HOG!

[Kurfursten]

How the event works

• A special hog spawns in maintenance. This hog, unlike most hogs, does not attack, forage, headbutt, etc.
• The hog wanders until attacked, at which point it sprints at VERY HIGH SPEED toward one of its other homes. It can have 5 homes.
• It leaves a trail of 5-second-lube behind it.
• It can squeeze through airlocks without pause and knock over people in the way.
• It has 450 health.

🆑

• rscadd: Idea Guy Events 1 - HOG. Stations with excess assistants or a chef may encounter a hog in maintenance that runs around but does not directly attack crewmen.

[angryturnip]

My prize... finally...

[jwhitak]

I'll review on Monday unless West or someone beats me to it

[SonixApache]

;HOG

[jwhitak]

Code wise, this looks great. Only found a list index runtime. Besides that, I do want to make a few notes - none that would stop me from merging this when you unmark it from draft to confirm it's ready to go. The HOG is currently waiting for release.

1. The movement of the running hog looks terrible, likely because of the slipping-through-airlocks acting as diagonal teleporting at an even faster speed than the dash movement. I've got no immediate solution to this... Here's an example of the issue:

fastdiagonalhog.webm

2. You already indicated this, but I'd like to confirm that the pork really should be increased. These things are sly AND tough! My testing with the hog netted me a whole 2 porks. Not a deal beaker, but how will a chef feed the crew on just that?

3. There are no lube-safe shoes in the code. Galoshes, no-slips, magshoes, etc, all kneel before the lube. We have a clothing flag for it, but it remains unused. This lead me to hilarious HOG testing antics and my ultimate surrender: testing as a ghost with proccalls. This isn't your problem, but I wanted to make a note of it.

[Kurfursten]

Noted, I'll get to these sometime in the next few days. I think 12 meat seems to be fair for the amount of annoyance. And maybe lowering overall health on the boar since chasing it is such a hassle to kill. I think the lube annoyance is intended based on @angryturnip 's original request.

Regarding the diagonal movement -- yes, I agree. Worse, diagonal movement means that boars will usually move around people rather than run them over (they CAN run them over, but only as a last resort). The problem for this is that I use ASTAR for locating a new home and it allows for diagonal movement. I briefly tried modifying ASTAR to make diagonal movement optional based on args... but that ended up breaking ASTAR. I don't want to completely refactor ASTAR but if someone ever adds orthogonal-only routing, that'd be great for this.

[Kurfursten]

Fixes addressed

Reduced hog health by 33% (to 300)
Increased meat reward to a whopping 24 to reward for all that trouble