Malf overhaul, take two!
Waaaay back in the old days, I made it so malf AIs had to hack APCs to win, instead of just sit AFK for 45 minutes. Now I'm taking some more drastic action, to see what happens.
THE MALF AI NO LONGER SPAWNS ON THE AI SAT.
Instead of sitting in the AI sat hoping nobody notices your blatantly obvious hacking, at which point the 3 people lucky enough to have looted EVA get to have all the fun, you can now shunt your core processes into an APC you have hacked, and hacked APCs are only moderately obvious.
While shunted into an APC, the AI draws power from that APC instead of the one in their main core. If the APC loses power, the AI loses power as normal. If the APC they are in is damaged or destroyed, they are forced back into their main core. If the main core is inoperative at that time, they die. The AI is also capable of willingly going back to their main core. As long as the AI's main core is intact, the AI speaks out of its core, regardless of its current location.
I have tested as much of this as I could to make sure it is functional, but thanks to the game mode overhaul, I have been unable to run actual malf rounds on my test server, so I have had to cheat and set things to work in any mode for testing. As for actual round balance, there's no real way to predict how that shit'll change.
This is just the base overhaul, more changes will be forthcoming as malf rounds provide data on how the change performs.
git-svn-id: http://tgstation13.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@2668 316c924e-a436-60f5-8080-3fe189b3f50e
- Adjusts a few nutrient values for plants.
- Fixes the weird messages produced by Chantrelles.
- Nettles breaking has also been fixed.
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Simple mobs who attempt to attack and have a max damage of 0 (which is the default) will emote a friendly gesture towards the target, the default being "nuzzles" though also editable via vars.
Added the Shade simple mob (and some temporary sprites) which is the first simple mob capable of attacking. It was mostly for test purposes, but will probably end up becoming a feature of soul stones later on.
Note: Simple animals still cannot interact with other simple animals, critters, mechs, cyborgs, aliens, monkeys etc etc, only humans at this point.
git-svn-id: http://tgstation13.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@2808 316c924e-a436-60f5-8080-3fe189b3f50e
Spess Networking Technology:
▪ The machines are located in Centcom near the cargo shuttle.
▪ A new admin debug verb "Change Radio Type". Using this will toggle between old (current) radio code and the new radio code. ADMINS: I recommend only doing this if Doohl (me) is around to take note of anything that happens.
▪ The whole thing works, in theory, but hasn't been stress-tested with the usual 60+ players. I will write up a Tgstation Wiki article and/or explain what some of the stuff does in IRC or ingame.
One last thing to point out: this is a PROTOTYPE. I have tested it myself and optimized the code very well. In theory, this new radio system is significantly less laggy AND has many more features. However, because of it's a prototype, it can at any time destroy the server. The reason I am committing this and not updating the changelog is because it's not an actual feature YET. I want to stress test this on the servers to see how it fairs, then add some more stuff to it like the ability to link machines and repair networks.
git-svn-id: http://tgstation13.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@2807 316c924e-a436-60f5-8080-3fe189b3f50e
◦ Metroids can now be observed by ghosts.
◦ Saved User Interface preferences ("Old UI" & "New UI") now correctly get transferred to clones.
◦ Captain announcements now require the player to be next to the console. (Issue 220)
◦ Radio headsets no longer sometimes fail to deliver the messages (Issue 221)
◦ Some other insignificant back-end shenanigans.
◦ The pregame lobby now has title music. The gameticker chooses between two .ogg files on game start and plays that for everyone who joins. The music stops when create_character() gets called though.
◦ Gave some critters, namely "creature" and "blob" some attack sounds.
git-svn-id: http://tgstation13.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@2655 316c924e-a436-60f5-8080-3fe189b3f50e
Albert Iordache