Just.. Im just frothing with rage while looking at some of this stuff. Some polaris dude named Neerti did a bunch of half assed commenting five years ago, and has been causing a shit ton of warning messages because of it. I ended up fixing most of it out of pure rage.
Tell me if you guys need a CHOMPedit on these, because this is mostly just fixing really stupid commented out stuff that should have been fixed years ago by the person that did this. I wouldn't think it would need a CHOMPedit, but you never know.
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.
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.
A lot of new defines are now in inventory_sizes.dm, which contains;
All the size identifiers (the thing that tells the game if something is bulky, or w/e).
Storage costs for all the sizes, which are exponents of two, as previously.
A few constants for inventory size.
Also changes all storage item's capacity definitions by basing it off of how many 'normal slots' exist for it. This allows one to change the definition for all of the defines in the file, and everything will follow along without needing to change 500 files. In testing, I made all ITEMSIZE_COST_* defines doubled, and nothing had broke.
The benefit of doing all of this is that it makes adding new weight classes in the future much simpler, and makes knowing how much space a container has easier, as seeing ITEMSIZE_COST_NORMAL * 7 means it can hold seven normal items.
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.
Adds the Recycling and Summoner cores to the catalog, which I somehow forgot to do earlier.
Adds an instability modifer for different cores.
Adds several new healing spells, for dealing with internal organ troubles, as well as for dealing with robotic FBP healing.
Makes various healing spells cheaper in the catalog.
