They should look at tanks. 3 marauder is instant win if you have 3 people who will cap an objective.

Another note for those complaining of balance issues. CCP's official stance is that PvP is inherently imbalanced (see one of the fanfest videos, I believe the DUST keynote speech, although it could have been another), so they decided to give the player the ability to influence this inherent imbalance in their favor through skills, fittings, the metagame, superior resources, etc. CCP doesn't care about game balance in the micro equation. They are only concerned about the macro, that the game is balanced when all its parts are added together. This balancing act is always ongoing, because of the tools that CCP gives us.

Something that was fine a few months ago can become a threat to the macro balance because someone found a new way to use old stuff, or because something that seemed completely unrelated had an unanticipated ripple effect. For CCP, balance becomes an issue only when a given tactic or fitting is so dominant that the only realistic way to achieve victory is to use it. If it came to the point that the only way to win a match was to have four fully fit and manned Sagaris tanks on your team, and no other tactic had a realistic chance at victory, they would take a look at tanks.

They should look at tanks. 3 marauder is instant win if you have 3 people who will cap an objective.

Did you read my comment a few posts before yours? I've been in a game with 3 Marauders on the other team, and we not only won, but we took one of them out while doing so.

Cautious tanks are hard to kill, but the more cautious they are, the less useful they are to the objective. Coordinated AV can eliminate tanks from the equation pretty quickly.

So do tell me what the counter to it. Because your anecdotes about team work don't cut it. I killed a SURYA driving a SICA 1vs1 My story is better.

Now, I still don't see how you can argue... 3 Sagaris occupied your whole team. You didn't win. They lost. You killed 1. Gz.

Any marauder can kill the entire AV group in about 5 seconds. Half the time it would take to kill or seriously damage the HAV. Note that Gunloggi's can soak pretty much the same amount of damage. The problem isn't killing Marauders, it's killing them before they kill you and your whole team.

7 people to kill 1. Gz. Tanks aren't OP at all ;)

7 people to kill 1. Gz. Tanks aren't OP at all ;)

7 people to kill 1 tank WITH 3 PEOPLE IN IT, and 5 or so infantry who were also nearby.

Sounds fair to me.

I love getting 3 dings when I kill a tank. Most I ever got though was killing a dropship. 5 kills 1 forge gun shot. Heh I never get discouraged when the enemy fields lots of vehicles. Hell I'll go suicide in my proto AR fit just to switch to AV cause I know I'll make at least 300K at the end of the match.

I hate cod

I hate cod

I hate cod

I run around on type 1 2 scout or A assault for the proto swarm and complex damagers - I have over 22m in ISK i cant spend. I dont care about equipment loss. It goes up no matter how much i die in game

Even on a good round, I barely break even if I loose my tank, meaning I'm always cash strapped, saving up for the next one, ye there you are, obviously an amateur, barely being able to do what other AV guys do so well, and yet you are swimming in cash, making much more per round than you put in.

every complaint people have about tanks is irrelevant since we are in beta WHICH MEANS

no orbital strikes, mtacs, vtols, artillery, etc......in game yet

how are you gonna feel when you attack a funded corporation and they throw money at you in order to keep their planets?

7 people to kill 1. Gz. Tanks aren't OP at all ;)

So you should be able to solo it with your AR then? This isn't COD, it is a byproduct of EvE, where a frigate is NOT going to solo a Carrier, so a solo soldier should not be able to take down a tank.