An unknown airborne pathogen has decimated most of the population. You find yourself on a deserted island, lucky to be among the few survivors. But the biological apocalypse is far from being over. It seems that the virus starts to express itself when certain hormonal changes are triggered by highly social behaviors. It has been noted that small groups of survivor seems to be relatively unaffected, but there isn't one single town or clan that wasn't decimated.
This plugin is an attempt at making a self regulated no clan server. The more time you spent with your group, the sicker you'll get. If you're really determined, you might be able to survive the terrible effects of the plague, but large groups of player will find themselves severely handicapped. They will be forced to have much wider bases, spend more time alone to recover and gather up to five times more food and medicine to go raiding. They won't be able to live close to sleepers or protect quarrying operations without getting incredibly sick.
In the end, this is really just an experiment to see if rust can benefit from dynamics that handicap clans and encourage smaller groups.
It still has to be fine tuned, but the idea is you can still interact with your neighbors, or group up for a multi-crew raid, but you can't live in close proximity. At default levels it takes eight continuous minutes to become associated and fifteen continuous minutes to reach the maximum plague effects. Inversely, it takes 80 minutes to reach zero affinity and 150 minutes to lose all plague effects.
This plugin is an attempt at making a self regulated no clan server. The more time you spent with your group, the sicker you'll get. If you're really determined, you might be able to survive the terrible effects of the plague, but large groups of player will find themselves severely handicapped. They will be forced to have much wider bases, spend more time alone to recover and gather up to five times more food and medicine to go raiding. They won't be able to live close to sleepers or protect quarrying operations without getting incredibly sick.
In the end, this is really just an experiment to see if rust can benefit from dynamics that handicap clans and encourage smaller groups.
Features
- Automatic associates detection and penalty attributions.
- Radius based proximity detection
- Incremental penalties
- Time based progression and recovery
- Kin system (Teams)
- Commands
- Configuration files
- Database persistence
Usage
When you get close to a player, you start building up affinity. When you are far away from that player you start loosing affinity, but much slower. This is so you can still collaborate with other players without any penalty. After several minutes of proximity either continuous or briefly interrupted, you become associated with the player with which you have been playing. At that point, you start gaining plague levels. The higher the plague levels, the higher the effects and it takes ten times longer to heal that to get sick. Also, the rapidity of the onset and severity of the symptoms depend on the amount of associates that you have.It still has to be fine tuned, but the idea is you can still interact with your neighbors, or group up for a multi-crew raid, but you can't live in close proximity. At default levels it takes eight continuous minutes to become associated and fifteen continuous minutes to reach the maximum plague effects. Inversely, it takes 80 minutes to reach zero affinity and 150 minutes to lose all plague effects.
Plague Levels
1 - Decreased Health Regen2 - Increased hunger3 - Increased thirst4 - No Health Regen5 - No comfort6 - Highly Increased Hunger7 - Highly Increased Thirst8 - Cold temperature9 - Bleeding10 - Poison effectConfiguration
The settings and options can be configured in the Plagued file under the config directory. The use of an editor and validator is recommended to avoid formatting issues and syntax errors.- plagueRange
This unit is a radius in meters and represents the range of the infection. Every other players that are present inside of this sphere around the player will have their plague level increased and so will the player at the center of the sphere. This value is very import for performance and balance, if you set it too high, people will be able to abuse the plague system more easily by sleeping near people's bases and such. Its also critical for performance, the higher the value, the worse the performance will be. - plagueIncreaseRate
Every time the plugin ticks, this value will be added to a player's plague level, but only once the player has first reached the level of associate with another player. - plagueDecreaseRate
Every time the plugin ticks and the player is alone or with kin, this value will be subtracted from his plague level. - plagueMinAffinity
The affinity level at which players will start gaining plague levels. - affinityIncRate
The rate at which affinity between players increase for every plugin tick. - affinityDecRate
The rate at which affinity between players decreases for every plugin tick. - maxKin
The maximum amount of kin a player can have - maxKinChanges
The amount of time a player can change his kin list between server restarts - disableSleeperAffinity
Setting this value to "true" will prevent players near sleepers from ganing affinity with them.
