By global I mean a script that will run regardless of where the player is, i.e. what cell is loaded. Specifically, I need to write a script that monitors the player's input and changes character attributes in response. The most straightforward way to accomplish this seems to be write a script with an OnInit() handler that calls RegisterForSingleUpdate(), and so forth. I'm not sure what type of object to attach such a script to, though.

According to the documentation for OnInit() I could do this by attaching the script to a quest that's set to run at startup, although this seems a bit hacky to me. Is there a standard way of doing this? In Unity terms, it seems like it would be better to use something akin to an empty game object.

It's probably worth mentioning that I don't care if the script runs while the player is in menus.

Not hacky, but common practice! Quest objects don't always have to be used for making missions. If it works, don't argue

- Hypno

Haha alright, fair enough. I'll give it a shot.

Normally, if you want to track something about the player specifically, you use a ReferenceAlias script that belongs to a quest alias that's pointing at the player reference. However, this still requires you to create a dummy start-enabled quest in order to define the alias, so if you're already using a Quest script and got it working, just stick with that.

I'm not familiar with how aliases work yet so yeah, it sounds like just using a dummy quest is the simpler approach, especially if I need it anyway to serve as a starting point for everything.