Equipment Quality

Equipment quality affects its performance and results from superior craftsmanship or the use of high-tech materials and manufacturing. You can designate an item of quality with a number of points, each of which can impart one of the following improvements:

  • Reduce Encumbrance by –1 (minimum Enc 0)
  • Improve armour DF bonus by +1
  • Upgrade a weapon’s attack AR or damage by +1
  • Improve a missile weapon’s effective range by +1”
  • Improve gear Durability or AR modifier when used by +1

Each quality point cumulatively doubles the equipment’s cost.

You can use the same scale for poor quality equipment by reversing the benefits (e.g., increase Encumbrance by +1, reduce armour DF bonus by –1, etc.). Each reduction in quality cumulatively halves the item’s cost (though the minimum value of any piece of equipment should be its Tech Level in dollars ($)).


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