[quote=@vietmyke]
 [@Plank Sinatra] Meh, you could make it work- if you have players that know how to make it balanced or trust not to become OP as hell. 

Be it a rookie pilot who for some reason got their hands on a gundam- because of course they have, [b]or maybe the gundam has a flaw or limitations or a locked up power system. Plenty you could do with it [/b]
[/quote]

But this isn't really the point in most Gundam series. Even in the Universal Century, the Gundam was fielded in order to [i]completely[/i] outclass Zeon - who up to that point had the Zaku, which was the most advanced machine on the battlefield. When a Gundam hits the stage, it doesn't have limitations or a locked power system. It's designed to be a generation ahead of everything else. 

Giving them to skilled pilots as needed, as time goes on in the game, is much more in line with how the franchise actually works. All you're doing then is cutting out the one MC-type character who gets one within the first episode or two, since there shouldn't be one of those in a group roleplay from the outset anyway.