I know I am going to catch a ton of flak for this from people who want to keep things as they are, but I am going to go about this in the most constructive way possible and I hope the people that come after me can try to keep it that way. That said, I don't think the awp dragonline is in a good spot as it comes to balancing/ availability to others. I have been going through the roster of guns from every dealer that you can get as a free player and testing dammage and nothing even comes close to the power of the dragonline. I don't mind a gun that is that strong in the game, but it also doesn't need to be scoped in to be as accurate as a laser. Again, this would be ok I guess, if it was a weapon accessable to everyone. In the current state of the game, it is only available to those with the funds to buy it with real currency. As much as i think the term is overused, I can consider the dragonline can be considered a pay to win, as there are no alternatives or counters. I am proposing either a nerf (to either its hip accuracy or dammage) or an accessability change or something accessable that is equivalent be added that regular players can buy to stand a chance. I think that without some kind of change it will continue to dominate and we will keep seeing low police numbers or any defending jobs because its not that fun of an rp interaction when you just drop dead or even if you get the jump on the guy with a berret itll still take 3-6 shots to his 1 to kill him.
To those who love to use the dragonline for raiding and want it to stay as is, think of it this way. These changes i am suggesting may make the difficulty go up a little, but the ammount of people that will try to fend you off will increase, which means more raids overall. Unless its at peak time where people will try to print reguardless, I only ever see a handful of people even try it and when I ask people why they don't (even if I provide a base), they site this gun as the reason as they believe its just a race to make back the ~60k that it costs to make the printers in the first place. So by doing this I hope to see more people printing and more people raiding.
Community please be gentle and have mercy on me <3