After about a solid day of dialogue writing and what not my quest is working perfectly, except for this one thing. In the dialogue result box I put

hh_aqiirschest-> additem "hh_specialpotion" -5

hh_aqqiirschest being the merchants chest and hh_specialpotion being the item I wish to be respawning in their inventory. It sort of worked, except the merchant carries something like 65k instances of the item, instead of 5 respawning instances. I also tried just adding 5 without the negative but then of course he only stocks 5 and they don't respawn. Any ideas?

I see a spacing error in that code, try

hh_aqiirschest->additem "hh_specialpotion" -5

the 'fix' aka -> should never have spaces around it.

Ah, fixed that. Not sure why I did that, I didn't in any of my other dialogue stuff. Anyway, it still gives the merchant 65k hh_specialpotion.

hmm....I have a feeling you cannot give a negative number to him via script, however what you could maybe try is this....make a new container for him with the potions in it set to -5 and assigned to him as owner with a script on it disabling it until the event happens that you want to happen, at which time the container gets enabled. No idea if this would work..but it is an idea.

Edit: script for chest

Begin hh_aqiirschest2_scriptShort ChestEnableShort DoOnceIf ( DoOnce == 0 )	If ( ChestEnable == 0 )		Disable	Else		Enable	Endif	Set DoOnce to 1EndifEnd hh_aqiirschest2_script

Put these lines in the dialog results box (assuming you named your new chest hh_aqiirschest2):

set hh_aqiirschest2.ChestEnable to 1set hh_aqiirschest2.DoOnce to 0

Yup, that works. Thanks a lot! First quest in my mod is done! I'll credit you for your scripting contribution, never would have got that on my own.

Glad I could Help

Oh wait, no. Damn. The script you wrote works properly, in that the chest won't appear until I complete that dialogue option, but for some reason, even though there is no instance of the chest or the potion besides this one, it still appears in his inventory. I'm going to try making it so that Aq'Iir owns the cell instead of the chest, that way he won't own the chest or it's contents until it appears and therefore shouldn't be able to sell it.

edit: can you set cell ownership in Morrowind?

You can't add ownership to cells, only objects the PC can pick up or activate.

I think your problem may be that disabled chest does exist but just inactive, but from your observations, it seems disabled containers can be accesses

I think its better to placing it rather than disabling it shhould be better solution.

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