I was wondering if I'm the only one who has thought of being able to purchase weapons instead of being forced to buy a new character?
For instance - buying a "Sydney" character should still be a better choice instead of only buying the "Personal Ion Cannon".
She has more health, armour and the weapon's firepower is higher.
For instance buying only the Personal Ion Cannon would make the weapon 70% or 60% weaker than the PIC Sydney uses.
The prices for the weapons could be something like this; 50% weaker weapon = 25% cheaper.
(Also only GDI can buy GDI weapons and vice versa)
Recruit - Farland gun / Chem sprayer
Veteran - Deadeye / Blackhand Sniper
Elite - Gunners Rocket launcher / Laser Chaingun - Patch's rifle / SBH laser rifle
Heroic - PIC / Railgun - Mobius's electro gun / Doza rifle & Mutant Tiberium rifle* (*for a high price)
Running around as a normal Soldier with a much better weapon and still being alot more vulnerable than the Weapons original character would be pretty nice.
It is just an idea but I think it could be fun to have ingame.