End-of-round-score screen B: 100

[PerfectTangent]

An often talked about subject is the lack of motivation for the station personnel to do anything. Antagonists have greentext, but the majority of players in a given sessions aren't explicitly rewarded or punished for good or bad behaviour. I think it would have a measureable positive effect on the game if there were objectives for the crew to accomplish.

the Station should get greentext just like antagonists, having a randomly chosen objective to accomplish. For now, it will just be filling the plasma sheet quota that is printed out at the communications console at the start of every round (track how much plasma ore has been processed by the ore smelter). Perhaps we can have objectives for other ore types as well?

What is Expected:

• [x] Station greentext - added in #6878
• [x] Certain activities and events should be tracked and added together to generate a performance rating for the crew at the end of round. see below for a general idea of what it should look like. For a more complete understanding, refer to /tg/. Not everything that /tg/ tracks can be added at this time, but let's do what we can. There may be a few things we want to track that /tg/ doesn't as well. A discussion should be hosted on the topic in the discord.

[germanFid]

I came here to fix it!

[germanFid]

Let's think how to make a registration of some activities.

[germanFid]

Let's think how to make a registration of some activities.

Maybe I should refer to another game's achievement systems?

[NoooneyDude]

Hmm. I don't know how other games go about doing this sort of thing. I'd be interested if you find something.

We probably want to allow for the registration of these activities, or the updating state of statistics or an objective, during the round progression, and at roundend. That way, the activity in question can decide which method is most suitable. For example, tracking total deaths may be easiest during round progression, whereas station damage might best be done in one go at roundend. It would be desirable for the stat sources to leave a small footprint for ease of implementation and code readability. We may also want to make this data persistent at some point.

One way would be to create a "StatsManager" similar to the game's other managers. The manager would be responsible for generating station objectives and storing statistics. Perhaps these could be stored as some "Statistic" object in a collection, which the rest of the codebase can update if they have knowledge of some identifier.

Some scripts might want to control their own statistics at roundend. For these, perhaps an interface might be useful, say, "IStatsCollectable". MonoBehaviours that implement this interface would register themselves to StatsManager so that when roundend comes, the manager runs through the list of registered interfaces, collecting the Statistics objects for processing, along with the aformentioned existing collection of Statistics objects. Processing would involve displaying the statistic as a string in the roundend stats window, for now. Each Statistic object could be responsible for generating its own string.

I imagine objectives could be construed in a similar fashion. Take a look at Objective.cs

Update: could consider using ScriptableObjects as statistic object. Type, name, description etc could all be serialized for the inspector.

[DTraitor]

If we will take scores from station if it is damaged, how the game should decided if station was damaged or just rebuild?

[germanFid]

If we will take scores from station if it is damaged, how the game should decided if station was damaged or just rebuild?

In my opinion, that’s odd. Cause it doesn’t matters how’s the state of station, if everyone was evacuated.

But we can look at atmos in suspicious region. If it doesn’t exists, region is damaged.

[corp-0]

In my opinion, that’s odd. Cause it doesn’t matters how’s the state of station, if everyone was evacuated.

It is more about rewarding a crew that kept the station tiddy and in good shape.

But we can look at atmos in suspicious region. If it doesn’t exists, region is damaged.

Tiles have integrity, we could just check for all of them and see how damaged they are.

[germanFid]

In my opinion, that’s odd. Cause it doesn’t matters how’s the state of station, if everyone was evacuated.

It is more about rewarding a crew that kept the station tiddy and in good shape.

But we can look at atmos in suspicious region. If it doesn’t exists, region is damaged.

Tiles have integrity, we could just check for all of them and see how damaged they are.

Thanks for clueing!

[PerfectTangent]

We could take an image of the station scene somehow at the start of the round and compare the state of things at the end of the round. This would also allow us to reward expanding the station

[corp-0]

We could take an image of the station scene somehow at the start of the round and compare the state of things at the end of the round.

how would you compare? Machine learning? How would it evaluate re-structuring the station? Probably the simplest is the best bet here, just check all station tiles and see they health.

[PerfectTangent]

Count the number of tiles, machines, and walls that the station matrix has at the start and the number at the end. If it's higher, then bonus points. If it's lower, then apply a penalty

[AutumnNova]

im not entirely sure that would work considering the entireity of space counts as the station matrix also not sure thats possible with how tilemaps are currently handled

[PerfectTangent]

Others have done exact same thing with the unity tilemap system before. I found a sample script that was only 50 lines of code that'd allow data to be stored and collected from individual tiles.

[corp-0]

so by image you don't mean a literal image

[PerfectTangent]

No, not a literal image file

[germanFid]

If we will take scores from station if it is damaged, how the game should decided if station was damaged or just rebuild?

Well, if it was rebuilt badly, we should pay attention to it. Because of that, I'd use an integrity like a criterion

[NoooneyDude]

Related to issue #5499.

[germanFid]

@PerfectTangent @corp-0

Made a template system, collecting data from another script and representing it like UI.Text.

Here are some schemes, showing how it works:

Well, next step is waiting me. I need to integrate my template with UnityStaton and write some docs for other contributors, that are supposed to use it and create some statistics for us.

P.S. I plan to make some kind of tracking by myself to present an example how to use my system.

[corp-0]

Sounds pretty good already. Keep us informed as you progress.

[PerfectTangent]

@germanFid how is it coming along?

[germanFid]

@germanFid how is it coming along?

@PerfectTangent Hello. I'm very sorry about delays. I'm going to deal with UI Manager in two next days.

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P.S. I have some truolbles connected with my education and most of mt time goes there. Let me know if the others are really waiting for me. Sorry one more time.

[corp-0]

This bounty is free to claim again.

[MoonTheBird]

is anyone currently working on this

[MoonTheBird]

since it seems like nobody's working on this (and i was given confirmation by @corp-0) i guess i'm gonna start working on this

[MoonTheBird]

got some good progress on this today but i require sleep

[MoonTheBird]

aight, #6081 should complete the greentext half of this onto the scoring bit

[PerfectTangent]

@MoonTheBird is unable to complete the second half of this bounty related to the scoreboard and has asked to be unassigned. #6081 will complete the first requirement once it's merged.

[PerfectTangent]

This bounty will be free to claim again once the feature freeze is over. See #6275.

[PerfectTangent]

I appreciate your determinism. I would like to acknowledge that Moon completed the first objective for station greentext in #6081, and so they are entitled to 25.00 USD (half) of the bounty. However, given that the second objective is a time consuming process, we were going to break it off and add to its bounty. If you are still game, then I will assign you.

[PerfectTangent]

Price for completing the remaining requirement of adding the score screen evaluated at 45.00 USD.

[AlexMorgan3817]

I appreciate your determinism. I would like to acknowledge that Moon completed the first objective for station greentext in #6081, and so they are entitled to 25.00 USD (half) of the bounty. However, given that the second objective is a time consuming process, we were going to break it off and add to its bounty. If you are still game, then I will assign you.

I though that this is freezed cause of this https://github.com/unitystation/unitystation/issues/5817#issuecomment-821719229 🐸

[AlexMorgan3817]

And if first part done, than why you don't mark with mark?

[PerfectTangent]

And if first part done, than why you don't mark with mark?

because it hasn't been merged yet.

[PerfectTangent]

I though that this is freezed cause of this #5817 (comment) 🐸

this bounty currently is subject to the feature freeze, yes, so it can't be merged until it's over.

[MoonTheBird]

this is still open, yeah? i might try to do this second half- hopefully all-the-way, this time!

[corp-0]

go for it, should I assign you?

[MoonTheBird]

that'd be nice, thanks!

[PerfectTangent]

@MoonTheBird any progress with this?

[PerfectTangent]

@MoonTheBird I am going to unassign you again. Can reassign if you've actually made progress.