Add support for AP

[SleepSoul]

EITHER a field in BoonControl OR a separate mod? Depends on how it needs to work and interact with what boons you're getting, also worth looking at how AP is structured in the first place and how it behaves in routed scenarios...

[alexmaichen]

The obvious major problem with Approval Process as a whole is that this RNG pact condition could force the player to go off-route in the mod that aims to make hades as close to deterministic as possible. If redesigned to no longer do this (always allow the option the player needs to pick to stay on-route), it would become effectively free heat.

There are two ways of solving this that I can think of:

• the simple solution is no longer following the RunControl file if the player goes off-route, akin to what would happen in seeded speedrunning (with a warning on-screen to inform the player that they are off-route / made an unexpected choice). With AP, this would mean that the player can reset for as long as they want for as good of a start as they want, but will eventually be almost guaranteed to go off-route and play as normal. This would indirectly fix issue [BoonControl] Taking Zeus in Croven's 5:32 causes a crash with an empty boon menu #42 alongside all other "off-route" problems.
• adding the possibility of branching to the table-schema, and be able to check the list of rewards the player picked up (or boons the player has) and only apply a certain force if this condition is respected, else generate as vanilla (but making a return back on-route possible in the event there are no conflicts with baglegality, as opposed to the first solution). This would probably automatically fix issue [BoonControl] Taking Zeus in Croven's 5:32 causes a crash with an empty boon menu #42 alongside all other "off-route" problems. This would mean that the route's feel would in many cases stay similar regardless of if the route is 1-to-1 being followed or not, at the expense of making Approval Process mostly (but not entirely!) obsolete since RunControl would try to make the player return on-route when possible.

[SleepSoul]

To clarify what the original issue means by "AP support" (as I realise my entirely self-targeted descriptions don't explain a lot lmao), I mean the option (if specified in-file) to strike out specific boons. The goal of this would be being able to accurately replicate high-heat runs that already used AP, as part of a wider featureset aimed at replicating these runs (see #1, #3, and kind of #44).

AP, currently, doesn't break runs or cause any bugs (I don't think), it'd just potentially force you not to take boons that were taken in the original path. The eligibility checking in BoonControl can already handle this; If you've got different boons, any that you've rendered impossible just won't show up. Preserving a run's path even if you change heat is out-of-scope on the mod level; Making different decisions always has the capacity to change a run's result, and I consider enabling AP to be one of those decisions.

I can't say for certain, but I very much doubt any changes here would fix #42; That issue was inconsistent and I couldn't replicate it, so the problem definitely wasn't just as simple as being "off-route".