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Limited supply of guns in the Trader?

YoYoBatty

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I don't think this has been suggested before but here I go; What if the trader a had a limited supply for each gun? Say 10 each and buying one makes that number go down and selling one makes that number go up? Also the default number of each weapon in stock should go up or down depending on the difficulty and number of players there are in the match.

Edit: Maybe even have the guns slowly respawn every 5-15 minutes depending on how much they cost (Perk discount doesn't affect it).

Thoughts, Comments?
 
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I can't say I agree for this. While I understand it could help create a diversity of classes... it just seems kind of, pointless, or troublesome.
Even if the stock was of 5, and the whole team were Support Specialists; That means someone's going to miss out on the AA12, and could possibly be using pistols for the whole game, until someone sells theirs - Without the proper guns, you'd be dead weight.

Why would you have a stock of 10, anyway? With only 6 people max, that's enough to go around.
Anything under 6 and you're going to have someone missing out, being dead weight, or having to play a class they don't want to.

Not to mention it could open a possibility for another way to grief...
Be in offices... trader on the 3rd floor; Some guy buys the AA12, out the trader, throws it out the window, goes back in, buys another, back out the window...
 
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I mean it starts out at a certain number, Say one player there are 2 or 3 of each weapon and as the difficulty increases that number will decrease all the way down to the number of players there are in the match.

1 person Begginer - 3 in Stock respawns every 2 minutes.
1 person Normal - 2 in Stock respawns every 4 minutes.
1 peron Hard - 2 in Stock respawns every 6 minutes.
1 Person Suicidal - 1 in Stock respawns every 7 minutes.
1 Person Hell on Earth - 1 in Stock respawns every 10 minutes.
2 person Begginer - 4 in Stock respawns every 2 minutes.
2 person Normal - 3 in Stock respawns every 4 minutes.
2 peron Hard - 3 in Stock respawns every 6 minutes.
2 Person Suicidal - 2 in Stock respawns every 7 minutes.
2 Person Hell on Earth - 2 in Stock respawns every 10 minutes.

And it keeps going up like that depending on how many players there and the difficulty level. Also this isn't just an idea for TWI, but an idea for modders as well, I might even implent this, maybe.

Edit: There should also be a limit of the time of which you can buy a certain weapon, again it all depends on the number of players and difficulty.
 
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It could be cool. I'd have to play with it though.

I like the idea of limiting the number of each perk that can be on the team. Gone would be the days of an entire team composed of supports laughing in the face of this game.

Or two level two medics joining at the same time, when there is already a level 5 one working for the team >.<
 
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This ^ Also I think this is one of the few suggestions on the forums that almost everybody agrees with, hooray for my creative imagination.

Keyword there is almost.

When you stop losing weapons on death, it might be a possibility, but right now, it would lead to two possiblities:

-A lot of cases of "Whoops, our 2 supports died with the medguns out. No guns for them!" if the delay is significant enough to make much difference

-If the resupply delay is less than about 8-10 minutes, the weapons basically get replenished every round (On higher levels, at least) and this would be entirely pointless.
 
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Keyword there is almost.

When you stop losing weapons on death, it might be a possibility, but right now, it would lead to two possiblities:

-A lot of cases of "Whoops, our 2 supports died with the medguns out. No guns for them!" if the delay is significant enough to make much difference

-If the resupply delay is less than about 8-10 minutes, the weapons basically get replenished every round (On higher levels, at least) and this would be entirely pointless.

I was thinking the same thing actually, how about the ability to change the time in the level editor like somebody suggested before or increase the time limit by quite a bit.
 
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I am so epicly jealous of Smiff :(

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God damned fibre optic cable broadband :(

Edit: Sorry I resisted posting this 4 or 5 times, and finally I gave in to the e-peening :p
 
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