About The Pull Request
actually makes the damn action button for the flashlight on your device work, as well as fixing clown/silicon/mime names properly showing up
fixes not chunky finger people not being able to use pdas
Why It's Good For The Game
tweaks to make the tablet more user friendly
Changelog
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fix: actually makes the flashlight action button work, and fixes silicon/clown/mime names showing up properly on tablets/messenger
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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>
Removes old janitor cartridge app and replaces it with a tablet one.
Also adds the pimpin' ride to the list of tracked items, too.
Makes Janitors spawn with said app, too.
How do I play/test/operate this?
Download NT Frontier on any modular computers. It should debrief you on what experiments are available and how to publish.
If you want to do a bomb experiment, make sure it's captured by the doppler array (as usual) and then print the experiments into a disk and publish it.
If you want to do a gas experiment, make the gas and either pump it into a tank and 1) overpressurize it with a "clear" gas like N2 or 2) overpressurize tanks with the gas itself. Make sure you do the overpressurizing in the compressor machine. When tanks are destroyed/ejected leaked gas will get recorded. Print it into a disk and publish it.
For publication, the file needs to be directly present inside the computer's HDD. This means you need to copy it first with the file manager.
Fill the data (if desired, it will autofill with boiler plate if you dont) and send away!
Doing experiments unlock nodes, while doing them well unlocks boosts (which are discounts but slightly more restrictive) which are purchaseable with NT Frontier.
If you are testing this and have access to admin tools, there are various premade bombs under obj/effect/spawner/newbomb
A doc I wrote detailing the why and what part of this PR.
https://hackmd.io/JOakSYVMSh2zU2YL5ju_-Q
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# Intro
## The Problem(s)
Ordnance, (previously toxins) seems to lack a lot of content and things to do. The gameplay loop consists of making a bomb and then sending it off for credits or using it to refine cores. Ordnance at it's inception originally relies on players experimenting and finding the perfect mix over multiple rounds, but once the recipe for a "do-everything" mix got out, the original charm of individual discoveries becomes meaningless.
Another issue with ordnance is the odd difficulty curve. As a new player, ordnance is almost impossible to decipher, but once you watch a tutorial or read a wiki and can mail a 50k into space, there pretty much isn't anything else to do. Most players will be satisfied at this point without the gameplay loop encouraging them to understand or play more. The only thing you can do afterwards is to sink your teeth in and understand why that particular mix explodes the way it does. This again has a significant difficulty curve, but if you do that, the department doesn't acknowledge or reward that in any way. There are pretty much two huge spikes, with the latter one not really existing inside the department.
TLDR:
* The content being same-y over rounds.
* Odd difficulty curve:
1. A new player is oblivious to everything.
2. Those in the middle can repeat the final goal consistently without needing to understanding why
3. There is nothing to justify spending more time in the department after reaching the midgame.
## Abstract
Scientific Papers aim to add a framework to run multiple experiments in ordnance. Adding more experiments scattered across various atmospheric aspects might allow players of various knowledge levels to still have something engaging to do. A new player should have an easier challange than to mail a 50K. While those that already can make bombs should have an easier time understanding why their bombs explode the way it does. Once they fully understand why, they can set their sights on taking advantage of another reaction to set their bomb off or hone one particular reaction down.
## Goals
* Have some intro-level challanges for new players.
* Have some semblance of late-game challanges for more experienced players.
* Explain the mechanics better for those in the middle of the road.
* Incentivize trying new things out in the department.
* Better integrate Ordnance with Experisci
## Boundaries / Dont's
* Do not incentivize people to learn ordnance by using PvP loots.
* Do not shake or change the reaction system by a huge amount.
* Disincentivize having a single god-mix that does everything.
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# Main design pillars
## A. Framework surrounding the experiments
### A.1. New experiments
Add new experiments to the ExperiSci module. These will come in two flavours: New explosions to do, and various gas synthesis experiments. Both of these are actually supported by the map layout of ordnance right now, but there is no reason to do anything outside of making a 50k as fast as possible.
### A.2. Rewards for experiments: Cash and Techweb Boosts.
Scientific papers will add a separate experiment handling system. A single experiment will be graded into various tiers, each tier corresponding to the explosion size or amount of gas made. Doing any tier of a specific experiment will unlock the discount for that specific reactions. A single explosion **WILL NOT** do multiple experiments (or even tiers) at once.
On publication, a partner can be selected. A single partner only has a specific criteria of experiments they want. The experiments will then be graded on "how good they are done", with the criteria being more punishing as tier increases. Publication will then reward scientific cooperation with the partnered partner. Players can spend this cooperation on techweb boosts. Techweb boosts are meant to be subservient to discount from experiments and will not shave a node's price to be lower than 500 points.
**Experiments will only unlock nodes, discounts are handled through this boost system.**
This is more for maintainability than anything.
### A.3. On Tedium
*This is a note on implementation more than anything, but I think this helps explains why several things are done.*
Due to the nature of atmospheric reactions in the game (they're all linear), tedium is a very important thing to consider. An experiment should have a sweet spot to aim for, but there should not be a point where further mastery is stopped dead on it's track with a reward cap.
Scientific Papers attempts to discourage this behaviour by having the "maximum score" scale off to infinity but with the rewards being smaller and smaller. The sweet spot is always there to aim for and should be well communicated with players, but on their last submission of an experiment topic players should be encouraged to do their best. There should always be a reward for pushing the system to it's limit as long as it doesn't completely nullify the other subdepartments. This is the reason why there is a hard limit on the number of publications and why the score calculation is a bit more complex than it needed to be.
## B. Gas Synthesis (Early-Mid Game)
Scientific papers will add one new machine that requests a tank to release x amounts of y gas. This will be accomplished by adding a tank pumping machine which will either burst or explode a tank, releasing the gas inside. The gas currently requested are BZ, Nitryl, Halon and Nob.
The overarching goal of this compressor machine is to present a gas synthesis challange for the players and to get them more accustomed to how a tank explodes. The gas synthesis part can always be changed in order to reflect the current state of atmospheric reactions.
## C. Explosion Changes (Mid-Late Game)
### C.1 Cause and effect.
The main theme of the explosion changes is establishing cause and effect of explosions. Reactions that happens inside a tank that's going to explode will be recorded and forwarded to a doppler array. Some experiments will require only a single cause to be present (think of it as isolating a variable). This is currently implemented for nobliumformation and pressure based bombs. Having other reactions occuring besides noblium formation will fail the first one, while having any reactions at all will fail the second one.
Adding more explosions here will be a slight challange because as of now the game has only two reactions that can reliably make an explosion.
### C.2 Tools upgrade.
Doppler array has now been retrofitted to state the probable cause of an explosion, be it reactions or just overpressurization on gas merging. These should help intermediate players figure out what is causing an explosion.
Added a new functionality to the implosion compressor:
Basically performs the gas merging and reaction that TTV does in a machine and reports the results back as if someone uses an analyzer on them. Here to give players feedback so they can try and understand what is actually going on in a bomb.
## D. Player Interaction
There should be more room for more than 1 player to play ordnance simultaneously. Previously players are also able to split tasks, but this rarely happens because tritium synthesis needs only the gas chamber to be reconfigured. Now, different players can pick different experiments and work on them. Players can also do joint tasks on one single experiment. Gases like noblium will need tritium production and also a cooling module online.
Ordnance can also coordinate with their parent department on what they really need, be it money or research bonuses.
# Potential Changes
The best-case changes that can be implemented if the current roster of content isn't enough is more reactions that can be used in bombs. Eliminating bombs entirely goes against the spirit of the subdepartment, while adding new ones will need a lot of care and consideration.
Another possible change is to implement a "gas payload" bomb. Bombs that has a set number of unreacting gas inside that will increase the heat capacity, reduce the payload, and neccesitates more bespoke mixes.
Adding more gas synthesis experiments is discouraged. The main focus of ordnance should be bombs, with gas synthesis being a side project for ordnance. These are present to ease the introduction to bombs and provide some side content.
There should be a somewhat well-justified goal in adding new synthesis experiments: e.g. BZ is there as a "tutorial" gas, Nitryl to introduce players to cooling/heating mixes, Halon to a more efficient tritium production, and Nob as a nudge to nobformation bombs and mastery over other aspects.
# Conclusion / Summary
Add more experiments to ordnance that players can take, accomplish this by:
1. Making the players perform gas synthesis or make bombs.
2. Have them collect the data, see if it fits the criteria. Explain why if it fits and why if it doesn't.
3. Have the player publish a paper.
Reward them based on how well did they do, give players agency both on the experiment phase and also publication phase.
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TLDR: Added new experiment to toxins, added the framework for those experiments existing. Experiments comes in gas synthesis and also bombs but with more parameters. Experiments needs to be published through papers, various choices to be made there.
Implementation notes:
Because of how paper works, ordnance experiments are handled outside of experiment_handler components. My reasoning for this is twofold:
The experiments will be completed manually on publication and if the experiment isn't unlocked yet it will still be completed.
Experiment handler datums have several procs which require an atom-level parent, and I figured this is the most sensible and cleanest way to implement this without changing the experiment handler datum too much.
Small change to /obj/machinery/proc/power_change() signal ordering to adjust the state first and then send the signal. Didn't found any other usage of this signal except mine but barge down my door if it broke something.
Rewrote the ttv merge_gases() code to be slightly more readable.
A small code improvement for thermomachine to use tofixed (my fault).
Ordnance have been updated to enable the publication of papers
Several new explosive and gas synthesis experiments have been added to ordnance
Anomaly compressor has been TGUIzed and now supports simulating the reaction of the gases inside the ttv.
New tank compressor machine for toxins. You can overpressurize tanks with exotic gases and complete experiments.
Several techweb nodes are locked and require toxin experiments to complete.
Toxins can purchase boosts for various techweb nodes.
You no longer need to anchor doppler arrays for it to work.
Doppler array and implosion compressor now supports deconstruction, implosion compressor construction added.
Doppler now emits a red light to denote it's direction and it being on. Doppler not malf.
Implosion compressor renamed to anomaly refinery.
Created a new program tab "Science" for the downloader app. Removed Robotics.
Reworked the code for bombspawner (used in the cuban pete arcade game)
About The Pull Request
Converts more inputs to TGUI. Possibly all user-facing input lists in the game.
Did any surrounding text/number inputs as well
Added null choice support so users can press cancel.
Added some misc TGUI input fixes
Fixed custom vendors while I was there
I refactored a lot of code while just poking around.
Primarily, usage of .len in files where I was already working on lists.
Some code was just awful - look at guardian.dm and its non use of early returns
If there are any disputes, I can revert it just fine, those changes are not integral to the PR.
Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes#63629Fixes#63307
Fixes custom vendors /again/
Text input is more performant.
Part of a long series of TGUI conversion to make the game more visually appealing
Changelog
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refactor: The majority of user facing input lists have been converted to TGUI.
refactor: Tgui text inputs now scale with entered input.
fix: Many inputs now properly accept cancelling out of the menu.
fix: Fixes an edge case where users could not press enter on number inputs.
fix: Custom vendor bluescreen.
fix: You can now press ENTER on text inputs without an entry to cancel.
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Just fixes some spelling for gangs. I also fixed misspellings for "posession" to "possession". Fixed "seperate " to "Separate" Fixed "Cemetary" to "Cemetery"
Implements the Modernizing radiation design document ( https://hackmd.io/@tgstation/rJNIyeBHt ) and replaces the current radiation sources with the new system, as well as replacing/removing a bunch of old consumers of radiation that either had no reason to exist, or could be replaced by something else.
Diverges from the doc in that items radiation don't go up like explained. I was going to, but items get irradiated so easily that it just feels pretty lame. Items still get irradiated, but it's mostly just so that radiation sources look cooler (wow, lots of stuff around going green), and for things like the geiger counter.
Instead of the complicated radiation_wave system, radiation now just checks everything between the radiation source and the potential target, losing power along the way based on the radiation insulation of whats in between. If this reaches too low a point (specified by radiation_pulse consumers), then the radiation will not pass. Otherwise, will roll a chance to irradiate. Uranium structures allow a delay before irradiating, so stay away!
Bring _HELPERS/_lists.dm to latest standards by:
-Adding proper documentation and fixing existing one
-Giving vars proper names
-Procs now use snake case as per standard (many files that use those procs will be affected)
## About The Pull Request
stop forgetting to include mapload, if you don't include it then every single subtype past it by default doesn't include it
for example, `obj/item` didn't include mapload so every single item by default didn't fill in mapload
## Regex used:
procs without args, not even regex
`/Initialize()`
procs with args
`\/Initialize\((?!mapload)((.)*\w)?`
cleanup of things i didn't want to mapload:
`\/datum\/(.)*\/Initialize\(mapload`
Tablets are often found thrown around a corner of the foyer, and I'm tired of bullying people to use it at this point. It's IMO the most powerful tool engineering has to keep the station in good condition but only a few players ever download anything in a round.
So let's make their lives easier, engineering tablets come preinstalled with Canary and the Atmos with the Gas Scanner too. (Even if I never saw anyone use that, just because the tablet comes preinstalled with the sensor that enables it.)
Canary is a powerful tool to assist on station maintenance that is not well known to the player, maybe this will get people curious enough to open it and start to enjoy having all alarms green as much as I do.
Nothing hurts more than a small breach at science that goes unfixed for half an hour and slowly creep in turning the station into Firelock hell... and nothing is funnier than screaming "Atmos alarm at the HoS Office!" the second it pops up only for the AI to lock the shutters down and tell sec that a random lizard broke the window and is trying to Esword the HoS locker.
Its a relatively small refactor that changes the previous machinery "can_interact()" proc that literally did a full override despite half of their checks already existing in not one, but TWO parent procs, so i removed the redundant checks, added callbacks to its parents and then added the cyborg range check on the can_interact_with() itself. in doing so i also moved the interaction range var from silicons only, to mobs as a whole and defaulted it to a single tile, silicons override it to 7 (so pAIs and borgs like before) but then set AI and AI.eye to "null", because i have a check in can_interact that if there is no range set, then the range is effectively unlimited. and i even added code for when AI is carded and their wireless transmission is disabled it sets their range to "0" aka, it has no range to do anything even if it could
this was really complicated for me so despite my extensive testing it probably would be a bad thing if any of you want to test my code yourself to ensure there isnt a bug with this (theres no runtimes ive come across)
note: i did a lot of searching and going through machinery to ensure i caught all the little snowflake overrides and added can_interact() checks to them, but i may have missed one or two things, especially maybe a altclick or ctrlclick somewhere, however i believe i caught most of them
one nice side effect of this refactor is that you can actually set another mobs range to something other than 1 tile and they can interact at range, rather than only silicons getting this ability, an admin could VV a human to have a 3 tile arm reach as a meme if they want
* Converts looping sounds from a list of play locations to just the one
* Updates all uses of looping sounds to match the new arg
* Adds an area based sound manager that hooks into looping sounds to drive the actual audio. I'll be using this to redo how weather effects handle sound
* Some structrual stuff to make everything else smoother
Timers now properly return the time left for client based timers
Weather sends global signals when it starts/stops
Looping sounds now use their timerid var for all their sound related timers, not just the main loop
* This is the painful part
Adds an area sound manager component, it handles the logic of moving into new areas potentially creating new
sound loops. We do some extra work to prevent stacking sound loops.
Adds an ash storm listener element that adds a tailored area sound manager to clients on the lavaland z level.
It's removed on logout.
Adds the ash_storm_sounds assoc list, a reference to this is passed into area sound managers, and it's modified
in a manner that doesn't break the reference in ash_storm (This is what I hate)
* Hooks ash storm listener into cliented mobs and possessed objects
* Documents the odd ref stuff, adds an ignore start var to looping sounds, fixes some errors and lint issues
* Applies kyler's review
banging
Co-authored-by: Kylerace <kylerlumpkin1@gmail.com>
* Cleans up some var names, reduces the amount of looping we do in some areas
* Makes the code compile, redoes the movement listener to be more general
* fuck
* We don't need to detach on del if we're just removing signals on detach
* Should? work
* if(direct) memes
Co-authored-by: Kylerace <kylerlumpkin1@gmail.com>
Converts most spans into span procs. Mostly used regex for this and sorted out any compile time errors afterwards so there could be some bugs.
Was initially going to do defines, but ninja said to make it into a proc, and if there's any overhead, they can easily be changed to defines.
Makes it easier to control the formatting and prevents typos when creating spans as it'll runtime if you misspell instead of silently failing.
Reduces the code you need to write when writing spans, as you don't need to close the span as that's automatically handled by the proc.
(Note from Lemon: This should be converted to defines once we update the minimum version to 514. Didn't do it now because byond pain and such)
Sourced from #59118 and a cursed project I'll pr later, This pr contains a lot of harddel fixes for stuff that pops up after a player interacts with something. I'm not gonna list them all here because there's something like 60 130, check the commit log if you're curious
Oh and I moved ref tracking screaming to a separate define, and made some optimizations to the thing in general. I think that's it, this pr is a bit of a frankenstine
Having things updating integrity directly is just going to cause more problems down the line as more elements and components depend on being notified of integrity changes. It's an easy mistake to make so making it private should deal with the problem.
get_integrity() might be useful in the future but is mainly a side effect of making obj_integrity private as that also disallows reads.
* Credits Put Into PDAs/Modular Computers Go Into Inserted IDs
If a PDA or Modular Computer is attacked by something, it now checks to see if it can insert the object into the inserted ID
* Commenting the code
* Added Istype Checks Based on Feedback
* Adding a return to match the style of code in the same block
* Using Iscash instead of Istype spam
Changes the ID, PDA, and Modular Computer code to use Iscash (Apparently this already existed!)
Additionally, physical currency is checked internally instead of externall
* cargobus, start of gloves
* basics of the HAUL gauntlets
* fully mapped in
* almost forgot the gauntlets
* ntnet improvements
* cargo gaunts, tablet cargobus
* excludes body bags
* dmis and map back
* readd icons
Clears out two deprecated explosions systems (explosion ids and explosion levels)
Refactors a bunch of contents_explosions procs to be maybe slightly faster.
Cleans up a bunch of ex_act code.
Slightly cleaner code
A few less unused vars on /atom and /turf
About The Pull Request
Adds a function to Siliconnect in which you can tap a borg using a mobile device that is currently running the software, and it will download the borg's logs. These logs list events such as being locked or unlocked, taken offline and being restored, and the process of being emagged. Borg logs will now list the emag user's name as a new user.
Downloading the logs is done by right-clicking the borg while the software is open and active. This will "tap" the borg with the device, initiating the log transfer automatically. The transfer will take eight seconds to complete, requiring you and the borg to stay adjacent the entire time, and the borg will get a large red text alert about the upload when it starts. The logs are also not stored permanently on the device, and will be lost if the app is closed.
This PR also introduces the tap() proc for modular computer programs, and adds functionality the the computers to call it when right-clicking with the tablet as a tool. Should the app use the tap in a meaningful way (such as starting a borg log download), it will return TRUE, and the computer will end the secondary attack chain.
Currently, this requires using a tablet or laptop with Siliconnect, as you cannot tap with a console. Someday I hope to add an additional hardware option for consoles in the form of a wireless hand scanner to replicate tapping.
Why It's Good For The Game
Adds a neat way to "diagnose" a borg acting oddly, assuming you have a way to keep them still. Allows one to view if the borg has been emagged, by whom, what SiliConnect messages the borg has received, the number of law changes that have been made, as well as some other (somewhat fluff) information relating to taking damage and getting upgrades.
Changelog
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add: You can now download a cyborg's internal logs by right-clicking them with a mobile device running SiliConnect. Take a look if one is acting a bit strange, you might find something interesting.
add: Borg integrity (health) is now roughly shown in SiliConnect, under "Condition".
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To Do:
Fix the to_chat not being sent to the borg when a log transfer breaks due to distance
Add some sort of text feedback when tapping an atom with a device, or viewing one being tapped.
Possibly restrict syndicate borgs from having their logs viewed by SiliConnect (and likewise with station borgs and Roboverlord) Changed my mind on this, will implement later if we find it's needed.
Change the log area of the window to expand naturally rather than use a fixed height
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I'm not super deadset on the emag user's name being listed. It seems like a neat function unique to having a tablet running Siliconnect (as most of the other info is already available through other means), and one can always pop the brain out for a re-borg and demand the name anyway.
* Fixes modular computer runtimes
- Adds a proc to eat the source arg of the update icon signal.
* Fixes a couple things not passing the right args
- Fixes the alien leap hallucination passing a string as the first arg to updat_icon
- Fixes the roulette machine passing the payout as the first arg to update_icon.
Creates update_name and update_desc
Creates the wrapper proc update_appearance to batch update_name, update_desc, and update_icon together
Less non-icon handling code in update_icon and friends
Signal hooks for things that want to change names and descriptions
99%+ of the changes in this are just from switching everything over to update_appearance from update_icon
Converts many proc overrides to properly use list/modifiers, fixes some spots where modifiers should have been passed, calls modifiers what it is, a lazy list, and cleans up some improper arg names like L, M, C, and N. Oh and I think there was a spot where someone was trying to pass M.name in as a string, but forgot to wrap it in []. I fixed that too.
Done using this command sed -Ei 's/(\s*\S+)\s*\t+/\1 /g' code/**/*.dm
We have countless examples in the codebase with this style gone wrong, and defines and such being on hideously different levels of indentation. Fixing this to keep the alignment involves tainting the blames of code your PR doesn't need to be touching at all. And ultimately, it's hideous.
There are some files that this sed makes uglier. I can fix these when they are pointed out, but I believe this is ultimately for the greater good of readability. I'm more concerned with if any strings relied on this.
Hi codeowners!
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
