New job lizard plushies + Job-specific trinkets loadout

[ArtisticRoomba]

About the PR

Adds new job-themed lizard plushies, as sprited by seam_less!

You can equip them through the new Job Trinkets loadout category if you have 20 hours played as that job. You can only equip the plushe for the job you're playing as.

The exceedingly rare MULTIWEH can be found in the gambling crate at a 1% chance.

Why / Balance

I saw this amazing art in the upstream discord art channel, and the artist was interested in adding it to the game, so I made it happen.

Technical details

• All of the plushie protos are contained in a new plushie_lizard_job.yml file as toys.yml and its sprites were really feeling the recent lizard plushie content.
• Plushie sprites are contained in a new plushielizard_jobs.rsi with its own metadata file for future inhands and head sprites additions.
• For making all items obtainable ingame, a new jobtrinkets.yml file was created to hold the job lizard plushie loadouts and their required role time restrictions.
• New JobTrinkets loadout groups have been created in loadout_groups.yml for each job.
• The JobTrinkets loadout groups were added to each role in role_loadouts.yml.

• Resources/Locale/en-US/preferences/loadout-groups.ftl: Added a new localization entry for job trinkets.

Media

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Requirements

• I have read and am following the Pull Request and Changelog Guidelines.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an ingame showcase.

Changelog
🆑 ArtisticRoomba, seam_less

• add: Job-themed lizard plushies! You can equip them in your loadout if you have 20 hours on the job.

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RSI Diff Bot; head commit 303792c merging into 4acfec8
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Objects/Fun/plushielizard_jobs.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
atmospherictechnician			Added
bartender			Added
botanist			Added
boxer			Added
captain			Added
cargotechnician			Added
chaplain			Added
chef			Added
chemist			Added
chiefengineer			Added
chiefmedicalofficer			Added
clown			Added
detective			Added
headofpersonnel			Added
headofsecurity			Added
janitor			Added
lawyer			Added
librarian			Added
medicaldoctor			Added
medicalintern			Added
mime			Added
multiweh			Added
musician			Added
paramedic			Added
passenger			Added
psychologist			Added
quartermaster			Added
reporter			Added
researchassistant			Added
researchdirector			Added
salvager			Added
scientist			Added
securitycadet			Added
securityofficer			Added
serviceworker			Added
stationengineer			Added
technicalassistant			Added
warden			Added
zookeeper			Added

Edit: diff updated after 303792c

[lzk228]

idk, feels like bloat, i like it the way as it is now

[kosticia]

Mime plushie looks cursed💀

[Mixelz]

idk, feels like bloat, i like it the way as it is now

This is considered bloat but hew plushies and hew juice aren't?

That feels monumentally backwards to me because these at least have a tangible aspect of being hour locked to specific roles that people can play. It would be no different to the towels in that aspect and I would argue people are much more willing to hold their main job as a lizard plushie compared to a towel.

[ArtisticRoomba]

I'd like to remind everyone that I talked to maintainers previously before working on this, as I knew it was quite bloaty. From this conversation, I implemented it in a way that best aligned with what was said, and for the ease of any future system that wanted to add anything else that was job-specific to the jobs we currently have.

I'm going to quote Slam, who wrote a very long text about fluff vs. bloat. It was very smart and good and he reads books, it's true!

SS14 is a game that is very permissible compared to other games when it comes to fluff, due to its silly setting, myriad of systems and the roleplay potential. This is both true for fluff mechanics and fluff content. The difference between fluff mechanics and content is that mechanics introduce new gameplay that has little to no bearing on the core gameplay, while fluff content adds more to existing gameplay systems.

Fluff content: adding new plushies.
Fluff mechanics: adding the ability to plunger toilets for an unimportant item.

If we disregard codebase stuff like filesizes (not that they aren't relevant! Looking at you, music PRs), designwise fluff mainly becomes an issue and bloaty when it is implemented in such a way that it adds cognitive load to the player. This cognitive load is what we feel when we consider something to be bloat; for bloaty content it makes accessing a desired piece of content take more effort, and for bloaty mechanics it becomes "yet another thing" to keep in mind that isn't engaging. The way to solve this is to keep the cognitive load under a bearable level, and the way to do that is to manage how the fluff is presented. This can be done in two ways: limiting the amount of content presented to the player, or making the content optional.

Note that this is largely subjective, and different people have different limits for this.

This is why we can have something like the towels; they take up a big chunk in the Trinkets menu in the loadout, but since they're the only ones that do this the Trinket menu isn't too long and scrolling through it to find what you want isn't difficult, so it ends up being fine. Were we to double the amount of towels then, yeah, that menu would imo be too bloated.
Similarly plunging toilets is really pointless because at best you get a figurine. But since it is entirely optional and doesn't impact any other gameplay mechanic it ends up being fine fluff.
The clothes vendor is a good example of where it has been recognized that the fluff is on the edge of bloat. We are not adding any more vendor clothes because that would further increase the already sizeable menu, however the proposed way forward is to add washing machine coloring, reducing the menu size and thus reducing the cognitive load.

With all this in mind, I think it is a good goal in general to reduce cognitive load with better UI, distributing content across systems and ensuring we have solid setups to provide new things.

[Hrosts]

I'd say it's bloat not because it adds something mechanically pointless in a confusing way, but because it adds another lizard plushie. It feels like the meme is getting too overdone at this point. Like, the hew plushie was already skirting the edge.

[ArtisticRoomba]

I'd say it's bloat not because it adds something mechanically pointless in a confusing way, but because it adds another lizard plushie. It feels like the meme is getting too overdone at this point. Like, the hew plushie was already skirting the edge.

What makes things feel bloaty is if the player has no choice but to interact with the content that they don't care about.

The reason why it's seen as bloat for adding more clothing items is because there is a very long, non-searchable list of fluff clothing, and generally players will only want to select one out of the 25 items in the vendor. Searching through that list is annoying; the player doesn't care about all of the other items, they just want one of them, and if you make it annoying to find that item, then it's bloat.

I agree the meme is overdone. However I quite like these plushies. The art is excellent and really feels in place with the game, and I wanted to give the opportunity for the artists work to be reflected in the game.

It's why I explicitly talked with a maintainer and got suggestions and a pseudo-conceptual approval for this implementation, as long as it is implemented in a way that does not feel like the user is hogged with choices. This is precisely why these plushies can't be found in any other area of the game except for job loadouts and very low chances in crates, and it's in its own category under job loadouts.

Additionally, I took steps to not bloat the already messed up toys/trinkets section of the codebase:

• All of the lizard plushie sprites, YML info, and metadata are contained in their own files separate from the current toys files we have.
• A new loadout group was created, job trinkets, for separating away these items from every job loadout group. This group was added to every job under the simple JobTrinkets. That way, if you wanted to add a trinket or whatever to a job in the future (though unlikely), you would just append it under the relevant section in JobTrinkets.

I do agree that it's bloat, but I've taken suggestions from maintainers that make it much more presentable to the player, and hopefully lessen the feeling of bloat.

[Hrosts]

The reason why it's seen as bloat for adding more clothing items is because there is a very long, non-searchable list of fluff clothing, and generally players will only want to select one out of the 25 items in the vendor. Searching through that list is annoying; the player doesn't care about all of the other items, they just want one of them, and if you make it annoying to find that item, then it's bloat.

Funnily enough, I can't wait for more clothing PRs for the upstream, I really like the width of options you have on Delta V.

Okay, you've persuaded me, I'm cool with these plushies

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