This removal is motivated by both gameplay and technical reasons.
Gameplay:
The stock market being a part of a station's Cargo department does not make sense, for either practical or lore purposes. The mechanic is bad because players are receiving cargo points from literally nothing. There no kind of freight handling or any other sort of bottleneck at all, just number entry on a computer from a seat. The stock market code is quite complex and a good attempt was made at simulating a stock market. However the attempt falls short, as it is still quite easy to manage stocks to grow points passively and safely. The stock market is also a multiplicative source of income so any other cargo point source gets extra scrutiny over balance, undeservedly so. Other aspects of cargo have already repeatedly taken hits. Such nerfs include the decreasing marginal returns for most exports and the base export price of plasma. I've noticed cargo doesn't care as much about exporting plasma as much as they used to.
Technical:
There seems to be a major issue with stock growth, particularly one bug in particular that grows stock prices to astronomical levels. As I mentioned before, the stock market code is quite complex, not to mention long. @Iamgoofball himself does not seem to making an earnest attempt to properly maintain and fix the issues, instead constantly making controversial band-aid fixes and removals (pot, kettle here I know). I would normally make a fix attempt as the code seems interesting but I do not agree with the stock market being a part of the game for gameplay reasons and thus have no interest. I have other ideas for cargo but they are still in the ideas stage so they are worth nothing. Still, I think removing the stock market and making room for other cargo features is the best move.
* kill BANG_PROTECT_2
* let's put this back in
* dirty
* kill OMNITONGUE_2
This is a write-only variable, probably leftover from some refactor years ago
* kill flags_2
* Added 4 sprites
Added sprites for Alexander, Between the Sheets, Kamikaze and Sidecar.
* Added recipes for 5 drinks
Added recipes for Alexander, Between the Sheets, Kamikaze, Mojito and Sidecar.
* Added 5 drinks
Added Alexander, Between the Sheets, Kamikaze, Mojito and Sidecar.
* Added Creme de Menthe to Mojito
* Changed Creme de Menthe to Menthol in Mojito
* Adds menthol and sake to the dispensers
* Adds menthol to drink reagents
* Removes menthol from drug reagents
* Added the box of menthol
* Adds menthol to the booze-o-mat
* Adds the menthol box sprite
* Puts back required time for the emitter and field_generator and also removes a certain issue that certain people were causing
* Couple of things I missed
* I noticed the error with regards to atom and changed to obj like I was trying to originally. Also its fine to build on tables that wasnt the issue with this specific aspect.
* Edge windows. We need those.
* optimised the checks to be behind a if check for when you are actually needing to make something for the floor...
* Corrects a input proc by request
* Working is not my strong suit.
only human and lizard synthetic limbs will have should_draw_greyscale set to true
added /improper and uncapitalised synthetic limb names
removed plasmaman parts from human_parts_greyscale.dmi
code: HEALS_EARS_2 is removed in favor of the earhealing component
code: wearertargeting component is available to subtype for components that want to target the wearer of an item rather than the item itself
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