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* Kills `seconds_per_tick` from status effect `tick`, replaces it with `seconds_between_ticks` to clarify some things (#77219)

## About The Pull Request

https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/66573#discussion_r861157216

`status_effect/proc/tick(seconds_per_tick)` is wildly misleading and I
feel like I should address it

For a majority of status effects, they process on fast processing but do
not tick every fastprocessing tick

This means that using `seconds_per_tick` here is not giving you the
seconds between status effect ticks, it's giving you seconds between
processing ticks (`0.2`)

This is how it's misleading - If you have a tick interval of `1
SECONDS`, you'd think `seconds_per_tick` is, well, one. But it's
actually one-fifth. So all of your effects are now 80% weaker.

I have replaced the use of `seconds_per_tick` in tick with
`seconds_between_ticks`.

This number is, quite simply, the initial tick interval of the status
effect divided by ten.

An effect with the tick interval of `1 SECONDS` has a
`seconds_between_ticks` of 1.

As a consequence, some things which were inadvertently made weaker, such
as fire and some heretic things (at a glance), are now a little
stronger.

## Why It's Good For The Game

See above. Makes it more clear what you're doing when working with
effects.

## Changelog

🆑 Melbert
code: Updated some status effect tick code to be more clear of how long
is elapsing between ticks. Some effects that were inadvertently weakened
are now stronger as a result (fire and some heretic effects).
/🆑

* Kills `seconds_per_tick` from status effect `tick`, replaces it with `seconds_between_ticks` to clarify some things

* Modular updates

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Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-08-08 09:31:41 -04:00

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