Well need a way of revoking posting rights sometimes.

Lets make catchy thread titles and populist demands without any thought to how development or the real word works WWHHHHOOO BLARGYALDAA!!!

First this isn't a demand, it's a request meant to be a unified expression of opinion from those that agree. The way 1.7's long stretch with broken balance issues was handled was painful and damaging to the game. Development takes time. I myself code, so I understand that better than most.

The request is to simply balance the sharpest corners based on feedback/data after major changes in a small/focused patch prior to a bigger content patch that could have significant delays (which may be for good reason). I know there are big things planned for Fanfest, but realistically it could just be an announcement and not a release. If they do have big things planned, the date could slip (possibly multiple times--like 1.8's date did). I don't begrudge that, things happen. The problem is if things are broken while the ship date keeps getting pushed back, we're left with a broken game and trying to adapt to the problems for months. This is very damaging to the community.

The request is reasonable, tweaking numbers in a database, and possibly revising a few gameplay mechanics in the code, should that become necessary. For example, if cloaks turn out to be game-breaking OP, perhaps making damage from enemy fire decloak you with a recloak delay penalty, or if they suck horribly, possibly reducing their blue-ghost opacity by 10%, or whatever makes sense.

I want racial vehicles and pilot suits and buffed AV(and possibly AV suits).

Please release 1.9 quickly. Focus only on balancing numbers based on player feedback and data from 1.8. The changes in 1.8 are mostly excellent, but I suspect with so many sweeping changes we will need more refinement. I know you have a lot of big ideas planned, but don't delay what could be small balancing tweaks for months waiting on new content. AV/Vehicle balance is still a major problem, it would be very frustrating to wait many months with constant tank spam, and unbalanced weapons/suits for big new things.

+1 if you agree.

I'm not sure that's true.

I think there are a lot of improvements to be made by just tweaking numbers.

Vehicle hardeners are too good, railguns are too good, tanks are a bit too fast.
AV nade and swarm damage is too low (I don't know about forges), swarm range is too low. Might want to increase AV nade carry amount and swarm clip size.

I'd also like to see blasters changed to be AV rather than AI. That's more controversial and complicated though.

If we can get infantry AV back to the point where it's a threat to vehicles then that would improves things a lot.