BCIs are a new shell that can be implanted in your brain through surgery or through a BCI Manipulation Chamber, which provide the ability to easily implant and remove BCIs. They are the same size as compact remotes and generally share the same limitations.
Also adds CIRCUIT_FLAG_HIDDEN, to hide components from the UI. I didn't end up needing this, but Watermelon said he had ideas for it, so eh.
Why It's Good For The Game
BCIs provide an interesting, stealthy input method for circuits. They are seen as a healthier alternative to nanites, and improve on them in several ways:
Circuits have limited manipulation of the world, and intentionally do not perform the ability to provide passive healing, revives, etc.
Circuits have a significantly better UI and UX than nanites.
Circuits regularly get content expansions, which means that as a side-effect, there'll often be new things to play with for BCIs.
Other point to make:
BCI implanters have no cloud, and instead require the BCI to be put inside the machine. This means it requires the attention of the scientist (or even just a box with them inside). With
Adds the ability to save/load circuits for admins. Adds the ability to duplicate modules in a round. #60222, which lets you reprint a circuit you made that round, this means you can print out lots of BCIs, rather than going through the tedium of constantly remaking it.
BCI implanters are not roundstart, but rather in the advanced shells node. This is essentially the same as nanites, except for the difference of nanites starting with all the machinery, but none of the powers.
Changelog
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add: Added brain-computer interface circuit shells.
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Adds the airlock shell. The circuit has full control over the airlock.
Refactors USB code to be easier to use for less experienced coders.
Implements USB cables for the binary valve to be able to open/close the valve.
Adds a private channel for radios that only lets circuits with the same owner's ID to interact with it.
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)
