WoT is THAT way --------->

Rather than seeing proto tanks, I'd like to see tech 3 tanks. Tech 3 tanks have roughly 15% less base health than standard tanks, but they gain a subsystem slot. The subsystem slot determines the skill bonus the tank provides, ex. 5% bonus to shield module efficacy per level, 3% bonus to turret damage per level, etc. This makes proto tanks far more malleable than standard tanks, although they will be slightly less useful in general areas when compared to a standard tank.

More poison for the masses I see, better just give everyone badass everything cause it's a fact it's all proto

The very idea of a traditional proto vehicle revolts me, it would be so unbalanced and would lead to rudiculous levels of qq on the forums, not to mention that it would just turn vehicles into an even more expensive version of that crap called infantry balance. I'd rather see something like halidor proposed, where we get speciluased variants that suffer in other regards, while we get mire generalised variants as the base tanks.

And before that moron takarisho (something like that) blunders in here I would see proto av removed as well (along with everything else proto) and what's left be balanced against the new vehicles.

The original intent of the developers was to create a risk vs reward scenario to balance the tiered dropsuits and vehicle frames, its clear however that this does not work.

I think the suit and vehicle bonuses are done wrong. Every suit and vehicle should have bonuses and they should reflect the race and purpose of the item.

Standard HAVs should have about two types per race. Each race should have an HAV that focuses on damage and one one defense. The bonuses should increase with the level of a certain skill.

Advanced HAVs should get two bonuses. One bonus that is skill dependent and focuses on damage or defense and a static role bonus. Each race would have three to four HAVs and they would all have a different role bonus but the damage/defense bonus would be the same as the standard. Bonuses could include damage resistance, speed, armor/shield reps and logi focused bonuses. They would encourage diversity.

Finally, prototype vehicles would include the lower tier bonuses and then an additional skill based bonus to push the specializing to the edge. Their final skill based bonus would be for things like armor rep range, ammo supply rate, cool down and other bonuses that are geared towards changing how a module works.

The way I see it is that a standard vehicle should be very flexible and just as powerful as an advanced and an advanced should be a bit less flexible but better at the one job it is made for. Prototype vehicle should only be good at one job, they should be a glass cannon or a defensive beast. Just because the vehicle is a prototype doesn't mean that it has to have more slots and resources. Proto vehicles are specialized weapons and shouldn't be just more of the same.

The point of specialized equipment is to do one thing really well not just add more resources. Proto gear should have draw backs because they are specialized into one role, the bonuses should be better but the fitting should be tight and they should be focused on one job not be a jack-of-all-trades.