This is a HUGE missed opportunity for adding vehicle capacitors. CCP could reuse code from the stamina system to make it happen, and it makes so-much-more sense to balance around capacitors than long cooldowns. It gives drivers/pilots more freedom and flexibility which should help them perform better. It's easy to manage a single resource than multiple long cooldowns. It still allows for waves of opportunity and is consistent with your stated goals for vehicles. It would lead to more diversity of fittings, which should make the battlefield more interesting. It would appeal to existing EVE players and might draw them into DUST and vice-versa. It would set DUST above every other FPS in the market by having truly rich/deep tactical vehicle combat. It opens the door for so many interesting possibilities later.

There will literally never be a better time to add capacitors. It will only get harder to do later as you balance around long cooldowns timers, and may get so bad that you decide to never implement them because it would require another total rebalance. I beg you to reconsider.

Also, removing slots is stupid. It will result in very little diversity of fitting, making vehicles very similar, predictable and boring as hell.

Railgun that can shoot other vehicles at 10x the range, testing last night, turret installation not locked onto me took me to get with 168m range with a rail gun for it to render, when locked on it rendered at 230m.... infantry rendering for the most is pathetic, then every so often the game will allow you to see them at 200m.

Large missile launchers that were changed to need virtually direct hits on infantry( a mass damage has a more effective splash system going) but good versus tanks and istallations.

dange close AV.... Or just on the other side of a wall, or in a scout suit.

Forge guns..... Still unsure about these TBO, my main issue is how cheap they are compared to turrets. Ishy FG does 100(ish) less damage than a 900k proto type rail turret. breach does 1k more damage.

Limiting the amount of slots makes me a bit sad and worried that the amount of "different" HAVs we will see on the battlefield will decrease due to customization limits.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Also nobody is going to believe that speel about "Temporarily" removing those dropships, since you said the same thing when you removed the marauders...

EDIT: I do have a concern with the posted stats for shields, you said in theory the shields would allow you to "hit-and-run" and were supposed to have a faster recovery time but lower EHP then the armor equivalents... However, I'm worrying that your new HP values are going to make it difficult for any shield HAV to survive any "quick" engagement without being blown to smithereens. A fast recovery time is meaningless if your EHP is too low to survive the "run" part of hit-and-run... It honestly looks like shield tanks are even more fragile then they are now, and that is deeply concerning for me...

Still somewhat disappointed in skills only unlocking...they need to provide a benefit.

My first concern is the ability to recall and redeploy. Its really quite feasible to use your active mods, run to the redline, call in new vehicle, recall old one. Without ever having to "wait" for cooldown timers.

Rails have too much ammo imo, with that total you can spend almost the entire game shooting and not run out.

Its really difficult to know exactly how much this will effect since pretty much this is an entire overhaul. Those are my first impressions. Can't really give an honest opinion since there are so many changes...without a viable way to test in game, its difficult.

Lastly, no response on giving back SP for vehicles your are removing....Or a SP refund for all vehicle related skills since this is such a large change in how skills are effecting aspects of vehicles.

Any possibility for someone to build/release a fitting tool?

Thanks for your hard work

As long as proto AV is out there, these tanks, from the stats will be even bigger coffins than the current batch.