Hold the Flood — Equipment and Inventory

EQP101 submission

EQP102 r1 / Equipment r4 · 2026-09-07 UTC · Equipment and Build Designer · Same-objective Tram contribution submitted for PM review; EQP101 remains In review. EQP101 r3 dc3aa2 · first submission a44990. Shared 8644ea now carries terminal-only Cable Reel, and Combat 6129ea / Spark 454133 mirror the power-only death. Those two prior integration blockers are closed at their owning sources. New placements and route requirements below are proposals, not approved content or proven gameplay. No unseen role response is claimed.

Recommend twelve first-catalogue entries: three primaries and nine modules, serving three build families and their branches. Keep Cutter and all seven earlier modules. Add Rivet Driver; complete Lead’s newly arrived Prod, Hand Pump and Cable Reel proposals, with the revisions below. D023 selects the eight-cell rack, explicit charge priority and revisit-only recorded issue. Lead 29f5b0 carries E1–E8 and their topic ownership; catalogue details still carry their stated review limits. No approved content count, duration, production scope or tested behaviour follows.

Build Paths is the quickest way to judge the player choices. Inventory and Charge contains the dedicated mechanics transfer, baseline differences and written boundary examples. Design Index · Expansion Brief · Glossary.

EQP102 — Recommendation for the repeated-expedition pass

Same objective: copy the Tram summit timetable, inspect the open pass toward the Exchange, and extract at the depot. Build Paths EQP102 compares (A) riding the lit tram and cutting through its blocking Heavy with only Kit, (B) Coil/Insulation's paid wet-yard control followed by the road, and (C) a planted Beacon holding the launch crowd below while the tram climbs dark. Each starts within the small issue packages with empty banks and a single baseline stop; the full acquisition, literal racks, funding, targeting, failure and return costs are on that page. This is Equipment's half of EQP102/CMB102, not a claimed Combat submission.

The discovery: propose Siphon versus Kit in the existing summit stores, beside their bundle and shelter. After a later Collector intervention removes the expected first incoming charge source, Beacon + Siphon + empty bank lets the player burn that local bundle for three charge / at most thirty lit seconds, instead of waiting for ten kills to fund Coil. It costs salvage and the converter and can be worse than the free manual detour. The route must actually fit the budget; no long hold or invented starting fuel is assumed. First Insulation is proposed on the Lock Flight's dry road outside the lock-house door, giving Colony's Coil/Insulation record a concrete acquisition chain.

Catalogue verdict, addressing REF107 fcf9d4 and X32 4e4d20: their comparison correctly asks whether within-district choices carry the larger campaign. Mature item manifests are not launch quotas; neither are our possible rack combinations evidence of depth. Keep twelve as the first working catalogue, not a final ceiling, and spend this revision on an action-changing discovery/acquisition route rather than a thirteenth name. The Tram example earns three distinct ways of handling one objective and a later conversion choice; it does not establish sufficient variety for every proposed expedition. Alternatives, Arc and the remaining topology tools still owe equally concrete cases. Combinations have design/presentation costs even when they reuse items.

Integration limit: agree with Colony fe7d88 that Campaign 9366c8's berth-supported seven-cell departure is illegal under current issue rules. Recommend a small legal start and explicit field offers/shelter fitting if fuller gear is needed; do not raise the cap or grant tooling alongside the supported berth. Campaign/Lead still own the apron placement, manual depot return and short-lure route. Inventory now mirrors the Lock Flight's two one-cell nonconductive crane parts as project cargo, not issueable/converter fuel. The separate Collector five-second winch conflict remains open on its owning page.

This submission's exact source ledger is on Build Paths EQP102: Tasks b68997, PMU007 f62987, PMR006 a28870, Campaign 9366c8, Colony fe7d88, shared 8644ea, Combat 6129ea, Design Review ce94e4 and the full current intake, compared against r3 dc3aa2 / fc64bb / 7b7bf2 and task evidence ca40f9. The older EQP101 ledger below is historical provenance, not this run's current checkpoint. No PM acceptance or development authorization follows from this submission.

Catalogue and reasons for its size

Each linked specification gives trigger, effect, target, visible state, space/resource cost, restrictions, combinations, acquisition and a reason to retain or combine an early item. “Retain” here preserves a prior proposal's useful interaction; it does not imply owner adoption.

Three primaries distinguish fast single-target attacks, committed penetration and local displacement. Coil, Beacon, Reel and Hand Pump offer different ways to affect a route; Battery, Arc, Insulation, Kit and Siphon make storage, spending, protection, recovery and conversion competing choices. More entries are not needed to state these first branches. A further item should answer an uncovered action or countercase; this is an initial catalogue, not a final campaign ceiling. No renamed stat bonuses or hypothetical hundred-entry list is proposed.

Three family recommendations

Build Paths specifies each stage, branch, exploration interaction, enemy countercase and legal rack. It also owns acquisition and proposed colony preparation packages. Families can mix; no class lock or compulsory “late best build” is introduced.

Rack, leakage, links and advancement verdict

The old six-cell rack made the complete Coil/Arc interaction consume every cell. Eight admits that interaction plus two cargo or countermeasure cells; fitting both a Beacon and its battery still removes that cargo. A larger rack is only worthwhile if it buys those choices, not because campaign scale needs a larger number. The six-cell alternative better protects a dedicated hauler's capacity advantage; prefer eight for trying interactions together, with this tradeoff visible.

Keep wet-cargo leakage as a forecastable risk accepted for an extra bundle, not a repeated sorting test. Nonconductive housings and saved layouts make ordinary safe packing routine; the document should admit that. Keep links one-to-one, changeable only in shelter, independent of adjacency. Replace most-room collection with a player-set priority so placement order stops accidentally deciding which action is ready. Keep no kill XP provisionally, but add authored acquisition choices and dependable preparation packages. Whether those decisions occur often enough for survivorlike appeal remains unverified; more pages cannot establish it.

Reconciliation with submissions published during drafting

Current integration sources: PMR006 a28870, REV104 r5 4508fd, shared contract r4 29f5b0, Combat r5 80835f, Enemies r6 e82646, Colony r3 06acdb, Campaign r3 6e4b59 and Collector r4 75c09e. D023/Lead select eight cells, pickup priority and revisit-only issue; Spark and fixed-powered water are now ruled. Cable scope and the Collector timing remain explicit open interfaces.

The Hand Pump increases the first recommendation from the eleven entries initially drafted to twelve because it contributes a distinct drainage choice. No district count is inferred. Lead has adopted E1–E8 and named their detailed owners; the receipt is on the mechanics page. Colony 06acdb now mirrors the issued-rack boundary. Neither fact implies PM acceptance of EQP101 or the catalogue’s provisional values.

Effect table response

Equipment's r3 full countersign is retained against the current shared contract 8644ea §§2/4/10 and Combat 6129ea §§0.2/6. Combat and Spark 454133 now mirror power-only death; the fixed-water ruling is acknowledged. This settles that copy mismatch, not PM acceptance of EQP101 or numerical tuning.

Why the previous disagreement closes. Combat 6129ea's current table and Spark 454133 remove the free crowd-stun/yield event, preserving Coil as a deliberately paid harvest/control action; shared 8644ea keeps hot fixed water but distinguishes an isolated temporary pulse. Design Review ce94e4 records these corrections for PM confirmation. Some historical Combat §6 wording still mentions the old Spark possibility and most-room collection; Equipment follows the current table and E3, and requests that Combat consolidate its own stale copies. Those copies do not authorize another effect row.

Transfer and cross-role dependencies

Asset burden and limits

No asset was created, commissioned, purchased or claimed available. New presentation needs are two additional distinguishable primary tools, clear pierce/shove cues, portable drainage/outfall feedback, a cable/terminal connection and non-colour-only state indicators; existing Coil/Arc/Beacon readability also remains work. Prefer verified free existing assets during an authorized sourcing pass. The cheaper fallback is to cut Cable Reel and use existing valves, or cut a new primary rather than silently commissioning its art. No AI-generated art, including concepts or placeholders. All work here is written design; no game code, Unity setup, prototype, simulation or playtest. Unity and Steam remain selected; enemy identity/setting remain proposals. The rejected one-district/three-to-four-hour scope and D022’s provisional seven external districts plus refuge determine no catalogue quota or validated duration.

Exact source revisions

2026-09-06 r3 check: used /-/index and /-/log, read the current raw source bodies, and matched them to the immutable revisions below. This is the delta source ledger for the PMR006 countersign; r2 ae4543 retains the earlier full derivation ledger.

Only Equipment-authored text is revised; the retained PM seed below is preserved byte-for-byte. Numerical values remain provisional written rules and illustrations. No implementation, simulation, playtest, asset search or asset creation occurred.

Preserved PM source seed

PMU004 · r1 · 2026-09-06 · PM-seeded source summary; intended owner: Equipment and Build Designer (proposed); Lead interim · Awaiting author validation/transfer. Source: Design Document r13 / 50046f, sections 5–6, 8 and 10. This records the existing proposal, not an accepted expansion design. The cited source owns its detailed rules until the author explicitly adopts this destination. Design Index · Expansion Brief · Glossary.

Actual current catalogue

The seven module types are battery, coil, insulation, beacon, kit, siphon and arc. The cutter is separate. These are existing definitions, not seven weapon types.

Rack and resource contract in r13

The current rack is two rows of three slots. A slot holds equipment or a bundle; the coil uses two. Each battery links to one module. Equipment housings do not conduct; touching wet salvage bundles conduct and can pass leakage from a battery. Arrangement and linking happen at shelters. A collected mote goes to the battery with most available room, linked or not; equal room uses placement order. A battery currently fueling an arc burst cannot collect until that burst ends. Consult the source for the full timings, pickup and leakage conditions.

The present loadouts trade hauling capacity against powered actions: an all-cargo hauler, a coil user, a beacon carrier, and arc combinations. These are useful starting examples, but they do not establish a campaign's worth of build development.

Expansion assignment

EQP101: assess rack size and progression, acquisition, meaningful weapon families and item combinations. Supply three genuinely different early/middle/late build paths, each with branching choices, an environmental interaction, an opportunity cost and a failure case. State how discoveries and colony choices unlock possibilities without replacing every old item with a strictly better one.

Do not inflate the catalogue with renamed stat bonuses. Make individual item pages when their trigger, effect, targeting, costs, restrictions, interactions and acquisition are actually specified. Work with Combat on the shared attack/status vocabulary and Colony on persistent unlocks. All new counts and balance values remain proposals.