Zakhad

They're not permanent colonists and the issues we had which brought around this was with people stripping royalty dlc temporary pawns with high level gear/guns i,e mercenaries with power armours...

I don't think you can change any equipment they already have is that what you're implying, as that's intended? i,e changing the loin cloth to idk striped pants because they...

Just use WM smarter food selection mod :S and use the various patches to it in #patches channel of the hcsk discord. Which will sort out your issue your having...

That's due to batons having a unique modifier that doesn't rely on raw damage that which isn't taken into account into when simple side-arms mod auto-switching to best melee weapon...

Still a problem?

 While not a direct answer but a alternative solution to the question/problem could be in that you could stop the event entirely via incident tweaker mod and or other...

Is this still a current bug?

I believe this was recently addressed, before they used to be too strong i think, i'm not sure if this is still a current issue.

We've had a 1.3 update for the past 3 or so months. It's not been moved to master/stable branch of github if I were to presume that's what you meant....