Add modbuilder/saves/DLC Weapons & Gear - Balanced Store Prices.json

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Summary

Thanks for creating cotw-mod-builder - it's easy to use, well structured, and developer-friendly!

This PR adds balanced DLC store pricing and configurable weapon-score unlock progression. This makes DLC items feel less pay-to-win by replacing their immediate free availability with balanced store prices and progression-based unlock requirements.

It covers all 94 applicable DLC items in the Mod Builder 2.7.2 assets, up to the Peru Hunting Reserve DLC.

Changes

• Added DLC Weapons & Gear - Balanced Store Prices.json
• Added DLC Weapons & Gear - Balanced Store Prices & Unlock Progression.json
• Added per-item score type and unlock score controls to "Modify Store" Plugin
• Supports bow, handgun, rifle, and shotgun score unlock progression
• Assigned prices and unlock scores to 94 DLC items:
  • 82 weapons
  • 9 sights
  • 2 callers
  • 1 optic
• Excluded base-game, quest-reward, holiday, championship, and cosmetic items

Only Certain Unlock Score Values Are Allowed

Only score values already used by entries in the vanilla player_rewards.bin are offered.

Testing showed that arbitrary values such as 9999 or 1337, as well as certain combinations of otherwise empty vanilla score rows, may produce a rewards table the game refuses to load. Not every unsupported configuration consistently fails, but when it does, all custom and vanilla score requirements disappear. I have not figured it out completely but restricting selections to populated vanilla score values avoids this problem. So i made the UI to only allow working values and added a check when loading .json presets that fails if other values are attempted to use.

Score category is selectable so gear such as lures, sights, and optics can use a weapon category’s unlock score. Cross-category assignments are also supported - for example, a rifle may require handgun score. However the UI defaults to the natural weapon category.

Category-wide score changes are not included yet; if desired i can add and test it as well.

Binary Writer Fix

Fixed an off-by-one error when updating the final StringData entry. The writer previously attempted to access an element beyond the end of the array, causing an IndexError during larger preset builds.

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I used github.com/didas72/COTW-NoFreeDLCGear/blob/main/NoFreeDlcStuff.json as basis and added prices to the items that has been added since then. So thanks to @didas72 !

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This is how it looks ingame: