Listen, I may be mad, I may be delusional and all, but hear me out.
When you launch the game for the first time (or first time after a wipe), you'd get an option to play as either a PMC or a scav for the rest of the wipe. PMC play would just stay the same, because from what I noticed, most of the community NEVER scavs, so I don't think people would be too mad if they were forced to play as a PMC. Everything would stay the same, aside from making weapons, armour and attachments cost more, but leveling would get quicker. Also, you'd still have your upgradeable hideout…
But… if you were to play as a scav, you would have nothing like that. You could only use shitty Russian weapons and crappy armour. You would also have to survive all of the raid to save your loot, so instead of having your standard "missing in action", you'd survive the raid. But that means – no hideout. You still have your stash, it's just as big as your standard stash, but you could not upgrade it.
Also, I've got another idea, but this one is even dumber than the last few, in fact, it's so incredibly dumb that it's going to be a new section of the post. Do you know how the game starts when all the PMCs join? What if the scavs could join the session without the "waiting for players thing", so they'd have a chance of properly setting up and having a chance of defending themselves? Maybe a special minute just to let the scavs set up. That's plain stupid, but I just gotta include it.
So, basically, my idea is, you could just set up in, for example, the scav camp on Interchange. Once every few raid, Fence would give you a chance to move to another location. Maybe by the car extract? Or maybe, by the time the game is open world, you'd have to find a secret path or something? I don't know, that's silly but sounds cool, doesn't it?
Also, I think that maybe you could replace all the traders with scav bosses? For example, Shturman is the scav Jaeger but with LESS STUPID FUCKING QUESTS, Sanitar is Therapist, Rashala is Prapor? Maybe? Glukhar could be a scav Peacekeeper, because of his military background and all, Killa would replace Prappor's trader slot but he'd sell completely different things and have quests revolving around helping his brother (Tagilla). All the while, Tagilla would just sell you melee weapons and uninsured stuff he found on dead PMCs. His quests would probably revolve around killing as many PMCs as you can and you could only unlock him after doing Killa's quests, because otherwise… he's out there to get you. As I already said, our dear buddy fence is here to stay, and the final trader replacement would be the scav boss on Streets of Tarkov.
And now, that you heard me out, you can freely tell me how incredibly stupid my idea for the game is. It is INCREDIBLY bad and stupid, but it's so terrible that I'd actually gladly play something like that.
You're fre to criticise me for all my stupid ideas, that's why I wrote this in the first place. And if maybe anyone out there thinks this idea has got some potential, what would you change about it to make it better?
