Simple logic guide for circuits. Latch, counter and Timer

[RDS88]

@kit_Katz

xenobio

hello. Someone said xenobio, so here I am

xenobio is still here because ??? (even i can’t justify this)

circuits got removed in pr #3969 because
“Numerous issues, and none of the coders/maints seem to really care to fix, so yeet it is. Improves compile times.”
this isn’t really an answer to the “numerous issues thing” so we can dig deeper

to figure this out we can go to this thread

Circuit cloning was grudge coded out lmao

Mother fucker, it literally takes an entire shift 2 hour shift to get a simple blood extracting/injecting circuit to run, and you sneak in a PR that removes circuit cloning?

and read some of the posts there

here’s cae, on why circuits died

@Caecilius

• They’re very poorly logged. This makes grief with them hard to detect and fix.
• They are very poorly sanitized and immensely complex. These two points make it very easy to find logless server crash exploits. Fixing this is very difficult due to the complexity of the mechanics.
• It’s very hard to tell what a circuit does until it does it. Is the medibot shaped bot a simple follower bot, a homing bomb, a sentient chem-sprayer or a killbot with lasers? The only way to find out is to let it work on you. This isn’t very fair to the receiving end, especially if they’re new or don’t know how circuits work.
• There have been instances of players “hoarding” exploits in circuits instead of reporting them to maintainers. Some of these are extremely broken (there is currently an exploit that allows for silently teleporting live explosives into people’s inventories).
• Circuits are very cheap to make (tiny amounts of iron) for what is by far the most powerful gameplay system. A well made combat circuit is the strongest possible item in the game outside of adminbus or stuff that can’t be properly “aimed” (like plasmaflooding or fusion into the SM).

xenobio (the given comparison) is very buff, but is a bunch of individually powerful effects. Sure, you can stack some, but to what end? Each does it’s own thing and can be (and probably is) logged individually. And while time is hardly one of those things you should gate things behind, circuits were gated behind less for more. You also can’t crash the server with xenobio, which is a plus.

Circuits compound their power, are very hard to log, and are very hard to tell apart without ripping them open. All because of their modular construction. This is why they got the boot.

As for the thing about the wiremod port… idk i don’t follow that.