Preventing weapon installation on a playership

[Song]

So I'm working on a ship that has no weapons slots, and I'm having some trouble getting the game to recognise it. At present I'm using the 1.04-era format for slots, and then using the normal MaxWeapons to try to make sure it works:

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deviceSlotsNonWeapons=			"8"
			maxWeapons=			"0"

However, this isn't working. When buying a weapon at a station, the offer to install the weapon will still work. Is this a bug, or am I using the format wrong? And if it is a bug, is there a piece of code that could be used to manually prevent weapons installation under all circumstances?

[AssumedPseudonym]

 Yep, you have to handle that through events.

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<Events>
  <CanInstallItem>
    (block nil
      (if (eq (itmGetCategory gItem) 4)
        (setq return "Weapons cannot be installed on this ship.")
        (setq return true)
      )
    )
    return
  </CanInstallItem>
</Events>

 …Or something to that effect.

[digdug]

try this:

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maxDevices=			"8"
maxWeapons=			"0"
maxNonWeapons=			"8"

[EDIT]
Tested, strange, I can install up to 8 weapons on my test ship

[AssumedPseudonym]

 Yeah, I’d already wrestled with that one — http://forums.kronosaur.com/viewtopic.p ... 136#p57136 — before <CanInstallItem> was fixed to work more on just armor. As near as I can tell, setting a max value to 0 acts as a delimiter. If you need to keep something from being installed, it looks like events is the only current way of pulling it off.