[Jackriip]

Wick's Fitting Bay at the Quartermain outpost becomes The Rig Bay, a mech showroom. Wick keeps his MOD suit counter and now also sells whole mechs, mech weapons, ammo and fittings.

The showroom

The room is rebuilt. Four stands along the back wall hang mechs on chains from an overhead gantry. In front of them are a marked lane, a workshop corner, Wick's counter and a small lounge.

Before	After

In game:

The room has no takeable items and no working machines that give anything away. The props are fixtures players can't strip.

Buying a mech

• A mech on a stand is chained. Nobody can get in, push, damage, strip or tool it.
• Buying it drops the chains and lowers it to the floor. The buyer drives it out.
• While the sold mech is still at the outpost (20 minutes at most), only the buyer's crew can climb in, and it can't be hurt while it sits empty. A crew hitting its own new mech isn't treated as aggression.
• If the release fails, the buyer is refunded.

Restock

A stand stays empty until the next convoy, then a new mech beams in. Work stands refill every convoy. The combat stand refills every second convoy. If anything is left on a stand, even a sold mech nobody drove off, that stand waits until it is cleared.

Stock

Mech	Price	Reputation	Kit
Ripley	4,000	none	clamp, drill
Odysseus	4,500	none	medical sleeper
Clarke	5,500	none	drill, mining scanner
Ripley MK-II	6,500	none	clamp, drill
Gygax	11,000	yellow	none (max 2 per crew per round)
Durand	18,000 + 3 vouchers	advanced	none (max 1 per crew per round)

A fourth showpiece stand holds one super mech, picked at random from the list below. It hangs at round start, and once it sells no other comes in that round anywhere on the server. Each crew can buy one per round, and it needs advanced reputation. The mechs come as tg ships them, with nothing removed.

Showpiece	Price
H.O.N.K	25,000 + 3 vouchers
Paddy (stock disabler and claw)	26,000 + 3 vouchers
Justice	28,000 + 3 vouchers
Phazon	29,000 + 3 vouchers
Savannah-Ivanov	30,000 + 3 vouchers
Marauder (stock pulse rifle and missile rack)	31,000 + 3 vouchers

Stand mechs have their access locks cleared, so the buyer can drive a Paddy, Justice or Marauder.

New tabs sell mech weapons, ammo and fittings. Each item is gated by its gear rating, and only gear that can also be printed is stocked. There are no mech buybacks.

Wick

Wick now has a routine:

• He walks between the stands and welds or wrenches at the hanging mechs and the workshop props, with the odd line while he works.
• When a customer comes within a few tiles or opens his shop, he stops, turns to them and greets them.
• If someone waits at the counter while he's on the floor, he comes back.
• He never steps onto the lane or a stand, and never leaves the room.

Notes

• Ship saves don't keep vehicles, so a mech aboard is lost when a save loads. That is accepted, and it means mechs can't be duplicated.
• Whole mechs now have gear ratings (tools/gear_catalog/ratings/exosuits.json), with new exosuits and mech price bands. check_gear_ratings now reads compiled mech types.
• The wiki's trader outposts page has a Rig Bay section.
• Unit tests cover the stand chains, buying, the post-sale lock, restock, ship saves and Wick's routine. A test load of the real outpost map dealt mechs to all three stands and set Wick up.
• Not playtested yet. Still unchecked: whether a pilot can work the hangar elevator panel from inside a mech, and whether a returning mech cycles the checkpoint doors. The six showpiece mechs haven't been seen hanging or beaming in on a live client; only a size check of each on the stand was done.