Is is safe to use Extend Thing when the Thing might not be present?

[TheIronGolem]

First, a massive thanks to LW for adding "Extend Thing". Incredibly useful feature.

Anyway, I am doing something for an update for Spheres of Power that I'm working on. It involves using Extend Thing on a big list of item powers (weapon, armor, and shield abilities to be precise). What I'm doing works just fine, but I have a concern.

Some of the item powers I need to extend come from Ultimate Equipment. I do not want to make Ultimate Equipment a dependency for SoP (can't, actually, since SoP has been out for months). I have tried removing UE from the "Choose Supplement Packages" menu and re-compiling. That seems to work; I don't get any errors about missing thingid's or anything. However, I'd like to confirm that this would work for someone who really-for-real doesn't have any of the data packages that would add the Thing being extended. Otherwise I risk breaking SoP for some of my customers, which is...not ideal.

 

[AndrewD2]

You can disable individual packages in the development section so you can disable UE and then run and see what hapens.

 

[TheIronGolem]

I know, and I've done that. I'm just trying to make sure that doing so accurately simulates not having the disabled package(s) present. I'd look (and feel) like a real schmuck if I put out an update for SoP that broke it for anyone who didn't have a particular book they'd never needed before.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Using that disable feature is exactly the same as not having the license. As all the Things from the package do not exist or load into HL.