Specialists Spawn With Token

[Karmac]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Instead of having Spec's grab a token from their vendor, they spawn in with one in their hand/pocket/backpack/godknowswhere. This would also go for latejoin spec's as well.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): This means should a spec go into cryo, wearing his gear, or someone shoves him in without stripping him, and a latejoin Spec pops up and goes "Hey blokes where's all my shit", you can tell him to check his pockets for his own spec token, so even though you won't have another SADAR spec, he'll still have the choice of grabbing some form of Specialist weaponry, and considering four people out of the entire marine force are dedicated to killing T3's, losing one set of gear to Cryo is pretty devastating in the higher population rounds.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Roll for Specialist, spawn in, Spec Token in hand, go grab your chosen kit from the vendor as per normal. Except now if you dissapear and a late-join pops on, he can go grab his own set of gear from the Vendor as well, albeit it won't be whatever you were using, as there is still only one kit of each type per vendor.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): N/A

[TheSpoonyCroy]

neutral leaning towards -1, the issues I can see with this immediately would be there would be now more spec items out there in the wild than there should be.

[Karmac]

this is more of a solution to spec's going into cryo and wasting they token, I could of course change this to a suggestion to make Cryo machines strip you automatically if you enter them.

[northcote4]

Giving this my +1.

Personally I think it's worth the risk of the occasional extra smartgun (that can't even be used) if it means that every other round you don't end up with a specialist who gets nothing.

[Obscurify]

+1 I agree with Northcote4. You literally can't even use the smartgun, and rules restrict standards from using things like SADAR's anyways.

[Sneakyr]

+1. I feel like this helps late specs considerably, and the extra spec weapons floating around don't seem to be a large problem, as many squad leads and specs die quick due to both the target on their heads and the nature of their roles.

[Joe4444]

meh....what if the spec before happened to pick the SADAR? then all the spec has to do is pick the B18 and watch as he can slaughter xenos in even better armor

[Snypehunter007]

This was suggested awhile ago.

[Karmac]

This was suggested awhile ago.

And it's still an issue. But if you consider it a duplicate suggestion then I can make a new suggestion for Cryo machines to auto strip you when you get in them.

[Snypehunter007]

And it's still an issue. But if you consider it a duplicate suggestion then I can make a new suggestion for Cryo machines to auto strip you when you get in them.

It might be a duplicate but I am running off of 3 hours of sleep in 48 hours. I doubt my ability to do more than slam my hands against the keyboard and finish my schoolwork.

[Karmac]

It might be a duplicate but I am running off of 3 hours of sleep in 48 hours. I doubt my ability to do more than slam my hands against the keyboard and finish my schoolwork.

just keep on trucking buddy, we love your work boss.

[Enceri]

If this isn't a duplicate thread, I'm going to drop my +1, seeing as how sometimes Specs cryo with gear, or get capped and lose their gear.

+1

[Nightcaper]

+1, the risk of having a specialist go down with nothing is more of a priority in my head than somehow having an extra weapon they shouldn't have. All a specialist has going for them is a certain weapon others don't have, take that away from them and they're just another boot.

[Abbysynth]

This was actually how it worked originally, until we had a single spec with B18 armor, 3 sadars, 2 GLs and a sniper rifle. It doesn't work like that anymore for a reason.

[Karmac]

I'm just wishfully thinking there's a better way to solve this problem than "oh well sucks to be any other spec". :^(

[Wubs4Scrubs]

+1

I think that this would a good addition and I don't really think that extra spec weapons being around is an issue given that marines aren't even allowed to use them.

[Snypehunter007]

OP no longer wishes for this to be open.

Locking.