- In short, delamination changed to more or less mirror effects it has on Bay.
- All of the new delamination effects can be easily tweaked in the future using set of defines.
- In general, aim is to make supermatter delamination a more or less "recoverable" event with enough materials and manpower. Before it was just a mangled irrepairable mess of scuttled steel.
- This brings a LOT of performance improvements and runtime error fixes (grav pull of anchored items which were never meant to move tends to cause runtimes)
Detailed changes:
- Supermatter (and also S5/S6 singularity in the event someone manages to build one, they share the proc) no longer pull anchored items. This brings a MASSIVE reduction in delamination lag (from few second freezes to quite smooth) and prevents things from breaking (i saw dozens of various runtimes when delamination occured as it forcibly dragged things around that weren't supposed to be dragged).
- Delamination crashes the station's power grid, shutting down all APCs for few minutes. Critical areas get shut down only for fraction of that time (we don't want to one-hit the AI). This includes healthcare facilities, which are likely to be very important given the other effects.
- Delamination irradiates and briefly weakens all mobs on the station (not only on the same Z level). I have verified that this is enough to kill an unprotected human if no kind of medical care (at least dylovene, ideally something against rads) is administered.
- Delamination will break a bunch of lights. Nuisance, but easily repairable. Adds to the atmosphere.
- Delamination breaks part of the solar arrays, reducing their output by roughly 60%. This is way less than required to run the station. Puts more emphasis on delamination being engineering-centric emergency, with power rationing being a necessity until solars can be fixed, or other power source secured. Rewards engineering if they managed to stockpile some energy in the SMESes around the station.
- Delamination's explosion is quite weaker than it used to be. It should still be enough to pretty much destroy the engine room (see attached screenshots below), and cause some minor damage in adjacent rooms. It should still, however, be repairable with enough resources and some time.
- Supermatter no longer has additional 99% flat modifier to miss a station Z level when ejected. Emergency core ejection is a last resort measure. It does have its risks. With other changes in this PR, delamination on outer hull is significantly less dangerous than it would be before. It still has various secondary risks, however, such as the radiation or temporary power outage, but with considerably mitigated damage (explosion in space, mostly on outer grilles is generally weaker)
Screenshots:
https://i.imgur.com/K7nBd8a.png (Standing directly where the core was. Engine room has heavy structural damage and all pipes/machinery are pretty much devastated)
https://i.imgur.com/SGBdTRo.png (Standing in engine control room. Damage nearby is quite minor (occassional snapped wire or wall panel), but quite widespread).
https://i.imgur.com/JqzF4pW.png (Solar arrays are heavily damaged. They still provide /some/ power but only a fraction of the original)
- Backpacks can be carried on suit storage slot of those hardsuits that occupy back slot (breacher excluded).
- Now, i understand this may be a somewhat controversial change. Feel free to close this PR if you believe it does not fit. Just opening this as i've received this suggestion from another player, and i in fact tried proposing the same thing back at Bay when hardsuits as we know them were added.
- Reformatted some of the allowed lists while i was at it. Makes future modifications somewhat less likely to hit merge conflicts with each entry on its own line.
My balance perspective (long rant):
Hardsuits, as-is, fill very specific roles. In general, unless you absolutely need one of the modules or some specific function (for example, 100% RAD resist combined with EVA capability of CE suit) you don't want to use them, as they require you to trade-in your back slot (which is what this PR aims to change), therefore significantly reducing carrying capacity. Of course, this has its workarounds - usually dragging crates around, or carrying your backpack in hand. This provides minimal actual restriction (you can still carry tons of stuff), but acts as quite major inconvenience and annoyance for the player (you have to juggle with items, keep placing stuff on the ground, etc - generally just clicking 10x more). In total, the only real effect is that it slows you down a bit due to all the clicking required.
Therefore i believe this change is not as massive buff as it might seem in first place. Sure, it lets you carry more things on yourself, but you could also do that easily with a crate or by holding backpack in hand. It just makes doing so more convenient and comfortable to the player.
This asset class bundles entire dmi files worth of icons together into a single CSS file using inline data urls. Much faster than sending dozens of files.
Also changed it so we don't need a hard coded list of all types of asset daturms.
* Move gameticker to subsystem folder before editing to track history thru rename.
* Refactor the gameticker into SSticker
- Instead of independently spawn'd while/sleep loops, it stores its state and lets the MC fire it.
- Convert relative path indentation procs to absolute path as per modern style standards.
- Break apart the inner loops into separate procs so you can see what is actually going on.
- It now shows up in MC tab, along with stats about what phase it is in.
* Revamp Start Now admin verb to actually wait until init is done before starting.
* Update Lobby stat panel to show voting and server init status.
* Fix: Only call autogamemode vote once.
* Spawn statistic_cycle off to not sleep SSticker.
* Add SStickere changelog
* Change to use to_world and add wrapping spans.
* Added filtering spans by specific request of Polaris.
Portetd from YW, this replaces many hard coded constant numbers with defines for readability.
Also refactors the disposals pipe dispenser to use pipe recipes in a similar way that the atmos pipe dispenser does.
Also adds icon states to the pipe_recipe type since it was easily available in the source port and can be useful.
