Ok i will add my 20 cents worth to this , ( 20 instead of 2 as i like to ramble on ) .
Money / mission payout / loot : To me this is fine , its well balanced and the reward for each mission is high enough , if you completely loot a yellow u average 60k or so , more than enough for the new players to buy there cheap truck and gun/ammo , and u can always keep some of the guns if you like them . Plus there's loads of ore veigns / ammo crates etc to loot and make more , even if ur not hero the hero players will generaly give u the equivalant money for it .
Ai spawning / player spawning : Right this is the major one , lol . This to me is abit frustrating and always has been , the best example of this i can give is when Vectorkiller and myself where sniping a green mission from 700 or so at paboda dam and i casually said while turning to him " We should maybe keep an eye out for spawning in ai " With that 3 spawned right behind me but in front of him , less than 3 metres away like ghost ninjas ! The 2 concerns i have there is ; this was a green ( easy ) mission , usually done by the newer players and designed for them . If that had been a new guy on his own , chances are he'd have been killed , got really stressed and raged outta the server . The other was how they spawned in like that , they were obv for me not Vector and luckily he killed 2 and wounded the 3rd while that one was knocking me out cold ! That to me is a wrong system for ai . Dont get me wrong i like how tough they are and how good a shot cause its made me much better at the game , but something like what wierd said where they scan how high ur humanity is and skill mathces accordingly seems like a great idea to me . As we cant all do missions in groups all the time and watch each others backs .
As for the new players , i would say they get more than enough kit , the only suggestion would be to remove that shotgun from whichever class it is as shotguns are completely pointless as a new spawn in gun when on the cherno map with its big open fields and forests etc . And we (dmr ) Generally always help out new players with heli lifts etc so they get alot of help and if after we tell them about the ai they still head off to the airfield its theyre own fault imo .
As for the othe features , the trade from vehicles , mission types , loot / ammo crates / spawn system with halo etc are all great , now we have weather u can halo to within 500 metres usually of ur body so huge congrats to all the admins / server designers etc for all of that , aswell as super hero and the thermal guns .
Last point , i would love to see some kind of a convoy esort type mission for us to use our vehicles in . I dont know if this is possible but something like a mission start point say up north in a town , and a drive through varios checkpoints with increasing ai difficulty ( but no lock on rpgs ) . If anyone ever played operation flashpoint red river and did the convoy escort it would play similar to that . I can picture in my head a convoy of us in jackals /armed voddy / humvees etc with maybe a black hawk or attack heli giving air cover while getting pounded by 50 cals and lmgs , would be so cool if it could be done but would be the oppurunity for us to use the super hero vehicles for what theyre designed for , mass killing !
Anyway thats my thought , and see you all soon when my new pc arrives !!