In the last few days I have killed multiple Madrugars and the odd Gunlogi with my REs and fluxes/AV nades - this means that these things are well balanced to each other but is not to say that tanks vs swarms/plasma cannon are balanced.

I never feel that aggrieved when I see a skilled into tank doing well in battle. You rarely see multiple maddies/gunnies on the field - usually it's just one or two with about half a dozen sicas or somas and herein lies the real problem. MLT tanks are cheap and powerful and difficult to kill using AV weapons, almost as much so as standard tanks.

If MLT tanks only had 2 out of these three qualities, it would be fine:

1) Cheap and powerful but fairly easy to kill - IMHO this is what MLT tanks should be
2) Cheap and difficult to kill but not very powerful killing machines - this would be similar to the old logi LAVs
3) Difficult to kill and powerful but expensive - this is what standard tanks are

Now before the tanking brigade goes all trolly on me for this thread, please note that I have nothing against tanks in general and would not be against keeping standard tanks as they are for the time being, so we could see how the balance would change when MLTs are less effective.

If we were to go ahead with my preference of reducing MLT tank effectiveness, perhaps one option would be to take away one slot and reduce their CPU/PG accordingly. It may also then be additionally appropriate to lower their eHP too but I think it would be best to go bit by bit and see what the effects are before going the whole hog.

Edit - also, my ability to kill standard tanks with my REs does not mean they are OP - I am very good at doing this, getting into the right positions and waiting for the right timing, often when someone else has taken a few pot shots at it with a forge/tank to do half the work for me.

Here is a theoretical situation, if we REMOVED mlt tanks would tanks still be OP? And why?

So mlt tanks are no more, but the tank problem still persits, so CCP say ok lets raise the price to 10mil per tank, will they still be OP? And why?

Or? How about Nyan San or the tryhards?
If it costs 10mil per tank, who is gonna stump up the money to fight it?