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The problem 1. I've played 8 hours in Sandbox mode with modified options as it is shown on the screenshot (Melee weapons - Common / Ranged Weapons - Abundant / Ammo - Abundant) but I have noticed that Firearms and Ammo are NOT spawning more often than on default "Rare" settings. Melee weapons do spawn more often. 2. It is unclear what "Abundant" means. Is it 2x more often? Or 20x? Or this option affects the map generation rules and defines whether CONTAINERS that *may* contain weapons (wardrobe with two halves / nightstands) spawn in houses? Or this option is not supposed to affect the "chance" of weapon to spawn but only increases the quantity? 3. Firearms still spawn where they originally can be found. No extra "sources" of weapons. Proposed solution 1. It would be nice to introduce separate numeric multiplier options similar to how zombie multipliers work. "Ranged weapon quantity multiplier" / "Ranged weapon chance multiplier" / "Ammo quantity multiplier" / "Ammo chance multiplier". 2. Clarify the descriptions so that a user would know what to expect from this options. 3. Introduce a very small chance for "extraordinary" items (like weapons, nails, seeds, special magazines or skill books) to be found in common places - on civilian zombies and normal book shelves for example. 0.1% chance by default could work - in fact there is a slight chance that a civilian could have a holster with a gun in it or a box of ammo. The multiplier however could increase this chance (say, a 30x multiplier will turn 0.1% into 3% chance) which means that what is supposed to be "abundant" will be "abundant" not only in special looting locations but overall on the whole map. Description Initially I wanted to benchmark all weapons in the game on runner zombies. I increased zombie stats and make them always run. I set spawn rates of weapons/ammo to "abundant" and expected that I will find a lot in the houses all over the map because I knew that there is a decent chance to find a gun case with weapons in a normal house in a double wardrobe. I picked a "lucky" trait on my character to increase the chances of finding weapons even further. However, after playing and looting a couple of houses I realized that not only I can't find "all types of weapon in the game" - but I can't find ANY firearms at all... I was killed numerous times because even a small group of 2-3 runner zombies with increased stats is almost unbeatable in melee. I tried with "lucky" trait and without it. In 8 hours I managed to find 1 rifle, 2 pistols and numerous shotguns however it's not super rare to find pistols and shotguns in just normal houses with two floors and wardrobes even on "rare" setting so I didn't notice the difference... and weapons are by far not "abundant". Because Abundant is supposed to mean that there are a lot, right? Or at least this is what a user expects. This just doesn't feel right. It may be that "lucky" trait overrides the modifiers of the loot spawn that I chose in the sandbox menu. It may be that weapon rarity modifiers do not affect GUN CASES containing weapons, but only affect the spawn chances of weapons themselves... which are not the main source of weapons because in civilian houses GUN CASES are seen more often. It may be that the difference is just not significant enough to be recognized. Like, if the default chances are 1% per wardrobe and "abundant" increases it to 4% per wardrobe it still means you will spend weeks trying to find what you look for.

So I made a nice functional little mod which adds a bunch of zombie outfits the spawn pools, based off another mod. That's all working great. But I'm trying to expand the functionality right now and I'm running into a really weird and frustrating issue. The thing is, I want to add spawn chance multipliers and a couple of booleans as sandboxvars that control whether certain behaviours run or not. Now, so far as I can tell all of this code should work but the game is completely ignoring any changes to the settings themselves. Take, for instance, this block; ExosEnabled = 0 if SandboxVars.ArcStalkerOutfits.ExoZombies == true then noise('Exo Zombie Spawns: Enabled') ExosEnabled = 1 end Simple enough, right? ExosEnabled serves as a final multiplier to the chance of all zombies of a specific type. It defaults to x0, and if the sandbox option is true then it prints a message to the console/log that says they're enabled and sets the multiplier to x1. A few lines later, the base spawn chance is multiplied by the faction spawn chance, and then by the ExosEnabled value - and anything multiplied by zero equals zero, so the chance of ever seeing those types of zombies in the wild should be... zero. But here's the kicker; the sandboxvar defaults to true, and even if I uncheck the box so that it's false it still acts like it's true and prints the message to the console/log. The only way it actually stops doing that is if I set the default value of the sandboxvar to false in the sandbox-options.txt. And even then, it still apparently treats ExosEnabled as 1, because I'm still able to find that zombie type in the world by random chance. Worse, it's also treating every other sandboxvar added by the mod as 1, and for some reason if I try to print their value to the console they come back as blank. Everything else works, there's no compile errors in the console, nothing like that. The sandbox options are just being completely ignored for reasons I can't fathom. Are they just busted to the point I should use Mod Options or Easy Config? Is there some trick I'm missing? Have all mod SandboxVars secretly been FUBAR this entire time and somehow nobody's noticed?

In my adventures to create a mod that adds new zombies to the spawn lists, I've been trying to add configuration options that, well, function as intended. My efforts have been blocked either because the 'core' sandbox options don't apply consistently, and I know they're not applying reliably, because if I put a nice little block of code into my mod to print the variable values to the console, it always returns the default values set in the sandbox-options.txt instead of the values I defined during game setup. I've tried using OnLoad and OnGameStart functions in which case they do work... but only for Singleplayer, and then the functions completely break Multiplayer compatibility -- which is a dealbreaker. All I want to do is make it so players and serveradmins can adjust the spawning frequency of certain types of zombie to suit their tastes. Having sandbox vars be saved, loaded, and applied properly would go a long way, and it's possible this is a problem for other mods using them as well.

I've downloaded dedicated server files from steam and created a new profile in the ingame server settings editor. How do I force the server to use the new profile, not the "servertest" one? All of the guides online only teach you how to host the most basic server without editing configs etc. so I can't find any help there.