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?

Yeah I just wanted a civilized discussion over an Idea I had.

If tanks do have internal nano hives then it would be feasible to strap a nano hive to the back of a dropsuit for infinite ammo. If infantry want nano hives they have to consciously make the decision to equip nano hives, I feel that vehicle drivers should also have to make the decision to equip nano hives or use the module slot for defensive or offensive purposes.

Someone earlier mention the size of infantry nano hives, and the answer is to have the nano hives use the current radius for infantry and they would have a larger radius for vehicles.

Eve players buy loads of ammo.Such as one blast out of all their 6 turrets costs 6 of their ammunition tat's equipped with the gun. They just buy stock loads of it. It's pretty cheap though if you just want standard rounds. There is tech 2 rounds and the advanced.

wat we really need is for remote explosives to stick to tanks and do enough damage so that 2 kill a militia tank and 4 kill a marauder

Oh really? LOL.

We built a plane around a weapon that can only be used for a few seconds?

4,200 shots per minute i just read.

I disagree.

If we would have finite ammo then we would also need a lot better gun tracking for tanks as currently you really just pray and spray and likely hit something with the 5th volley.

Unless it's the main gun with it's huge splash radius.

The reason why Vechiles have unlimited ammo is because enemies can re-spawn.
In real life a tank don't resupply because you don't have to kill the same person twice because he came back!

Dust is a VIDEO GAME people.

Are you saying that a tank is made with the exact amount of ammo that it will need for the entirety of its military use, never having to be resupplied?

Lurch's idea that tanks are probably equipped with internal nano hives is the best explanation I've heard. If the designers of these tanks were smart enough to throw in an internal nano hive then I believe my Merc would be clever enough to duct tape a nano hive to his back in order to have infinite ammo as well.

Don't get your hopes up to high, they can only implement so many things a build.

Don't get your <3 broke.

You want limited ammo on vehicles? I for one disagree with this, but let me entertain an alternative.

Several people have mentioned Nano-hives for vehicles. To be honest, this is what I think is actually the current situation. Each turret has a built in nano-hive that produces rounds as needed. However, what if we were to change the rate of ammo regeneration so that it's lower than the maximum fire rate, and introduce an ammo hopper of x size for each weapon? This would still give vehicles infinite ammo, but you could run out temporarily if you just fire continuously. This ammo generation rate would be increased by proximity to supply depos and nano-hives.

To expand upon that (and what others have mentioned) you could add a nano-hive as a module to your tank. This would increase the rate of ammo generation for all your turrets (maybe to the point where you can continuously fire without having to worry about your reserve) AND provide ammo resupply to friendly vehicles and infantry nearby. Fitting requirements for such a module might be similar to a CRU. Variants might also repair armour passively for yourself and others (at a similar rate to that of a nano-hive, so not that much in the scheme of things for vehicle combat)

how about on board nanohives that have to be turned on like any other module and it uses so much power the tank is stationery until the reload is complete,

it would be cool to lay siege to a reloading tank and also just as fun to get your squad defending the tank while it refills ammo

Sci-fi realism isn't appropriate in this discussion. All that matters is what's good for gameplay. They can make up any kind of justification as they go.

Just look at the Minmatar. They have gotten the science of Duct tape down to an artform. Now back to the topic, I also agree that vehicles should have limited ammo. It would add a lot more tactics to the battlefield

• People with tanks do not support limited ammo but want some sort of ammo system.


• People that get killed by tanks support limited ammo.

I run a tank so I'm with the first one.

I didn't want to comment on the rest of your post so I didn't quote it. Sorry if that offends you or whatever.

What is good for Dust gameplay is to have good gameplay. Putting limitations on gameplay over something as silly as sci-fi realism stuff is absurd. There's no reason a gameplay decision should be made exclusively because some made-up fiction suggests that it should be that way. So, justifying how the game should operate based on such grounds is not a sensible contribution to the discussion.