[SUGGESTION] Weapons function

People seem confused as to what Xonotic is supposed to be (I am, too). Is it Nexuiz with tweaks and new graphics, or a new game with new weapons and balance? Half suggest new stuff and other half want to keep things as close as possible to Nexuiz with minor tweaks. Trying to please both, I can't imagine the result being anything but a mess and with a weapon balance that makes no sense. This time the dumpster effect would not be on graphics and content, but on gameplay. Not trying to be pessimist, I'm just making an observation, feel free to disagree I won't argue about it.

So what is the goal here? It can go either way since new weapon models are being made, it doesn't have to be Nexuiz weapons with new effects. Would it be better to start from scratch and only take ideas from Nexuiz? Like, start with fewer weapons that all have different behaviors to each other, and go from there, add more weapons later. I mean, all maps were removed and all player models too, it could make sense to do the same with weapons. Even physics are being changed, this does affect weapon balance too in a way. However the frontpage seems to suggest is it more a tweaked Nexuiz than a new game. Which is it?

Would be nice to know what the devs actually think about this. I know the "planning" isn't done, but maybe making this clearer would help.