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SkyratBot 27492ff60d [MIRROR] Autounlock techwebs are shared between machines that use them. [MDB IGNORE] (#18734)
* Autounlock techwebs are shared between machines that use them. (#72515)

## About The Pull Request

Did you know that for every Autolathe, Limbgrower, Biogenerator, ORM,
and Smelter that was built, an entire new techweb was made? The average
round has 2 ORMs (smelters count) if not more from ORM deconstruction
objective, 2 biogenerators, several autolathes and generally 0-1
limbgrower, I think there's more techwebs being created than we need.

Creating a whole techweb was a pretty terrible way to optimize this, so
I made a global list that stores these techwebs. Created on demand,
these autounlocking techwebs now share between the machines that use
them. It also generate all hacked nodes which will be visible if the
machine is hacked, instead of 'researching' them for each hacked
individual machine.

The 'specialized' techweb subtype was removed because its sole purpose
was to allow autounlocking to be a subtype of it. Now autounlocking is
just the direct subtype. I also removed mechfab autounlocking type
because it wasn't used, mechfabs use techwebs directly.

Autolathes and Limbgrowers now locally store 'imported designs' which
are things uploaded from technology disks. Outside of this, the
autounlocking techweb subtype now stores 'hacked designs' which unlocks
when the machine is emagged.
While doing this, I saw ORMs and Biogenerators had disks you can insert
into them, but I did not find anything that can actually be uploaded to
them (I saw Alien Alloys as a possibility, but there's no such disk to
allow uploading this alloy to the machine, and I didn't think an entire
system for 1 single alloy was worth keeping around), so I removed this
unused feature from both machines.

I merged 'Hacked' and 'Emagged' categories because they served the same
purpose, 'hacked' being on hacked autolathes and 'emagged' being on
hacked (emagged) limbgrowers.

Tech disk techwebs (which is created every time a disk is made, however
I hope to change this in the future) into it's own subtype, so admins
understand where its from when looking in VV panel (because I was
confused when I saw them at first).

``autolathe_crafted`` proc was removed because it was entirely unused
too.

Now it looks like this, which I consider an improvement:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/53777086/211052875-9215a84d-fb04-450b-a120-4d0316cec6ff.png)

## Why It's Good For The Game

We no longer initialize a brand new techweb for no reason whatsoever.
Each techweb made is making entire lists of experiments and research
papers, all of which is never to be seen in-game and is completely
useless to the player. Cutting down on these techwebs is a good first
step to this needless initializing.

## Changelog

🆑
qol: Removed the tech disk part of the ORM's UI as it was entirely
unused, now it's a little more compact with less scrolling needed.
refactor: Autolathes, Limb growers, Biogenerators, ORMs and Smelters now
share techwebs with other machines of their types, rather than all make
new techwebs each time. This means they only build their nodes once,
including hacked ones. Instead of researching nodes on hacking the
machine, they now show hacked ones depending on if it's hacked.
/🆑

Co-authored-by: Zephyr <12817816+ZephyrTFA@ users.noreply.github.com>

* Autounlock techwebs are shared between machines that use them.

Co-authored-by: John Willard <53777086+JohnFulpWillard@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Zephyr <12817816+ZephyrTFA@ users.noreply.github.com>
2023-01-14 18:54:19 -08:00

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