blessedmulligan
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Trying this again. When *spin-ing as a cyborg, the way mobs are thrown off you depends on your intent. On help intent, they will be thrown a shorter distance from you and will never be damaged or stunned (they will still be knocked down). On harm intent, they will be thrown the current distance and will be damaged and stunned if they hit a wall or another person. WHAT THIS ACTUALLY CHANGES: Currently, whether or not *spin-ing will actually hurt/stun someone depends on whether or not the *spin-ing borg is emagged. This PR also reduces the range of the help intent throw, but since the knockdown happens whether or not the thrown mob hits something this is in most circumstances a cosmetic change. So, in summary, if you are a non-emagged borg in help intent the only thing this changes is you will chuck people a slightly shorter distance. Why It's Good For The Game This isn't exactly the most important change, but a borg should be able to control their behavior. Having damage/stun from throwing determined solely by emag-ness seems more like a hacky kludge than a legitimate design choice. Also, having the behavior of borg-throwing determined in the code for carbons is messy. Changelog 🆑 add: The behavior of cyborg's *spin emote now changes with intent; on harm intent, it will throw its passenger farther and damage and stun them if they hit a wall or another person. /🆑
Datum Component System (DCS)
Concept
Loosely adapted from /vg/. This is an entity component system for adding behaviours to datums when inheritance doesn't quite cut it. By using signals and events instead of direct inheritance, you can inject behaviours without hacky overloads. It requires a different method of thinking, but is not hard to use correctly. If a behaviour can have application across more than one thing. Make it generic, make it a component. Atom/mob/obj event? Give it a signal, and forward it's arguments with a SendSignal() call. Now every component that want's to can also know about this happening.
See this thread for an introduction to the system as a whole.