You are a tank. You are not meant to be invincible. You are meant to be the biggest target in the field if you want to go one man army and you die no ones problem but yourself. Jihad jeeps? So what do you recommend? Removing LAV or RE because slamming a car into a tank with a bomb on it kills everyone? You have a BFG you should be killing them before they even get close to you at least thats what I'm doing in a puny little Sica.

Rooftop campers. Those are a nuisance for everyone and the only counter is a dropship or a good sniper able to take out the uplinks do you want a mod to make your tank start flying around like its GTA:SA?

JLAVs are a valid tactic.

The only way to get killed by one is if you aren't paying attention (incompetence), or if the LAV Pilot manages to out-smart and/or out-maneuver you, in which case he's simply better than you.

All you have to do to stop them is either activate a NOS and then thrust in the opposite direction, causing them to miss their mark and allows you to destroy them; or shoot the REs and blow up the LAV. Heck, you can even shoot them out of the driver seat if you have a Missile Turret (AT-201 or better).

As for rooftop campers, if Pilots weren't able to zoom in and insta-kill AVers with a Boundless or Six Kin HMG, you'd see far less tower camping. Though the short range of a SL (175m) makes tower camping rather redundant in most situations.

Though if an AVer catches you by surprise, you should suffer the consequences.

You should really calm down. I have seen the same entitled attitude regarding vehicles before and it was just as laughable then too.

Vehicles are OP if they are meant for single user operation. If they were crew served, it would be a different story.

As for you spending so many SP on them, I would say that was your choice, though why you want to be a vehicle purist in an FPS, IDK why you chose dust when other games have implemented vehicles better.

If you did it so you could own infantry from a "safe" place, why not go kick puppies instead?

Wait...

This is a tanker thread asking for tank buffs?

This is why a lot of people don't like tankers, because of this sense of entitlement. As if tanks are in a bad place right now and need some help.

What value?
HTFU? I'd say devising a method to circumvent the OP tanks of what was 1.8 follows this one?
Don't fly what you can't afford? Works here again.
Welcome to New Eden MF! I'd say this almost perfectly describes the JLAV.

Also which appears more immersion breaking out of the following options.

An Immortal Mercenary sacrificing himself in giant ball of death to eliminate a tank?
OR
A tank out running Missiles and Jeeps?
OR
Infantry units standing in the open 'chop-strafing' against each other?

@ True

I agree with your perspective overall. It seems balanced and reasonable. It assumes that there should be a role for both tanks AND AV.

However, I do not agree with the perspective of the OP that tanks are weak and need to be made stronger, and that AV is just too tough.

I would much rather see a thread that addresses the real issues instead of pretending that poor old tankers need a buffing to contend with the mean old AV.

Mean old AV wants Chromosome AV/V with marauders again. I swear to God popping tanks was fun. Someone dropped a Mad and I'd go berserk till I killed it, popping militia tanks and poorly fit mid-grade tanks like after-dinner mints while hunting the real prize: A Marauder with a pilot with higher-than-lukewarm IQ.