Here's a radical idea: Get the devs to buff the vehicle engineering skill back to 5% per level and focus on matchmaking to help new players instead of punishing veterans that invested their time/SP/ISK into their trade.

If you do the above, nothing would need to be changed and we wouldn't be having this discussion. Infantry players don't give a crap about pilots and pilots have a chip on their shoulders against infantry. This topic is going to wind up going 10+ pages of back and forth valid points from both sides that will eventually degrade into who has the best insults to exert their e-peen. The end result will be another topic being ignored and the devs will continue on trying to re-balance two game mechanics around a nerf that shouldn't have happened in the first place if they had taken the advice of the majority of the community and made matchmaking a top priority. What you say doesn't matter as much as what I have to say, but in the end, unwarranted self importance while standing on a virtual soap box will amount to nothing while the elephant in the room continues to be ignored. I've given you a valid fact that I've been stating on these god forsaken forums since the day it happened, and again it seems like I'll go ignored because everything we say on here doesn't matter when the developers are going to pick and choose the topics they want to read whether the CPM brings it to their attention or not. The sooner you realize this harsh truth, the better.

Dead link, but while you're here, would you mind helping me settle a point with the OP? If you logged in today after downtime and found out that the vehicle engineering skill got buffed from 1% per level to 5% per level, how would that change how you fit your tank?

How come people can use RL examples on how the AR should be balanced, but when HAV come into play that goes out the window? Double standard much?

At the end of the day, everyone wants their time/ISK/SP invested in their role to mean something. (Most) Infantry have that, why not vehicles?

In Chrome, tanks were a force multiplier where pilots would throw their money on the field in hopes of turning the tide of a battle. With proper squad support, good gunners, and disorganized opponents they were invincible. Hell, anything can be invincible with proper teamwork. In Uprising, tanks have degraded to a liability and an afterthought. Think about it, when's the last time someone legitimately complained about tanks in Uprising? If people aren't complaining, something is obviously broken. Same with the laser, shotgun, HMG, and even the mass driver in earlier patches. Tanks need to be beefed up to **** people off again or there's no point in having the role at all.