re: the Arsenal develop economy, and the save blob's index space (first 32 confirmed)

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GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL.pak's screen config points at weapon.tbl (item ids, in the
8-category display order) and strings.tbl (names, descriptions, and a
"Conditions to obtain" block per item). The id run No_Equipment .. Wep_83 is
exactly 54 long -- the save blob's length -- and all 60 conditions blocks are
extracted to a CSV: gates are stage completion, a predecessor item, or an ace
kill; costs run 3000-350000 P, and 20 items cost nothing once gated (which is
why items the player never bought read as Developed).

Predicting the save state from those conditions -- before looking at the blob --
says exactly six items are developable here, and the blob's six 2s sit on those
six, in weapon.tbl order, at indices 1/5/10/12/27/31. With the four obtained
items and the differential's own two transitions that is twelve concordances
over indices 0-31, nothing fitted. Broad Sword SG1 at index 5 needed scrolling
the GUN list to see, which is the only one the first screenshots missed.

The tail is NOT settled and is marked so: the Tomahawk is weapon.tbl index 38
and the screen shows it Developed, but blob[38] = 0, and the other tail 4s
(33/39/45/46/47) land on items the Arsenal shows as locked -- the SPECIAL tab is
entirely empty. A +1 shift does not repair it either. Settling it needs a second
development in a late category, which needs a mission payout.

Also recorded: IDXD string pools dedupe repeated values, so only the first
record of a table can be read from the token stream -- record 2 shows just its
unique values, record 6 no cost at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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