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RikuTheKiller 337ab7f2c3 Refactors status effects to be based on subsystem ticks, among a few other minor status effect fixes/refactors (#93694)
## About The Pull Request

Refactors status effects to track their durations and tick intervals
using counters.
In effect, [var/duration] now directly refers to how many deciseconds
are left on the status effect.
I've also moved the old [var/tick_interval] [world.time] implementation
to a tick-based [var/time_until_next_tick] counter.

There are a couple, less noteworthy changes in here as well. The main
one is that there was an unused bit of bloat code for setting tick
intervals based on a random lower and upper threshold, but that can be
done in tick() now so it's completely redundant, and I thus removed it
entirely. That makes parts of [proc/process] much easier to read.

I added/modified some unit tests (which I expect to fail) to verify that
[var/duration] and [var/tick_interval] are both multiples of the
subsystem wait assigned to the status effect. If the programmer wants a
duration of 2.5 seconds, they expect it to work that way, but it won't
because SSfastprocess only ticks once every 0.2 seconds, which 2.5 is
not a multiple of. This becomes way more apparent when a status effect
is set to use SSprocessing.

The final, perhaps most important unit test I've added, is one that
verifies that the overall tick count and overall accumulated
[seconds_between_ticks] are equal to "[var/duration] /
[var/tick_interval]" and "[var/duration]" respectively.
## Why It's Good For The Game

The main thing this PR fixes is timing inconsistencies. Before this PR,
durations and tick intervals were tracked using world.time, while the
[proc/tick] call timing was dependent on the wait time of the subsystem
the status effect was processing on. Thing is, SSfastprocess and
SSprocessing rarely run completely in one tick during real gameplay.
This led to a continuous desync where status effects were consistently
inconsistent in their overall tick count. This is a big problem as
[seconds_between_ticks] is constant and thus doesn't account for this
difference in tick count.

As an example, Changeling's Fleshmend has a duration of 10 seconds, a
tick interval of 1 second and a healing rate of 4 brute per tick.
Previously, if the server was lagging even slightly and it only ticked 8
times over the course of 10 seconds, you would heal 32 health rather
than the 40 that a full Fleshmend would give you. The total effect
potency of a status effect being reliant on server lag is incredibly
stupid, especially for status effects that have an associated cost.
(like the aforementioned Fleshmend)

As for the refactors, they make status effect code easier to read and
debug. Unit tests also make verifying things are working as intended
much easier.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Status effects now tick consistently, with Fleshmend and such
giving a consistent total healing amount. Report any oddities.
refactor: Status effect code is now easier to read and makes more sense.
Again, report any oddities, the changes are major.
/🆑
2025-11-07 15:25:16 +01:00

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/// Validates status effect tick interval setup
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_ticks
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_ticks/Run()
for(var/datum/status_effect/checking as anything in subtypesof(/datum/status_effect))
if(initial(checking.id) == STATUS_EFFECT_ID_ABSTRACT)
continue
var/tick_speed = initial(checking.tick_interval)
if(tick_speed == STATUS_EFFECT_NO_TICK)
continue
if(tick_speed < 0)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has tick_interval set to a negative value other than STATUS_EFFECT_NO_TICK, this is not how you prevent ticks - use tick_interval = STATUS_EFFECT_NO_TICK instead.")
continue
if(tick_speed == INFINITY)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has tick_interval set to INFINITY, this is not how you prevent ticks - use tick_interval = STATUS_EFFECT_NO_TICK instead.")
continue
switch(initial(checking.processing_speed))
if(STATUS_EFFECT_FAST_PROCESS)
if(tick_speed % SSfastprocess.wait != 0 && tick_speed != STATUS_EFFECT_AUTO_TICK)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has tick_interval set to [tick_speed], which is not a multiple of SSfastprocess wait time ([SSfastprocess.wait]).")
if(STATUS_EFFECT_NORMAL_PROCESS)
if(tick_speed % SSprocessing.wait != 0 && tick_speed != STATUS_EFFECT_AUTO_TICK)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has tick_interval set to [tick_speed], which is not a multiple of SSprocessing wait time ([SSprocessing.wait]).")
if(STATUS_EFFECT_PRIORITY)
var/priority_wait = world.tick_lag * SSpriority_effects.wait // SSpriority_effects has the SS_TICKER flag, so its wait is in ticks, so we have to convert it to deciseconds.
if(tick_speed % priority_wait != 0 && tick_speed != STATUS_EFFECT_AUTO_TICK)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has tick_interval set to [tick_speed], which is not a multiple of SSpriority_effects wait time ([priority_wait]).")
else
TEST_FAIL("Invalid processing speed for status effect [checking] : [initial(checking.processing_speed)]")
/// Validates status effect duration setup
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_duration
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_duration/Run()
for(var/datum/status_effect/checking as anything in subtypesof(/datum/status_effect))
if(initial(checking.id) == STATUS_EFFECT_ID_ABSTRACT)
continue
var/duration = initial(checking.duration)
if(duration == STATUS_EFFECT_PERMANENT)
continue
if(duration == INFINITY) // for some god forsaken reason, this is allowed
continue
if(duration < 0)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has duration set to a negative value other than STATUS_EFFECT_PERMANENT, this is not how you make effects last forever - use duration = STATUS_EFFECT_PERMANENT instead.")
continue
switch(initial(checking.processing_speed))
if(STATUS_EFFECT_FAST_PROCESS)
if(duration % SSfastprocess.wait != 0)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has duration set to [duration], which is not a multiple of SSfastprocess wait time ([SSfastprocess.wait]).")
if(STATUS_EFFECT_NORMAL_PROCESS)
if(duration % SSprocessing.wait != 0)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has duration set to [duration], which is not a multiple of SSprocessing wait time ([SSprocessing.wait]).")
if(STATUS_EFFECT_PRIORITY)
var/priority_wait = world.tick_lag * SSpriority_effects.wait // SSpriority_effects has the SS_TICKER flag, so its wait is in ticks, so we have to convert it to deciseconds.
if(duration % priority_wait != 0)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect [checking] has duration set to [duration], which is not a multiple of SSpriority_effects wait time ([priority_wait]).")
else
TEST_FAIL("Invalid processing speed for status effect [checking] : [initial(checking.processing_speed)]")
/// Validates that status effect tick counts are directly proportional to duration, and that seconds_between_ticks added up is equal to duration.
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_tick_counts
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_tick_counts/Run()
var/mob/living/carbon/human/user = allocate(/mob/living/carbon/human/consistent, run_loc_floor_bottom_left)
var/datum/status_effect/unit_test_tick_counter/counter = user.apply_status_effect(/datum/status_effect/unit_test_tick_counter)
// The 0.2 here and in the for loop is arbitrary and can be any value that divides evenly into the duration and tick interval of the unit test status effect.
// I chose 0.2 specifically because it just happens to be the SSfastprocess.wait in seconds, which basically simulates this status effect running on SSfastprocess.
var/ticks_required = counter.duration / 10 / 0.2 + 1
for (var/i in 1 to ticks_required)
if (!QDELETED(counter))
counter.process(0.2)
var/expected_tick_count = initial(counter.duration) / counter.tick_interval
if (abs(counter.total_tick_count - expected_tick_count) > 0.01)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect tick count is not directly proportional to duration. Expected [expected_tick_count] ticks, got [counter.total_tick_count] ticks.")
var/expected_seconds = initial(counter.duration) / 10
if (abs(counter.total_seconds - expected_seconds) > 0.01)
TEST_FAIL("Status effect seconds_between_ticks accumulated together does not equal duration. Expected [expected_seconds] seconds, got [counter.total_seconds] seconds.")
QDEL_NULL(counter)
/datum/status_effect/unit_test_tick_counter
duration = 10 SECONDS
tick_interval = 0.4 SECONDS
id = "unit_test_tick_counter"
alert_type = null
var/total_tick_count = 0
var/total_seconds = 0
/datum/status_effect/unit_test_tick_counter/tick(seconds_between_ticks)
total_tick_count++
total_seconds += seconds_between_ticks
/// Validates status effect alert type setup
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_alert
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_alert/Run()
// The base typepath is used to indicate "I didn't set an alert type"
var/bad_alert_type = /datum/status_effect::alert_type
TEST_ASSERT_NOTNULL(bad_alert_type, "No alert type defined in /datum/status_effect - This test may be redundant now.")
for(var/datum/status_effect/checking as anything in subtypesof(/datum/status_effect))
if(initial(checking.id) == STATUS_EFFECT_ID_ABSTRACT)
continue
if(initial(checking.alert_type) != bad_alert_type)
continue
TEST_FAIL("[checking] has not set alert_type. If you don't want an alert, set alert_type = null - \
Otherwise, give it an alert subtype.")
/// Validates status effect id setup
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_ids
/datum/unit_test/status_effect_ids/Run()
// The base id is used to indicate "I didn't set an id"
var/bad_id = /datum/status_effect::id
TEST_ASSERT_NOTNULL(bad_id, "No id defined in /datum/status_effect - This test may be redundant now.")
for(var/datum/status_effect/checking as anything in subtypesof(/datum/status_effect))
if(initial(checking.id) == STATUS_EFFECT_ID_ABSTRACT)
// we are just assuming that a child of an abstract should not be abstract.
// of course in practice, this may not always be the case - but if you're
// structuring a status effect like this, you can just change the parent id to anything else
var/datum/status_effect/checking_parent = initial(checking.parent_type)
if(initial(checking_parent.id) != STATUS_EFFECT_ID_ABSTRACT)
continue
if(initial(checking.id) != bad_id)
continue
TEST_FAIL("[checking] has not set an id. This is required for status effects.")