Something seems amiss. Those tankers are so cute, they do this every day. I don't think this was the intent of the Vehicle Recall feature though.

well you can already take a constant assault of max level proto small missiles and then after 5 minutes hop our and recall.

JS. That's not the reason CCP added recall, and they need to review how the mechanic works. Don't balance tanks around being able to put it away the moment you might die after 5 minutes of sustained dps.

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.

Obviously you shouldn't be able to do that either but it's not remotely the same level of problem.

This is being changed in 1.5. The tank recall is not. Your argument is invalid.

Supply depots aren't everywhere, you can recall your vehicle anytime you, anywhere you want.

Then you can recall it with full shields and armour.

Infantry need to go to a Supply Depot to switch out their gear (Which most tankers conveniently blow up). Tankers can recall and then call their vehicle back in wherever. What was that about double standards?

If you want to keep your vehicle recall as is, infantry need to be able to changed their dropsuit wherever as well.

maybe if your aim didn't suck you would actually destroy the tank before it recalled

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!!