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Hmm... i guess it's a matter of personal preference, and what you're trying to achieve with the mod. Your total limit to new weapons is limited by the characteranimid.h file's setup.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> #define CHARANIM_SHOOTEMPTY 310
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTLEADPIPE 311
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTBASEBALLBAT 312
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTBERETTA 313
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTBERETTADUAL 314
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTDESERTEAGLE 315
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTSAWEDSHOTGUN 316
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTPUMPSHOTGUN 317
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTINGRAM 318
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTINGRAMDUAL 319
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTMP5 320
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTJACKHAMMER 321
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTMOLOTOV 322
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTGRENADE 323
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTM79 324
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTSNIPER 325
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTPAINKILLER 326
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTHIGHEMPTY 340
#define CHARANIM_SHOOTHIGHLEADPIPE 341 [/code]</blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">See how there's a gap of numbers between shootpainkiller and shoothighempty? That basically means you only have 13 extra slots for brand new (not replacement) weapons. You already have 19 weapons available, so the max you can have is 32. Keep in mind that dual weapons take up one of those slots.
You probably won't use that many weapons, but you might. I personally am going to come extremely close to the very limit, but there are quite a few weapons that will only be available on certain levels or in certain circumstances.... Plus, there is a whole group of weapons that are enemy-only.
You'll have people that want tons of guns and others who are more than happy with the basic loadout. You're the only person that can make them like your weapon setup by making sure the weapons are unique from each other, the weapons are all evenly balanced, and finally, are suitable for the game itself. No sense in making super-ultra-murder-death-kill psycho-cannons if you don't even include a new level or three where you would use such a weapon.
Just trying to help out.
-LJ