# Description
A single missing exclamation mark was breaking this.
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# Changelog
🆑
- fix: Fixed rolling psionic powers not generating their unique messages
in chat.
(cherry picked from commit c578d20a980ac75679c7624136dcd69a07939ec4)
# Description
This PR brings back a feature that was present in the Psionic Refactor
Version 1, which ultimately never made it into the game. I have
substantially reworked the underlying math behind Glimmer, such that it
operates on a Logistic Curve described by this equation:
Instead of 0 being the "Normal" amount of glimmer, the "Normal" amount
is the "seemingly arbitrary" number 502.941. This number is measured
first by taking the derivative of the Glimmer Equation, and then solving
for the derivative equal to 1. Above this constant, glimmer grows
exponentially more difficult to increase. Below this constant, glimmer
grows exponentially easier to increase. It will thus constantly attempt
to trend towards the "Glimmer Equilibrium".
Probers, Drainers, Anomalies, and Glimmer Mites all cause glimmer to
"Fluctuate", either up or down the graph. This gives a glimmer that
swings constantly to both high and low values, with more violent swings
being caused by having more probers/anomalies etc. A great deal of math
functions have been implemented that allow for various uses for glimmer
measurements, and psionic powers can even have their effects modified by
said measurements.
The most significant part of this rework is what's facing Epistemics.
It's essentially no longer possible for Probers to cause a round-ending
chain of events known as "Glimmerloose". You can ALWAYS recover from
high glimmer, no matter how high it gets. As a counterpart to this,
Probers have had the math behind their research point generation
reworked. Research output follows an inverse log base 4 curve. Which can
be found here: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/q183tseun8
I wouldn't drop this massive update on people without a way for them to
understand what's going on. So this PR also features the return(and
expansion of), the much-demanded Psionics Guidebook.
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# Changelog
🆑 VMSolidus, Gollee
- add: Glimmer has been substantially reworked. Please read the new
Psionics Guidebook for more information. In short: "500 is the new
normal glimmer. Stop panicking if Sophia says the glimmer is 500. Call
code white if it gets to 750 and stays above that level."
- add: The much-requested Psionics Guidebook has returned, now with all
new up-to-date information.
- remove: Removed "GLIMMERLOOSE". It's no longer possible for glimmer to
start a chain of events that ends the round if epistemics isn't
destroyed. You can ALWAYS recover from high glimmer now.
- tweak: All glimmer events have had their thresholds tweaked to reflect
the fact that 500 is the new "Normal" amount of glimmer.
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Signed-off-by: VMSolidus <evilexecutive@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 638071c48fe3ac7c727a1294de3b6d5d8136e79f)
# Description
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, well this entire PR was coded in a
single 6 hour Adderall binge. This PR represents the next big leap in
code capability for the PsionicSystem, completely reworking how Psionic
Powers are added and removed, such that like the TraitSystem, they
utilize modular functions governing how they work. Instead of there
being only 5 different hardcoded things that Psi Powers can do, there is
now a library containing 21 different modular functions, which are
slotted as desired into the power prototypes.
Additionally, a significant improvement in the logical flow of this is
that since each power is responsible for its own "removal codepath",
it's now possible to remove individual powers from a character, as
opposed to always needing to wipe the slate clean entirely.
I'm not going to add any new powers in this PR, nor am I touching the
code for the Psionic Actions themselves, that'll come in Part 2, in
which I refactor the Psionic-Actions so that they also operate on
similar stacks of modular functions.
This PR also makes extensive refactors to the PsionicPowerPrototype, as
well as PsionicAbilitiesSystem, so that it has all new hooks and
datafields for other systems to be able to modify a psion. It is now
entirely feasible to create unique "Types" of Psions, with their own
distinct power lists. It's also now possible to create "Tech Trees" of
powers, by setting up powers such that they write to and modify the
personalized pool of available powers to generate. For example,
Xenoglossy and Psychognomy are now dependent on Telepathy, and simply
won't appear in the list of available powers if a Psion doesn't first
have Telepathy.
# Changelog
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- add: Psionic Refactor V3 is here! No new powers are added in this
update, but the options for creating new powers has been SIGNIFICANTLY
EXPANDED.
- add: Xenoglossy and Psychognomy now can only be rolled if you first
have the Telepathy power.
- add: Breath of Life can now only be rolled if you first have the
Healing Word power
- add: Pyrokinesis and Summon Imp now require the Pyroknetic Flare power
- add: All new Psychognomy descriptors for many pre-existing powers.
Have fun being unintentionally screamed at telepathically by someone
with the POWER OVERWHELMING trait.
(cherry picked from commit eb27db61dc42c00ea18198c094633692bf5baf0a)
