non rank players do have cooldowns on character kits for 24 hours last I checked, idk if its been changed or not in the past few days. However I don't mind them having access to them, I think everyone should have access to character kits even if it has a 24 hour cooldown and I also think we should add new kits which we are currently working on.
Anyways I have an idea for realism but it would require 1.9, the idea is making items such as ammo, molotovs, and gear craftable. I know we plan to bring in base building where you have to scavenge for materials to build up your bases but also have items such as "Gun Scraps" and "Whiskey" to craft ammo and molotovs also bringing back damage to weapons and armor and if you are a rank you get the /repair command again and for non-rank players have a blacksmith npc or gunsmith npc to take items too for repair. Also I saw something about back packs and I did stumble across a plugin somewhere that allows players to apply packs to there skins so its 3D-ish and if we had something like that we could add variant styles of packs like a regular back pack and hiking pack and so on.
Oh one last suggestion I have from a player, a kit for rp leaders where they can shut off mob spawn for a 20 block radius for a limited time but I can see how that could have some downsides such as trolls and unpleasant people.