I'm at work and on my phone so I'll make this quick. Also have not read every response so I may repeat someone.

I don't believe that a single player should be able to kill a tank in the heat of a battle to the point where the tank will take damage and move along, rep, and reengage. That's the intent to my understanding how they are intended to be. It is laughable that a tank can sit there and just eat swarms like that. How you fix that?...well I don't have time for that ATM. I had proto swarms very early on, once I went forge, I've never gone back.

Yes, it should NORMALLY require a tank to kill a tank because they are of equal power and brought into the game under equal restrictions. Deployment time, cost, danger of popping due to enemy rails, etc.

It is for this very reason that tanks ruling the outside makes sense. They impose a greater threat than infantry and live in the open plains and mountains of Dust 514. Infantry dwell in the urban areas where vehicle movement is restricted. Dropships that dwell in such an area are also prone to an easy death from AV.

When you leave the city they become the far greater threat you know currently because that is their domain. If we had it your way, they would be weak on the outside and worthless on the inside. There would be no need to ever field a tank and you would have one game mode -- Infantry 514.

Tanks were not meant to be the equal of infantry, they were meant to be greater than infantry. What equalizes them is where they are allowed to operate, and if you wish to dispatch a tank as an infantry on the tank's turf you should very well need to do so with another tank or with greater effort than the tank has to put out to kill you.

You would not go swimming in the ocean and expect to slay a great white shark without putting out more effort than the shark does. What we have here is a problem of infantry entitlement.

If you've been redlined, the match should take no longer than a minute to end. It is bad game design that it does not.

On the outside, we have Tanks 514 and on the inside we have Infantry 514. They are very distinguished and fun games. Your solution would effectively make tanks the equals of infantry, and kill Tanks 514. The tank game does not work if infantry are as great a threat as tanks are. The entire dynamic breaks.

40,000 ISK per suit isn't an ISK investment?

25,000,000 SP just for a decked out AV isn't an SP Sink?

I'm sorry, what? How the hell can you not blow up a tank with that much SP in AV? I only have about......
1,000,000 SP in AV, and my suit costs around...
8,000 Isk per deploy....

Triple reps fall like rain to this suit.
You are clearly trying to stretch the truth in your favor so far, that it doesn't even look true anymore.

Yeah saw that, was pretty darn good, though I would like to point out he did just sit there and take it, it took alot more effort for you to get me (I crashed in the end) and I was in a rather flimsy dropship by comparison.

I rather enjoyed that match I believe we won, by a single clone!
Still lost 700,000 ISK, but worth it when I now know my team of newberries beat a 10 stacked squad and I went positive.

The triple rep Maddy is fun to run around with but it is a bit of a beast. I agree it can annoy the heck out of a lot of players and be near invulnerable to those on the receiving end who don't know how to deal with them. Perhaps lower the Rep amount if anything.

However before we all jump on the triple rep Maddy nerf bandwagon you guys should think of more interesting and unorthodox tactics to remove them from the battlefield. I just had loads of fun running solo and removing Madrugars including a few triple rep beasts (amongst many other tanks). Just think outside the box and do some theory crafting. Thinking of clever ways to turn the tide of battle is part of the fun of the game.

-Marcus