Good job ignoring the real point. See the thing is you sort of just trapped yourself because the point you tankers were making was INFANTRY GET TO CHANGE AT SUPPLY DEPOTS ZOMG. Well you just said it yourself. We need to capture a supply depot to do that. What do tankers need to do to change their fit? Absolutely nothing. Just pop out and recall.

Now your next point is prolly gonna be "WELL BLUEBERRIES HOP IN MY TANK AND I CAN'T RECAL HURR DURR" and that's a bit besides the point considering 1.5 is in the nearby future and a vehicle lock is probably coming very soon. And since these are just suggestions and CCP has yet to show interest any of these proposed ideas, then if they actually were to take interest it would take months before we saw it's implementation.

Of course I'm not suggesting that every part of a tank should function like infantry dropsuits. Far from it. I'm just pointing out a flawed argument I've seen in this thread and trying to get tankers to calm down and see that the mechanic they are using is broken. I think RDVs should pick up the vehicle, and I see nothing unreasonable about that.

Sorry to burst your bubble mate but endless grenade by standing on nanohivesor supply depots was fixed 1.3, you get a maximum of 5 grenades from a supply depot, then it just stops giving them to you, even if you change suits!! The base amount are replenished when you switch suits but you should have an infantry squad to capatilise on avers hastily changing suits!!

Well you see thats thing, you can take damage while your in the menu choosing your new suit, your then invincible while your suit is constructed.

But here is the thing, changing from a medium suit, to another medium suit with at least the same health or above does not repair your suit, it gives you the same health even if your new suit had a higher maximum.

Although by contradiction if you change from 1 suit size to another say medium to a heavy, then you get a suit with all its health back!! Now the simplest way to stop that would be to give the heavy a percentage of health based on the remaining percentage on the medium!!

However, this doesnt stop the fact, that a tank who feels he is loosing will just retreat to the red zone recall it, bring in another completely ignoring the fact that he nearly lost his previous because now he has a brand new shiny one.

So here is what propose, you can keep your magic alien abduction recall, but if you call in another tank with same hull, then the health (and ammo percentage remainig come 1.5) are transposed to the new vechile, et voila tankers get to keep their magic recall, av attempts are no longer completly wasted by a tanker recalling his vechile!!

When you're using AV your best bet to get points is, well, destroying vehicles. You want to remove every pupropse from AV. Because when the tanker recalls his vehicle he can call in a shiny new and undamaged tank. So that thing is not really gone.

armor tank properly fit can take 6 proto swarms and survive. thats over 15s of shooting for a single guy. I would say thats plenty tanky, if you cant react in those 15s then tanks are not for you, I would even say that this game is not for you then.

happened plenty of times now in 1.4 for me, was shooting an armor tank that was standing still thinking he should be invicible (like the majority of the tank driver scrubs), then after 6 proto swarm he jumps out and recalls his tank during my reload.

He should be able to if the tanker sits there, considering the ttk on a tank is god damn high, its a bit of a pee take when he jumps out recalls it, disappears to get a new one, resumes tank mayhem as if it never happened!! I mean come on, what reasonnhave you got to defend other than "suits can do it too" except if a guy does that we blow up his supply depot, then kill him!! And most of the time there is so little health left on the suit a scrambler pistol will finish em off with a chest shot!!

Then that entirely contradicts the arguments of, "a dropsuit can do it, at a supply depot" argument entirely, so now we have eleiminated that why should a tank be able to recall, in the middle of the fieldmso it doesnt blow up, then go and get a new one??

Right so, vechiles are treated as dropsuits, therefore a tank should be able to recalled in the middle of the battle, instead of going to a vechile recall point? You know like dropsuits, but because tanks aren't dropsuits and shouldn't be treated as such we should be able to recall tanks where we feel like then run behind a building and get another shiny one dropped off, despite the fact it is the same tank you just recalled?

And your complaining at me for double standards? Either tanks should be treated like dropsuits and you need to go to a designated area to swap your tank, and swapping to a tank exactly the same shouldnt yeild any repairs, OR tanks should be treated differently and have a fair recall system that doesn't completely nullify the effort a guy just put in for the last 5 mins trying to blow you up!!

Right yes thats c what I expect you to do, but you effort to save your tank, should consist of hopping out and wait a few secs, while an alien abducts it, people call there tanks back when it is at the verge of destruction, and you can deny its tosh that a tank so close to death magically disappears, and then even more so that you can call the same fitting back in as if it were brand new!!

Dropsuits have to change suit size, like explained earlier which means we can't just select the same fitting, and hey presto, but I think that needs to be changed anyway (but that is a completely different matter), which is akin to you having to callmin a different hull, to reset the health on your prefered tank, recall that, then request your other tank back!!

As for the number of supply depots, you mean all 3 of them??

Now, now, im am merely making a point, against your argument, no need for such brashness!! I know they are getting reworked, I have been saving my sp for the gunship, with the sole purpose of speccing into anti vechile based roles!! Hopfully proto av wont be the only thing that actally make a ganker soil his undies!!

Honestly I do hope they make them worth the isk, but somehow what I think that our opnions on that will vary greatly!!

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No the opinions of everyone should be accounted for the, infantry experience both with and against tanks is a very crucial factor, and I dont think you will like!!

You see once again, you appear very narfow minded, I am talking about the interaction between friendly infantry and their tank driving buddies, tanks shouldn't be expected to just be all out war machines, while they should have the option to do so, thete should be major drawbacks to such a role!!