Because shooting at a tank for 15 minutes with a forge gun or swarm launcher to make them retreat since you aren't going to kill them is fun gameplay and gives you Warpoints?

When it only takes 10 seconds or less of coordinated fire from two players to force even the most heavily-tanked HAV to run, then you get several minutes of hacking and either using your Forge to blow up infantry or switching to your sidearm, then yes it does get you plenty of warpoints, and more importantly, it gets your team control of the area, which is usually an objective, and it gets the enemy team on the defensive, and it gets more WP for your teammates, which brings you closer to that Orbital Strike you can use to finish the job when the tank comes back.

now try again for ambush and someone not in a squad. (like most of the players)
Why should anyone care about their team if it doesn't provide fun gameplay for the player doing it?

You mean like when I was in Ambush and we saw the enemy roll up in 3 tanks, and I wasn't in a squad?

And we killed all 3, only one of which was a Militia tank?

I got 3 kills and over 300 WP for myself for blowing up a Madrugar with my Swarm Launcher. Also got several Assists and more WP for the Soma when a Forge Gunner finished it off. I'm having fun. I enjoy being useful to my team, and I enjoy seeing a "Victory" screen more than a "Defeat" one.

Good, so you happened to run into some noob tankers and you had Coordinated Fire on tanks.

I also have a nice story;
Once the enemy spawned 3 tanks (non militia) backed up by proper infantry and my team did all they could to kill them, but without communication the only thing that we saw was the low HP tanks driving off into the sunset, repairing somewhere and getting replaced by a full HP tank as they went along. After 5 minutes of accomplishing nothing I hid behind some wall with a spawn beacon out with a nanohive near it and changed the screen to my computer, and I played some EVE.
In the end we lost and I got my WP and Iskies, while doing something fun.

I don't care about winning or losing, as long as the game is fun. Tankspam leads to no fun gameplay more than it leads to something interesting.

When I say prototank, I basically mean powerful tank, I know they werent protos, but they were skilled drivers, all of them, we tried taking them out but we could only get 1....

It's amazing how many stories people have of the enemy team using a wide array of tactical resources and good teamwork, and then complain that their disorganized team can't beat them. But it's probably just because of the HAVs, because all these guys have such perfect AR game that they would've taken down the team that works together all by themselves.

Im sorry to make another tank thread but I just got out of a match that had 5 good tanks on a single team...Please just limit the amount of tanks per team, I know some idiots will come inhere and say "Just destroy the tanks with your{insert crappy av weapon here}", well its hard enough to kill 1 or 2 tanks, impossible to kill 5 unless they group together and you hit em with an OB.... I dont mind a few tanks but 5 proto tanks is just not right, please limit this

they're not prohibitively expensive.

I wasnt solo, and that isnt the point, I think there should be a limit to 2 tanks maximum on a single side.

First off, I've never played in anything but pub matches, and frankly I don't care about your supposed hero stories of taking out maps full of nothing but enemy tanks. Out of the last 100 pub games I've played in, if a team brought in more than one tank they never lost. I just spent 10 minutes in a Line Harvest ambush that finished up 0 to 70 clones. Why? Because the reds brought two Suryas in within the first 10 seconds and proceeded to kill everyone without ever taking more than about 15% dmg. I'm glad all of you have level 5 weapon profs and proto forges, I've yet to see anybody in one of the pubs use them. I used my T1 Forge multiple times, but it's pretty disheartening to go through the effort only to watch your Forge do all of about 5% dmg to the shields on a Surya, which is roughly the same as what my packed AV grenades were doing.

The map before being wiped on Line Harvest was Skim Junction. I killed somebody who called in a tank as he was trying to get into it. I hacked it and hopped in and drove it to the outside of one of the entrances where they were being halfheartedly spawn camped. I sat there never moving more than 2 meters for a solid 8 minutes before they could kill me, and I never repped myself once (couldn't figure out how to on my keyboard, and I was busy overheating the turret constantly). I was almost constantly under attack from swarms and av or flux grenades. The flux grenades luckily don't do anything, and against shield the av grenades did less dmg than was being passively recharged.

No new player or even groups of new players are going to be able to do anything to stop an older player that decides to bring a tank into a pub, and honestly they're not prohibitively expensive. It makes me remember the old commercials on tv where the school kids are choosing teams for baseball or basketball and some sports star like Michael Jordan shows up to play, except in Dust nobody cares who you are, and it's an artificial skill gap not an innate or practiced one.

At the end of the day I think this is one of those things that will drive away new players. Call it QQ'ing or what, I don't really care. The game is a Beta and the point is that CCP wants feedback. This is just my opinion, and I'll probably keep playing regardless of what they change. I've got a lot of faith in CCP, I've been playing EVE since 2006 and I bite my tongue whenever I see upcoming changes that I'm not happy about because I'm pretty sure it will all work out in the end. This however is a Beta, and we're not supposed to just shut up and play. We're supposed to whine, constructively.

Edit: I take that part about more than one tank back. For the first time my team had two tanks and we lost, because they drove to the edge of the Skim Junction map and sat there all game.

Solution? Boundless Proximity Mines.