extremely late, but i did an add-on several years ago that replaced Rex Chance with Lucy Willing and it seemed to work fine. i'm not sure why you would've been having difficulties getting Lucy to work, i don't recall having any issues with it.

should do a luciy one

UPDATE: There is now a 30 second delay before Rex respawns at the lab after being killed.

I just tried adding a kill button to Rex, but I think that functionality is likely hardcoded out of him. The button appears, and he'll play his "confirm" dialogue if you try to kill him, but nothing will happen.

@wolfcubs thanks for the feedback, sorry I'm just getting to this now.

To answer a few of your questions:

1: I've done numerous tests to try to get Lucy and other entities to spawn instead of Rex but everything I have tried has caused the game to pwait, which leads us to believe that the gamemode lua looks for very specific model files (even the Lucy files renamed Rex aren't accepted.) If I can figure out some way to get Lucy to spawn successfully I may push it in a future update.

2. Keeping Rex from spawning until L3 will probably be the most probable nerf. I have tried putting a spawn timer in but because of the loop format it'll be immensely difficult at the very least to implement. Will do more testing when I find the time.

3. I like the Kill button idea, I'll look into this as well.

Rex chance at your service hahahaha Nibb killing it

This is a really neat idea and seems to be working pretty well.

While testing this I had some additional thoughts I wanted to ask you about:

- Is it also possible to also spawn Lucy instead of Rex?

- Maybe bind Rex to level 3 since he is pretty OP during in early game?

- Or enable some sort of cooldown in between his spawns (say 60 seconds)?

- Also while playing I thought it might be useful to add a kill button to Rex in case a player needs him back at base asap

All in all, its an interesting idea and I was positively surprised to see this pop up. Nice work!

Rex Chance, at your service.