Can I use vending machines to sell soda?

[xkpd3]

Hi,

I'm rather at the beginning of the game. I got the device. Now I thought it might be possible to use the Vending Machine to sell soda. Is there a way to find out what values a Method accepts? CreateDrink("WellspringSoda") does not work.

[Ray]

Good question. Actually it's been a while since I play this game, have you à working example of createDrink method ?
I've searched on Google but I think this game don't have complete Sprak documentation for now. Maybe you can use another method for get thing's name. I think we can do that.

[Ray]

@xkpd3 : Have you tried CreateDrink("WellspringSoda", 100) ?

[xkpd3]

Yeah, it does not work. The default is CreateDrink("Coke", 100), which works fine. I tried CreateDrink("StorageDepot_Wellspringsoda", 100) and some variations of WellspringSoda, Wellspring_Soda (lower-case also).

From other source examples, I think that it might be necessary to connect the Vending Machine somehow with the StorageDepot. When I drop the soda at a place where I can't drop it, the error message names the soda can "StorageDepot_Wellspringsoda234". I assume this is the concrete can.

[mreed2]

My guess is that you /can/ do this (if nothing else, find a computer that supports searching rooms for objects, search the warehouse for a Wellsping soda, and teleport it to the machine, all of this being triggered by activating the vending machine), but...

1) The odds that someone will purchase a soda from a particular vending machine is low,
2) You'll have to modify the vending machines one at a time (unfortunetly -- you would think that you could use stoves to perform mass updates, but you can't because there is no way to set the object that a stove interacts with programatically),
3) The computer at the warehouse doesn't actually check to see if you have actually sold the soda that you claim -- instead, it simply deducts the money for the number of soda's that you claim of have solde from your account. So, if you want to sell 1 million sodas, first get 10 million $ (if I'm remembering correctly)... :)
4) I'm pretty confident that the OOB vending machine doesn't actually charge money for the drinks it dispenses, so...

[xkpd3]

@mreed2: Indeed. I was looking for an automated way to make money. But hacking the warehouse computer is way easier.