Re: How much attention do you pay to encumberance?
Completely depends on the game for us. For the last modern spec-ops game, encumbrance was figured down to every round and magazine carried. For "Bunnies & Burrows," not so much, or the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
As mentioned above, part of the value of buying high gobs of ST is that you can use armor and weapons that lesser fighters just can't, at least not without slowing them to a crawl. For low-tech dungeon crawls, having the Thief (ST 12, DX 16) or the Mage (ST 10, DX 14) able to fight in the same full plate as the Knight (ST 16, DX 14) would just be too strange, so we'd end up using encumbrance.
The loadout system in GCA is pretty good, and if we're using encumbrance I'll set up one loadout as "Backpack" (so it's simple to see the difference to encumbrance when it's being carried and when it isn't.)
Pretty much boils down to everything else GURPS-y... if it's fun, use it, if it bores you, jettison and leave it behind.
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