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Hobo's are meant to be annoying, and the most annoying part is the fact the run around and poke people with knives, and can scream their asses off at people, I play hobo every once and a while and being restricted to only knives and pistols is one of the best parts about that job, it's been this way for a while and there hasn't been an issue with how the job works at all. And the only time they really need to defend them selves is against an hitman, which I can agree to be annoying with only a knife. The simple fix for that is to run or out play the hitman. It's not impossible, and it doesn't happen often. This is something that wouldn't really be taken into consideration as it's on a topic that is only been brough up recently, and is only an issue to a couple of people.
Yes A lot of people only use the job to build freely in the streets, and 90% of the time they can, maybe a hitman would come by once, then there is a cool down and by then the hobo is prolly done building and they don't have to let the hitman in or go out. Also if they are getting killed they can simply report as hobos, for the most part, have no reason to be killed on the streets. If they keep getting killed it mostly because they don't report anything.
And like multiple people have said this isn't real life, it's a game, the server is an rp server, but that doesn't mean we are going for realism, but going down that path of realism, most homeless people really only have knives, and occasionally a pistol. Now im not saying it isn't possible but the chances of a homeless person being able to get their hands on a rifle, shotgun, or any of the sorts are slim. Now you say steal or buy a rifle, where the hell are they stealing these rifle from? Where the hell are they getting the money from, selling drugs are doing something similar maybe? Most of the time at that point they are affiliated with some kind of of gang, In reality a lot of drug sells and anything familiar are done by gangs. Sure homeless people sell it too, but it's not enough to buy a rifle in most cases, and if they're homeless it would be pretty hard to conceal it, unlike a pistol, that's why if you see a homeless guy with a gun it's most likely a pistol. even then most of the time they are only using improvised weapons.
And this isn't one of those server that have a set time period, truthfully this isn't a really serious rp server anyways.
Honestly, it is true that the homeless could use bigger weapons irl, but form what it looks like they went of what is most common when you think of a homeless person using a weapon, A knife or a pistol
The first thing I think when I hear about a homeless person attacking someone, it's not that they used a rifle, I think of a knife or a blunt object, honestly the pistol is the last thing I think of.
There is no reason to change the rule.