Add myself as No Hope maintainer, minor reorganisation/clean up

[Procyonae]

Summary

Infrastructure "Allow extending/deleting connect_groups/connects_to/rotates_to"

Purpose of change

Night managed to get themselves banned from the repo so No Hope is left without a maintainer.

Describe the solution

Add myself as maintainer to No Hope
Reorganise and update the docs
Allow extending/deleting connect_groups/connects_to/rotates_to
Minor extension of copy-from usage
Link to an external template mod to customise the difficulty past the options provided

Remove various changes No Hope makes that I deem as unfitting:
Unblacklist the military base
Add back zombie reviving
Remove altered stamina burn rate

Describe alternatives you've considered

Not adding back the military base - while the military base is very much a loot piñata esp if you're familiar with the design it seems overkill to remove it, if players want to avoid it they can choose to themselves and hopefully Milopetilo will finish totally overhauling the location soon anyway

Testing

Game compiles and loads

Additional context

If anyone is aware of NP having any intent to maintain a version out of repo I'm happy to port their PRs over as I deem fit but I've not seen anything to that effect yet. If NP sees this and wants to reach out you can dm me here or on discord.
Happy to talk about the potential future of No Hope's direction here or on discord (same username).

[Aimless-dude]

I'm interested in hearing your rationale for adding back in the zombie revival mechanic. I'm not super familiar with the altered lore of no hope, so I had always assumed it was because of some story thing.

[Procyonae]

I don't think there was any altered lore, NP just didn't like how zombie reviving worked so they turned it off.
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/79547/files#diff-b18d4d52fbeb68cc430e1b9335b8149dbcb2f6360baae54580cf1f78acd95fe5L35 They never explained to me what the serious issues were as far as I can recall but the change was ancient so stuff like amalgamations and stuff make revivification worth having in a mod about hopelessness and difficulty imo even if they are currently easy to deal with.

[GuardianDll]

why not just make custom difficulty where user can define values using num_input?

[Procyonae]

Bc that would be very ugly and would require the player to do pick the values on every save

[GuardianDll]

eeh, why, just on start should be fine? you can store it in some global variable

[Procyonae]

I mean every character/world

[GuardianDll]

oh, so you mean just for the ability to save it in template?

[Procyonae]

I mean ig, I don't really see the issue with it working like this, anyone who doesn't want to faff can just use the predefined difficulties (I appreciate it's inideal but I don't see that many peeps caring enough)

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• Adds item difficulty settings that reduce the spawn rates for common item categories without reducing rare items. See EoCs.md for category breakdowns and customisation or EoCs.json for exact numbers used for each difficulty.
• Aims to make the world more inhospitable and challenging in as many ways as possible, items needed for survival and vehicles are much harder to obtain, destruction and banditry is prevelent, even the weather has taken a turn for the worse, see in game help menu by pressing 0 once in-game for full feature list and option explanations.
• Gave all mechas ability to protect their operators from melee and ranged damage.
• If you wish to alter the difficulty settings past the 3 options you might prefer to use a personal mod to add a 4th option so that you don't need to keep editing files on update and can instead just copy paste the personal mod across, see https://github.com/**Procyonae**/**CDDAMiniMods**/tree/main/data/mods/No_Hope_Custom_Difficulty (shortcut in mod folder) for a template of such a mod that just needs the numbers tweaking to your liking.
• Makes wooden walls hard to set on fire. Fire is a very powerful out in alot of situations, this tries to make it slightly less abusable.
• Most LMOE shelters now have a rather high chance to spawn bandits inside. Empty LMOEs now has a lower chance (1 for every 3 occupied) to spawn.

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[KheaHyena]

I don't think there was any altered lore, NP just didn't like how zombie reviving worked so they turned it off. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/79547/files#diff-b18d4d52fbeb68cc430e1b9335b8149dbcb2f6360baae54580cf1f78acd95fe5L35 They never explained to me what the serious issues were as far as I can recall but the change was ancient so stuff like amalgamations and stuff make revivification worth having in a mod about hopelessness and difficulty imo even if they are currently easy to deal with.

Ah, I remember reading their explanation once.
If I'm not mistaken, the reason behind removing Zombie Revivification, was due to Armor some zombies had, where it'd make no sense they'd keep their armor values, since their equipment would be lost (if it was ever looted). Doesn't fit onto naturally armored Zombies (assuming armor regenerates), Amalgamations, or making the Necromancer absolutely incompetent at it's function though.
I personally never liked the default setting for revivification being off, but not having an easy way to turn it back on was my real concern. You'd have to change it manually, as they informed anyone could do within a simple change of code. Maybe the excess of bandits too, but eh...

I don't know why they're gone, I know a few of the situations that happened, but it's a shame to lose NP's contributions.
I'm happy that No Hope gets a continuation though, so thank you for that!