Nuclear engine vs combustion?

US Army M1 Abrams Tank

For the record, I'm not a tank pilot at all. But before you brush me off as some inexperienced player who knows nothing about tanking, hear me out.

What you see in the video linked above is a recorded demonstration of a US Army M1 Abrams Tank in Mississippi where you see it speeding by (blowing the stop sign like a Miami driver of course) passing the crowd, stopping in the distance, doing an about face, coming back, stopping in front of the crowd, and seeing it accelerate.

First let's look at the similarity here. It's fast just like the tanks I see rolling in Dust 514. Really fast for its weight and size. That's it.

Now for the main difference. It's acceleration. If you look closely, it took a while to reach top speed but it got to its top speed eventually. It just needed distance. Kind of like how a Delorian needs plenty of space to reach 88 MPH. Tanks in Dust on the other hand don't accelerate like that. Instead, they're accelerating like a bat out of hell.

As you can see, I don't have a problem with the speed of the tanks in Dust. The speed is just fine in fact considering that these tanks in Dust are about 20,000+ years into the future. The only problem I have with them is their acceleration. They are reaching top speed too quickly for their size and mass. Their acceleration should be reduced so that tank drivers need more time and distance to reach their current max speed.

This can give AVers at least a better fighting chance against tanks. But this means that tank pilots will just not stop once they enter the fight and will likely result in drive-by tactics because of they stop or slow down they risk making themselves vulnerable to attack.

What do you think? Keep the speed but adjust acceleration to match the mass and weight?

Yes and no, the tanks in dust should be more technologically advanced than what we have now, no question about that, but 20000 years is a bit of a stretch. If you know about EvE's history the colonies went through a dark age after the gate closed, going all the way back to near stoneage levels, if they even managed to survive at all. The big 4 Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minmatar, discover space travel and throw all their money into that (amarr kinda forced space travel onto the minmatar they were still just exploring their own galaxy when the amarr showed up and "enlightened" them)

With the sudden interest in space travel, and hence combat ground technology probably took a bit of a hit in advancement, why worry about tanks on the ground when you can just bombard a planet from space into submission. Add into the the advent of empyrians (aka capsuleers) and more tech is thrown to space and less and less to ground warfare. Not to say that ground warfare wasn't important but empyrians being unable to die pushed the focus of technology to their area.

Add in the dust mercs and there is a sudden push for advancement in ground warfare but this push is rather recent, most of our tech is either new weapons that are too dangerous for normal people to use or an old vehicle with starship grade weapon systems strapped onto it.

TLDR:
yes our tanks should be more advanced than the M1 abrams, however its nowhere near as advanced as amount of time between earth and eve is due to loss of technology and advancement from the dark age periods.

Nuclear engine vs combustion?

Also I'm gonna say it again here like I did in all the other 40 threads....

Webifiers --Look them up, cause they are coming someday, which makes this request a redundancy that will probably never be taken seriously.

Nuclear engine vs combustion?

Also I'm gonna say it again here like I did in all the other 40 threads....

Webifiers --Look them up, cause they are coming someday, which makes this request a redundancy that will probably never be taken seriously.

... snip Anti Tanker QQ ...

And if you believe that, you deserve a big flopping wiener in your face

BS, have you seen the nutty physics in EVE? Because nothing in EVE makes sense and nothing in a Science Fiction Video Game about Immortal Mercs in SPAAACE has to be accurate.

So why do all you meat bags from 2014 Earth give a random rat turd about this?

This Is A Video Game! Not A Simulation! Play The F*ing Game!

If you want simulation get out of the space dust.
World of Tanks sounds like a much better solution for QQ of this level. Seriously.

This is not a very good FPS and is riddled with problems. It is a 5/10 FPS about Immortal Mercs In Space and some of them drive Tanks. Some of those tank drivers are actually quite good at it. While many AV players, if not most, want a Push To Win Button that will Kill That Freaking Tank Right Over There.

Why don't you guy do what has been pushed at me? Sit down and see how 1.8 turns out?
Then AV QQs should be legion.

HTFU and PTFG

Nuclear engine vs combustion?

Also I'm gonna say it again here like I did in all the other 40 threads....

Webifiers --Look them up, cause they are coming someday, which makes this request a redundancy that will probably never be taken seriously.