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• No cache should be directly spawnable. Instead a random spawn or two within 150m or even 200m should appear. Caches aren't rally points and PR should not use them as such.
• I have two ideas on spawns. (1) just use a nearby empty cache location as a spawn. (2) place a few dozen dedicated spawn locations on the maps (more work) and then randomly pick between two or three of the ones nearest the cache. You might consider still having these spawns show something on the ground that can be destroyed/knifed by blufor for a few intel points. Think of it as an automated hideout system that should greatly reduce cache givaways.
• Perhaps no usable weapons should be on the cache because they are locked and stored, but instead place weapons in insurgent homes or other places that could appear on the opfor map, perhaps at several unused cache locations. These weapons in homes (and other places) could still be destroyed by Blufor but would not count as a real cache location because it would just be a weapon or two at each spot. Consider this a sort of 'weapons confiscation' idea. This would stop people from picking up RPG/PKM on cache and giving away its location. Each confiscation could still give a few intel points. Knifing/arresting the weapon in its resting place would confiscate it. Also this would make the game easier and more fun to play for newcomers as they would feel more empowered running around the map to get weapons. It's the inexperienced players who are too often giving away the cache locations so they need other places to get weapons. Kits might respawn after two or three minutes from being taken.
• In addition to the previous idea, insurgents should only see only nearby weapon locations and not see them across the whole map. Maybe within 200m. (can BF2 engine do this?)
• Killing a player who has confiscated weapons should perhaps drop the confiscated kits on the ground. I can see that happening in real life.. Insurgents chasing down US soldiers to get weapons back. We'd need some way to destroy the weapons after confiscation. Maybe only squad leaders can destroy them, while any soldier carrying a weapon can confiscate.
• As an alternative idea, we could still have special weapons available on caches, but still use the idea mentioned above of randomly placing lots of weapons around the map for opfor to grab so that an RPG fired doesn't automatically scream "cache right here come get me!"
• All caches should still supply ammo.

Gracler wrote:In my opinion unknown caches should have a ridiculous high hit-point value, that will prevent it from being taken out by 2 or 3 army guys until it is "known" (many changes has been made not to make PR be a spec ops game so it makes no sence for 2-3 army men to get the job done imo)

To me it doesn't make sense that Blue-for starts searching a "city" and stumble on a cache and take it out without resistance (they only act on Intel from locals or from surveillance anything else is pure luck)...... if you where an insurgent you wouldn't leave your precious "im angry with the world tools " unattended, so if they DO get so lucky they would have to call in a buck-load of demolition experts to take it out. if it is known then it should be how it is now.

I know that for reality it will not make sense (but it doesn't make sense already)... but it would improve game-play for insurgents IMO and it would remove the rage of games ending early because of ghosting .... or "noob" behavior of giving away the cache location.

Someone is probably gonna argue that this would make all attacks focused on the one known cache.... but I dont see the problem with that. It makes for a good firefight.

Technically I image this could be done by spawn caches with lets say 100.000 hit-points and by the time they get "known" it looses 90.000 hit-points (im not familiar with the actual values used in the game)

This way if the blue-for finds a cache it would reverse the roles... the US would have to defend the area until they get enough explosives to arrive or "Intel"... tbh it could make some interesting fights instead of just "BOOM" wtf? how did they find that cache?"