# Description
Adds two negative traits, foreigner and its light version. Both of them
make you unable to speak galactic common and give you a translator that
lets you speak/understand GC, and also requires you to know one of the
non-GC languages your entity normally speaks in order to work. The
translator starts with a high-capacity power cell to compensate for the
usual scarcity of publicly accessible chargers on most stations.
The light version of the trait only makes you unable to speak GC. The
heavy version also makes you unable to understand others when they speak
it.
This PR also makes you able to wear translator in the neck slot for
convenience and transparency, and rewamps the examination menu of
translators to provide more useful info.
One little known issue (as seen in the screenshots below) is that, since
the system chooses the first language in the list of languages your
entity can speak, it can sometimes pick wrong if your species speaks
more than two language, but it won't prevent you from using the
translator normally.
Also, the name of the light version of the trait is subject to change. I
just couldn't think of anything more creative for it.
# Why
Although supposedly trystan or others have a language menu in mind, it's
still not even being worked on yet. At the same time, I've already seen
some people roleplay as though their characters do not speak galactic
common.
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# Changelog
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- add: Added two new foreigner traits that make your character unable to
speak Galactic Common and give you a translator instead.
- tweak: Translators can now be equipped in the neck slot and display
useful info when examined.
# Description
The language PR was merged early and OH GOD I ALREADY REGRET IT
This PR is intended to provide the missing refactors and address the
issues that were missed due to the early merge.
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# TODO
- [X] Introduced a polymorphic obfuscation property to the
LanguagePrototype - now it supports more than just 2 hardcoded methods,
and each method can be configured per-language. Currently there are 3
obfuscation methods: replacement (same as replacement accent),
obuscation by syllables and obfuscation by phrases.
- [X] Refactored the existing obfuscation methods to not be a big
hardcoded mess.
- [X] Updated the existing languages accordingly: animalistic languages
are now less of an unreadable mess and include less syllables. Certain
languages like binary and snake seriously benefit from that.
- [X] Refactored the existing commands in response to the
never-addressed review (it got lost among hundreds of others)
- [X] Refactored the commands to be more user-friendly (you can now use
the number of the language in saylang and languageselect which can allow
using keybinds to switch between languages)
- [X] Moved a lot of obfuscation-related stuff from server to shared.
The actual obfuscation process, however, is still done on the server.
That may or may not be subject to change, too.
- [X] Refactored the entire process of resolution of entities'
languages. Instead of raising an event every time it's required to learn
what languages an entity knows, the lists of ALL languages available to
the entity (including via translators) is stored in
LanguageSpeakerComponent and only updated when necessary (e.g. when a
translator gets toggled). The list of languages the entity knows on its
own is now stored in LanguageKnowledgeComponent.
- [X] Made handheld translators automatically change your current
language when activated.
- [X] Rewrote the translator implanter system, now using the real
implants and implanters
- [ ] Rebalance science stuff (translators are incredibly expensive for
what they're worth)
- [ ] Uhhh stuff
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# Changelog
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- tweak: Translator implants are now proper implants that can be
removed.
- tweak: Animalistic languages should now look less messy.
- fix: Hopefully fixed language menu desync and other issues.
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Signed-off-by: Mnemotechnican <69920617+Mnemotechnician@users.noreply.github.com>
