Well skilling speed is determined by how much ammo you burn+ decay of your weapon. In general people find it hard to break even with an unmaxed weapon due to missed hits, lower dmg etc.
If you didn't care about loot and just wnated to skill, grab a swine deluxe and pump ambu for a few months. You'll skill up -fast-, but unless you hit a freakish hof every day, you will lose ped faster than you can earn it back in full time job.
I choose SIB with lowish markup and highest pedburn i can (i had to wokr out formulas myself)... for me, p5a is my default weapon. I'm level 48. It's available. I don't intend to switch my default weapon for another 22 levels laser pistol. The availability of weapons will always be a problem for hardcore skillers, so picking something as a backup. When manis was 140%, i switched to that cos it was cheaper and a lot faster (worked well for CP). We will soon have a whole swath of new weapons to choose from, and hopefully, some of these will be reasonable enough prices.
Of course if you don't mind paying outrageous markups for weapons that will barely last you a day, you are welcome to - and with markup there is a tradeoff in skills for ped compared to nonSIB - for p5a it works out to be you get 3.5% less skills for your ped compared to unl weapon. For a high decay high markup weapon, you will get even less skills for your ped. However with p5 the tradeoff is you have a huge eco weapon that can be used for a wide range of mobs (including the new atrox, maffs, feffs, and previously the ambu young-old) so your hunting costs are reduced.
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