Rampant brand intelligence can select undismantleable vendors

[Toastical]

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BYOND Version

515.1647

Issue Description

Rampant brand intelligence can select undismantleable vendors, making them unfixable.

What did you expect to happen?

For it to ignore unfixable vendors

What happened instead?

It picked the PTech vendor and was unfixable, short of destroying it.

Why is this bad/What are the consequences?

No response

Steps to reproduce the issue.

rampant brand intelligence infects PTech vendor (merch probably too). Try screwdriving the vendor, nothing happens

When did the problem start happening?

Probably since rampant brand intelligence came to existence.

Extra information

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Relevant log output/runtime error

[Ionward]

you don’t disassemble vendors to stop the machine intelligence, people just do this (annoyingly) to stop them from exploding if they don’t find the right one. all you need to do is disable the speaker and the machine will tell you it’s dying, and you’ve stopped the rampancy. if you can hack it with a multitool you can disable the intelligence

[Toastical]

you don’t disassemble vendors to stop the machine intelligence, people just do this (annoyingly) to stop them from exploding if they don’t find the right one. all you need to do is disable the speaker and the machine will tell you it’s dying, and you’ve stopped the rampancy. if you can hack it with a multitool you can disable the intelligence

Fair enough. You still can't open their panel to hack them, however.