Sticky Devices/Weapons

[Vachtra]

Is there any way to set a device so that you can't uninstall it? Trying to see if I can hardwire a drive to a ship so that it can't be sold or transferred to another ship. I already made the part notforsale but that's so no more appear in shops.

[Drako Slyith]

If you add the data field 'virtual="true"' then the device can be installed or uninstalled only through code.

[Vachtra]

That will work in this case. I also want to know if you can make a device weapon sticky.
For those of you who played enough older games it's like a cursed item in rogue, and possibly nethack although I didn't play that one as much.
I was thinking about making items that once installed can't be easily removed. It seems like stations can uninstall anything and it's only when you want something put in that you come across limitations of individual stations. Possibly an item that is species specific for install. It would keep you from destroying their ship and going elsewhere to use it. Instead you would have to buy it from them or wait for someone else to destroy a ship and loot it and then get them to install it for you.

[alterecco]

Check the events page on the wiki: look for <CanBeUninstalled>

http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence/wiki/events

[Vachtra]

So after reading about <CanBeUninstalled> I have an idea where to put the code but it will still take a while to figure out the syntax to get it to work. I've looked through the code and as far as I can tell it isn't currently being used which is why everyone can uninstall anything with no restrictions.

The install is restricted through the station installing using a max tech level limit or in the case of armor through a max armor weight limit in the ships code. So I don't see the <CanBeInstalled> being used either. I thought maybe with an autoinstall item but no. Apparently they're too low level to worry about such a thing.

My first guess would be in the item itself under <Events> of course. It seems like the attempt to install items screen pulls this up and it would have to call back to the station calling it up and check to see is's sovereign or whatever else it might check and see if it meets the qualifications. Is that about right?

[RPC]

Yes, <CanBeInstalled> is within the <Events> tag. I think that the checks you want are also doable.

[PM]

The "NotForSale" tag does not prevent the item (if it is not virtual) from spawning for sale in some stations, such as Black Market and Teraton stations; and it does not prevent the Teraton fabricator from spawning one. The way to prevent an item from spawning randomly is to set its frequency to "notrandom".