Making a minion benefit from master's feats
 

I'm implementing a series of feats that a character can take to give bonuses to certain minions.

The way I did this at first was to use a foreach loop to look for qualifying minions and apply the effects. This works, but I don't like doing it. I've got several such feats and having them all iterate through every minion on a pet-heavy character is the sort of thing that makes ShadowChemosh appear in your bathroom mirror right before you're never heard from again.

So instead I created a Simple object to act as a helper, bootstrapped that to the minion, and moved the feats' logic to that helper (one script for each feat it implements). Here's an example what that looks like:

The problem with this approach is that it keeps up with adding/removing the feat, but not with disabling/reenabling it (say, via the "Feat/Trait Disable" Adjustment) unless I reload the system or trigger a full evaluation. I'm not sure why. Doesn't seem like a matter of my script running too early or else it would never work. Is there some aspect of the master/minion loading order that I'm not accounting for?

Very little is recalculated on characters other than the currently active character when something changes on the active character, because otherwise, the 20-drone rigger characters in Shadowrun can take noticeable numbers of seconds to respond to every change. So if this is a script running on something on a character other than the currently active one, it will be skipped until that is the active character (or until there's a full evaluation, which happens either when triggered or when first loading the portfolio).

Okay, that makes sense.

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