oh kay, so reguardless of the fact that ima total shotgun whore, i think it would be a nice addition, or even a "twist" if we could unrestrict the L96 sniper. I DO understand that it has an incredibly powerful knockback. i mean ive seen it more than enough times on other servers like plaguefest. sooo... my suggestion is that we simply have its knockback reduced (by a lot) so that when hit by it, you wont get blasted to the other side of the map. so we would be doing something somewhat similar to what was done with the deformed zombies; reducing their knockback.
some people may think "oh well if we did this than the scout would become obsolete and nobody would wanna use it anymore" - NOT true at all. to my understanding; the L96 has only a + 0.50 exp point gain for each kill made by it, whereas the scout has a + 4.00 exp gain. so obviously the rank whores of zmod would still chose the scout over it in most scenarios. but this would give each of the snipers their own pros and cons.

L96 = great damage and powerful knockback - very low exp gain
Scout = not so great damage (unless hs) and less knock back - very high exp gain

so ya, those are my thoughts.

DISCUSS!!