dinglehopper

A lot of people still use OCTH, smeagol even makes OCTH the default for aimnas and though there is an unoficial NCTH patch for aimnas it is not set up right.

Any data-side restructuring of 1.13 has zero impact on AIMNAS or any other mod with its own item set.

dinglehopper

But it completely breaks OCTH, mostly because OCTH is based on range more than anything, NCTH is not.

Actually, what it does is break with the stupid Vanilla progression of everyone going to war with pistols. It bothers a lot of people, hence the popularity of alternate enemy gun choices with a more sensible premise. Btw, AIMNAS progression is in fact pretty close to an NCTH model. You'll encounter rifles and smg's in Omerta and old MGs not long after. The only faction that'll have a problem with it is the die hard, Vanilla at all costs crowd.

dinglehopper

What i think would replace them is the enemy would get to choose anything from the current coolness level or maybe sometimes one or two coolness levels up or down. I actually think that makes sense anyways, if you can buy it on bobby rays, shouldn't diedranna and her men be able to as well?

Nope, it doesn't. It's an entirely different thing if you want to buy 3 rifles for a private company (/ LE / SF) or need to equip an army.

dinglehopper

I admit i know little about the drop tables, I almost always play with enemy drop all turned on.

The drop tables that are used when drop all is off just give general percentages like 'armor has a 30% chance of dropping' - they need not concern us.