In their new update on how their ruining our vehicles somehow even harder than they have done, they continue to claim that shield tanks are made to hit and run, and armor is made to stand and slug it out. In this endevor, both tanks are given a speed reduction from their current state and are now the same speed. So how is the cute little shield tank that could deal with the big bad armor tank?

Well, they dont. If the shield tank pushes head on he cant compete with the superior galante active resist and dies. But if the shield tank rolls up behind the armor tank and shoots at him then runs away, the armor tank chases him down and kills him. So.... how does the shield tank beat it??

Missiles look promising, they are certainly terrorfiing beyond a reasonable doubt, expesically to an armor tank. It can fire 4-6 missiles a second and the proto ones do 500 damage each. Thats insaine! plus a clip of 12 but with 2 hardners and a heavy rep the armor tanks will eat it no promblem. Then the shield tank has to reload and the armor tank will easily close the distance in 10 seconds and kill him.

Blasters? duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

Rails? Maby once but its an anti tank weapon. If the armor tanker is using cover it will be impossible. And if you do kill the armor tanker than hed come out with a railgun and murder you.

So... what hope will a shield tank have?

This is counting no resist though, or the 1200 shields of the madrugar OR the damage mods on its high slots OR the shield rep the armor tank has in addition to its armor rep, your counter argument left out 2 of its high slots. Not to mention the active resist of the armor tank is 60% with perma reps. Damage modded maddy with shield extender/rep with perma rep with 60% resist with plate will beat a missile gunny with 3 shield mods any day, like they do now

the base speed of both havs will still be similar and shields slow shield vehilces down just as much as armor does currently ..i see no mention of changing this..while it makes no sense ccp think shields should have weight. with gallente able to use active propulsion without sacrificing tanking ability their speed will trump the so called hit and run caldari tanks..AS THEY DO CURRENTLY ..also as far as i am aware minmatar are supposed to be speedy and caldari are supposed to be SHIELD TANKED they are supposed to be the strongest of the shield tanked vehicles..and they're survivability isnt supposed to depend on speed to begin with.by eve standards this game makes no sense. by dust standards it still makes no sense..

even assuming ccp was never going to give us amarian tanks or minmatar..what we have currently is a hit and run armor tank and a sit and hide long range expensive coffin.

...they are going so far off what caldari are meant to be it makes me wonder if they even plan on giving us the other racial variants and this ..vehicle change in 1.7 will only further the gap between the two races of vehicles.

ccp why do you hate the caldari? it is obviously inferior to the gallente in every way..and these changes wont fix that. you may balance stnd tanks vs stnd av but ..the gallente tanks will still trump the caldari.and proto av will still insta pop all..do you really think people will stay around as vehicle specs for another year? (time frame pulled from the rate at which you update dust)

ps. note i say update dust not BALANCE OR IMPROVE