I prefer to play on the ground and use an AR or SMG and I have a finite amount of ammo, however vehicles have infinite ammo. Now I believe that vehicles should have to resupply just like the rest of us. They should be equipped with a reasonable amount of ammo and if it starts to run low they should have to either go to a supply depot, ask a teammate for a nano hive, jump out throw their own nano hive, or better yet have a vehicle ammo supply module.

If vehicles have an ammo supply module they could be mobile nano hives that could resupply themselves as well as teammates. Also it would give them a choice to make in terms of sacrificing a bit stopping power or defense in order to help out the team a bit more.

Go head say I'm QQing, but I'm trying to throw out a reasonable idea that could be implemented. So what do you guys think?

When I run low on ammo I hit the square button to reload, if I have little to no ammo I go to a supply depot or throw out a nano hive. How would this be unreasonable? I don't drive tanks, so do gunners or the drivers use the square button? Also my suggestion of a module would give vehicles infinite ammo but they would have to make a choice to equip it.

I think you're missreading his post. He's not asking to solo highend tanks, he's calling bullshit on a guy who claims to solo high end tanks.

This discussion isn't about AV weapons, its about the validity of infinite ammo. Vehicles having a set ammo would make them more strategic and they would be able to resupply through the exact same methods infantry do.

You're talking about the extremes, I'm sure CCP would be capable of balancing the amount of ammo for vehicles.

Easier? All you have to do is aim at the guy's feet, the Missiles are all about splash damage.

Again, I just can't see a justification for infinite ammo for vehicles, as it clashes with all established backstory of the universe. I mean, we're talking about (soon to be) 1.2 million ISK HAVs. If those can equip modules that provide an infinite ammo count, why the hell wouldn't all the infinitely wealthy capsuleers have this equipment on every ship? It just doesn't make any sense.

There are not, and Nanohives in Dust have a limited duration. The idea behind them is that the Nanites assemble themselves into the required material to be used by the weapon, so that the device runs out of them eventually. Naturally the amount of them necessary would increase exponentially with the size of the ammunition involved, at which point the device gets large and unwieldy enough that it starts to take up space you could be using for ammo storage, and becomes heavier to boot. You'll notice that our current Nanohives don't have any effect on tanks - not even repairs - due to what I would assume is a lack of sufficient nanites to make them functional in that capacity.

Nanohives while brilliantly smart and great are small so can create simple objects like the small ammunition the handheld weaponry use while tank ammo is a bit larger and more complex so this IMO is why tanks and spaceships in eve don't have nano hive technology for ammo (eve artillery ships have 1800mm cannons just to put sense of size those bad boys shoot) they can do small simple items not large complex things.

Vehicles shouldn't have infinite ammo it doesn't fit in with the rest of the world, I would go as far as saying the installations shouldn't have infinite ammo as well just huge stock piles of the stuff and eventually run out if not resupplied some how.

What????

Actually, if you look, the Swarm Launcher missiles are -far- smaller than the vehicle launched rockets. They do the high damage they do by virtue of shaped charges in their warheads, I would assume. That also explains why their missiles do almost no splash damage.

Are saying CCP based their missile mechanics on Ironman?

Good points.

I'm Infantry so my view is leans towards infantry, but I do believe that vehicles having infinite is a bit unreasonable. Especially with very easy ways that they could be resupplied, i.e. nano hives, supply depots, and vehicle nano hive modules.

Agreed Developer input would be nice.