NPC's shouldn't ware what you sold them.

[Tarius]

I think this is a moddable situation, at least I hope it will be. It is a wierd situation that NPCs immediately wear things you sell them, resulting in more than one idea to sell a cursed item and wait until said NPC dies from a permanent -1 health enchantment on a helm (as an example).

ST the NPC scourge

Hey, thats a cool idea, why didnt I think of that haha.

[Jyby]

Unfortunately this is a hard coded feature as of now. After 1.0.0 we can always go back and make a change.
Most likely it would be a GMST(game setting) that could be apart of a required openmw.esm
or something.

To coders:
If you have knowledge in c++ you can build your own version to include auto equip on purchase

[Okulo]

that could be apart of a required openmw.esm

Wait... is that 'apart from' or 'a part of'? Because how does that work, a "required openmw.esm"? That's for Morrowind, right? Or do you mean an omwaddon or something?

[Jyby]

that could be apart of a required openmw.esm

Wait... is that 'apart from' or 'a part of'? Because how does that work, a "required openmw.esm"? That's for Morrowind, right? Or do you mean an omwaddon or something?

Well we could theoretically create an openmw add-on(openmw.esm) that just extends functionality to the code by creating game settings. We could then write these custom game settings into our code:

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gmst = all of our game settings
gmst.find("fOneTimePowerResetDelay")->getTheValue()

This would allow non-coders to create mods and change these settings without writing or recompiling the code.

[silentthief]

It would seem from your description that there would be additional openmw game settings?

Not necessarily a bad thing, just asking for conversation and understanding. Come to think of it, having easy-to-understand game settings (and of course not having the trouble that morrowind had with its "evil GMSTs") would make sense. Something simple like a setting that NPCWearItemPurchases=false means that they would not immediately equip any new items bought, then if that is set the modder could change that or script conditional options for what the NPC wears or equips.

*Most of this is speculation and theory, as I'm not a dev.
ST

[Jyby]

I'm a new dev and from what I see in the code a lot of functionality is somewhat hardcoded.

With additional game settings we can extend the hardcoded features to modding.

I think we also support mods through script extensions.

[pvdk]

OpenMW will support that post-1.0, we have plans which will allow modders to modify things that are now hard-coded.

[Jyby]

OpenMW will support that post-1.0, we have plans which will allow modders to modify things that are now hard-coded.

+1