Feature Request: Support for mutually-exclusive buffs in maximizer

[VeeArr]

It would be nice if the maximizer could take into account mutually-exclusive buffs when determining whether to recommend casting a buff. For example, if you have a fairy familiar and the "Who's Going to Pay This Drunken Sailor?" effect (+25% item), it would be nice if it maximizing "item" did not recommend casting the buff "Only Dogs Love a Drunken Sailor" (+5 familiar weight)--while gaining that buff would indeed increase the score, it is actually net-negative since you would also lose the existing, stronger buff.

Some similar cases (probably not exhaustive):

• Crimbo 2025 shanties
• Dreadsylvania songs
• Facial expressions
• Smooth Movements/Musk of the Moose
• AT buffs (though this one is much more complicated since it's not just a single "slot")
• Avatar of Boris songs

 

[Ryo_Sangnoir]

We have some mutexes in modifiers.txt:

# Mutually exclusive effects section of modifiers.txt
# Same as above
MutexE    Shrieking Weasel/Power, Man/Lucky Struck/Ministrations in the Dark/Superdrifting    none
MutexE    Perceptive Pressure/Perspicacious Pressure/Pneumatic/Proficient Pressure/Puissant Pressure/Pulchritudinous Pressure    none
MutexE    Purple Tongue/Green Tongue/Orange Tongue/Red Tongue/Blue Tongue/Black Tongue    none
MutexE    Broken Heart/Fiery Heart/Cold Hearted/Sweet Heart/Withered Heart/Lustful Heart    none

# While the groups below are mutex, replacing one effect with another is easy enough that other effects should be suggested anyway
# MutexE    Snarl of the Timberwolf/Scowl of the Auk/Stiff Upper Lip/Patient Smile/Arched Eyebrow of the Archmage/Wizard Squint/Icy Glare/Wry Smile/Disco Leer/Disco Smirk/Suspicious Gaze/Knowing Smile    none
# MutexE    Cautious Prowl/Prideful Strut/Leisurely Amblin'    none
# MutexE    Pompadour/Cowlick/Fauxhawk/[1553]Slicked-Back Do    none
# MutexE    Coffeesphere/Oilsphere/Chocolatesphere/Gristlesphere    none
# MutexE    Song of Accompaniment/Song of Cockiness/Song of Fortune    none
# MutexE    Spirit of Bacon Grease/Spirit of Cayenne/Spirit of Garlic/Spirit of Peppermint/Spirit of Wormwood    none

Why "other effects should be suggested anyway"? Not sure. The decision was made a long time ago. It could be revisited.

 

[VeeArr]

Thanks for the additional information and context. If I'm understanding correctly, the difference between these groups is that for effects in the first group, you would need to use a SGEEA or similar to purge an effect in order to apply a new one, so you probably don't want to suggest it at all since actually executing it would be complicated. This makes sense.

Similarly, it makes sense to suggest a facial expression even if you already have one. I just think that the score for such a suggestion should take into account the loss of the facial expression you already have (in the same way that the score for a piece of gear is relative to the piece you are already wearing).