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High-Tech Ammunition Tables

So, I've been working on inputting the ammunition tables into a data file, because my players like to take tons of backup ammo, but only a few spare magazines/clips. The writeup I've been using looks like this:

Quote:

[Equipment]
<High-Tech, High-Tech - Weapons, High-Tech - Weapons - Handgun SMG and PDW Ammunition, _Firearms, _Firearms - High-Tech>
".25 ACP, 6.35x16mmSR Browning (Ammunition)",basecost(0.1),baseweight(0.012),tech lvl(),lc(),page(HT176),mods(Equipment, Ammunition),description()
".28 Caplock, Colt Number 1 (Ammunition)",basecost(0.1),baseweight(0.006),tech lvl(),lc(),page(HT176),mods(Equipment, Ammunition),description(Notes: [1] Powder and shot (HT163))
etc.

Which works pretty well. However, I've had to turn ".25 ACP (6.35x16mmSR Browning)" from the table into ".25 ACP, 6.35x16mmSR Browning" if I want to keep the (Ammunition) name extension. Ideally, I'd like to be able to have ".25 ACP (6.35x16mmSR Browning)(Ammunition)" in the interests of clarity and replicating the notation from the table precisely. Anybody know of a way to achieve that?

Re: High-Tech Ammunition Tables

Unfortunately, the current data architecture for GCA makes that prone to problems, so there's not really any way to work around it reliably.

Your best bet is to use square brackets [ ] instead of parens in the main name, to keep the name extension as you want it. Far from perfect, I'm afraid, but kinda what we're stuck with for the time being.

Armin

Re: High-Tech Ammunition Tables

No worries at all, I just wanted to check in and see if there was something simple I might have been missing. Thanks very much! Now I just have to decide whether the comma or the brackets looks better, decisions, decisions...

Sidenote, would folks like to see this uploaded to the GCA Repository once I get it fixed up?