Instability should now feel more responsive and less sluggish to go away. Instead of it being removed at a semi-random and slow rate, it now has a semi-defined half life of about 46 seconds (IE 100 instability will be around 50 in 46 seconds). The radiate pulse now occurs every Life() tick as well, and by extension the light radius update, so you should be able to see your purple halo adjust faster.
This unfortunately necessitated tweaking to the strength of instability events. Instability events should happen more often to compensate for it going away faster. It may need to be tweaked further.
Instability Glow (IE radiating) now radiates the instability decayed in the Life() tick instead of a third of the current instability. This means people have more time to get out of the purple light before they start glowing themselves. Two glowing people tend to equalize their instability if adjacent for awhile, while a third person can cause runaway instability, as normal.
Glowing now starts at 10 instability instead of 30.
Technomancer cores show the instability delta in their stat panel.
Message for standing in purple made bigger and purple-er.
Fixes bug with certain spells which waited for the effect to go off before qdeling the hand item.
Fixes leftover Xenobio tests in example map defines.
* Creating new objects is cheap, in fact comparable to the cost of getting it out of the pool, so it doesn't help there.
* Placing items in the pool is far more expensive than letting them garbage collect due to the resetting of vars and such.
Cores can now be locked and unlocked by a verb. Locked cores cannot be removed by anyone. Cores automatically unlock if the wearer dies or otherwise stops existing for some reason.
Healing spells now induce a flat instability cost on the healer instead of it being split between healer and healed. The amount healed is greatly increased if used on someone besides the healer.
Mend Organs is now called Great Mend Wounds, and now heals broken bones, IB, eye damage, and blood loss in addition to internal organs.
Radiating instability (the purple glow) now gives a warning to people afflicted.
Instability discounts should start applying correctly for specific cores.
Instability now affects all living mobs and not just humans. This includes borgs and simple animals.
Phase shift now adds ongoing instability while hiding inside the rift.
Projectile spells should be logged now.
Wards last forever, and should not die in vacuum now.
Restoration aura is now green colored and not blue.
Simple mobs and cyborgs are now harmed by lightning.
Cost for various spells and equipment adjusted greatly. In general, things are cheaper, and everything should now be in multiples of 25, so no points are wasted.
The default jumpsuit for Technomancers is now heavily insulated, protecting them from tasers, batons, and perhaps unfortunate lightning strikes.
Instability between 31 and 50 made less harsh.
Wards made with a scepter of enhancement will break the cloak of anyone invisible that it can see.
Fire aura buffed, increased rate of heating as well as temperature cap for both non-scepter and scepter effects.
Reflect spell made more forgiving for the Technomancer, lasting longer before expiring.
Projectile spells should be able to hit people more reliably.
Adds ability to sort the spells section of the catalog into categories. The categories available are 'All', 'Offensive', 'Defensive', 'Utility', and 'Support'.
Removes preset section on catalog as it was unused.
Projectile spells now have a sound when fired.
Haste lasts five seconds instead of three.
Repel Missiles lasts for five minutes instead of two.
All healing spells work five times as fast, healing in five seconds instead of twenty five seconds. The amount of instability and healing done has been multiplied to remain consistent.
Passwall can now be used on more than just walls, if there's something dense on the same tile.
Force Missile is now 25% cheaper to cast, and has a cooldown of .5 seconds instead of one second, and does 5 more damage.
Beam's damage is increased by 10, and energy cost decreased by 25%.
Lightning's warm-up time is now one second instead of two.
Overload now costs 10% of total energy instead of 15%, and damage scaled with 4% of their current energy reserves, and 5% with the Scepter, instead of 3%/4%. Additionally, instability per shot is lowered to 12 from 15.
Track now costs 25 points instead of 30 in the catalog, because roundness.
Fire Aura should look more impressive without a Scepter.
Fixes bug where shooting Lightning made you motionless for twenty seconds.
Adds cores and other belongings to the tracking list for Track.
Cores worn or held by nontechnomancers cause instability buildup.
Frost Aura glow is now blue and not red.
Illusions can now do emotes as well as talk.
Illusion talking shouldn't be ruined due to double sanitize.
Phase Shift should work properly now.
Freedom and explosive implants can be bought in the catalog.
Moves spell HUD so it doesn't cover instability warning.
Makes Instability radiate out towards other humans at sufficently high amounts. People radiating instability will glow purple light. It is adviced to keep your distance or you will get instability as well.
Mark can no longer be cast on the admin z-level.
Adds Gambit, a spell which will randomly give you (almost) any spell that exists.
Shield now causes a bit of instability when blocking.
Recall will bring anyone who is grabbed along for the ride when cast.
Disposable Teleporters now function correctly.
Instability decays faster.
