Syndicate Rancher needs some love!

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Wait, ranchers still have no unique traitor items a over a year after being added? I thought zewaka said that any new roundstart jobs being added needed to have traitor items. They didn't give rancher special treatment because it was an admin's pet project, did they?

This is my fault not Zewaka's

I coded the original cog1 ranch and most of the rancher job more or less in secret as a surprise for Emily, since she just wanted chickens to be a normal botany thing

After it launched I promised the team that I would make traitor stuff for the rancher, but then got distracted when I got a tremendous work promotion that devoured my freetime for months and set me off track

Then when I began to rediscover work life balance I opted instead to refactor chicken code before trying to make any traitor stuff, as the original code needed some serious refactoring to make adding new chickens and stuff not a tremendous bug prone chore.

After that I shifted focus to the sequel to my first adventure zone, working to publiush Dino Jason's Oatmeal. People really loved the first one, and I really loved watching people exploring and chatting about it so I set out to make the sequel the best that I could provide to the players. That took up basically all my will to code for a while after basically burning out from coding thousands upon thousands of lines for the mob ai, green goo, various puzzles that I won't spoil here, coming up with story and dialogue, etc, etc (A LOT of time went into that zone, months)

After that I really wanted to make an antag, so I binge coded arcfiend

since then I've been mostly on bug patrol and working on Home Labs which is intended to be the third installment of the slime adventures

and now here we are, back to ranchers