It is the year 2021 and Caretaker is still invisible

Caretakers are still missing a Ghost in fog of war, unlike all other buildings.

Then why can't I throw them with lobsters?

I'm pretty sure the Ghosts are drawn using client-side lua instead of the engine itself, can't it just include Caretaker too?

Mod edit: removed some smurf shitpost

quote: If the topic is true..... Why is there a need of a widget?

The engine considers statics with buildpower to be factories. Therefore Caretaker is a mobile unit with every aspect of its mobility removed - but it still identifies as mobile.

The engine does not do ghosts for mobile units.

quote: The engine considers statics with buildpower to be factories.

quote: Why is it a mobile unit?

A factory's buildpower only applies to the units it starts building itself. It sounds like an old TA-ism, one of the things about the engine that is probably undesireable in this day and age. The engine's defaults are not the best for Z-K, and many systems have been re-implemented or implemented from scratch in lua gadgets.

quote: . There's very few people that even know it can be transported as it's such a useless feature of the unit.

Caretaker cannot be transported or teleported.

Caretaker had a ghost in earlier years but this feature was removed from the engine in the name of clearing up inconsistencies. Consider yourself lucky that it doesn't have radar wobble, because even that had to be patched up with lua after the change.