DO: Silo Defense scenario

[RedRafe]

G'day, I'd like to add this new PvE scenario to the DangerOres folder

Objective: Launch 666 rockets while defending your own silo against biters in a DO map

Setting: regular DO rules apply, with:

• enemies ON
• 20x tech cost
• all landfill tiles
• 666 launches to win
• mods: Deadlock's (ore only), RedMew-data, Memory Storage

Relevant code changes:

• map_gen/maps/danger_ores/modules/restart_command.lua now also prints on Discord if the players won or lose the map. Optional global map_won_objective may be present to set win/lose, map is considered victorious by default
• map_gen/maps/danger_ores/modules/map.lua added optional config param enemy_radius to map(config) of DO
• map_gen/maps/danger_ores/modules/memory_storage_control.lua added module for Memory Storage management (Memory Units are infinite warehouses). The module simply disables tech/recipe & spawns 4 of these special warehouses at spawn. If a player griefs them & disconnects, their inventory is immediately spilled. Can be used in other scenarios independently

Other than that, everything else is for The Silo defense scenario itself:

• spawn callbacks for silo/turrets placement
• listen on biters grouping to direct them towards the silo
• use rocket_launched module to do waves on satellites
• disabled terraforming, blue concrete, & biter drops

I'm not 100% sure on how rocket_launched works. I've tested on single player & I didn't manage to get the win condition/reset message.

I'm attaching a few screenshots of the map below

Spawn area

Biter waves

Map lost

Anti grief

[RedRafe]

Obviously I'd like to test it with actual players before adding it. The satellite module I straight up copied from danger_ores_angelsbobs just changing the sat count

[grilledham]

I'm not sure if spilling items is the best idea here. Isn't this punishing the other players who now have to clean up the mess.

What if we spawned a player corpse instead. You can set the corpse to inactive to prevent it from despairing. You can look at dump_offline_inventories.lua for inspiration.

Also I wonder if only dumping the memory storage items instead of the whole inventory would make more sense? Logging off with a memory storage item might be accidently rather than deliberate/griefing.

[RedRafe]

Honestly, I made it harsh on purpose since there are only 4 of the in game, & you can't get others, so it would act both as anti-grief & punishment if you log off with one of them in your inventory, since you're not supposed to have any

(Memory Storages have a scripted inventory so when picking up one Memory Storage, it appends a tag with the stored quantity to the item. So you can have 1000, 1M, 100Billions items stored in 1 inventory slot of yours)

But this may be indeed too harsh, I can tone it down by spilling just the MUs

[grilledham]

Haven't tested, but seems mostly fine. if I get time later, I'll try to test the win condition.

[RedRafe]

Updating this based on feedbacks from test runs. Todo before merging (more of a memo to me when I'll come back to this in a week or so):

• refactor MUControl to not drop full inventory but only MemUnits
• boss biters instead of big waves to reduce lag?
• add market back? Farefang's on Discord
• boss wave every 5?

Data side:

• increased turret range?
• copper ammos?

@ grilled - the rocket launched module worked fine (it start counting after reaching 1 evo, thats why I didn't get it on editor testing) but after 50-60 waves becomes unplayable due to the lag of biters moving towards base. So for higher wave count (>50/100) it needs some boss mechanic maybe so instead of creating 4'000 biters, only a bunch of them are created with better stats. Below a couple images from the last run