Allow usage of M4A1 to Police

[Enzyme]

First off, I'll have to mention that I love being Police. Being a Police-OFficer is one of my favourite RPs to do, and you'll often see me rocking the HN16 tag while handing out some sweet justice.

As much I'd love to stand a better chance against criminals with AKs, Galils and etc I'll -Support this suggestion and here's why:

Currently, only the SRU are the only governmental team that has access to some heavy guns. This makes the SRU usefull as they respond to cases where the officers MP5s just won't do.

If we were to let the Police team carry M4s then the SRU job would have no real purpose as the job then wouldn't be needed. Sure the SRU team would still have riotshields and keypadcrackers, but that's about it.

People are bad enough at requesting backup from SRU team, if we give the officers M4s then they will not be dependent on SRU and the heavy weapons that they now assist with. If we make the Police-job into the SRU job, then we might as well rename the SRU job to Nexus-Camping-Dictator-Squad as that will be their only role.
I think the government is balanced well enough compared to the other jobs. A good government can already deal with more or less any threats.

You can say "Oh, but it's alot more realistict," but the fact is that FL isn't a direct representation of the real world. Things need to be balanced, and things need to be dumbed down some times in order for the RP's sake.

You guys can bring up articles and videos about Police Officers and how they are heavily armed, or should be and yada yada yada, but it comes down to balancing and etc.

- Support.

TLDR: Police will replace SRU, rendering SRU more or less useless as they're no longer unique in the government and what they can bring to a fight. This will also cause some balancing issues.

Now I realize that my opinion here will be unpopular with most of you. You guys like to shoot shit up and hell... I love to shoot shit the hell up, but this is a decision that will have more negative consequences than good. What I'd like to see implemented instead is a toggleable audio-sirene which we can turn off and on instead of having to wait for it to play for 30 seconds till it finishes.

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The solution to fix this:

IF we were to allow the SRU to equip heavier guns (Galils, AKs and etc) then they'd still be more heavily armed than the Police, thus making them stand out more and actually be more useful so they can serve their purpose as heavy-weapon-assistance.

If we give Police M4s, then let SRU equip Galils, AKs and etc (Only a few more guns, not all of em) then this would be more fair.
What could be the issue here though is that now you got a heavily armored government where they spawn with free kevlar and are able to really bring out some heavy guns. This could cause balance-issues where the other criminal groups would be underpowered. A way to counter this could be to allow the Rebels and Corleones to raid and cooperate together.

I think for now, we should let things be how it is. If we upgrade the government then we should upgrade the criminals a bit aswell to prevent a major shift of balance in the game.


Thank you for skimming through my 05:00 AM rant.

Spoiler :

If you actually properly read my whole post, then I salute you.