About the PR

As a forewarning, this was the last option I wanted to do but here we are.
Removed Wizard from being a round start GameMode or SubGamemode. It is now midround only.

This is intended to be a temporary change until Wiz is in a workable state

Why / Balance

Wizard is exceptionally unfinished in its current state, this is known but it's been let pass because refactors are ongoing to allow for it to be fixed up.
However, these refactors have taken months and as someone who has reviewed and worked on some, they're going to take more moths before we can even start rebalancing the wizard.

Normally that's fine were it not for the fact that the Wizard has massive design flaws that make it a headache for both admins and players alike.

For a non-comprehensive list:

• The wizard is a nuclear bomb of power with genuinely broken offensive spells
  • The rod literally deletes people
  • Fireball is an unreactable instant kill
  • Wizard is more frequently killed by their own spells than anything the station throws at them
  • Wizard has complete 2.9 immunity by design so they can end rounds by loosing if they want, and are enabled to by broken buggy spells
• The wizard is a friendly antag trap
  • Wizard is the number one most bwoinked antag for friendly antagging. Which wouldn't be a problem if we had dynamic, or they had spells to inconvenience the crew, or were anything but the driving force of a round
• Wizard is not fun for the station
  • The most common reaction to a wizard is groaning when a wizard announces themselves
  • People will hunt down wizards even if they haven't done anything due to the wizard's obscenely high power level and lack of engagement with the crew
  • Wizards can just ruin rounds, if a wizard destroys the station before nukies arrive, then they get a free round. Or the wizard hits them with a fireball/rod and just ends their round instantly. Neither scenario is fun.
  • Event spells are a free "Chaos" option that isn't fun since it puts the entire station in a rules gray area and enables the worst of player behaviors
  • Event spells also just ruin other antagonist rounds by forcing evac immediately
• Wizard is a massive admin headache
  • Friendly antagging aside the wizard has many more issues that give admins a headache
  • Event spells have forced rules changes to Free Agent and are a source of equal if not more ahelps than the revs gamemode
  • A wizard dying early means admins have to find some other way to drive the round, the crew has no way of knowing if the wizard was the only antag that round and if it would be a dick move to call evac or not

The obscenely high power level of wizard, plus the lack of spell selection, plus the lack of interesting chaos spells results in an antag who can basically only end rounds and force evac. If a wizard wants to do a gimmick their options are exceptionally limited and more often than not, will not drive the round or will lead to them getting killed because they lack ways to defend themselves.

Wizard works as a mid-round since it means the round has already had something driving it and there's a lot less worry about the wizard friendly antagging or ending the round because them appearing typically means the round is going to end soon anyways.

Technical details

Removed wizard from roundstart gamemodes and subgamemodes.

Media

Requirements

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Breaking changes

Changelog

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• tweak: Wizard is now only a midround spawn.