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Reika wrote:I tried to make an infinitely-researchable tech (not just registering thousands of individual techs, but one that resets itself upon completion for true infinity). I used the event system, particularly the "on research complete" event to accomplish this. However, even though the event fires, the research remains "completed". No error is thrown, the code just appears to do nothing. Is the flag I unset only set after the event is fired (and is there any chance that could be changed)?

The relevant code:

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require "defines"
require "util"

script.on_event(defines.events.on_research_finished, function(event)
	if event.research.name == "evo-factor" then
		reduceEvolution()
		
		--reset tech so it can be researched again, ad infinitum
		game.player.force.technologies['evo-factor'].researched=false
	end
end)

require "defines"
require "util"

local reset_evo_factor = false

script.on_event(defines.events.on_research_finished, function(event)
	if event.research.name == "evo-factor" then
		reduceEvolution()
		
		--reset tech so it can be researched again, ad infinitum
		reset_evo_factor = true
	end
end)

script.on_event(defines.events.on_tick, function(event)
	if reset_evo_factor then
		reset_evo_factor = false
		game.forces['player'].technologies['evo-factor'].researched=false
	end
end)