General:
Bots are now /mob/living/bot. They support player control fully. Just in
case an admin feels like letting a ghost take control of beepsky or
something.
Since they are bots, spooders and whatnot will attack them.
They now don't need an open panel to be emagged.
Spawns replaced with do_after, meaning that they will stop
injecting/cleaning/repairing/arresting if pulled away.
Medbot:
Emagger is added to ignore list.
Will now inject spaceacilin regardeless of disease type and level.
Previously: only if disease was past stage 1 or airbone.
Cleanbot:
Patrolling rewritten. They now find a closest beacon, and go to the NEXT
beacon after the closest one.
They will not wiggle out when pulled.
They will now ignore (for a while) the gibs they make if odd button is
pressed.
They will now freely claim cleanables. Previously, they would not target
ones targeted by other bots.
Floorbot:
This was a helluva buggy one.
They will now build bridges (but still won't do random repairs) in space
area.
They will now build bridges even if the tile directly next to them in
that direction is tiled.
They will now ignore for a while a tile they can't reach. This is to
stop them from hopelessly targeting tiles under grilles for upgrades and
getting stuck.
They will now slowly (200 ticks for a tile) build new tiles on their
own.
They will now preserve tile's icon when repairing it like a player
would.
They will now place first rods, then tile when fixing space breaches.
Rod costs two tiles.
When emagged, they will first always tear off the tile, then will (over
triple the normal amount of time) breach the tile to space. There are
noticeable warnings for both actions.
Secbot:
Will no longer run away to patrol when panel is open.
Now deals stamina damage instead of instastuns.
Small delay between approaching the target and stunning them.
Laserbots axed.
Removed their weird EMP act.
Will no longer stun lying people, just cuff.
They will also demand surrenderring (lying down) before smacking you. If
target moves, or 5 seconds pass, it will attack.
Farmbot:
It's alive!
It has settings to: water trays, refill its own water, uproot weeds, add
nutriment (ammonia, internal synthesizer), collect produce, and remove
dead plants.
Takes NanoUI interaction code and splits it into more manageable modules.
The default handler that checks distances, camera coverage, etc., etc.
Admin NanoUI windows now only check for admin rights, ignoring sight, distance, and anything else.
ERT/mercenary appearance changer now remains open for as long as the mob remains on the admin Z-level.
PDAs and uplinks now require that you keep the item somewhere in your main inventory (or contents to be precise). Hands or ears are fine, inside bags are not.
Rig suits also check that they are in the operator's inventory or that the synthetic operator is somewhere within the suit's contents (recursively).
Can only track the original owner of a PDA.
Cannot track the senders/receivers of intercepted messages.
All other tracking conditions apply (camera coverage, no agent ID, etc.).
You get to cache data, make the best of it.
NanoUI for PDA now won't shove the manifest through list2json every tick, it will cache the json for manifest and shove it into the cache_data so list2json tacks it onto the end.
Long story short, the json encoding doesn't know how to handle "
Adding a check specifically for it breaks other stuff, after banging my head against it for an hour
this is the best means of fixing the problem without breaking and fixing a lot of other things.
- This fixes missing powernet sensor entries in engineer PDAs.
- This is done by reimplementing old system, that instead connected to consoles. Bleh.
- New system connects directly to sensors, but offers only very limited amount of information (ie. console is 5x better and nicer, this is intentional before someone begins yelling it's a bug!)
- Power monitor is now /computer/ subtype
- Different rounding of values in power monitor display
- Unfortunately, PDA power monitoring for engineers is broken and probably won't be fixed as it relies on old powernet monitoring computers. Laptops work OK
Synthetics can no longer magically print color images on a black-and-white photocopier.
No longer possible for organics to acquire a synth-image by un-attaching it from a newscaster.
News articles now come with a timestamp and photo captions, if anything was penned on an attached photo.
Reception-checks no longer unconditionally sleeps the thread. Was causing havoc with NanoUI.
Misc. code refactoring.
Synths replying to messages through their PDA log or chat window should no longer cause the tapping message to appear.
Unsure if pAIs ever tapped, risk now greatly reduced.
Mloc