I think the starting weapons are fine with the pulse smg being exception and hats via levels would be pretty irrelevant since hats via gc pretty much does the same aka play, progress earn gc buy hats and also it might bring ywa extra donations so both ideas are pretty irrelevant in my opinion and also if more people would get nerfed version of rifles, smg and so on as starting weapons the bullets coming from 20 peoples guns when your a starting zombie would be annoying as hell, but maybe nerfed version of different pistols (expect dual elites cause its rate of fire) might be something to think about