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Purchase equipment at ports with tiny diamonds and diamond briefcases via sector operations. Requires Leadership to trade and some mechanics and parts to assemble the item.

The intent of this mod is to add a shop while keeping in line with JA3's emphasis on scavenging. Tiny diamonds and briefcases are the currency here, giving them more use and adding more reason to hunt them down. You're not meant to kit the whole squad with AK-74s, heavy armor and a thousand AP rounds each with this mod, but make more meaningful decisions; Round out the team with a machine gun, get a significant upgrade, load up on ammo in a pinch, etc.

In addition, a suitcase of diamonds can be split into 10 tiny diamonds with a knife, and default explosive recipes have also been moved to Craft Ammo.

KNOWN ISSUES

-This mod is working within limits; combine recipes can only give 2 tiles of items and new sector operations can't have their own recipe list.

-Balance might be all over the map depending on your mods. I think it's in a good place right now, but YMMV. I also have no idea how to do mod options, I wrote one original line of lua 10 years ago.