Question about making a specialty drop item

[shadowstorme1]

I want to make an item that can be found floating in space in a container. this item will be a single item not found anywhere else. To do this should I make it as a comodity and use a container 3db or cmp to connect the commodity as a cargo = commodity_whatever in a loadout and make it droppable or is there an easier way to do it? I looked in this forum and saw nothing about this subject if there is a topic about this already can someone guide me to it?
thanks

[robocop]

It’ll need to be included as an item dropped from an object first of all.
Either a solar such as a lootable wreck, asteroid, depot, or as a cargo loadout carried only by a specific faction of NPCs.

depending on what kind of item it is, it will need to be defined in the appropriate files as well, either as a commodity (goods.ini, select_equip.ini), or a piece of equipment (goods.ini, weapon_equip.ini, misc_equip.ini, select_equip.ini, st_equip.ini)

If you’re going to put it on a solar you’ll need to create a loadout that includes it and assign it to the solar (solars\loadouts.ini)
If your going to have it on a NPC ship you’ll need to create a loadout for that in ships\loadouts.ini and address it in commodities_per_faction.ini and rmlootinfo.ini as well.

Finally you’ll need to select which bases pay the big bucks for the commodity and that’s done in the market.ini files.

Hope that helps.

[JONG]

If your going to have it on a NPC ship, I think that the ships\loadouts.ini is not necessary to edit.

I’m test many time for that, I was only edit the commodities_per_faction.ini and rmlootinfo.ini to add item, and the NPC ships will dropped those item what my setting.

Of course, if you edit the ships\loadouts.ini, maybe will be better, but maybe you need to add many item to your NPC loadout.

[shadowstorme1]

Thank you that was very helpfull. I am making a prize to be found on sort of like a treasure hunt thru the mod. It is going to be one single item that can only be found by one player once and be sold back at the start base. That is why I thought maybe a commodity. But I didn’t think of it just dropping an item like a piece of equiptment not found anywhere else in the mod. That would work too. You just gave me more ideas