How to force ammunition contents into POI?

I am trying to make a custom base for a POI, using normal weapons instead of alien weapons.

The trouble I'm having is that normal weapons require ammunition for the turrets to work. Unfortunately when the POI spawns, the contents of the ammo crates are randomly seeded, so they don't have the ammunition that the turrets need to work.

I've seen custom freighters with customized ammo, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to force specific ammunition into ammo crates for blueprints. Anyone?

 

You cannot force a specific ammo in the boxes.

When the POI is running off an alien core, it will never run out of ammo (or fuel), it seems to draw these needed things out of thin air.

 

But turrets such as rocket launchers don't work unless the correct ammo is in an ammunition box, even for a POI.

 

You cannot make a POI with 'Player' weapons and have them work. You have to use the "Alien" named turrets on POI. And then stick in an Alien Core. That is how POI work as of today.

 

They work if you manually add ammunition to them after they've spawned. I've been pummeled by the rockets of my custom POI.

That's my trouble - getting the correct ammunition inside without having to revert to using console commands to get inside and add it manually.

 

Ah, I see.

Hmm. Maybe we can get a little devluv there and get a tweak to either content-setting, or allowing any turrets to draw 'invisible ammo'.

 

They could do that. But wasn't the purpose of the alien weapons to avoid doing that?

 

Yup.

Alien weapons, Alien core.
Player weapons, Player core.

But... being an all alien POI seems limiting. Like many of the recent civil structures have no turrets, because putting alien turrets on them didn't seem right.

 

In single player will it always be player vs alien?

If not, then I'm interested in how they intend to handle cores and weapons for NPC factions.

Right now the AI can't handle resupply, etc. So unlimited 'alien' weapons make sense. But it the end, I prefer NPCs to have limited ammo, just like us.

 

Anyway, for now I will manually add the ammo as necessary, unless a better way is found

 

In due time. They have to get one faction (Aliens) perfected first before they can start mixing in even more. Kind of like right now they are focused on making one solar system working great, before they go adding a galaxy of systems in.

WHEN, no idea. We'll just have to wait and see.