nice work! I have been wanting to do this for ages but never had the time. Since I was able to test this a ton before life caught up with me, I think I can help with some of the issues/unknown.

To prevent any sort of auto/broken item switching behavior when a crewmember is not following you, set:

"parameters": {
"scriptConfig": {
"behaviorConfig" {
"emptyHands": false
}
}
}


In the vanilla script, the medic/chemist active effects trigger are not tied to whether the medic/chemist has those items.

For sheathed items you can essentially recreate the items table found on the npctype file, wherein you create an "override" column and add the primary/sheathed weapon attributes there.

Any armor found in the override table on spawn will overwrite anything not programmatically set via a script. Even if the npctype file has an override item table as well.

it would be formatted like:

"parameters" {
"items": {
"override": [[0,[{"primary": ["weaponid"], "sheathedprimary": ["weaponid"] }]]]
}
}

To help clarify other unknown behaviors:

- NPCs will only use weapons from their primary hand.
- 2hs have a higher selection preference than a 1h/shield combo.
- NPCs do not switch between 2h weaps and 1h weaps.
- NPCs will prioritize using a gun until they either run out of energy or 5-10 seconds has gone by. It will then go into melee for a time until they gain their energy back.
- Shields will be used only if its found on the secondary slot

- NPCs/Crewmbers DO have energy limits, and due to crewmembers being forced to level 1, they only have ~10 energy. This means that the cool lategame guns usually will only be fired once before the npc switches to melee.

Hope this helps!