WIP: Borer Overhaul

CHANGES

tl;dr Borers now symbiotes rather than parasites. Think organic pAIs. Fixes #49.

• Cannot suicide as host anymore.
• Cannot kill your host anymore.
• Thought-speak is more subtle.
• Borers can secrete more chemicals (some of which are unlockable).
• Borers have a new Evolve verb to unlock new chems (and eventually, abilities and host-related things)
• Removed dickish chems.
• Forced-control on entering host is configurable. Add borer_takeover_immediately to gameconfig.txt to enable.
• Removed borers' ability to multiply, for now. (Balancing)
• Borers now only have a survive objective.
• Borers are instructed to be helpful and non-dickish, including a note of recent changes.

TODO

• Fix ventcrawling
• Verify hearing host as borer and captive_brain
• Game-mode replaced with vermin event.
• need to make a browse window for the Evolve verb
  • abstract it into a research-tree datum for re-use in RD.

Will borers be able to choose exactly how many units of a particular chemical to synthesize?

Go ahead and stick fixes #49 on this since you're addressing it anyway.

I'll work on this after August 23rd. I am packing my PC.

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Interesting. Is it still a game mode or will it be admin spawn only? I can ultimately see this as a very cool "Borers are breeding in the incinerator, clear them out before they start effecting productivity" event.

Reassigned to @N3X15

Updated description, have internets back. Working on gamemode -> event thing.

Added 127 commits:

• 568114ab...e6aebe6f - 125 commits from branch vgstation:Bleeding-Edge
• 06e0b45c - Merge branch 'Bleeding-Edge' of gitlab.com:vgstation/vgstation into borer-overhaul
• 70d55e4e - Removed borer gamemode

And yes, I will rebase after I finish dicking around.

Added 1 commit:

• ddfabc75 - Fix ventcrawl (copypasta of MoMMI code)

Added 31 commits:

• ddfabc75...046671c3 - 28 commits from branch vgstation:Bleeding-Edge
• e21dcc30 - HTMLify Evolve window.
• 11993a40 - Merge branch 'Bleeding-Edge' of gitlab.com:vgstation/vgstation into borer-overhaul
• 79eec57b - Work

Added 1 commit:

• cb9e6a78 - Well, everything to do with verbs is fucking broken. Good work, Lummox.

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