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Flexibility and Tonnage Curves

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TL;DR: Tech Generator can now be configured to generate weapons that are different from EVO. It's currently a little clunky, so I'm improving its flexibility, particularly enabling users to create a "mana curve" / "tonnage curve" for their TC, and also enabling really unique weapons like the Plasma Siphon.   Most Recent Progress    At the last blog post, the Tech Generator was successfully creating EVO-style weaponry. At that time, all of the values were hardcoded – EVO-style weapons were the only types of weapons it could ever produce.    This month, I hit another big milestone: the values used to generate weapons are no longer hardcoded, instead being provided by the user in a "Weapons Configuration" table. This means it can now produce weapons for a TC, based on the user's specifications! Woohoo!    With that said, it's currently a bit clunky and restrictive in how it generates weapons. I'm currently in the middle of making some...