Equipment

Equipment is anything you equip to yourself to let you do something – like Blasters, Swords, and Armour. Treat Equipment like you would Skills at other games.

There are two key rules for equipment:

• All equipment must be physrepped.
• Equipment must be maintained after a set amount of time.

Many physreps that you would usually need a skill to use in other games, you will instead need an in-game item for at this game. You can bring any number of physreps with you, but only those with a Lammie can be used. 

• Ribbons are used for basic items such as blasters, swords, or simple grenades. They are intended to be attached to the physrep at all times.
• Card Lammies are used for more complicated items that need a longer description.
• You can always change which item your ribbon or lammie is on, for example if your blaster jams and you want to use a different one, but any item without a ribbon or lammie is treated as a prop and cannot be used for its purpose or taken out of the main base.

Maintenance

All pieces of equipment owned by the player will need maintaining after a while. Each one may have a different maintenance cycle, usually in years, so you’ll need to check the lammie to see when maintenance is due. Your salary across several events will be more than enough to maintain your starting equipment, and purchase some upgrades.

To maintain an item, take it to the COMMAND HUB, where you’ll find a member of A-COM. Give them the item and the number of Maintenance Kits it needs, and they’ll get it sorted ready for you to collect later that day or the next day.

Maintenance Kits add to the total time. If you maintain an item before its due date, the maintenance time will be added onto the end of the existing time. If an item has expired, it cannot be used until it’s been maintained, and the maintenance time is counted from when you do the maintenance.

This mechanic is in place as an economic sink, getting money and resources out of the game in the form of Maintenance Kits. It also gives the Game Team a chance to issue balancing updates to items, without the need to put out callouts online to submit your items for Lammie updates.