-validated-

did a fast test

moved the shop module to a ship, restored the original blockconfig and restartet the game.
the shop was at no point operational.

are you able to supply modified configs for your server setup and telling me what blocks should be blocked from having access and should not be operational where exactly

We're trying to restrict shields from ships and make them station only. We've had limited success by changing the ID number of shields to -redacted- and -redacted- respectively but it's definitely a stopgap solution. I'll poke BDLS to poke the configs.

Further update: the issue is not the blocks like shops, factories being operational. The issue is that they're allowed to be placed in the first place, whether it be a BP or a shipyard. On a server where restricting shields to stations is part of the custom config, it seriously interferes with that config without some sort of hacky workarounds.

There is the server.cfg setting:

REMOVE_ENTITIES_WITH_INCONSISTENT_BLOCKS = false //This will remove ships that have blocks that are normally disallowed (e.g. space station blocks on ships)

that helped us get by this issue by changing the value to true. Perhaps it should be true by default? OR perhaps the game just deleting the offending blocks, not the entire entity?

Oh .. i did thought you had that set to true to get that effect in the first place.

i can now close this because it works as intended ?
(aside from deleting not complying ships, which is an intended behaviour)

The setting itself is a little iffy sometimes, but it does eventually work. Go ahead and close it.