Add minimum pop requirements to greim events

[Batrachophreno]

See title. Adds additional requirement of a minimum 8 pop to Greimorian Infestation events to reduce common lowpop headaches.

Set min pop reqs for events to 1, reduce the likelihood of the Horizon turning into a genestealer-infested space hulk during long uptime.

[Batrachophreno]

!review

[Fyshen]

Does radstorm need to have a pop requirement? It merely requires some people to move - and per the rules people shouldn't be AFKing for extended periods anyway, so should not be at risk of it.

[Batrachophreno]

Does radstorm need to have a pop requirement? It merely requires some people to move - and per the rules people shouldn't be AFKing for extended periods anyway, so should not be at risk of it.

I'll paste my thoughts from discord here, since it is a legit question you ask! https://discord.com/channels/157516682288562176/725470666039754783/1362094530513600775 (there's additional discussion from others on the subject preceding that).
Quoting myself:

Well, there's already controls in place for minimum medical, minimum security, etc, based on role weights [for the radstorm event, in addition to a new min pop requirement]
Quite frankly though, given likelihood that some characters are just off doing their own thing mining, or doing off-ships, or etc., I personally didn't feel that balance was Too big a concern when the overriding goal is to make lowpop a bit less aggravating- if one in every 5 times the event fires, it turns out to be an actual PITA, that's pretty discouraging to logging in
Since honestly- if you die to greimorians or rads when theres like 3 other people around, its not really going to be adding much to a compelling time IMO. (Though I don't really care about the actual pop number- 8 or 5 or whatever one wants)

It's very much more a quality of life/trying to reduce gameplay/roleplay friction in lowpop to encourage it (since every highpop outside peak hours by necessity STARTS with lowpop), than it is trying to address any hard balance concerns.

(I also said screw it, made it events won't fire in a vacuum with 0 players. There's nothing gained from finding everything covered in flour and every vending machine hucking stuff at you when first logging on after a lull.)

[FlamingLily]

Pop requirements are fine but the two types of infestation events do have a meaningful difference, with one being where eggs spawn in one specific room, and the other where larvae just spawn everywhere. Personally I would prefer to keep both and, if you need to add a pop requirement to the eggs event, do so.

[hazelrat]

The two different versions of the greimorian event are tangibly different and prompt different responses from the crew. If you want to make greimorian infestations less prominent, please make either or both slightly less likely instead of removing either. Less variety in random events isn't desirable.

Additionally, I don't see any good reason why a radiation storm needs to be limited by population. Its lethality isn't influenced by how high the population is.

I think the minimum population requirement for greimorian infestations is fine.

[Batrachophreno]

No worries re: radstorms, and The More You Know re: the two greimorian events being appreciably different in-game, that's my bad! Updated so that only greims (both variants) require minimum 8 players.

[Arrow768]

The excel file containing the event probabilities needs to be updated with these changes.

[Batrachophreno]

The excel file containing the event probabilities needs to be updated with these changes.

Didn't know that existed, neat! I looked through it though and it doesn't appear to have a section or column for minimum population requirements for me to update. There is a column for ASSIGNMENT_ANY, but I used pop_needed for this. You want me to throw in two extra columns in there for minimum and maximum pop requirements for each event?

[Arrow768]

The excel file containing the event probabilities needs to be updated with these changes.

Didn't know that existed, neat! I looked through it though and it doesn't appear to have a section or column for minimum population requirements for me to update. There is a column for ASSIGNMENT_ANY, but I used pop_needed for this. You want me to throw in two extra columns in there for minimum and maximum pop requirements for each event?

Yes please. That would be useful

[Batrachophreno]

Column for min pop added and populated for current events- should be all set.

[Batrachophreno]

Polite ping on this, confirming the requested changes have been made!