I debated both of those. But if your not taking damage why recall. If your modules are on cooldown and you retreat back to base you easily allow an enemy to camp the spawn with a railgun. If you stay and fight while on cool down you die. So if you retreat to ground spawn and recall and call in a new tank the chances of being tank capped at not as high. You still have to retreat though or suffer through having no hardener.

If your lav couldn't be recalled wouldn't you use it more then point a to b. Wouldnt you attempt to protect your investment. Wouldnt you actually give it decent modules. Giving it a place on the battlefield.

Not completely as we all make mistakes. The current system allows a player to jump out of their vehicle call in a new vehicle and recall their old used up one in around 10seconds.
If modules were not time based I would see no problem for this however a good tank pilot knows how to abuse this mechanic.
I propose a change. Supply Depots are available back at spawn locations and should be made invincible. A vehicle must be within 40m proximity of a supply depot for the recall feature to work. If you call in a vehicle the recall feature is temporarily deactivated for 20 seconds.
This will prevent vehicles from activating all their modules and jumping out and recalling. Then laughing as they save their investment.
This will also slow tank spam as people only use them because tanks are only effective until modules run out.
Ambushes have no supply depots.
A good pilot with SP invested to skills that reduced cool down actually see that investment shine.
Ammo might actually become a factor for vehicles.

See the problem I have with a lot of these solutions is that I will swap out tanks on the fly to fit the situation. It's not that I'm running from being blown up, its that I had a Railgun and now I need a Blaster. I feel that hindering people from that sort of gameplay is not a good idea.

Hell sometimes I recall my tank because I need to jump out to hack something and I don't really want to leave it unlocked and undefended while go on foot. Again i'm not trying to abuse the recall feature, I'm trying to use it the way it was intended. However I don't think any of the solutions I've seen so far fix the issue and leave the proper use of recall unhindered.

The Module Cooldown system favors armor over shield, as their modules cool down faster.

The No-Damage system again favors armor, as a shield tank would have to go find a supply depot to repair its armor, or the pilot would need to hand-repair it at a much slower rate than any armor tank would.

Only being able to recall from the friendly redline completely makes it impossible for a tanker to hop out and hack something if they want to recall their vehicle before doing it.

The idea that you can only recall after not taking any damage for X-seconds is actually not bad, I think that's a fairly balanced tradeoff.

Obviously the BEST choice would be to have an actual RDV come down, pick the damn thing up, and fly off. However who knows how long till we get something like that.

recall feature equals bitc*hhh mode. Just call another tank if your first fit is not up to the task. Wtf is with CCP catering to the newbs? This is a hardcore meta game with risk vs. reward

recall feature equals bitc*hhh mode. Just call another tank if your first fit is not up to the task. Wtf is with CCP catering to the newbs? This is a hardcore meta game with risk vs. reward

Im a noob because I needed one turret type to kill one tank, and another type to kill another? Its my fault because I'm adapting to the situation?

CCP should just remove supply depots then, just commit suicide if your first dropsuit fit is not up to the task. Sound like a stupid idea? That's because it is.

I didn't say you had to return to the redline. Any supply depot can work typically a map has 2 or 3 supply depot plus the ones in the redline. I agree that jumping out to hack something is a big risk. However if you can't recall it would you jump out and hack. Its not a tankers job to hack things. That goes back to abusing game mechanics. As a DD pilot as well I abuse the hell out of the recall because I can get anywhere to recall when I'm out of ammo instead of actually using a supply depot. Along with gaining my modules back.

Infantry have the same issue what if you jump into a swarm fit or a sniper. You no longer need or want that suit you have to find a supply depot. At a much slower pace then a tank. Adapting to a situation should not be instant.

Not completely as we all make mistakes. The current system allows a player to jump out of their vehicle call in a new vehicle and recall their old used up one in around 10seconds.
If modules were not time based I would see no problem for this however a good tank pilot knows how to abuse this mechanic.
I propose a change. Supply Depots are available back at spawn locations and should be made invincible. A vehicle must be within 40m proximity of a supply depot for the recall feature to work. If you call in a vehicle the recall feature is temporarily deactivated for 20 seconds.
This will prevent vehicles from activating all their modules and jumping out and recalling. Then laughing as they save their investment.
This will also slow tank spam as people only use them because tanks are only effective until modules run out.
Ambushes have no supply depots.
A good pilot with SP invested to skills that reduced cool down actually see that investment shine.
Ammo might actually become a factor for vehicles.