(though certain gangs have found a failsafe solution for that problem).
carry weight is a major factor in creating builds and in combat as well, and im not just saying that because 90% of my chars are st2 and less. The cw might not be the deciding factor in planning a build, but it surely matters if you are able to carry an rl on top of your burster equipment or if you can carry enough ammo/stims to last in a long fight.Another factor is looting. As of now, loot is a big strategic factor in tc or battles in general and it should stay that way. We all have experienced it when we waited for the loot to be carried to tents before getting attacked with half ot the fighters in bluesuits, coming back from their tents (though certain gangs have found a failsafe solution for that problem).
In my opinion higher cw for everyone would make the game much better and enjoyable for everybody. It would reduce the ammount of relogs because one character could do more.
one thing i hated about 1 str. pvp characters and 4 str. bg's, both with weapon handling, was never being able to loot with either because of the strictness required in pvp builds, the best you can hope for is to make a 6 str natural character BG if you wish to loot anything you might acquire from a quest/player or whatever. also why do bb's weigh so much its absurd.
for example looter proxy is used or some guys go and drop all their gear in tent and come back in bluesuit.
Trade off is there, its just overcome by cheating which isn't the same as not having trade off. Btw I still saying that the way to solve it would be to make combat perk require ST as I said previously. Another way would be to give more penality to low ST like making it that low ST give -80% to aim with weapons with that 1 st would be a serious trade off player would go with more ST and could carry more.
Anyway I really don't want to see chars to be able to carry more then they do now even if it means people would dual log or use proxy looters I don't care.
I guess the "tradeoff" there is waiting to relog or having to make multiple trips back and forth to a tent, I could imagine it would take a while to loot someone who was carrying 70+ lbs of loot.I know what you mean about the mining thing but you have to have some limitations on each character/build. There's no 100% perfect build that can do it all