The only difference here is that not only can the sniper not kill vehicles or installations, his fit generally costs as much or more than the red line tank. You also can't one shot kill that red line tank, and the -only- counter is to call in your own sica that you didn't skill into, and hope he doesn't see you, and even if he does, he can generally just recall before you kill him.

I also wish people would shut up about needing wicked strong militia tanks to try tanks. You can get into a standard tank in your first week of play, militia should suck ball waffles and only be to give you a feel for the vehicles, not a no SP kill machine that takes out vehicles installations and dropsuits of all quality.

Infantry militia items =/= vehicle militia items

The main issue though is giving someone the ability to get kills and shut down entire branches of play from a zone that makes you all but immune to death. That is a balance issue, it has been a balance issue, and will continue to be a balance issue until it is fixed. The only time someone should be totally safe is when they're totally removed from combat. If you can still kill, you should be just as vulnerable to being killed as everyone else.

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Exactly.

Fix it for snipers too, I don't really care. Only bad people complain about red line snipers since, forever ago, because they don't cause anywhere near as much havoc as red line rail tanks do.

Give rail technology fall off damage, problem solved

I try not to damn certain game tactics or weapons as broken unless it is desperate. But rail gun tanks are just so completely broken it has me wondering if they were properly tested.

They have Huge alpha, Huge Hp, Huge Range, Huge elevation and they can be immune in the redline. Not just in the redline but they can shoot an objective from 300m in the redline. This is monstrously stupid. I cannot move in any map, or any game mode without a rail tank or three that are up to 300 meters into the redline 1 or 2 shotting my dropship. It is absolutely broken. I have even been killed at the maximum flight ceiling. Exactly what is a flying vehicles advantage if a tank can kill it anywhere in the entire sky?

They are not in need of slight balance or tweaking but plain broken to the point that they should not be in the game with the maps that we have.

I am making a video to make my point but at this stage CCP. They need to go. Now. Until they can be made to work with current map size and until you fix the broken and unbalanced redline they have to go. SImply remove the rail turret until we can make a weapon that powerful work within the limits of fair balance,

I only make threads like this if something is game breakingly bad. And I don't like to. But this is a special case. Did you know that at 250m from an objective, from a flat surface a rail tank can shoot a dropship 238 meters up?! Tanks rule the ground and the sky. At 238 meters my dropship is useless. I have to sit, in complete exposure evey single game to these distant, redline tanks. I can't use skill or tactics to avoid them. They see me all the time from complete safety. The tank can cover any area a dropship can operate in from a single spot up to 540m away (proven tested distance)

So here it is CCP. Take out that turret. Now. Until we can balance it. Its unfair and it breaks air/ground balance. CCP, you need to speak to us pilots about this. Not part-timers; but us full on dropship guys. Please engage us. In private, behind NDAs or whatever you feel is best but we really need to talk with you. This stuff needs fixing. ASAP.

I wouldn't call 3000 armor damage a shot from a Breach complete safety. Missiles are also useful if ships fly too low.