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in military terms, small arms refers to anything that a guy can carry and use. obviously a pistol falls under that catagory but so does a man portable .30 cal MG or a .50 cal sniper rifle.

anyways, it doesnt really matter what WE call any of this stuff. its what WEBZEN would call everything that matters. they have said that there will be 9 weapon types and they gave a few examples of those types. what "kind of topic" a weapon falls under is not relavent.

"Sometimes there are energy weapons that don't go into other catagories and are a catagorie of their own. I can't think of any at the moment, but I'm sure there is."

saying that 'misc energy' is one of the catagories doesnt really add anything to the discussion. i would appreciate it if you didnt edit my posts to reflect your thinking.

"A submachine and assault rifle would go under a "Small arms" kind of topic compared to what big guns will be carried around. But SMG and Assault rifles are not the same at all. SMG are made for close quarters."

obviously assult rifles and SMGs are not the same but that is not the question. the question is would WEBZEN put them under the same catagory? a SMG is optimized for CQB while an assult rifle is a comprimise for indoor/outdoor, short and long range. there will probably be some assult rifles that are more optimized for short range indoor combat while some SMGs may be designed with a little range in mind too. the 2 classes of weapons overlap, there is no clear charastic that would distinguish one from the other.

all the other classes that we know of are things like rocket launchers, sniper rifles and shotguns. these all have defining charastics that clearly seperate them from each other. all this makes me wonder weither assult rifles and SMG would get seperate classes.

if they are seperate classed then each would have to have some defining charastics to seperate them from each other. maybe the assult rifles can attach accessories like scopes and single shot gernade launchers for secondary fire?