I've been curious about that myself. Maybe the idea is that Mediums can be equipped to HAVs and an as yet unknown other vehicle class. Possibly have it that you could use a Medium turret to sacrifice dps in exchange for a nightmarish tank, kind of like using Small turrets on Ishtars in EVE, though that's also related to them having most of their dps in drones. Regardless, it would offer more variety in fitting, which is always good.

Diversity in the same level of vehicle. The current system is equivalent to leveling to advanced ars to get breach assault rifles

Ps the heavy would be like a ifv/apc

Hell, I'd love that. They'd provide a perfect hard-counter to HAVs, just like IRL gunships do, and they could also be used to replace dropships in the air support role.

We still need a limited ammo count for weapons to really lay to rest all the complaints about vehicles though. Besides, if that were made to be the case, then the fact that you could fit missile launchers on your dropship would only be so worrying given that the dropship could be made to have a far lower ammo count than a gunship, which would obviously have a higher ammo capacity to suit it's role.

That would still be allowing resupply by an internal process, which seems like it would be too easy to exploit, and doesn't really make sense with the established backstory. Besides, that's gonna get harder to explain with all the different weapons we'll likely have, just based on what there is in EVE. Actually, such an idea might be an interesting aspect to add to laser weapons.

I mean, a laser weapon would obviously be hitscan, but by its very nature it would be great at taking down shields, but not armor, just like in EVE. Why not have it that they have low overall dps when stacked up against other weapons, but the ability to rapidly resupply via suit capacitor at supply depots, and possible an ascending damage multiplier for consecutive hits to represent the heat it's creating on the suit? Just a random idea. I haven't slept at all tonight, so I can't say much for whether its intelligent or not.

Partially, but the idea is silly also.

We already have light and heavy attack vehicles, and mediums may be coming (APCs could fit nicely in a medium vehicle role).

We do not need three sub-weight types within each weight type. We need specializations, in other words sub-roles whithin each weight type.

In EVE, there are frigates, then there are tech 2 frigates like assault ships, covert ops ships, and stealth bombers. They're all the same size, but they have different roles, just like vehicles do.

We have LAVs and logistics LAVs. We have HAVs and marauders and black ops HAVs.

We need specialized roles, not heavy-light vehicles. I mean, why stop there? Why not have heavy-medium-light attack vehicles and light-medium-heavy attack vehicles?

He brings up breach assault rifles, and that's fine, but there aren't little assault rifles and medium assault rifles, and bigger-than-medium-but-smaller-than-big assault rifles, and kinda-big-assault rifles and big assault rifles and really-big assault rifles. There are assault rifles for different roles.

You make no sense and I'm done replying to you. You're the one advocating that CCP add sub-weight classes to each weight class of vehicle. I'm not saying CCP should change anything, just pointing out how little sense this whole thread makes.

I mean, when you get right down to it, how many variants of the HMMWV(Humvee) are there? A lot, and they all fill different roles despite being the same basic vehicle. That's what you're looking at, here. Just step back from the wording and examine the concept, Shiro.