Technology level

All items have a tech level, which defines how complex the item is and, generally speaking, gives a rough estimate of where it fell in the timeline of Earth's history.


 * 1 - Primitive, stone age - Extremely basic weapons and textile-based armor
 * 2 - Ancient, tribal - Flimsy melee weapons, flimsy metal and leather armor
 * 3 - Medieval - Reliable melee weapons, basic metal and boiled leather armor
 * 4 - Early Modern - Primitive firearms, advanced plate armor
 * 5 - Industrial Revolution - Reliable rifles, revolvers, steam tech, slow/short range cars, refined oil as fuel, lightbulbs, assembly lines, unreliable chems
 * 6 - World War Era - Grenades, early body armor, machineguns, tanks, bazookas, planes, basic automobiles, basic chems
 * 7 - Information Age - Modern computers with high communication abilities, advanced automatic weapons and composite body armor, jet planes, helicopters, laser-guided missiles, advanced chems
 * 8 - Cusp of Apocalypse - Personal laser weapons, powered armor, portable rail/coil guns, super-vacuum tech, proliferation of high volume small energy cells and micro-fusion cells
 * 9 - Survivor Era - Unknown frontiers of advanced technology

Eg.:
 * TL 2: Leather Outfit
 * TL 3: Metal Outfit
 * TL 4: Metal Armor
 * TL 5: .22 Rifle
 * TL 6: 9mm Autoloader, Construction Helmet, Leather Armor, Scav Outfit
 * TL 7: Motorcycle Helmet
 * TL 8: Pip Boy 2000, Lil' Pip Boy 3000, Motion Sensor, Geiger Counter, Stimpack, Superstimpack, Combat armor, Environmental Armor, Power Armor, Tesla Armor
 * TL 9: Hermes Armor, Athena Armor, Hei Gui armor,