I think that it's a little bit ridiculous, that you can buy all ammunition
you need on every single base, even the expensive high-class mines
like Rippers, Screamers, Nukes, all torpedoes and missiles.
That might be good for some "fun"-servers, but we are a RP-server. Therefore
I can't see that it would be realistic to buy such military equipment on a little station.
In my eyes those equipment should only be sold on two or three selected bases
in every house ( for example: in Liberty only on BS Petersburg, Minneapolis and
LSF Alert Station). Of course it would be more difficult to buy and use the special
weapons, if the ammu could only be bought in Guard systems, but I think it's
much more realistic that the high-class weapons are only available for the
officials at very selected points (armies don't sell their equipment to anyone)
But that would be the chance for weapon-dealers: they could get some Firestalker,
Sunslayer, Sidewinder launcher and Ripper, Screamer, Nuclear mine droppers
including the ammu in their stock , Then they have much more possibilities in their
business than only selling code weapons.
Good thing we can get weapons in guard systems now, and ammo almost every were, so we can spend more time playing and less time being pissed at game mechanics, doing things we dont want to.
I think its a good idea - so weapons will be chosen wise. Some supernova - or nukes combined with screamers really kill fast smaller ships. There is no need using these weapons.
I agree that its not good to get ur basic equipement 3- 4 systems away. But this is not basic equipement.
In real life: not any nation is having nuclear weapons, so why not combining this with roleplay? Well and u cant get nuclear equipment next corner at ur local terrorist group.
Nope, I don't like idea.
some stations are already now to limited with avaliable ammo and guns.
Who uses anyway those crapy mines which NPC's uses?what use of them selling them everywhere when no one uses them as they are just lame.
As Freelancer it's already enough hard to get needed ammo and guns. Even for faction players, if you leave a bit your ZOI you are already faced with trouble finding base with regular equipment needed (nukes,TCD ammo etc).
So, I actually think it would be good to have more of places which sells that stuff. We would spend more time playing and less flying from system to system looking for ammo.