams.
So I refactored it. Memories are now handled on a subtype by subtype
basis, instead of all memories being a `/datum/memory`.
Any variety of arguments can be passed into memories like addcomponent
(KWARGS) so each subtype can have their own `new` parameters.
This makes it much much easier to add a new memory. All you need to do
is make your subtype and add it somewhere. Don't need to mess with jsons
or defines or anything.
To demonstrate this, I added a few memories. Some existing memories had
their story values tweak to compensate.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes it way simpler to add new memories. Maybe we'll get some more fun
ones now?
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
add: Roundstart captains will now memorize the code to the spare ID
safe.
add: Traitors will now memorize the location and code to their uplink.
add: Heads of staff winning a revolution will now get a memory of their
success.
add: Heads of staff and head revolutionaries who lose their respective
sides of the revolution also get a memory of their failure.
add: Completing a ritual of knowledge as a heretic grants you a quality
memory.
add: Successfully defusing a bomb now grants you a cool memory. Failing
it will also grant you a memory, though you will likely not be alive to
see it.
add: Planting bombs now increase their memory quality depending on how
cool the bomb is.
refactor: Memories have been refactored to be much easier to add.
/🆑
Adds lints for `balloon_alert(span_xxx(...))` (which is always wrong),
and balloon alert where the first letter is a capital (which is usually
wrong). Fixes everything that failed them. As a reminder, abbreviations
like "AI" and "GPS" shouldn't be capitalized in a balloon alert.
In cases where this is intentional for flavor (there was one case), you
can `UNLINT` like so:
Co-authored-by: Zephyr <12817816+ZephyrTFA@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
You know the deal by now.
- Drowsiness is now tracked via status effect.
- Eye blue is now tracked via status effect.
In converting these over, cleaned up a bit of code relating to some
other effects. Attempts to unify behavior between some of them, namely
certain biotypes or mob types shouldn't be experiencing certain effects.
## Why It's Good For The Game
More stuff moved to status effects, slightly more cleaner and better to
work with code. Allows for all mobs that can sleep to be able to get
drowsy, too.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Drowsiness and Blurred Eyes are now tracked via status effect.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Wow we're finally here. This turns carp into Basic Mobs instead of
Simple Animals.
They use a variety of behaviours added in previous PRs to act in a
marginally more interesting way than they used to.
But don't worry there's still 2 or 3 PRs to follow this one until I'm
done with space fish.
Changes in this PR:
Carp will try to run away if they get below 50% health, to make use of
their "regenerate if not attacked" component.
Magicarp have different targetting behaviour for spells depending on
their spell;
- Ressurecting Carp will try to ressurect allied mobs.
- Animating Carp will try to animate nearby objects.
- Door-creating Carp will try to turn nearby walls into doors.
You can order Magicarp to cast their spell on something if you happen to
manage to tame one.
The eating element now has support for "getting hurt" when you eat
something. Carp eating can rings and hating it was too soulful not to
continue supporting.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Carp are iconic beasts and I think they should be more interesting.
Also we just want to turn mobs into basic mobs anyway.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Carp will now run away if their health gets low, meaning they may
have a chance to regenerate.
add: Lia will now fight back if attacked instead of letting herself get
killed, watch out!
balance: Magicarp will now aim their spells more intelligently.
add: Tame Magicarp can be ordered to use their spells on things.
refactor: Carp are now "Basic Mobs" instead of "Simple Mobs"
fix: Dehydrated carp no longer give you a bad feeling when they're your
friend and a good feeling when they're going to attack you.
balance: Tamed carp are now friendly only to their tamer rather than
their whole faction, which should make dehydrated carp more active.
Order them to stay or follow you if you want them to behave around your
friends.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Updated crafting menu, adding a lot of new functions and recipes that
were not in the crafting menu before.
<img alt="cult"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3625094/206009533-aec3a1dd-cbe5-45eb-8515-1b75fabb65c5.PNG">
<img alt="nH77dLyyGx"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3625094/206009786-b6706f70-0599-40bf-b051-8f499de43abd.png">
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3625094/206009841-738e4a03-0660-45b7-8d83-15eeb6501967.mp4
## Why It's Good For The Game
It is easier to use, and it has a lot of recipes that were spread
throughout the game, some of which weren't even on the wiki.
Crafting and cooking now count about 1200 recipes in total, including
conditionally available ones.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Rewrote the crafting/cooking menu UI
qol: Split crafting and cooking menus in two different menus
qol: Crafting is no longer blocking the entire UI, only the "Make"
buttons are disabled
qol: Added stack crafting recipes to the crafting menu
qol: Added cooking recipes that were absent in the crafting menu before
(tool recipes, machine recipes, reactions)
qol: Added option to search recipes by title
qol: Added option to filter recipes by required materials/ingredients
qol: Added food types to the cooking menu, highlighting diet of your
species (liked, disliked foods)
qol: Added total nutrition value of the result to the cooking menu
qol: Added option to filter cooking recipes by the food type of the
resulting food
qol: Added "Can make" category that lists all currently craftable
recipes throughout all categories
refactor: changed categories and reshuffled some items in them
code: Reagents now have default container to get an icon from the
reagent datum
code: Objects now have `desc_controls` var for OOC information about
mouse controls that are visible on examine, but not in the description
fix: Fixed alignment on many food icons
fix: Fixed missing icon for beef stroganoff
/🆑
Co-authored-by: tattle <66640614+dragomagol@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Here's the changes to custom food:
- Can now accept grenades
- If you add something larger than the custom food, the custom food
becomes that size
- Biting down on food with grenades in them triggers the grenades
## Why It's Good For The Game
We're trying so hard to remove getting around this whole bombger thing
but wait it's actually based as hell. Why don't we just cut the fat of
what doesn't work (getting around sanity checks with deep frying) and
legitimize what does?
## Changelog
🆑
add: You can add grenades to food
add: Grenades explode when accidentally bitten into
balance: Adding something large to custom food will make it, too, also
large
/🆑
So i left over some basic `/whatever/proc/format` uses in the original
PR this fixes it.
Notable exceptions to the rule:
- Paths in add_verb/remove_verb, we need full path instead of a name
there to access verb metadata so we can't use proc ref macros there.
- regex.Replace, found out that it does not accept call by name. Instead
i added new REGEX_REPLACE_HANDLER so we can at least try to mark these.
There's still leftover global procs that do not use GLOBAL_PROC_REF but
they functionally equivalent so that's for later.
I don't see any reasonable way to grep for this. But if you got any
ideas please share.
Similar vein to #37116
This is supposed to be standard, yet here we are.
SHOULDN'T change anything, but there's likely something out there that's
bound to behave different because of it.
These were done manually, regex to find things that MIGHT need to be
corrected;
`^#define.+\+((?!\)).)*$`
`^#define.+-((?!\)).)*$`
`^#define.+\*((?!\)).)*$`
`^#define.+\/((?!\)).)*$` (yeah that's a lot of stuff.)
`^#define.+%((?!\)).)*$`
`^#define.+SECONDS((?!\)).)*$`
`^#define.+MINUTES((?!\)).)*$`
Makes the code compatible with 515.1594+
Few simple changes and one very painful one.
Let's start with the easy:
* puts call behind `LIBCALL` define, so call_ext is properly used in 515
* Adds `NAMEOF_STATIC(_,X)` macro for nameof in static definitions since
src is now invalid there.
* Fixes tgui and devserver. From 515 onward the tmp3333{procid} cache
directory is not appened to base path in browser controls so we don't
check for it in base js and put the dev server dummy window file in
actual directory not the byond root.
* Renames the few things that had /final/ in typepath to ultimate since
final is a new keyword
And the very painful change:
`.proc/whatever` format is no longer valid, so we're replacing it with
new nameof() function. All this wrapped in three new macros.
`PROC_REF(X)`,`TYPE_PROC_REF(TYPE,X)`,`GLOBAL_PROC_REF(X)`. Global is
not actually necessary but if we get nameof that does not allow globals
it would be nice validation.
This is pretty unwieldy but there's no real alternative.
If you notice anything weird in the commits let me know because majority
was done with regex replace.
@tgstation/commit-access Since the .proc/stuff is pretty big change.
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com>
fix: Fixed a bunch of missing inhand icons.
fix: Fixed cables in electrical toolboxes not randomizing their colors.
fix: Fixed the wrong colored icon showing when trying to make cable cuffs out of cables.
fix: The collectable SWAT helmet is now using the proper icon again!
refactor: Pipecleaners and power cables now share a unified color system, so they're once again available in ALL the same colors.
imageadd: Updated the screwdriver belt overlay to represent the newer sprite.
imageadd: Added a bunch of new inhand icons. Special thanks to Twaticus for doing the helmets! <3
fix: Wirecutters now have an icon when inside a belt again!
admin: Added a new omnitool subtype that allows you to spawn all items in a typepath!
fix: Explorer gaskmasks now properly reflect their adjusted state when held.
fix: Fixed balaclavas having the wrong icon when pulled up.
fix: Fixed the base energy sword (admin spawn only) being invisible.
fix: The rainbow energy sword is now a little bit more rainbowy!
fix: Fixed an tk exploit with orange handcuffed shoes.
fix: The traitor outfit in the select equipment panel is now actually functional!
* canUseTopic now uses TRUE/FALSE instead of defines that just say TRUE
The most idiotic thing I've seen is canUseTopic's defines, they literally just define TRUE, you can use it however you want, it doesn't matter, it just means TRUE. You can mix and match the args and it will set that arg to true, despite the name.
It's so idiotic I decided to remove it, so now I can reclaim a little bit of my sanity.
* Refactors hallucinations slightly, organizes them
* Refactors hallucination into a status effect
* Further hallucination proper refactoring
* Refactors battle hallucinations
* Refactors "fake item other" hallucination
* Gets it a bit closer to working state
* Refactors screwydoll and fake alerts
* Refactors fake inhand items
* Refactors a few more.
- Fake death
- Fake messages
- Fake sounds
- Projectiles
* Refactoring delusions, hallucination effects
* Furthering the hallucination status effect
- removes copypaste of hallucination pulses
* Almost finalizes the changeover to status effect
* Last staus effect stuff
* Delusion business
* Airlocks, fire, and more delusion stuff
* Finishes screwyhud. It compiles now!
* Swaps screwyhud over to a grouped status effect
* Removes hal_screwyhud
* Comment
* Bugfixing
* image cleaning
* Get rid of this it came back
* What if I finished this branch?
* Oops
* Messing with the randomness
* Mass hallucination tweaks
* +
* Some more mass tweaks
* Review
* Updates
* Unit tests hallucination icons
* More tweaks
* Move folder
* Another re-name
* Minor tweaks
* Anomaly unity
* Mass hallucination buffs
* t
* Sig
* Merge
* Lints
* Unit test already coming in clutch
* Another failure
* Use named args for cause_hallucination via some define trickery
* Some cleanup
* This is better
* adds some hallucinations
* Oops
* More sounds
* Tweaks
* Some additional documentation
* Flash
* Fixes mass hallucination
* Json changes
* Updates documentation
* Json conflicts
* Makes it work
* Missed that one too
* Helpers
* More signalization (WIP)
* Fixes bump
* Missed a helper use
* Dumb
* Micro optimizes ssair's turf init, saving 2 seconds
Most of this is making existing operations do more legwork, or cheaper.
I did add cycle checking to ONLY init turf linking, which required
creating a new proc.
Did some horrible horrible things in said proc to save like 0.8 seconds.
I think it was worth it.
Moves singulo and supermatter dmis into obj/engine, renamed from obj/tesla_engine
Moves Halloween, Christmas, and misc holiday items to obj/holiday
Moves lollipops to obj/food
Moves crates, closets, and storage to obj/storage
Moves assemblies to obj/assemblies
Renames decals.dmi to signs.dmi ...because they're signs and not decals
Moves statues, cutouts, instruments, art supplies, and crayons to obj/art
Moves balloons, plushes, toys, cards, dice, the hourglass, and TCG to obj/toys
Moves guns, swords, shields to obj/weapons
* Makes condiments their own subtype, fixes geese, prepares for merging
* Fixes geese checking drink type instead of edible foodtype to eat gross food.
* Renames foodtype var on drinks to drink_types to prevent above from happening again because it KEEPS HAPPENING. DRINKS AREN'T FOOD!
* Makes Condiments their own subtype of reagent_containers because they don't make any use of being a subtype of food, at all.
* Starts moving things from food to /food/drink subtype in preparation for merging /food/drink with /drink
* fully removes Food subtype
* /reagent_containers/drinks are now /reagent_containers/cup - This is so it's no longer confused with eachother.
* /food/drinks is now /reagent_containers/cup/drinks, so we can keep their special abilities.
* Fixes a LOT of errors with food, which are STILL checking the reagent_containers, despite ACTUAL food being refactored away from it a long time ago.
This doesn't compile yet, but I do want to make sure my progress is well tracked.
* remove copypaste code, changes soda cans
* Removes most copy paste code between the two drinks, moving most stuff to parent whenever needed.
* Made soda cans their own subtype since they didn't share anything with glass bottles anyways.
* Fixes more problems with food/drinks, especially with geese. Geese really were just broken this whole time and no one said a word...
* Removes a snowflake signal, now that both drink types share a common one.
* Adds everything to the .dme
Currently my goal is to get this all compiling, then remove isGlass var by making glass be all glass ones only.
* Moves all icons into a single drinks dmi
I'm not that great at icon stuff, hopefully I didn't forget/break anything.
* Turns juices into their own subtype
This allows us to let them check for type in molotov, to both get rid of a use of isGlass, and so non-glass non-cartons don't show up as 'carton'.
* fixes compile issues, adds updatepaths
* a better updatepaths
* updates the damn maps now
* properly names the updatepath
* how did that get there
* i suck at handling merge conflicts
* how am i this bad
* code improvement and soda fix
* more fixes
* Don't be a timer
Ports from old food bottles to trans the reagents, rather than add a timer to.
* Merge conflicts and fixes bottle smashing
* Bottle smashing is now consistently functional regardless of how much liquid they have in them, when before it would spill first, then smash on the second hit.
* runs updatepaths again
* Removes ComponentInitialize()
Completely removes ComponentInitialize() as a proc, which was called on every single atom in the game, twice in some instances (like new players), over something that can already be done with Initialize().
This is the second attempt at doing this, after the first attempt fell apart for some reason. This time it was way easier though, since storages are no longer a Component.
* update icon blocker added before calling parent
* Update code/game/machinery/porta_turret/portable_turret.dm
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
* adds a mapload while I'm here
* moves human mood
* Does some UNRELATED thing to the PR
Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
About The Pull Request
replaces a ton of log_game with user.log_message so the log is added to individual and global logs.
adds a few logs for individual LOG_VICTIM, LOG_ATTACK etc logging.
adds logging for bluespace launchpad's tele coords being changed.
took the word "has" out of log_combat, as it's extra and just lengthens the log.
Why It's Good For The Admins
It's extremely laggy to open game.txt so an alternative is individual game logs
Changelog
cl
admin: A lot of game logs will now also be in individual game logs, for convenience in log diving.
admin: Added logging for bluespace launchpad x and y offset changes, which go to individual game logs.
admin: Attack logs will now be slightly shorter, one useless word was removed.
/cl
About The Pull Request
Makes smoke propagate the fingerprints of the last person to touch the source of the smoke.
This makes gunpowder smoke actually log the person responsible for the explosions.
Why It's Good For The Game
As of right now gunpowder smoke (and similar) doesn't actually have very good logging as as far as the smoke is concerned it's never been touched and so the resulting explosions are blameless. Obviously, scrolling up for a good minute looking for who has just obliterated the escape shuttle is slightly annoying for the admins. Ergo, making the explosions log who actually is responsible for making the smoke they originate from should reduce admin annoyance.
Changelog
cl
admin: Smoke now logs the last person to touch the source of the smoke as the last person to touch the smoke itself. Gunpowder smoke should be less annoying to log dive as a result as every explosion will log that person.
/cl
Refactors the confusion status effect. Removes "confusion strength" and replaces it with duration, which is measured in seconds.
This also allows them to use the adjust_timed_status_effect procs instead of their own.
Fun fact! 2 years ago when confusion was refactored into status effects, all confusion effects in the game were halved in duration. They were changed to status effects, which tick every 1 second by default, from life, which tick every 2 seconds by default, without any values changing.
Have you ever noticed that the chemical smoke and chemical foam reactions are a lot less effective in confined spaces? This is because they currently attempt to spread to all tiles within n steps of their origin. If they can't expand onto a tile they get blocked and the expanding cloud/flood misses out on all the tiles that would be in range, but that can't be reached.
Obviously smoke and foam getting blocked by walls and the like makes intuitive sense, but it seemed a bit nonsensical that walls would basically delete a significant chunk of an expanding, amoebic mass. The solution I came up with is making smoke and foam expand until they cover a certain area, with a shared tracker for the target size and total size of the flood. The flood will simply expand as normal until it covers the desired target area. Blocked expansions just don't count and will be made up for with expansion elsewhere.
Attendant to these changes are a whole bunch of minor code improvement to smoke, foam, and one for wizard spells because I was already in the area and :pain:.
There have been some minor balance changes to the chemical smoke and foam reactions:
I converted them over to passing the desired area of the resulting smoke cloud/foam flood. The old equation for the resulting area was along the lines of 2sqrt(x)(sqrt(x) + 1) + 1 given reaction volume x and given unobstructed expansion. I've made them just pass around 2x instead. This is actually less than they used to try for, but now they're guaranteed to reach that unless the flood is fully contained. Not entirely certain if buff or nerf. Probably buff on the station.
Also, foam dilution is now based on covered area instead of target expansion range. Since this scales faster than it used to foam has been effectively nerfed at high volumes. To compensate for this I removed the jank 6/7 effect multiplier and increased the base reagent scaling a bit. Again, not certain if buff or nerf.
* 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
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.
* Makes used grenades slightly more obvious.
Adds a variable to tell whether a grenade can't detonate properly.
Examining can be used to tell if the grenade has already been used.
A flag on it is set when the grenade detonates so that used grenades can't be reused until it's reset.
It also prevents spamming admins with grenade primed messages since there's no point if the grenade won't work.
* Changes dud var to dud flags.
Changes the name of the dud var to dud_flags to clarify that it is a set of bitfields.
Changes the default value of the dud var to NONE also to clarify that it is a set of bitfields.
Changes the documentation for the dud var to clarify that it is a set of bitfields.
* Fixes eternally armed dud grenades.
Makes the grenades reset their appearance if they reach the end of their fuse while a dud.
Prevents chemical grenades from staying in the 'i am armed' visual state forever.
Replaces a bunch of tool behavior checks in attackby to instead use the respective procs.
For instance, the behavior under a if(I.tool_behaviour == TOOL_SCREWDRIVER) check in attackby() will instead be found under that same object's screwdriver_act() proc. This is the first of a few PRs that I'd like to make to address this, since there's going to be a lot of code shuffled around.
This shouldn't have any impact on players, though some super observant folks might notice that they don't bash some items with tools when they meant to interact with them. I've tested all of these in game and they seem to still have the same behavior as before.
Creates a wrapper macro for ex_act() and moves the signal and contents explosion calls to there. This way we can ensure the signal is always fired. Also desnowflakes reagents responding to explosions.
Ensures that a signal is always called when the attendant proc is called.
TheVekter
