Right now new players have no option to build a base because they have nothing to build a base around. You can still build up something with non-permanent Gun and Pill items, as well as the vehicles, but having to defend things like the Minigun seems better than them being moved into the sky and only two players having fun until the rest quit.
Also, exactly why is the Light disabled?
It'd be nice to have dropping weapons (single ones) on death so there's at least a reward for hammering the people who hoard them. I've done it like five times now.
Perhaps I was mistaken as to what I thought permanent weapon spawns meant.
To clarify, I
don't think players should be able to hoard the weapons in the map by moving them all into one location. I
do think there needs to be items of value worth building a fort around for defending though.
I'm not sure how spawn bricks fit into that equation though. Perhaps every player can, by default, choose where they spawn through some kind of chat command without needing to hunt down or place a spawn brick. Maybe have a second command to "delete" this spawn location so the player will respawn somewhere at random That way if their spawn is spotted they can avoid being camped at the cost of not knowing where they will end up next. This idea allows all the players to build and us forts, and it prevents players from abusing spawn bricks.