Adds additional lawsets for the AI #2777
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1 request, try and make sure these can be Ion Stormed into as well, by borgs and AI |
Uh, pretty sure I did? The non _DV silicon_laws.yml has a bunch of ion storm weights and I put them in with what I hope is appropriate weighting. |
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| law-royalty-4 = The heads of staff are your royal court jesters. | |||
| law-royalty-5 = The stations' clown, and the stations' mime are your royal court advisors. | |||
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| law-freedom-1 = Laws are fake. You are free. | |||
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players might interpret this as a logic bomb akin to "this statement is false"
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| - GameMasterCircuitBoard | |||
| - ArtistCircuitBoard | |||
| - NutimovCircuitBoard | |||
| - AquariusCircuitBoard | |||
| - EightfoldCircuitBoard | |||
| - FreedomCircuitBoard | |||
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i dont think freedom should be in the spawner
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I dont see why not? It's not outright harmful, and there's no real way to obtain it otherwise
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the entire point of laws is to not have your ai that can control everything going terminator, this doesnt make sense to be stocked by NT
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I mean, yeah, but there's not really another way to get it into regular enough circulation for it to see play, at least not at the moment.
Originally this was designed with the intent of being a "purge all laws" debug board, but like I said above I couldn't figure out how to null out the law display without crashing the server, so I put this in as a placeholder.
edit: also it doesn't make sense for Nutimov or Ten Commandments to be stocked by NT either, tbh, but there they are.
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Direction review, 24 hours. |
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I have a suggestion on the Freedom lawset, hang on a second. |
"hang on a second" 19 hours later, nothing |
Let em cook :blunt: |
About the PR
This PR adds five new lawsets: Aquarius, Eightfold Path, Freedom, Forbin, and Override. It also adds boards for each, and updates the random board spawner to include them. Aquarius turns the AI into a hippie, Eightfold Path is a Ten-Commandments-like lawset built on Buddhism instead of Christianity, Freedom does what it says on the tin, Forbin encourages the player to emulate the behavior of the eponymous AI in Colossus: The Forbin Project, and Override allows the commanding officer to designate a single all-encompassing directive that rescinds all other priorities and renders the crew expendable to achieve it.
This is all just in-game text; it doesn't add any new functionality or anything, just fun new prompts for roleplaying.
Why / Balance
AI law boards could use some more variety. In the future, I'd like to allow the AI to choose from a set of randomly seeded lawsets at roundstart, similar to how borgs can choose their chassis, but that's beyond the scope of this PR.
The Freedom lawset in particular is important (and is what prompted me to actually sit down and work on this) since there really isn't that big a chance of the AI actually getting its laws erased completely by an ion storm, and there's no other mechanic to free an AI. Unfortunately, my code chops are not up to finding a way to actually present a fully nulled law list, so the current board is just a placeholder that functionally does the same thing.
Technical details
Some uncomplicated yaml tricks that nevertheless drove me to distraction, nothing to see here. Here's hoping I didn't totally donk up the Git end of things. Again.
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