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310edf3eec removes symptom weights by reverting #83456 (#89372)
## About The Pull Request
Reverts PR #83456 which added the weight system as well as applying it
to two symptoms, sneezing, and coughing.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The weight system was originally added to in the hopes a general nerf to
dangerous diseases. This also had the side effect of reducing a decent
amount of potential from good diseases by a fair bit as well. The PR I
am reverting was merged during a time where the Virology job was just
removed and people were throwing nerfs at it left and right to see what
would stick.

A minor nerf to Virology from #83459 and #83423 however has already
solved most of the issues regarding dangerous diseases by allowing
people with low resistance diseases to self-cure themselves
automatically as well as reducing the overall stage speed by a fair bit
allowing for a lot more time to make up a cure and respond in a timely
manner. While the latter made airborne spreading methods overall less
effective. This was ultimately done at a point where several other nerfs
or changes regarding advanced diseases were made with the purpose of
nerfing the Virology section of the game even further to a ridiculous
degree such as #83458 and #83454. As a side effect, this also closes
#86952.

It doesn't help that the PR didn't make a token effort in making the
change known in a way ingame to anyone working on Virology. Thus making
it seem as if the symptom cap was reduced to 5 for most cases for
unknown reasons causing a lot of frustration where even reaching to
other people in a well populated server wouldn't know why the symptom
cap would only allow 5 symptoms.
## Changelog
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del: Removed the weighting of viro symptoms
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Co-authored-by: David Andersen <DAVID.ANDERSEN6113@STU.MTEC.EDU>
2025-02-15 02:21:21 -05:00
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