Feature Request: Support for mutually-exclusive buffs in maximizer

VeeArr

VeeArr

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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
 
We have some mutexes in modifiers.txt:
Code: 
# 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.
 
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