There are still four weapon types and one character will specialize in 1-2 in the beginning. If a player wants to experience all four types of weapons he either has to spend EP, which won't ever get him into a mech for each race's specialization at the starting EP, or make four characters.

So, now we have 4 characters to try all the weapons out. Going to have to delete one thats 2,880 EP.

What if the person didn't want to specialize in combat after trying all four weapon specialties. Well, he's going to have delete a second character now. 5,760 EP lost now. The guy finally settles on industry and research.

Sadly, he is 5.7k EP down the drain already for not knowing what he wanted to do with his character and trying to play test each weapon set.