disable building certain buildings?

[lawnknome]

hello i have a question and i dont know if its possible but i would like to find out. i want to disable the ability to build a certain building, is there a way to make some buildings restricted? if so how do i do it? thank you

[Silari]

You can't do it with permissions AFAIK but you could do it via a mod (by disabling the recipe to make the building and removing it from any technology) or a scenario (by disabling the recipe any time a force completes a research).

Slightly more complicated if it's a building that's still needed otherwise (to make something else). It's also possible for a mod/scenario to catch the build event for the building you don't want and then destroy the building. Sometimes doesn't get everything though if playing with instant build mods or such.

[eradicator]

Slightly more complicated if it's a building that's still needed otherwise (to make something else). It's also possible for a mod/scenario to catch the build event for the building you don't want and then destroy the building.

It would be far easier to remove the items_to_place_this relationship between item and entity. I.e. by setting the item prototype place_result to nil. This wouldn't effect recipes, items or existing buildings. It would only prevent building new ones. Drawback is that it's not controllable per-player.