LOL How can you not say every post of yours relating to vehicles is against them?

You like to, but are you required to? No. So should AV be required to? No.

Stubborn? How? By calling pilot's BS when they try to BS people about how vehicles (bar Dropships) require teamwork? I believe you are stubborn in the sense that none of that stuff you nor anyone else on this entire forum (since the time of my first post) have ever once even came close to mentioning how any vehicle in this game (bar Dropships) require any form of anything that would even remotely resemble or constitute teamwork in any fashion, condition, shape or form.

You still could have destroyed the Madrugar without using your squad's Warbarge Strike. You couldn't have possible ever been 100% certain that you would be destroyed by the Madrugar simply because it is a Madrugar. You have no idea the pilot's fittings, nor ability. Also, since you were using a Falchion, I'm going to assume that you were either using a Railgun or a Missile Turret. Both would have easily given you the edge over that Madrugar.

Your cowardice does not count as a reason as to why vehicles require teamwork. Nor does simply deciding to use teamwork.

Good tanker? There is no such thing. To be a "good" tanker would imply that tanks require skill beyond the activation of hardners and rotating the joysticks to control the camera and turret. Along with firing R1. Assault Rifles require more skill than tanks.

Unless by skill, you are referring to actual Skill Points. In which case, yes I would agree that piloting a tank requires immense amounts of "skill"

Not every single post in regards to vehicles are against them. In fact some actually favor a buff.

However, a vast majority of my posts are against what I like to call Tank 514.

Why people assume that I hate vehicles is well beyond me; but then again I guess they have to have something to use as a personal attack against someone who doesn't believe in the "Be all, end all things" ideal.

I used to solo marauders in. Chromosome.
Doing so was rewarding because. It was hard.

Tanks versus AV was in a good place if you were a forge gunner because you had to leaen to exploit the weakness of the vehiclesto win.
In chromo killing a marauder tank solo was instant bragging rights. Consistently gutting madrugars and gunnlogi was a genuine bragging right.

I miss the days when it was possible but not trivial to kill a tank. But not easy.enough.to be trivial. I want the old fights back when tanks and AV were solidly matched.

A militia tank should be gankable with militia av. Not trivially, it should be.anyones game and the odds should be slltacked in the tanks favor unless the gunner.exploits the tanks weaknesses.

Advanced should match madrugar/gunnlogi

Proto should match marauders and enforcers.

Nobody wants the Enforcers back. They were MLT tanks with worse stats, and the price range of the Sagaris and Surya that could each have about 9000 base HP.

militia tanks need to be made a bit weaker so those who skill into them feel they are getting something out of their SP investment.

Why weren't you running before your hardener was down?

MUDFLAPS says it best: Good tankers never ever stop moving.

I put 10+ mil in my tank. It better stomp. But these mlt tanks are too good for being 0 sp and 80k isk

Ah yes, the fallacy of "My tank costs more so should stomp" or "I have X million SP invested ,so it should be good"...

I believe if we read the post correctly we also see "my tank should take two or more people to kill"..

I think the debate has moved beyond these arguments. Now we're actually looking how to balance this atrocious mechanic that has crept into the game. If they want this to continue, they should just remove the tank limit, that's a simpler option, since we are into a zero-sum game -> Tank can kill infantry AND tanks. If Tank requires two or more infantry to kill then side with numerically superior tanks will simply dominate since the number of AV infantry is capped to 16, thereby forcing opponent to deploy tank to counter tank, and so you have an uncomfortable side-effect of the patch, whereby you have 7 tanks a side swimming around like sharks in the ocean, with infantry darting from island to island in fear with absolutely no effective counter.

I believe now the reasoning should be more on how to fix it - Vehicle capacitors? AV skill tree? more ammo types for AV? More AV weapons? Webifiers???

Tanks were actually harder to kill in chrome. Tanks would cycle 2-3 hardeners and a booster. There was no period of weakness. It took teams of AV working together to kill a tank and those who knew what they were doing, did it regularly. I remember being in a 2.25mil tank chasing down a helpless grunt...into an ambush. All around me F-45s, proximines, swarms, and forges started ripping my 20,000 ehp tank to shreds. I had all my hardness on and got away with 500 armor. I thought I was safe, then a yolo nade hit me and I lost 2.25mil.
AV understood that tankers who know their art follow a set doctrine developed over time. By understanding their prey, they could exploit its weakness.

Post 1.0 and before 1.7, people got used to soloing tanks. It was extremely easy. So much so that all it did was breed the best tankers Dust has ever seen and likely ever will. The weak links have been washed out and all that remains are <20 fierce death machines who, in a duel, are the only people cape able of killing eachother. That aside, tanks seem OP because everyone was used to being able to solo them. Now it isn't possible if the tank is running hardeners and can smash through anything for <1min. Then it's glass. The infantry make the mistake of engaging during the strong periods and thus, seem like the tank is invincible. Even tanks have trouble smashing through nearly 95% resistance that gunlogis get with 2 hardeners. Tankers...the good ones...exploring this by causing their enemy to prematurely activate their hardeners and then lure them into an ambush or per sue them when they're weak. It's very possible for a gunlogi rail to solo a blaster Maddy at <15m this way. Also take into account that tanks charge when they see red because they know that they can win. This is just too easy to exploit.

I'm starting to see people do this now. Yesterday, I was killed by two people. One with a mlt swarm and the other with a wiki swarm. The mlt guy shot me and I activated my hardeners. When my hardeners cut off, the proto swarm killed my in 0.6 seconds with two volleys from 50m because he knew I couldn't run away at that range. It was beautiful, honestly. I did my best and he knew what I would do, so he won. It was tactics on both of our sides. People need to learn how to read the battlefield. Tanks are easier to kill than ever, but one must wait for their hardeners to shut down. It's really that simple. Stop the QQ and adapt just like the true tankers did every patch.