Nightvision goggles for cyborgs + making mining cyborg a little less painful + Teaching blood drunk miner computer literacy

[notghosti]

About The Pull Request

• Adds a module that replaces mesons with night vision mesons. Printable in mining/engineering cyborg tech
• Makes PKA upgrades printable for Exofabricator whenever they are printable for mining. As they are... the same exact item, just arbitrarily separated?
• Buffs Mining cyborg PKA capacity from 80 to 100. (Normal PKA values)
• Blood drunk now carries one research disk with all the PKA researches, rather than the four.

Why It's Good For The Game

Nightvision

Nightvision goggles are something useful for engineering and mining cyborgs, and I feel is a nonharmful upgrade, they already can kinda see in the dark, this just pushes it the rest of the way to levels akin to anyone else with NVG.
More a QOL than insanity

blood drunk computer literacy

The four disks is both a factor a little annoying for everyone invloved. the miner has spare four storage slots to which their inventory is usually full. Then the scientist has to upload each disk indivually. Making it unneedly tedious when the whole idea of these disks is you can upload several at a time. And if this is a mining loot that benefits every miner rather than being a selfish, so we should encourage it actually get to R&D to be uploaded. Thus, combine it to one.

Mining cyborg PKA changes

Mining for cyborgs is in a pretty awful state overall. Not because they gotten worse, but everything and one keeps getting better. This isn't hate to the mining updates, rather a realization that it feels so much worse to play in comparasion.

So, two factors.

PKA upgrade kits

1. Desperate PKA modules, did you know they are exactly the same? The ones miners and cyborgs use for PKAs?
   Well you do now!
   This means there's a arbitrary knowledge check and research requirement to print the same exact item, at somewhere else. Ew. Stinky I say.
   By doing this we both skim the research tree slightly and better communicate what can be used.

PKA buff.

Cyborgs already can't dual wield PKA's.
Limited to the basic subtype, can't put a knife on it (thankfully), it's only advantage is being able to recharge while put away.
It's another weird and uncommunicated part that they have less capacity than a regular PKA. A extra 20 capacity doesn't change too many interactions I believe but keeps things feeling somewhat similar.

Testing

Regular

NVmeson

Blood drunk disk uploading

Changelog

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add: New mining and engineering cyborg upgrade. Night vision Meson goggles.
qol: Whenever a PKA upgrade becomes assessable in the cargo lathe, it becomes assessable in robotics for miner cyborgs.
qol: Blood drunk miner learned basic computer literacy hygiene during a sober period, and carries one floppy disk rather than 4.
code: "KA Mod Disk"'s have been swapped from a single research design to support a list of research designs.
balance: Cyborg PKA's now have a capacity akin to regular PKA's, (80 -> 100)
/:cl:

Pre-Merge Checklist

• You tested this on a local server.
• This code did not runtime during testing.
• You documented all of your changes.

[ChiefMonkengineer]

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