Event Rebalance

[Mnemotechnician]

Description

Significant event rebalance based on my own experience and feedback from some players, mostly aimed to improve low-pop experience and prevent multiple instances of same event occurring at once.

Added weaker versions of hostile critter events. Those versions spawn 2-3 times less critters and come with a different announcement: SlimesSpawnWeak, SpidersSpawnWeak, XenoVentsWeak.

Rebalanced the following events:

• AnomalySpawn - reoccurrence delay of 8 minutes to prevent multiple anomalies from spawning with a delay of a few seconds (which has happened many times).
• BluespaceArtifact - same, but 5 minutes.
• BluespaceLocker - 15 minute reoccurrence delay and no more than 4 occurrences per shift because it's really annoying.
• BreakerFlip, BureaucraticError, ClericalError - reoccurrence delay of 5 minutes.
• GasLeak - reoccurrence delay of 7 minutes.
• KudzuGrowth - reoccurrence delay of 10 minutes.
• MeteorSwarm - reoccurrence delay of 5 minutes, reduced player count requirement from 10 to 7.
• MouseMigration, VentCritters (mice) - reoccurrence delay of 3 minutes, reduced playercount requirement from 35 to 0. (Those two events are identical but have different announcements, might as well remove one of them)
• CockroachMigration - reoccurrence delay of 15 minutes.
• PowerGridCheck - reoccurrence delay of 2 minutes (same as the maximum duration of the event).
• SolarFlare, VentClog - reoccurrence delay of 5 minutes.
• SlimesSpawn, SpiderSpawn - reoccurrence delay of 12 minutes.
• MimicVendorRule - reoccurrence delay of 5 minutes.
• XenoVents - increased weight from 1 to 6.
• MothroachSpawn - decreased player requirement from 15 to 1.
• MundaneDischarge - reoccurrence delay of 15 minutes.
• NoosphericZap - increased the weight from 12 to 25 and added a reoccurrence delay of 15 minutes. (Making it more likely to occur on regular intervals rather than randomly throughout the shift).
• NoosphericFry - changed the glimmer range to 550-1000Ψ.
• PsionicCatGotYourTongue - changed the glimmer range to 590-1000Ψ.
• MassMindSwap - MADE TEMPORARY and increased glimmer burn range to 350-450Ψ.
• FreeProber - changed the glimmer range to 550-1000Ψ.
• GlimmerRandomSentience - reoccurence delay of 15 minutes, minimum of 10 player, and a glimmer range of 500-900Ψ.
• GlimmerRevenantSpawn - glimmer range of 700-900Ψ. (There's already another revenant spawn event that isn't based on glimmer, wtf?)

Rebalanced the following midround antags:

• DragonSpawn - doubled the weight, from 1 to 2.
• NinjaSpawn - reduced the player requirement from 40 to 20 (loneop had 20, and is far more destructive than a ninja). Also reduced reoccurrence delay to 45 minutes.
• ZombieOutbreak - earliest start moved from 90 minutes to 60, weight reduced from 2.5 to 2, number of initial infected cut down from 3 to 2.
• LoneOpsSpawn - reduced the player requirement from 20 to 15 and increased the reoccurrence delay from 30 to 45 minutes.

Re-added the following events:

• ClosetSkeleton, with a minimum of 15 players and reoccurence delay of 25 minutes.
• RandomSentience - with a reoccurence delay of 10 minutes and a maximum of 3 occurences.

Media

New events:

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Changelog

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• tweak: Most station events were rebalanced to better suit low-pop rounds.
• add: Weakened versions of vent critter events can now occur on low-pop rounds.
• tweak: After a lot of complaints, the mass mindswap event is no longer permanent.

[Mnemotechnician]

Uh, turns out the MassMindswapRule rule never even supported the isTemporary field - it still traps you in the new body. I guess it will stay permanent until someone rewrites that nyano system.

[VMSolidus]

Uh, MassMindswapRule never even supported the isTemporary rule - it still traps you in the new body. I guess it will stay permanent until someone rewrites that nyano system.

This is one of the many bugs I had to fix in my Refactor.

[Mnemotechnician]

Uh, MassMindswapRule never even supported the isTemporary rule - it still traps you in the new body. I guess it will stay permanent until someone rewrites that nyano system.

This is one of the many bugs I had to fix in my Refactor.

So it's fixed in all servers that have it early-merged? That's neat.

[VMSolidus]

I just now realized you balanced the glimmer events around the fact that literally every single one of our downstreams has early merged the psionic refactor lmao.