How do stalkers decide when to pick up weapons?

[Decepticon]

The problem I'm having is I've added a new weapon to the game (CS), and it all works fine unless you drop it on the ground near another stalker, at which point the game crashes to desktop. Drop it where there's no people around and it's fine, but if there's a stalker nearby then as soon as he starts to walk towards it the game crashes. So I'm thinking there's some list somewhere with weapon priorities or something that determines wheather they should pick it up or not, and since my new weapon is'nt on there it's causing a CTD.

Anyone know anything about this? Or maybe have any other suggestions as to what might be the problem? any help would be much appreciated

Edit: I see some files in AI/common called weaponeffectiveness.efd, mainweaponvalue.efd etc. Anyone know of a way to view/edit these files?

[Nightwatch]

I can't say for sure how it works in CS, but in SoC when you've added a new weapon into the game, you also need to add that weapon into the gamedata\config\mp file , in one of the ranks there; e.g. [rank_2] will do just fine. Like this: (add the weapon at the end of the list after a comma.)

(Maybe the soc example will draw some parallels)

[rank_2]
.....
.....
.....
available_items = mp_wpn_spas12, mp_wpn_groza, mp_wpn_sig550, ..........................

[Decepticon]

thankyou thankyou thankyou Nightwatch , you were bang-on, the configs/mp/mp_ranks.ltx file determines which weapons an NPC will pick up (has something to do with the online game as well, but I don't care about that). So now my new weapon works perfectly!

My next challenge is to tie it into a quest...