Drunkard Accent

[mazziechai]

Description

Adds a "drunkard accent", a trait that makes a character's speech slurred like they're drunk.

There are a few alcoholic characters on Floof that would benefit from being "constantly drunk" without the actual status effect. This could be a good effect for other characters that have a speech impediment.

Technical notes

This uses a modified version of SlurredSystem's Accentuate for the trait with hardcoded values and removing the burping and "huh" additions. The functionality could be extracted into a static method, however it would require changing code in non-Floof code when this works perfectly fine; reducing changes to the codebase is preferable.

If the character is drunk past a certain point, the SlurredSpeech effect will take precedence over DrunkardAccent.

Changelog

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• add: Added a "drunkard accent", a trait that makes a character's speech slurred like they're drunk.

[Mnemotechnician]

This is... suboptimal. You could just give the entity the slurred speech status effect and make this system renew it whenever it runs below a certain threshold (say, 5 minutes of remaining effect time). This will do for now, but it will stop working as intended if the original slurred accent gets changed.

On a second thought, we may as well just keep it this way, because the "... huuuuh..." part of the original accent is pretty annoying.

[mazziechai]

This is... suboptimal. You could just give the entity the slurred speech status effect and make this system renew it whenever it runs below a certain threshold (say, 5 minutes of remaining effect time).

The unfortunate thing is that this would require either giving a constant drunk level or refactoring the original SlurredSpeech system to not be hard coupled to DrunkSystem. SlurredSystem always calculates probability based on the drunk status effect. This is a drunk accent, not an always drunk trait, so I believe that this suboptimal code is actually the best for avoiding unnecessary changes.