The Issue isnt the tanks or the tank mechanics, Ill try to sum it up in the most simple way I can.

CCP rushed the vehicle release because everyone was QQing about the repeated push back dates, so all they were able to do was release Militia and Standard tanks. Now to compensate for this they nerfed all forms of AV so that Tanks stood a chance. So now Militia tanks and Standard tanks are being flooded because they are cheap, and powerfull. However once Advanced and Proto tanks are released CCP will buff AV to deal with the higher quality of Tanks available. Once that happens you'll find that cheaper tanks will pop easily to the buffed AV, However Advanced and Proto Tanks will remain roughly the same difficultly to pop as it is now except they will be:

A: Expensive

B: Require a substantial amount of SP to be used

This will stop tank spam as not everyone will have the SP and/or afford these higher quality Tanks.
To sum it up this problem will only be solved by releasing higher tier tanks.

I think one problem is that we allowed tankers to convince us that tanks being OP is the way it should be. They count as one character, one entity, on the field yet if we take a militia tank, no modules and compare it to drop suits what do we see? A tank can one shot anybody, a forge gun takes 3 or 4 shots to kill a tank. Sprint speed is around 7 meters a second, tank speed is 5 times that, drop suits can be killed by small arms, tanks are immune to small arms, if a suit jumps on a tank it is funny, if a tank runs over a suit it is dead, suits can only change suits at supply depots, tanks can be recalled or called at any time, when a suit is in the verge of death, they die, a tanker can jump out and fight as a suit do is essentially playing as two characters. Forget about hardeners and Speed boosts, tanks are OP. The funny thing is that we are willing to accept it, until they broke the camel's back.

Tankers, even though they are only one character, think they should be entitled to all these advantages. I'm actually OK with it, just don't insult our intelligence saying tanks are balanced or that this is even the goal.

The Issue isnt the tanks or the tank mechanics, Ill try to sum it up in the most simple way I can.

CCP rushed the vehicle release because everyone was QQing about the repeated push back dates, so all they were able to do was release Militia and Standard tanks. Now to compensate for this they nerfed all forms of AV so that Tanks stood a chance. So now Militia tanks and Standard tanks are being flooded because they are cheap, and powerfull. However once Advanced and Proto tanks are released CCP will buff AV to deal with the higher quality of Tanks available. Once that happens you'll find that cheaper tanks will pop easily to the buffed AV, However Advanced and Proto Tanks will remain roughly the same difficultly to pop as it is now except they will be:

A: Expensive

B: Require a substantial amount of SP to be used

This will stop tank spam as not everyone will have the SP and/or afford these higher quality Tanks.
To sum it up this problem will only be solved by releasing higher tier tanks.

I would simply like a summary of your main points so that i may continue to refute them.
So far, the information that I have gleaned from your post about why a railgun should be exponentially better than any other anti vehicle weapon in the game isGǪ

1. Plasma Cannon CPU usage is very low, allowing it to be fitted as a small turret (please report back to me the CPU usage of the prototype non-specialist cannon, as I am certain that if you attempted to fit one or more of these on a tank as well as modules, you would be sorely disappointed)
2.The plasma fired from a plasma cannon does not move as fast as the railgun shell, so because of this, the plasma cannon shot, which has much more kinetic molecular energy, and is compressed inside of a magnetic field, causing increased pressure should be less efficient, where in reality, a railgun shot is useful for destroying tanks because it moves so fast that it pierces the tank shell and destroys the interior electronic and mechanical engineering. A mass of plasma that is being compressed should be incredibly potent due to its potential and kinetic-molecular energy, and would therefore completely obliterate any entity within the blast's proximity, if the mass/heat/pressure of the plasma were high enough. I know what I am talking about in this field, so please don't try to bluster your way through.
3. The railgun is a railgun, made with what is known in this game as rail technology, and has less than a second of charge time, so it should be better than an anti vehicle weapon with a 4+ second charge time that uses rail technology.
4.Self created conceptions about the game>Actual weapon descriptions and real life physics>AV/ tank balance

Please correct me if i misconceived any of these points, or if you have additional points to offer.

PLC fits on a gunlogi fine

The plasma round tho still has to be safe and stable for infantry to carry and use, cant have it melting through the launcher and the suit

Railgun is a railgun - Its a 80gj railgun tbh, small turrets are 20gj and FG could be around 40-60gj but with massive drawbacks

4. lol your doing the same thing

Personally, I think if you limited the ability to summon vehicles to players with a 1,000,000 SP minimum investment, it would solve a lot of the militia spam that's strangled the fun out of pub games.

The problem with that is that new players can't skill into tanks, leading it to be taken up by only the elite veterans, which is something CCP should stay away from. I think weakening all MLT and STD variants even more than ADV and PRO types would lead to equality

Good point.

Wow just off of these posts i think i got 74 likes. Thanks forum community!

You don't seem to have enough.

So here's another