A Skill Point investment should be required to make a player successful in a tank.

Currently players can be successful tankers without investing any points in vehicles. This is causing tank spam where there will often be 5 tanks on a single team. Tank spam is bad for the game, and extremely frustrating for infantry.

If only dedicated tankers could be successful in Tanks it would be rare to see more than 2 tanks on a team. Two tanks can be avoided or dealt with much more easily by infantry than 5 tanks. It is a much better balance on teams of 16.

Taking out the +5% HP bonus for the vehicle Armour and Shield skills was a mistake!

All vehicles should have a 25% hit point nerf, and the Armour and Shield skills should get the 5% bonus back, so that no-skill tankers will be 25% weaker, and dedicated tankers will have the same health as they do now. That is, people with no points invested in vehicles should be 25% weaker than dedicated tankers/drivers/pilots.

AV should be able to deal with no skill tankers easily enough that tanking is not a preferable course of actions for someone who is not committing skill points into vehicles.

The cost of militia tanks should stay where they are now, so that new players who want to become dedicated tankers can afford to go that route.

One important point is that it has long been agreed between dedicated tankers and dedicated AVers that driving off a tank is almost as good as killing a tank. This was one of the key arguments around the notion that a single Infantry AVer should not be able to solo a tank.

However, my experience in the week I spent testing AV in 1.7, was that if I managed to drive off a tank, two more tanks would come in and kill me. While tankers always thought that the balance should be 3 Infantry to take out one tank, the current situation often has tanks outnumbering infantry AV.