(07-21-2013 04:52 PM)Gorthaur Wrote:  I have also often thought of a more pure tribes game with pathfinders, soldier, jugg and raider as only classes. I worry about it scaring away people though because we have a fair number of people that play cloaker and brute a lot. I wonder if we could do it on another night like Wednesday or something and they would be smaller games like 5v5 to 7v7.

Your argument saying autos are only needed for chasers is incorrect. Because of the shitty 2 weapon system and health regen the autos are the defense's counter to heavies. Without a real grenade launcher, viable shocklance and mine-disking heavies can just keep spamming and running away unless there is an auto to stop their regen and deal damage from a distance. Raiders with autos are stupid though.

The main problem with banning weapons is that when players join and use their loadouts they have empty weapon slots right? The server doesn't give them the preferred weapons.

For example, if I had my choice I would get rid of the high damage variants of a lot of weapons like the gast rifle, arctic rhino, holdout shotgun etc. But those players will have to change their loadouts instead of the weapons being auto switched for them right?