Coding help

[OutXider]

Hello I'm new here but I've been lurking around for a while now. Been modding my own mod for like the past 2 weeks straight and I seem to have gotten down the editing of the ships and weapons, but I still don't understand that <invoke block nil> stuff. I was trying to make one of my weapons handicapped by making it have charges and those charges would recharge over time. I had something like

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<Event>
<block nil
(sysAddObjRecurringTimerEvent 100 gplyership "Recharge")
<block recharge
(shpRechargeItem gplyership "wI" 1)

Or something like that. I'm not sure cause I deleted it when it wouldn't work.

Also I was going to have one ship keep one main weapon but was upgradeable with device enhancements. Basically the weapon was virtual but there were device slots that I can install items that affect the weapon specifically. Any idea how I can go about doing that?

[Betelgeuse]

events can be named anything you want but some will be called by the game under certain circumstances.

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<Events>
	<OnCreate>
		(sysAddObjRecurringTimerEvent 100 gplayership "Recharge")
	</OnCreate>	
</Events>

That will call a event named Recharge in the player ship every 100 seconds after the station or ship that has this code in it is created.

for example

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<Events>
	<Recharge>
		(shpRechargeItem gplayership (random (objGetItems gplayership "wI")) 1)
	</Recharge>
</Events>

If that is in your player ship then a random installed weapon will be recharged by 1 every 100 ticks.