Using data field in a stargate node

[Drako Slyith]

I was having another stab at making a random destination stargate, and I drew up this code

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				<StarGate name="RandomSG" DestID="(RandomNode1)" DestGate="Inbound"/>

				<Events>
					<OnGlobalTopologyCreated>
						(sysAddObjRecurringTimerEvent 30 gSource 'ChooseRandom)
					</OnGlobalTopologyCreated>
					
					<ChooseRandom>
						(block nil
							(setq SysList1 (list C1 C3 Z1z Z1a Z6a Z6z))
							(setq RandomNode1 (random SysList1))
						)
					</ChooseRandom>
				</Events>

I was just trying random things to try to make the game draw the RandomNode1 return as a node. Is this at all possible? If so what is the formatting of it?

[Prophet]

Stargates are tied between two nodes, you can't change where they lead.

You will have to create a new gate to change the destination node.

[Drako Slyith]

I had an idea to have it gate the player to an empty system then have the <OnPlayerEnteredSystem> and use objGateTo but I was hoping that it would be able to overwrite itself.

[Prophet]

That might work, if EVERY gate led to that blank system and you could use some script to move the player to a random node.

You're on the right path.