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Originally Posted by DustyPorViva
How would it be any less difficult? It might not be that simple to implement, but it would make balancing weapons in the future way easier. Because one weapon will never have more points than the other, you'll most likely never encounter a gun that is more powerful than the next, statistically. The effects of the statistics themselves may have to be balanced, but that would mean it would universally balance with the weapons rather than individually. Right now I believe stats are pretty much assigned as 'seen fit', so you might end up with a weapon that has shoddy fire rate, but an attack power that way overcompensates and ends up statistically better than a gun meant to be equally as powerful with better firing rate. It would basically be doing what staff are trying to accomplish right now, but hard-coded.
Also, there is no harm in throwing out theoretical proposals. However, there is harm in dismissing them because "I know it won't work", when there is no firm reason to say it wouldn't. So really, your whole uninformed proposal stuff is a moot point. Because really, where is the harm in me making them?
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I view things by weighing the pros and cons, the amount of effort put into such a system outweighs the benefits by far. Its an inefficient inecessity, it would by far limit the versatility in weapons and would no way insure balance any more than now. You are looking at weapon balancing in a separate but equal ordeal, that is only pertaining to certain weapons of the same class or status. Weapons of different or superior classes are meant to be BETTER. A shotgun should not at all be balanced with a PBP Shotgun, the gun is of more rarity, power and etc. Which detests your proposal. On era, price, rarity, and purpose determine a weapon's stats. Your proposal would work for ONLY guns that share those factors which are not enough consume this much work.
Most beneficial and efficient method is the current, an Admin with knowledge of the weapons and can properly adjust them as see fit. (By Admin, I do not mean Chris Vimes)
Do not send uninformed or underinformed proposals because we have to waste our ripping them apart. The wasting of the time of others is a form of harm.