Currently, if you're playing with a rank 1 account vs a rank 8 account, you get 28 TPs.
Thing is, you can only spend 12, in total, on your newb advantages.
Smoke is limted to 2/3 uses, you can get 4 recon runs, and of course, the 1 supply drop. Paying a grand total of 12 TP for all of it.
Maybe allow the over-maxed TPs to become PPs if you don't spend them? At a rate of 2:1, or 3:1? Would help newbies develop their companies, and actualy use all those over-due TPs
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