made the alien player limit a config option

Signed-off-by: Cael_Aislinn <cael_aislinn@yahoo.com.au>

code/controllers/configuration.dm

@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
 	var/automute_on = 0					//enables automuting/spam prevention
 
 	var/usealienwhitelist = 0
+	var/limitalienplayers = 0
+	var/alien_to_human_ratio = 0.5
 
 	var/server
 	var/banappeals
@@ -353,9 +355,15 @@
 
 				if("usealienwhitelist")
 					usealienwhitelist = 1
+
+				if("alien_player_ratio")
+					limitalienplayers = 1
+					alien_to_human_ratio = text2num(value)
+
 				else
 					diary << "Unknown setting in configuration: '[name]'"
 
+
 		else if(type == "game_options")
 			if(!value)
 				diary << "Unknown value for setting [name] in [filename]."

code/modules/mob/new_player/new_player.dm

@@ -455,11 +455,11 @@
 		src << browse(null, "window=latechoices") //closes late choices window
 		src << browse(null, "window=playersetup") //closes the player setup window
 
-#define MAX_ALIEN_PLAYER_PERCENT 20
-
-//cael - this should probably be moved to ticker or somewhere, but it's fine here for now
 //limits the number of alien players in a game
 /proc/GetAvailableAlienPlayerSlots()
+	if(!config.limitalienplayers)
+		return 9999
+
 	var/num_players = 0
 
 	//check new players
@@ -472,4 +472,4 @@
 		if(H.ckey)
 			num_players++
 
-	return round(num_players * (MAX_ALIEN_PLAYER_PERCENT / 100))
+	return round(num_players * (config.alien_to_human_ratio / 100))

config/config.txt

@@ -176,4 +176,7 @@ SOCKET_TALK 0
 USEALIENWHITELIST
 
 ## Location of the nudge.py script
-NUDGE_SCRIPT_PATH nudge.py
+NUDGE_SCRIPT_PATH nudge.py
+
+## Comment this to unrestrict the number of alien players allowed in the round. The number represents the number of alien players for every human player.
+#ALIEN_PLAYER_RATIO 0.2