ATG Faction Progress

Your faction starts with the basics and earns the rest. Everything in a faction's armoury belongs to a tier. At an arsenal you are shown your current tier's kit plus a locked preview of the next one, so you can see what you are working towards. Anything higher is not shown at all. - Reaching a tier applies live: arsenals restock while you are stood at them, the locked row opens, and your faction is told. The other side is not. - Saved loadouts are checked too. A loadout containing something your faction has not reached is refused when you save it, rather than being quietly stripped the next time you spawn. - Vehicles carry a tier as well, so the motor pool fills out as the faction climbs. DEPLOY PRESETS UNLOCK TOO A loadout preset on the deploy screen can carry a tier of its own. One your faction has not reached is hidden rather than greyed out, so the deploy screen shows what can be taken today and grows as the faction climbs. Presets for the same role also supersede one another: where several exist, only the newest one the faction has actually reached is offered. A medic preset authored for an early tier keeps appearing until a later one exists to replace it, so the gallery stays one tile per role instead of a growing pile of retired versions. The tile a player can see and the loadout the server hands out are decided by the same rule, so they cannot disagree. An open deploy menu refreshes when a Game Master moves the tier. Presets belonging to other mods, and the arsenal slots, are left alone. PRESETS FROM THE ARSENAL An arsenal can also issue those presets to a player already on their feet, with one action per role. It hands over whichever preset for that role the deploy screen would offer right now, so reaching a tier's kit does not mean dying for it, and a tier change needs nothing redone. It costs nothing. The action is added to an arsenal with a role key - Operator, Medic, MG and so on - so a faction mod decides which of its arsenals carry it...