They now have a delay based on how many were implanted.
They beep loudly for several seconds before exploding.
Overall destructive power is lower, 4/8/16 with 10 microbombs or 1 macrobomb.
If you somehow get more microbombs, then you can still get maxcap(but the delay is longer)
Security treating gangs like revs has had a very negative impact on the experience of gang rounds. With an easy and convenient deconversion method, gangs are easily stomped as they rapidly run out of members to convert. So I'm going to try something different and see how things go if implants in gang mode acted as they are in cult.
- Implants can still prevent conversion, but can no longer deconvert or identify gangsters
- If a recruitment pen fails, the error message the gang boss receives will distinct loyalty implanted individuals from enemy gangsters.
- Experiment: Loyalty implants will no longer survive deconverting a gangster. Security now needs to use two of them if they want the permanent effects: The first to deconvert them, and the second to make them loyal.
###Major Changes###
- Influence income changed to provide weaker gangs a bigger boost, while slowing down stronger gangs to promote opportunity for comebacks
- Gangs only earn influence on territories they have held on to since the previous Status Report (the income calculation every 5 minutes). This places more significance on defending your existing territory.
- Victory conditions are only checked during Status Reports.
- Bosses no longer receive territory updates real-time. They now get them all as a list of new and lost territories in the Status Update.
###Minor Changes###
- Goal is now a coeff var so it can be modified in-game for debugging/playtesting purposes
- Simplified some list checks for gang
- Trying to tag an invalid area will just error out and return, instead of the ganger spraying regular grafiti and confusing people
- fixes constructable chem master icon when parts are exchanged. 8616
- lowers toolboxes inhands sprite, fixes missing one. 8433
- fixes exploit in pandemic to avoid the bottle creation cooldown. 8031
- fixes chem grenade not getting to southwest side. 8019
- remove handle_env, /handle_random_events() and handle_blood at carbon level, identical to living level.
- fixes human bodytemp dropping to 20C in normal environment. (32.5C 90.5F when naked now)
- you now need both adequate headgear+suit to protect against pressure. (removing two defines)
- fixes alien hunter being immune to env fire in stalk mode (removing hunter/handle_env())
- fixes monkey not metabolizing reagents, also make larva metabolize them. 7108
- remove calculate_affecting_pressure from monkey level, simplification.
- refactors monkey's handle environment, no more handle_temp_damage proc, it's all in handle_env.Fixes temperature alert not showing for monkey.
- refactor monkey/handle_fire (similar to alien/human now.)
- replaces morphine with stimulants in adrenal implant. 8832
- refactor handle_breath_temperature.
The coding isn't done yet, but the design is. So comment on the design while I smooth out the code.
tldr; Gang mode rewrite to follow my original vision: Slower and longer rounds with less deathmatching, and a resource both teams have to fight over
NEW OBJECTIVE: CLAIM HALF THE STATION AS TERRITORY
- Gang bosses can spawn special spray cans that can be used to tag areas
- Any gang member can tag areas.
- Gang tags must be removed before another one is placed in the same area
- Game mode no longer automatically ends when the boss dies. It now ends when either the station evacs, or one gang claims more than 50% of the station areas
- Boss can promote gangers into his lieutenants, which basically means adding more bosses
- Lieutenants can do anything bosses can except promote others to lieutenant
NEW RECRUITMENT TOOL: PENS
- Recruitment pens replace flashes
- Looks exactly like a pen. Stab people to recruit them.
- Recruitment is silent but obvious to the perceptive (Causes a brief seizure)
- Cooldown between uses that gets longer as the gang gets larger
NEW TOOL: GANGTOOL
- Replaces the recaller device. Can still recall the shuttle.
- Provides overview information about the gang (membership size, income amount and time)
- Can spawn pistols and ammo
- Can spawn additional recruitment pens
- Can spawn additional gangtools (For personal use, or promoting a single ganger to lieutenant)
NEW CURRENCY SYSTEM: NAME IS WIP
- Gangtools purchase items with new currency with the placeholder name "Supply Points (SP)"
- Supply points are collected every 5 minutes. The more territory a gang has claimed, the more points they get.
- Supply points are accumulated per-gang. Having more gangtools does not intrinsically give you more points to use.
I'm going on vacation soon so I thought I might as well bring this game mode back up to at least a minimally functional state before I go.
A lot of features (Gang membership visibility, conversion pens, weapons, deconversion methods) have been stripped out for now. I gave gang bosses uplinks in the meantime.
It's basically rev vs rev right now, but the victory conditions with the recallers are still there. I'll work on adding more stuff after I return from my vacation.
Replacing some fo mob in viewers() show_message() with visible message().
Simplifying some message code in a couple places, fixing typos and span classes.
Anonus
Razharas
Iamgoofball
AnturK
Cheridan
Ikarrus
xxalpha
Cheridan
kingofkosmos
phil235
Xhuis
Zelacks
Remie Richards
tkdrg
paprka
phil235
Swag McYolosteinen
MrPerson
Firecage