This is very much opinion based, I personally much prefer it this way, it’s why I think that Washington is the best balanced map in the game, and that 2.0 PEI was better than 3.0’s. I see having one major big PvP hub with all the supplies that both attract higher gear and lower gear players alike as a great benefit, cities also make for the most fun and varied combat.
Campers aren’t really a big issue, and usually easily spotted. It’s easy enough to sneak around in Seattle, so I don’t see it being an issue in a theoretically even larger city. The combination of verticality and clutter just makes it the best pvp experience.
Russia’s very strict loot tiering was one of it’s biggest downfalls, IMO, as it meant that there was no real reason to go south after getting high loot in the north besides killing fresh spawns, often without risk from other higher tier players.
Other maps, particularly washington, or 2.0 Pei solved this by having loot areas all over the place, with civilian location inbetween military and militia ones, and having combined spawn locations, like the evac center on washington, or the airport/burywood in 2.0.
It helps making the core gameplay loop of get gun > fight people > get base > get more gun and fights less obvious, and making us think less about our concrete reasons to go somewhere, and leads to more dynamic and organic player interaction and combat, since people of all gear types will be travelling somewhere along the same lines.
I rambled a bit here and didn’t properly format, but I hope you get my point.
Having a military depot where vehicles and weapons platforms are mothballed would be quite a cool location, although it would require large changes to how locking works. Combining such a location with my hopes of moddable and repairable vehicles (aka you find chassis and then add wheels and other upgrades as you go along) would be a great location and a great pvp and loot hub.
You’re right on the money here. This is a game of mostly people armed with cheap hunting rifles. It doesn’t matter if it’s an abrams or a world war 1 tank, it’s gonna be strong regardless.
Sorry for the slightly off-topic here, it’s just a thing I really wanted to comment on.