Drop suits are heavy and made of advanced, tough stuff.
So if every time you ran somebody over, you received damage to the LAV, it would fit the lore.

The heavier the suit, the more damage.

I couldn't hit a rabbit with my car without needing to make sure there's no damage. Couldn't imagine a HUMVEE or APC today being able to slam in to a 1tonne+ heavy suit scratch free.

The scaling and elegant aspect comes from the notion that a SP-invested LAV will take less damage and be able to run over more enemies before needing repairs.

Free LAVs running over tier 1 scouts = almost no damage to LAV

Free LAVs running over proto heavy = destroyed LAV

SP-invested LAV running in to medium suits = 4-5? kills before it needs to retreat for repairs, leaving time to recover and re-form (and maybe switch to AV) before the next LAV run-over starts.

none of us have AV grenades...

SP invested in grenades and using up a slot for this one issue that doesn't make sense in the first place

I think mr ladwars point is you have no oppinion on vehicles when you have blatently ignored a provided counter measure. I would have to agree as a tanker and a llav murdertaxi driver , unless you skill into and use the appropriate counter measures for vehicles or use any vehicle above malitia grade you dont have a valid opinion on any form of vehicle balance.

I think mr ladwars point is you have no oppinion on vehicles when you have blatently ignored a provided counter measure. I would have to agree as a tanker and a llav murdertaxi driver , unless you skill into and use the appropriate counter measures for vehicles or use any vehicle above malitia grade you dont have a valid opinion on any form of vehicle balance.

The only reason why half of us do it is because of the fact that LAV's (especially LLV's) are cheaper and more survivable than HAV's.

Militia swarm launchers are just fine fir deaking with murder taxis, even the tricked-out ones :-)

Militia swarm launchers are just fine fir deaking with murder taxis, even the tricked-out ones :-)

That's a perfectly fine line of reasoning and I agree.

but what i'm suggesting is a gameplay element change. Not a balance whine. There are a million other threads that are whining, My thread is a possible consideration for a "scaleable" element for CCP to consider some time down the line when they have time to think it over.

Let me say again, You are correct that I have no place to comment on AV balance. but this isn't so much about anti vehicle (I didn't even mention tanks) and more about physics/reasoning and similies to real world examples of a gameplay mechanic where a free LAV collides with a SP-invested hunk of metal, and gave what I feel is a reasonable scalable option where SP-invested LAVs are not punished as a result of this included game mechanic (thus scaleable)

That's a perfectly fine line of reasoning and I agree.

but what i'm suggesting is a gameplay element change. Not a balance whine. There are a million other threads that are whining, My thread is a possible consideration for a "scaleable" element for CCP to consider some time down the line when they have time to think it over.

Let me say again, You are correct that I have no place to comment on AV balance. but this isn't so much about anti vehicle (I didn't even mention tanks) and more about physics/reasoning and similies to real world examples of a gameplay mechanic where a free LAV collides with a SP-invested hunk of metal, and gave what I feel is a reasonable scalable option where SP-invested LAVs are not punished as a result of this included game mechanic (thus scaleable)

I think you need to use more swarm launchers more I have an CBR 7 now and some pimped out one can take 2 or 3 swarm on them and they move so fast I may need all because the hide behind something and the MISSILE SO DUMB to not hide the wall.

I just made a post about LAV killing. I think if you need to LAV kill you have no life in a FIRST PERSON SHOOTING GAME

I never accused you of whining about AV balance. But the reasoning still stands as you are commenting on the usage of vehicles with no applied skills in anti vehicle or vehicle useage thusly negating any oppinion, sugestions, feedback or requests you wish tomake about vehicles and their usage/destruction.

What about me? I'm not spec'd into it either, and I have no problems killing people with LAVs or killing LAVs with militia AV lol

His point isn't invalid because he isn't spec'd into it, his point is invalid because he's doing things wrong. The counter to vehicles is AV; if you don't like what the vehicle is doing, pull out the counter. The counter to better fit vehicles with more skilled pilots is better AV; don't like how hard the more advanced ones are to kill, spec more into the counter so you too can use the higher end ones. It's all fairly straightforward.

I can't wait until all the racial variants come and the whinging starts on how the Gallente tank deals more DPS than the minmatar, and the minmatar does more alpha than the gallente, becauae they think balance means everything is equal, rather than everything simply having a counter.

You are at least attempting to counter. But you have not made a comment regarding a change I stats/usage or av in this thrwad and now with your admittance to having no av or vehicle skills negates your oppinion on any vehicle or av above malitia