I am not sure what point you are trying to make. I watched an infantry player kill 60 other infantry players, this is a kdr for all infantry of 1:1. This is the very definition of balance, although if we break it down each component if a fit may be imbalanced. The problem is not tankers going 30-0, the problem is when the tanker kills 30 infantry, there is no corresponding 30 tanker deaths, this is the very definition of imbalanced. Unfortunately, a 1:1 kdr between tankers and infantry is completely unacceptable to tankers, they believe that they are entitled to a much higher ratio. What do you think a fair KDR average for ALL tankers should be?

We really can't go much farther in reaching an agreement about balance until we have a common understanding of what that means.

Nailed it. In EVE it's common for massive numbers of smaller ships to engage a larger ship or a small group of larger ships. In a 16v16 game, this asymmetrical balance methodology does not work. Either vehicles need to require multiple people to use (equivalent to their power), or they need to be equal in power to infantry. If vehicle users cannot except either of those options, vehicles should honestly just be removed. Because a 16v16 game cannot be balanced if one player is able to be as powerful as two or three other players combined.

The distinguishing difference in your rather extreme examples is the 60/1 infantry is an extreme rarity.

My two absolute best matches were 53/2 and 43/13. That's twice in two years. No other match comes remotely close.

The tank drivers at one point were running 20-25/0 for match after match after match until they bumped into someone like me and exploded. Then they came on the forums to scream that AV needed to be nerfed because :reasons:

Most of the infantry hate comes from the latter portion where a tank driver wpuld explode in a marauder once every 4-8 matches and absolutely sh*t themselves.

That offensive ember has never died in the minds of AV players.

Now. On the other side of the coin, the elite infantry slayers were whiny little brats who openly stated that they should not have to change their fits to tackle and win against a tank.

They also cried hardest when I shot them with a forge gun.

The blame lies equally both ways, but whenever pilots start raging that their precious toys need to be able to be immune to dying to infantry AV it usually inspires AV hate and you see a sharp uptick of players who will run AV just to kill vehicles.

When the mad happens because of these forum rants infantry stop caring about winning and focus on annihilating your walkets one HAV at a time to punish your audacity.

You want balance and parity? You want to stop being the battlefield victims?

Stop making entitled and poorly considered rants like this.