If i understand correctly, in the original game the player had full control over equipping "combat gear" or not for a girl, and there was a setting in config.xml, to auto-equip and unequip gear - which may or may not have worked at all.
Then as the game was modded, for "some reason" (probably realism >.>) the autoequip/unequip was made the default, and the config.xml var still doesn't do anything.
Is that correct?
>.> Fine, but if the game forces control over combat gear equip/unequip, and the player has no proper control over this, then this "automation" has to actually work - right now, it does not work for combat training lessons via the interaction menu. Those lessons still expect the player to manually equip combat gear. The result is that the player has to fight against automation: Whenever one assigns a girl to a job where gear would be "unproper", the game automatically unequips - but if one then sends a girl to a combat lesson, one wastes 500 coins if one forgets to manually reequip the stuff.