As of now it takes only 1 advanced swarm launcher to make any vehicle run back to the redline. Weather it's a tank, or a LAV, only one blueberry can fend off anything with a CBR-7. While making a tank run is incredibly easy, Destroying one takes a good amount of planning and teamwork (or an incredibly poor tank driver). Let's say that your average proto tank cost around 500,000 ISK, an amount easily made in 3 matches. Now and anti-vehiclist can make a logistics suit for 100,000 ISK (if all prototyped) that will bring any madrugar to it's knees and wipe it out. Coincidentally, its fit is naked to all and every element that comes his way and the only way to deal with a redberry is to run. Let's work at this for a second. How about we give the players with swarm launchers a way to defend themselves? This is my Idea.

Here is my idea.
First off, we'll beat the swarms with a nerf stick. A 10% damage reduction is a good start. Next thing on the agenda, we give swarms splash damage. The splash damage is going to be a strong, short range damage with a radius of one meter. This is for defending oneself with this weapon. Now for an abstraction; We make the swarm launcher lock on to a location, not a vehicle. This location is fluid, meaning if it is on a vehicle, then it will stay at the same location on the vehicle. The location can be ground, wall, or moving object (excluding players). Also, we'll give the missiles a longer flight time, keeping the fast vehicles at pace with the missiles. Now with the 15% damage penalty and the adjustments, this seems like it kind of sucks. Let's keep re-working it. First off we make it so the targeted location stays on target as long as the user is pointing at it. Next we're going to separate the clip into bullets. So, if the wyrukomi launcher launches 3 volleys of 8 missiles, that swarm launcher now has 24 bullets. To tag along with that we increase the ROF to about .33 seconds per pullet.this makes the swarm launcher launch three bullets that do 180 damage every second. That's a total of 560 DPS to dropsuits and tanks. Because of the longer missile range, and the higher ROF, the damage is now more sustained, meaning that the Vehicle in question will have more time to react and get away, but the range buff, that will not matter much.

So, why do I think that this will help?
First off, sustained damage is hard to come by with swarm launchers. It is hard to lock on to items every time you fire. As a result, sustained and persevering damage is a great way to make sure that if you can destroy a tank, you will, and not just scare them off. The location system will also give swarm launchers a way to defend themselves and even be somewhat effective in some situations.

Any thoughts, comments and criticism is appreciated.