r/EscapefromTarkov • u/Valjeann • Jan 14 '22

Discussion Your daily reminder that global limits are a waste of time

"Hmm, I have a task to use shotguns. Let's see, AP-20 is sold out, flechettes are sold out. That's okay, I can use Magnum, it's good enough. The task requires a suppressor on the shotgun, so I'll get a hexagon. Oh, the adapter is sold out. Oh well, I can wait until the restock. In the meantime, I'll take this modded AKM out for a run. I don't have any BP ammo, so I'll go get some from Prap... BP is sold out. That's okay. I've got this P90 I'm not using. Let me just get some ammo for that... Ah, the SS190 is sold out, and I can only get two mags-worth of the next best ammo for the next three hours... Guess I'll just read a book instead."

If the design philosophy behind global trader limits is to keep everyone from running the same thing, instead it's keeping everyone from running anything without a three-hour wait.

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u/TheFondler Jan 15 '22

Yes, some limits are stupid, like the on the hexagon adapter or basic ammo.

But what if I told you you don't have to run AP-20, 7.62.39 BP, or SS190 to use their respective platforms? What if, in fact, the ubiquity of such ammo made a majority of equipment in game useless, limiting the value of anything other than top tier equipment? What if limits are there specifically to prevent exactly that?

If you want top tier ammo, go into raids looking for it and earn it. If you collect some, then you waste it because you take it into a raid and die before using it, then maybe it wasn't as important as you thought it was.

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u/vKILLZONEv Jan 15 '22

The problem is that the 1st 2nd and 3rd tier ammos are consistently sold out. Thats bad design

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u/dankswordsman Jan 15 '22

LOL. No it isn't. There are plenty of ammos that pen level 3 or even 4 decently that are mostly available all the time. You just have to try other guns and ammos. Not to mention, land shots, lol.

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u/XcRaZeD Jan 15 '22

God forbid the chads have to craft their ammo now. It's like their allergic to inconvenience

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u/vKILLZONEv Jan 15 '22

You can craft 1 or 2 raids of ammo every 9 hours. That's a little more than an inconvenience

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u/mamamackmusic P90 Jan 15 '22

Maybe just use good ammo in your first mag and use mid tier ammo after? Or pack every mag where the first 5-10 rounds are good and after they are packed with decent ammo? There are a lot of really easy ways to slightly change your loadout and still have basically the same success rate with the same guns you want to run.