Pirate Market

[Deadvickyart]

Carl requires you to be an actual traitor to buy from them now or he limits his stock - because of abuse

You're getting it backwards. CARL has been around for the better part of a decade now, he has always allowed anyone who phase shifts or gets and agent card in. There was never any incident to my knowledge that abused flare gun ammo, torpedos or spy stickers to the extent they absolutely 100% must have He had an expanded stock added for antags of all types (and not just traitors, sleeper agents and gang members get access to the expended stock too despite not being able to buy agent cards) as an additional reward for them. The detective *starts the round* with spy stickers and usually just leaves them on his desk, that's how little they're valued.

On the other hand, the explosive ammo and best-in-slot space armor have both proven to be problems in the past, and the fix was to make them cost 40k each. I think that sets a good precedent for gating deadly traitor gear behind an in-game paywall as a countermeasure for abuse.