I would recommend removing sniper completely and returning to rifle since it would be more challenging,and not just sniper whoring all the time.Sure,the VIPs could retain the rifles constantly while we the non-VIP could have it every few minutes since it is not that OP,but at least we'd have a more challenging game,and people actually aiming at others and not cheating with it being hard to detect or abusing some bugs.
But yeah,I know that stupid policy that's being upheld: "wE cAn'T rEmOvE vIp FeAtUrEs".
It's kind of bad for the whole game if this thing is being held as a priority over the topic of the gamemode.
But sure,some people cannot live without snipers,so I guess this can't be removed,probably ever...
I know this isn't my suggestion here that I'm commenting on,but I'm appealing to administrators to reconsider it.
Maybe I'm solo on the suggestion,maybe the majority wants the snipers to stay,but think about how it would improve the gamemode.
People wouldn't be relying on dealing great damage from long range,and the fighting would require more close quarters combat,which should be the priority here.
We're not supposed to play assassins here and shoot from afar,it can be quite unfair sometimes.
If not,then,either we're all mandatory to download that addon,however that's done,at one point,so we all have the same conditions to play in,or we remove and forbid it completely.
I'm not sure how the other servers would look at that addon,maybe as a hacking method,so, we're probably supposed to remove it if we intend to play there too.