Storyteller Fix

[AltHit]

About The Pull Request

Highly experimental rework and bugfix of Storyteller system

Main change here is removal of price ramp up after every occurrence of event because it led to price being so high that event could not practically happen in round after few times, thus making long rounds eventless and boring.

TLDR: Cured Storyteller coma after one hour in the round

Storyteller now works in 'pulses'. They spend all their points on all events they can buy once they reach point threshold (~20 minutes for mundane, ~45 minutes for medium and ~90 minutes on major events, depending on storyteller's multipliers and variance coefficient)

Space weather moved to separate pool not to take up points that would've been spent on other interesting events and to make it more regular (it will appear after ~30 minutes into the round and then rotate every 60 minutes or so)

Weighting system was re-weighted using excel sheets to make more sense and to make events more diverse (when was the last time you've actually saw naturally appearing Kaiser?)

With all this - Eris should seem much more alive than usual

Also includes #268 and #270 as it was balanced with those changes in mind a long time ago

Why It's Good For The Game

This PR is aimed to fix issue when it feels like storyteller doesn't do anything in the round (and sometimes it actually didn't)

Testing

Don't trust me bro.

I tested main functions after each change but real general testing is yet to be made

• Check if it works on MonkeyEris and 494 days after initial release
• Remove debugging messages

Changelog

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del: Removed nothing event
del: Removed old spacevines
del: Removed wallrot
add: Added separate pool of points for space weather
tweak: Changed sizes of event pools
tweak: Changed prices of several events
fix: Fixed incorrect event prices that prevented some events from spawning
fix: Fixed incorrect event points refunding
tweak: Reweighed some events according to new prices
add: Added new message variations for space graveyard
tweak: Space weather can now appear more than once per round
tweak: Added space weather rotation system to minimize repetitions
tweak: Changed event spawn proc to handle spawning several event at once
fix: Fixed storyteller point gain variation to be more random as it was supposed to be
tweak: Lowered delay between scheduling event and spawning it
del: Removed old event variation system because it stopped events from happening after several hours in the round
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[ChiefMonkengineer]

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[Mycah142]

Is it intentional for the storyteller to try and spawn Excels when Excels already exist and are still alive?

[AltHit]

Is it intentional for the storyteller to try and spawn Excels when Excels already exist and are still alive?

Well... No. Fix is already committed in excel update branch.
Now it checks if Centor (main excel building is alive or not) and if there's none - it can spawn excels

Theoretically if excels spawned but haven't placed their Centor yet - second wave can still trigger. But it would also mean that excels didn't yet do anything so... fair?

Apparently it was normal eris behaviour but storytellers were too bugged to spawn excel twice

[Mycah142]

You can commit it to this branch, as it's only TM'd and not fully merged. Keep me posted on Discord and I'll slide it into place once you commit here.

[flleeppyy]

This has been test-merged for a while, i see no issues with this code at face value after staring at it for 10 minutes, so long as @Mycah142 approves of the balance changes and new weather roleset