Add/Remove chips should return warnings, not errors

Feature Requests In-Game (Circuits, Logic, Building Blocks)
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Inventory Item Add, Inventory Item Remove, as well as Rooms V1’s Award Currency, and Award Consumable, will all return circuit errors when trying to add/remove negative or 0 amounts

Creators should not have to add filters to each one of their chips that say “If less than or equal to 0, skip, else add/remove item”. It should just return a circuit warning, not a circuit error. The chip literally has a Success output that could just return false if it failed

For those who don’t know:

  • Circuit errors completely stop execution and throw a red error log
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  • Circuit warnings don’t stop execution, but the chip still does nothing and a yellow warning log is entered saying why nothing happened
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I understand why we cannot add/remove negative amounts, as that could lead to incorrect math removing/giving items when it shouldn’t, if giving a dynamic amount, this still does not mean an error should be thrown, negative or 0 amounts should return a warning

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YES! Same should go with Player-Focused Event Senders sending to an invalid player, as this COMPLETELY halts anything up ahead

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No, this is something that should stay as an error

When you are sending an event to a player, the game is expecting you to send it to a valid player. When you input invalid, it goes “woah, this isnt a player” and throws an error

If you want to do something with an invalid player, send the event to all and use If Player Is Valid And Local containing a player

If for some reason you do need to dynamically check validity, its niche enough and simple enough you could just do If Is Valid/If Player Is Valid, where as checking the counts of inventory items is not as simple, as its not instant, something like Inventory Item Get Count does not return a value instantly

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