Limiting access to some armours?

[Keth01]

Hi all,

I'm mulling over having constructable android soldiers in my mod who are recruitable after certain research is unlocked. To balance them and add uniqueness I was thinking of building a lot of their abilities into their armour stats (and thus preventing them from wearing other armour as a balancing strategy).

Is there an elegant way to accomplish this in any of the current builds?

[ohartenstein23]

Yes, this is done already in Piratez with many different soldier types and in X-Com Files with dogs and tanks. The most important part is maintaining a list of unit types on each armor that can wear it.

[Meridian]

Yes, it is available in all current builds.

Just define (for each armor), which soldier types are allowed to use it (attribute "units").

E.g.

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armors:
  - type: STR_MY_SPECIAL_ARMOR
    units:
      - STR_SOLDIER_TYPE_A
      - STR_SOLDIER_TYPE_B

soldiers:
  - type: STR_SOLDIER_TYPE_A
    requires:
      - STR_TECH_TO_UNLOCK_SOLDER_TYPE_A


[Keth01]

That's beautifully straightforward. Thanks guys!