So I have been reading through this post, and I agree that they need a Nerf. Like Mav has said, we need to look at other alternatives other than removall. I don't really know if this plays a key role but the word vigilante is in the title of the server so I dont think removal is an option.
As far as the weapon/armor goes for vigi. Vigis used to have a sting that was pretty much all there was, if I remember right all the cartel monkeys still complained about it with that. Not saying that a spar isn't OP but don't expect that to be the only fix if you change it.
Any form of change to the rules where they have to engage in red zones/cartel would be completely absurd in my opinion. The common kavla vigi doesn't know the rules half way straight as they are and adding more rules is just going to fuck shit up even more.
Now making it where a vigi would kill in a certain area of the map I feel would be a difficult thing to accomplish, not sure how that would be scripted in or what because I don't know shit about that but I can foresee it being a clusterfuck if the zone isn't perfectly outlined by the red border around warzone. You could be on the road to bottleneck but still 200m out of warzone, engage to tase then kill, now that would just fuck it up completely.
I know what it is like from both sides of the fence so I know how all you monkeys feel when you get tased in warzone then sent to jail for 80 mins.
So, we need to do more than just one thing so here is my suggestion.
Bring back stings and take away the spar.
Drop the max payout from 90% to around 70ish%, maybe a little lower?
Increase the min play time needed from like 2 hours to 5-6 this way people can't just sit afk for a restart and come back to instant vigi.
Increase needed arrests for tiers.
Making jail time shorter has been done before, but I think spending anything over an hour in jail is dumb anyway so max time lowered to 60 min.
That is pretty much all I have as far as suggestions goes. Like I said I play both Vigi and Rebel so I am looking at this from both sides. Some of your ideas, although they may not be serious, don't seem possible so I thought Id put in my 2 cents.