[Aftershock] Gene Clinics

[QuillInkwell]

Summary

Mods "[Aftershock] Add Gene Clinics Mapgen"

Purpose of change

Now that we have Genetech it would be nice if there was mapgen where it could be found or looted instead of only buying it from Port Augustmoon. The Exoplanet also just needs all the Mapgen it can get.

Describe the solution

Add Mercurial Gene Clinics: Shops where colonists could purchase and undergo Genetech treatments.

The first floor is heavily inspired by Mobile Phone stores with a bit of Fashion store mixed in. The street sidewalk is lined with ad mirrors. The front of the structure is lined with glass showcases full of ads and and Genetech mannequins. Painted plastic figures display prominent genetic alterations and mutant friendly fashions.

At the front door theirs a sign welcoming you into the clinic and sputtering some corpo tag lines. Just past the Airlock is a small waiting area with a check in desk. Beyond that is an open floor with multiple customer service desks to sit down clients with sales reps.

There is also a small utility closet to store Mutant compatible EVA gear for people gaining mutations that would prohibit continued use of whatever EVA gear they came in with.

The first floor is extremely likely to spawn with a decent number of Moxies.

The second floor is much more inspired by the Augmentation Clinic. Straight off the stairs are 3 recovery wards for clients. Across from that are two dressing rooms for clients to doff their EVA gear before procedures. There is also another public bathroom for clients in the recovery ward. At the end of the hallway is a small storage room to hold client's personal effects while they under go gene treatments.

Down the side hall is the Employee breakroom and locker room. I went with a pretty sizable breakroom since I imagine this store mostly employees a Genetech-Augmented human workforce. Primarily to better sell the product they are offering. The Life support room is tucked in next to the breakroom.

Opposite to the storage closet is a security gate that leads to Gene-Editing lab stairwell. A small interior security turret sits on the other side. Since it's not currently possible even if you had the keycard (That doesn't spawn currently) the turret won't despawn. The door requires either hacking or a Mercurial Master key.

The second floor is also highly likely to spawn a large group of Moxies.

The third floor is the Gene-Editing Lab. Round the stair well and down the main hall is a guaranteed spawn of at least a "Moderately Dangerous" robot enemy. If you are lucky it will be a Sentinel or Laser bot. But if the games hate you you might get one of Wraitheons Humaniform milbots. So bring a big gun and probably a shield. And some anti-robot weapons for good measure. Seriously they don't play.

The Operating theatres spawn off the side of the Mainhall. Each one spawns with an inactive Gene-editor (Even if the power is on, but we can change that if we need to). Each Theatre is protected by a keycard. There is a small chance for low risk robots to spawn in the Theatres.

Opposite to the operating Theatres is the drone storage and Maintenance closet. There is a small chance for low risk drones to spawn here. The room is protected by a Keycard. The Maintenance closet has been deliberately left empty for candlebury's use in a later PR.

Down the sidehall are two Doctor's offices for Genetech Operators. And across that is Gene-Vault. The Genevault is protected by a keycard and stores some disposable Genetech on the shelves. The shelves spawn useful worker and combat traits far less often. Further in the vault is an electronic safe that stores a much larger amount of Genetech. The Genetech in the safe uses the same trait weighting as Port Augustmoon's vendor. Though it still primarily spawns disposable Genetech with a small chance for some Re-usable.

There is also an inactive sentinel on a charger locked behind a pane of reinforced glass. In the future if you fail at cracking the safe badly enough we hope to have it destroy the Genetech stored inside and unleash the killer robot. Currently this is not implemented.

(Variants):
The Map can spawn with power on or off as all Aftershock structures I've added.
The Map can spawned looted or unlooted. The looted version will have all the valuable items stripped out. Security doors will be cut open. Trash will be littered everywhere. Robots will not spawn (but still moxies.) Even the food and suit lockers will be emptied. And of course the gene vault will be totally raided and the safe open. The Gene-Editors spawn a custom gutted version that has all the good scrap removed from it's bash and deconstruct. It's also written have being completely ravaged for parts.

The spawn rate on the looted variant is 60:40 favoring unlooted.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I considered expanding the "ravaged" variations to include the Drone chargers. Making a completely looted variant of the furniture. But left that out for now. Not sure if the Drone charger actually gives very valuable loot or not.

As mentioned above it's actually quite trivial to make the Gene editor spawned powered if the building has power. But I opted against this as I am not sure if that would be too op. Maybe the buildings backup power is enough lights but nothing else? It would explain why powered buildings don't have heat running.

I did consider making even the inactive version pretty busted too, but the robot you are asked to fight is no chump so the reward feels somewhat adequate.

I did mention wanting to do a ruined version. But again I find I am not totally sure how to execute on that. It was also not entirely made clear if there are ruined structures inside the inner city or not. So for now that ball was kicked down the road. I might try ruining structures as part of larger PR in the future. If that's desirable, someone let me know.

I did consider reducing the difficulty of the location. I originally added the guaranteed murder bot spawn because I thought the talon was guaranteed in the Aug clinic. But it's not. So technically with it's interior turret and murder bot the Gene Clinic is actually dramatically harder to raid then the Aug clinic. But I kind of think that maybe the Aug Clinic should just be harder in general as well. So somebody tell me if this configuration is too punishing for the reward or not please!

Testing

Loaded in a world. Spawned structures and tested both parameters worked. Teleported to naturally occuring structures: verified the structures spawning as expected. Verified monsters spawning where expected in amounts expected. Eyeballed the item groups to vaguely appropriate values. Tried killing some of the robots in the new monster group. Can confirm: Am in great amounts of pain.

Did notice the Wraitheon Aegis is broken right now. Need to write an issue for that as well. Left it in the group anyway.

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• A life-size painted plastic figure of a person displaying prominent genetic alterations. Commonly used as part of Mercurial Ad campaigns intended to sell the public on Genetech treatments.
• Deactivated Mercurial Resequencer
• Genetech display mannequin
• Mercurial Gene Clinic: Welcome to the better you. Genetech: Embrace the next evolution.
• Ravaged Mercurial Resequencer

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[PGR-14]

Oh HELL yeah.