i Guarentee that if 3 forge gunners with adv or proto guns spawned on your team and waited for the train to come down those 3 tanks woulda started to run pretty quickly... and for 1/10th the sp and ISK cost

My tank runs on tears.

Thing is, people spec into tanks because our first objective In every game is to win. AV is so situational, the SP put into it could easily be placed in other areas to keep you alive against a scout, and out DPS an assault. People with 500k SP simply will not start the game thinking "hey. I'm going to give up shotguns, mass drivers, assault rifles, heavy machine guns, tanks, dropships, snipers, lasers, and everything else that makes the game worthwhile playing in the majority of scenarios to specialise in anti-vehicle weapons, which are extremely situational and make me as easy to kill as a snail without a shell against a merc with half my SP who has speced into assault rifles."

No. Currently the best tanks are run by those who've used the 100k SP from closed beta, the week head start, the experience from closed beta and that event where vehicles were cheap, passive and active boosters, all on their rolling death machine.

Those who've specialised into AV simply cannot just overlook everything else. Swarm launchers will need a scout or assault build to earn them ISK. Heavies too, need to specialise into other skills to keep them alive, now that more and more people understand how to frustrate a fatty.

I understand that tankers do not always run tanks. But given the above bonuses, they don't need to specialise into anything else.

I play with only the starter fits sometimes, when I'm running solo or even in a squad without a heavy to support. I still can go positive. I still kill people with advanced gear. And when I see that golden opportunity to whip out my dropship, I pilot it in militia gear, having never broken into my expensive suits all game. And it rocks.

These opportunities, at the current state of the game, appear more frequently for tanks, and the danger is less, I'd presume, if your tank is speced into as far as my dropship, and I haven't even used sp boosters, ever.

So until heavy aircraft come out with giant incendiary bombs that turn your tanks into molten steel, have fun ruling the ground. The sky is where it's at.

well tbh theirs 7 paragraphs there XD
paragraph1 is sorta true.

ITT: "I can't kill three people who are working together by myself with low quality equipment! UNFAIR! Nerf teamwork!"

you know whats better, killing the drivers before they get to their tanks :p