Large grain of salt. Very large. Mountains, not grains.

"We have plans to reintroduce them once we have current roles for Standard HAV's down. Once we know what vehicles are meant to do and what the variants are meant to do, we will be more than willing to add more."

That is a whole hell of a lot different than "reintroduction confimred!" That is a "when we finally have a role for vehicles and the non-standard ones are different enough from the standard ones, we are willing to add more (not that we WILL add more)."

At the moment, it is in the same exact state as "Player investment will transfer over to Legion." How? "We don't know but we want to."

Needs to be the other way around.

Bring in all Standard Racial Vehicles. Determine and rebalance roles. Then bring in Specialist HAV.

Hard to have balance when you introduce bonus damage, yet have nearly a 90/10 split

Where the hell is anti shield AV?

+és long as the data used to balance comes from PC, and the dev in charge is explicitly uninterested in understanding how what he wants to balance works, then no, we wont have either balance nor new vehicles.

The "debate" is mostly rattati, soraya, atiim and a few others ground pounders against virtually the entire ADS community, Judge Rhadamanthus especially being given a rough time. Its never been "here's the data to show how unstoppable the ADS is lets talk about it" just "you're OP you shoot down RDVs!" I" will nerf without feedback" and 'your feedback is irellevant with numbers (which we don't have acess to)...I'm hardly paraphrasing, this came from rattati himself.

Oddly enough when the isk payouts were so big in 1.9 it was alot more fun and i was willing to risk far more in my Drpopsip because i could afford to lose one per match, instead of playing it as safe as possible, which leads to the standard "no matter what don't lose 1 ADS every 4 games because low isk payout" which in turn leads to the B.S. claims that "you ran away you're OP" and "ermagerd a postive K/S ratio must nerf".