1. What low tier gear? Gear check is to make sure that they are equipped.
3. Yep, camping buildings is wrong not because you can't fight them (it's easy with explosives), but because it takes time to search for them, even with motion sensors. It's just boring and has nothing to do with guarding anything.
Like assault rifle, combat shotguns, some pistols, metal armor, counts as TC equipment and are practically worthless => low tier. Not sure, but I think you can equip 1 plasma grenade and it will count.
How do you guys feel about adding train stations and mines to TC system?
This merc / slave madness is a problem who need to be solve before the tc zone. With fast relog 1 guys can bring 20+ merc on the battlefield in like 1 minutes. This is way more urgent than those TC zone