ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:a class who carries av as a specialised piece of equipment and not as a main weapon (this includes rl)
dust is the only one i can think of that makes you carry it as a main weapon. that is why we will never have balance on tank/av issues. because what it boils down to is why carry a weapon that struggles to kill a single guy in a vehicle when i can carry a weapon that is excellent at killing his 15 friends not to mention that a mlt weapon is far more efficient killer than for instance a few guys with proto SL with 3 complex damage mods each
until light av is made into a secondary role which everyone can use with their normal fighting ability then there can be no balance
this has always been the issue.
pre 1.7 every team had 1 or 2 SL players because that was all that was needed. there was no need for more as it was highly effective and there was plenty of combat troops available to protect these users. problem with that was if made tanks weak and promoted a huge buff to tanks and a reduction to effectiveness to av. this then had its own problem as now it needs more av to kill a tank but there is not enough of it on the field. the reason for this is fitting av weapons leaves you at a massive disadvantage to all infantry and even the tanks you are trying to kill. to field enough av to kill 1 tank now means far less infantry to protect these players and they are completely destroyed within seconds of firing the first shots. the reason for this is everyone knows now av players are defenceless with their sidearms against every light weapon user so enemy will actually go out of their way to kill av players for easy kills.
what we need is av weapons to be secondary to all normal weapons either by becoming sidearms or equipment because they are completely situational. in doing this i see no reason why ccp couldn't keep tanks and av as they currently are including the hardener stacking etc as there would be potential for everyone to carry av with them at all times meaning more players to counter tanks
Most other games also allow you to pop a vehicle with a single RPG or RE. If you want a light weapon for infantry and vehicles then skill into commando. Two people fighting the HAVs while everyone else runs and hides or shoots them with CRs is the problem. When I am in a squad with two AV mercs these problems don't exist because once you stand up to the bully they run away and don't come back.
Everyone skill into prox mines and deploy them all over the place, I will bet the HAV spam stops within a few days because infantry has to clear them or pilots have clear them. Infantry doing it lures the infantry into the open and if pilots do it them they have to sit still in the open to do it. Fix the amount of teamwork that goes on and you will fix the HAV problems.