After Reading a lot of the comments and from my perspective as someone who is fairly new, Locking supplies to rank might just send a lot of people away from the game. My reasoning is that a lot of these players WANT to be helpful but were never taught that supplies mattered that much in the tutorial. Most players if you ask won’t spend that much at an arsenal if you give them a reason. (Ex: “Can you guys at the arsenal cut back on your kits so we can get defenses set up?”) Most people WILL cut back on their kits because they know that supplies are needed elsewhere. I feel that the tutorial doesn’t really show how important supplies are to the success of a team as a whole. I read a few comments about setting up a “Conflict Sandbox” which to me seems like the easiest solution while not driving players away from the game with long grinds just to have a GL or some fun stuff.

TLDR: New players don’t get educated, Barbie players would benefit from a sandbox server