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SkyratBot fa08117ac1 [MIRROR] Massive Spraycan and Crayon Powercreep: smaller graffiti cost less to draw. [MDB IGNORE] (#21410)
* Massive Spraycan and Crayon Powercreep: smaller graffiti cost less to draw. (#75588)

## About The Pull Request
Currently, drawing a small circle on the floor consumes as much charge
as any other drawable but the larger horizontal ones that cost five
times as much, which is a bit dull for non-cyborg players, having to
burn through a ton of spraycans just to cover the floor in several small
dots if ever attempting to do some floor art.

This PR aims to reduce the cost of some of the smaller drawables, like
"shortline", "smallbrush", "pawprints" etc., in virtue of the smaller
area they cover. The balances changes may seem bit of an arbitrary and
not include ones that are a bit on the edge between "small" and not
"small", but I'd rather keep it simple than have other values such like
"semi-small" integrated and snowball this balance PR into a more
finnicky, disputable or not agreeable with version of itself.

This also covers re-coloring and existent graffiti. Currently it always
costs 2 charges to change its color regardless if it costed 1 or 5 to
spray in the first place. With this PR, the costs should match that of
when they were drawn. To boot, It also takes into account the tagger
quirk now.

Code had to be cleaned up and improved a bit for a smoother
implementation of these changes.
A fairly unrelated but small change: Trying to suicide with an empty
spraycan will now fail, because it's empty. It's that simple.

## Why It's Good For The Game
Enables non-cyborg players to engage in jolly floor-vandalizing-art in a
more consistent, slightly more enjoyable way.

## Changelog

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balance: Drawing small graffiti like paw/foot/claw prints, small brush
dots and short lines should cost half as many charges off your spraycan
or crayon.
balance: The cost of recoloring graffiti decals is now consistent with
that of drawing them.
balance: Trying to suicide with an empty spraycan will now fail, because
it's empty. It's just that simple.
/🆑

* Massive Spraycan and Crayon Powercreep: smaller graffiti cost less to draw.

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Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-05-25 17:24:10 -07:00
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