I'm trying to disable everyone in the Citadel.
Now, so far I got a script which individually disables all the residents, but the list is long, confusing and there are some NPCs I've missed.

So I thought about a single script which would eliminate them all.
Now, they all have in common that they belong to the list NPCCitadelResidentList. They all also belong to the faction CitadelResidentFaction.
Would I have the chance of making a script which disables everyone belonging to that list/faction?

I don't want to use an enable marker since it would make my mod incompatible with so, so many mods.

You could do it with the http://fose.silverlock.org/fose_command_doc.html commands GetFirstRef & GetNextRef along with a label and an http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/IsInList command.

EDIT:Or you could use http://geck.gamesas.com/index.php/GetInFaction with the above.

All right.
Now... How would the script be made?

I've never used FOSE in my modding yet so I'm noob on that front.

Use this code to step through all the actors in a cell, just declare the rCurRef variable.

		set rCurRef to GetFirstRef 200 0 0	;All actors		Label 10		if rCurRef			if (rCurRef.IsInList NPCCitadelResidentList)				rCurRef.disable				Goto 10			else				set rCurRef to GetNextRef				Goto 10			Endif		Endif

Got it. Thanks.

Bethesda had to selectively enable and disable enemy Enclave soldier NPCs for the walk with Liberty Prime. If I remember correctly, they both used enable parenting, and, they would run a disable on the named REFs. Just so you know, in case complications come in the future, maybe it will mean something.

That or maybe I'm remembering wrong =p

Changing the "GetFirstRef 200 0 0" to "GetFirstRef 42 0 0" might be slightly more effecient as that will only look for NPCs as opposed to all actors (which includes creatures).