NPCs with IDs?

[tfmachad]

I know, double post and all, but...

I like this. Then we make hostile IDs "contraband" if you can do that with equippable items (to get NPCs to attack people anyway if their rep is bad)...
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I was thinking this up and it hit me: I don't think mountable items are implemented as "checkable" by NPCs. I mean, there's no such item that you can mount that's ever checked by the NPCs (for piracy/for contraband) as far as I can tell. And it would likely create a silly deadlock in the game if it was implemented like that. Picture this, the NPCs orders you to drop the item, but you can't, then they kill you; you respawn, the NPCs order you to drop the item, you can't, you die; rinse repeat. You're trapped.

The IDs are a "mask" for tractor beams. Also, inside the character file, mountable and unmountable items are kept separately. If I was to bet, I'd put my money on these items being hard-coded "invisible" as far as the NPC scans are concerned. If that's so, then this can't be implemented like that, unfortunately.

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