I am a full time tanker, up until 1.10 I didn't use or have a dropsuit higher than min logi level 1 just to use my blueprint suit to drive. All of my points up until this point were into tanks my guns operate better. I can fit better mods with full 3 proto guns having fitting opt 5 for all turrets. As soon as there was the ability to respect I did, I eliminated the turrets that I didn't favor and used the leftover points to outfit dropsuits. I only respected to be able to avoid the tank spam when the enemy team sees my name and pulls 4 tanks to come after me or the cheesy loaded dropships. I spend the rest of the match back at the redline with my blueprint covenant sniper rifle and wait out the match.

One thing to fix the vehicle death action is to put pilot suits into play for closed in driver seats. HAV and DS of all types excluding LAV as your exposed.

I have several items to go over for this implementation.

Comparing dropsuits they are all of different sizes and speeds with different size weapons.

How much space is there really in a drivers seat?

How does a heavy that I can out run by 2X get out of a vehicle just as fast as I do?

Now how does the heavy fit in the drivers seat with a huge weapon at the ready. I seem to run faster depending on which weapon I have in my hands (not a lot of proto dropsuits to use to test with yet). how does this not play into a delay in the exit/entrance of a vehicle.

If you can't operate a 1/2 million isk tank (cheaping out is your self imposed handicap or lack of skills into vehicle upgrades or fitting optimization) Why should you get a 2nd chance in another large investment. why not let heavys have an eject button for when they hit close to death they can bust out of their almost dead heavy suit into a scout suit just because it fits inside? seems pretty stupid right.

My tank has never had 5-10 seconds of safety time for me to bail at a wall of obstacle, DS pilots had the switch seat option now just pull up before death to survive the fall as your now on top of the ship and can aim away from it. does not work if the ships too weak and I 2 shot it before the driver can respond. This tanks name is "The Dropship Special" not saying whats in it but it offers no quarter to dropships for escape, only 2 ships so far have survived from 2 direct hits from this tank, I received mail afterwards asking me what I use. Now these people target me at the beginning of the match with multiple vehicles or massive AV teams.

In my tank if I decide that I am going to ride it out and not bail I die if it hits 0HP Everyone in the DS is taking the same risk passengers included, passengers see the health of the DS and can decide when to bail on their own if not TRAPPED AND DEAD with the ship.

Here is an example of DS not working properly match starts I move in and a DS trys to sneak up behind me. I let him get so far as he/she is going to approach soon to get range on their turrets. I spin asap and nail the DS into 0 HP, The pilot and passengers use the guns on me until they fail to respond at this point they know to bail and lock on with swarms or charge the forge they have. As the pilot approaches he/she uses the bank left then right technique to empty one turret and spin to empty the other passengers turret, this sideways flying allows the pilot to survive the drop as the ship is no longer plowing into him/her. The chance of survival is even higher if I don't time the shots to not hit the front of the ship to push it up. I feel in this situation they stayed in the ship until it was no longer useful then took advantage of the 0HP action to destroy me after I fairly destroyed their ride with them in it.

Pilot suits could have 1 high, 1 low, 1 equipment and a side arm only. I have yet to see a helicopter pilot or jet pilot have more than a side arm on their person unless its in a side compartment, which they don't have when they eject unless the return back to salvage it from their wreckage. Having 1 equipment slot allows access for the driver to still assist infantry with links ammo or carry proxy remotes to set up a "follow me trap" for blaster tanks. With the limitation of slots and weapons the pilot suit could use the level of your dropsuit upgrades to make it more effective/survivable. This allowing unlimited CPU and PG on the suit to fit 1 of what you have maxed out for each slot instead of needing to include a proto pilot suit or any type of extra skills. Aside of hav/ds skills that would allow the purchase of the basic pilot suit for a minimum isk cost. Another way to put the pilot suit into users dropsuit fitting is to have it as one of the blueprint starter suits that only unlocks only once you've spent points into hav or DS skills. Including a bandwidth of 16 would allow enough room for enough remotes to either seriously injure if not destroy another tank, or enough equipment to assist not support infantry more than the realm of the tanks main job. This suit would not need a fast run speed or a low profile as it should be only mainly used with vehicles, on the other side the suits weakness should allow a low precision to see almost any suit not dampened. These stats would make the suit nothing more than a suit to run away in, killing someone would not be easy but avoiding them would be. people trying to take advantage of the low precision are reduced to less to than a glass cannon holding by onto a side arm.

I have more info on this topic which I may add later.

Yes I feel overpowered in my tank but I deserve to be with no dropsuits and level 5 skills in vehicles and turret operations.

I share this opinion as well.