misconceptions of most tank drivers

"we provide cover"

no you don't, we jump inside to hide and you moan, we hide down the side and you drive away because you think we are going to jump inside,you don't go anywhere near the enemy because all you care about is protecting your own hide so we are left exposed or cant advance without taking losses.

I sometimes wait minutes in the redline after getting in my tank, because idiots just won't get out. What do they do when they jump in? Fire a couple of salvos of missiles. They never even join the squad to see what's going on. When we're rolling around, they don't kill AV. We don't go near enemies because they don't kill them. They expect us to do everything. I don't know how many times I've advanced on something, only to find myself alone against a squad because the rest of my team is nowhere to be found.

"we provide covering fire"

no you don't, you are only out there to get kills. any shooting you do is because it might get you a kill. your not covering open ground or suppressing the enemy. your purely kill whoring.

You make it sound like a tanker getting a kill is an accident. A tanker on open ground = easy pickings for AV.

" we are team players"

biggest misconception of them all. your in a 3 seater tank and all you want to do is solo in it, if you had a choice you would lock the vehicle and remove the turrets so you could fit more dps and tank. i would hardly call that team oriented behaviour. you complain when someone is in your vehicle who might actually help you spot swarmers or fg before they hit you. instead you still prefer to solo and blame av for your issues or the team on the ground for not killing them before they get to you.

We're more team players than infantry are. Removing the small turrets is a great way to keep costs down, as well as so far, the only way to not broadcast your position to enemy AV, as well as the entire galaxy, because if we don't give blue dots things to shoot at, then we're apparently doing it wrong. It's just removing the turrets, not a lock. They could still get a ride if we choose to give them one. They never join the squad, so how are they going to spot threats for us?

" we spent all the isk and sp to use them so we should be able to do what we want"

Why do you think other people, especially you, should dictate how we put our SP and ISK to use?

a FG user spends alot of sp and isk to do his job dedicated to kill you

I'll grant that forge guns require more SP in general, because only the heavy suit can wield them.

a swarm user spends alot of sp and isk to do his job dedicated to kill you

LOL NO It only requires 273,600 SP to unlock Haywire Wiyrkomi swarms.

only difference your weapons kill everyone the same regardless of what everyone else has fit. also you might die once in 5 games losing a mil isk. mercs on the ground might die alot more times in that same amount and lose alot more isk than you.

...... Dropsuits don't cost a million ISK. They don't cost 500,000 ISK. Very rarely will they cost 200,000 ISK. The blaster I use for PC costs 1.5mil ISK. Infantry running all PRO gear has to die 7 times to equal the cost of that specific tank. The ISK Wiyrkomi costs 28,845 ISK. A heavy IG-L repair module costs 46,320 ISK. Infantry cost =/= vehicle cost

people are treating tanks like suits and expect to solo in them the same as a merc solo's in his suit but your wrong. you are a merc first then a tank driver. the tank is an asset same as a piece of equipment thrown on the ground for support or tactical situations. they need to be look at in the same way and not treated and compared to other suits and weapons.

No, because our SP is in vehicles. If we don't have above 20mil SP, we're terrible on foot. A tank =/= nanohive or nanite injector. I pray that CCP doesn't consider your opinion.