When did this hate relationship develop between troops and tanks?

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LOL True sometimes I think you're just crazy. Battles I've been in, mercs support their tanks. They will chase down swarm launchers and take out Forge gunners so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

The truth is, the tank holds no respect for the infantry. I jump in a tank, he automatically thinks I'm just in it for WP assists. If I'm driving my LAV, the tank will just mow over me without any regard. And I didn't even see the tank. If I turn the corner and there's a tank moving in my direction, he will just continually drive forward while I'm stuck in some jerk animation as I try my best to get away from the tank. Which is really impossible until the tank decides to let me go.

Someone has to stop the foolishness for productivity. Tank guys gotta stop looking at infantry as just morons who flail about on the field and thinking they're some kinda god on the field.

You made some wrong accusations here. Tanks do not think your "just in it for WP assists". Tanks think your in it for the assist as a minor reward, if you were in it to be productive we would be glad to share our kills and WP with you, we would LOVE that. But we know infaintry are going to AFK and refuse to leave our tanks for us to recall. So we die.

Yes we crush lavs in our way because we need to get out of the way of av! or your just in our way. Your right, we do not respect you guys, we absolutly hate you for getting our tanks blown up so directly. Im glad you and your squad target the AV, but most ppl do not, they do NOT go out of their way to kill the AV over there, they dont care about us and we cant deal with them over there. So they cause us to get blown up indirectly as well. So yeah. Forgive us for our lesser evil of destroying your lavs and dropsuits, cuz yal cost us tanks. Btw, we KNOW were not gods on the feild, not even close

It bugs me to no end that if theres a friendly tank on the field they wont let me support it. I understand why they dont, but I wouldnt mind getting in your tank with my reppers and shotgun ready to kill swarmers or AV naders and rep the tank afterwards.

Oh i didnt know us infantry came as a bonus with the purchase of your expensive tank...., we are all Mercs i have no loyalty to give on the field other then myself...and i sure as hell will not jump inbetween a smoking tank and 6 enemy infantry to save someone i dont know, i will however use your smoking tank to my advantage and flank the sh*tz out of these guys.

You keeping your tank after i am done with those guys is just a bonus.

PS: if it was the otherway around and you see 6 guys going to my location with me not knowing, you would try to kill them all, me staying alive would be a bonus then, but not a requirement.

I love tanks when they actually help their infantry and work together with us, its the friendly tanks that just drive on looking for more kills that drive me insane. Repping up a friendly armor tank and hopping in and out of his guns to provide a small infantry screen for him as he drives around. Get to an objective and I hop out and start hacking it, I start getting shot at and hop out hoping the tank can back me up looking around hes halfway across the map trying to blow up a CRU. Seriously you need to stick with your inantry as much as we need to stick with you.

You're damn right that vehicle operators main concern is their K/DR, a decent fit tank or dropship cost upwards of 500k per vehicle, our first and foremost concern is keeping our vehicle alive, everything else is secondary. And you say that tanks just steamroll round? In my experience both on the ground and in vehicles the infantry just end up in one huge messy firefight while the tank is the only thing actually hitting the objective. And in a game with such lethal AV movement is the key to survival, sit still and AV will be brought to bear on you, they will trap and them annihilate you. And here's another reason we vehicle users loathe bluedots in our vehicles, not only do they sit there being rather ineffective 90% of the time! they stop you recalling your vehicles and they steal them. Every single veteran vehicle user will have at least 1 story of where they jumped out of the vehicle/pilots seat and some enterprising blueberry jumped in and promptly suicided the vehicle through sheer incompetence, not giving a **** about the vehicle user they just cost half a million ISK.

Aaaaarrrrrgggggg NEVER and I do mean never get out of your hav . Trust me if you get out and get killed theres nothing worse than blowing up your own tank. Or having it stollen .

When tankers decided they should be one man machines of death, and not have to interact with anyone other than more tankers, despite playing a social centric game!

I hate blueberry tanks that ram you and crap like that it gets really annoying it can even cost you a tank when your getting hit by AV.