No current AV could touch the buffed tanks. How is a tank going to be pushed into a corner by weapons that barely scratch it? All 16 mercs could run proto forge and one of odells super tanks would still be safe.

I just read the OP. The idea is flawed, we know you are a tanker and seem to want an untouchable tank. Why exactly would a 50000 hp tank suck in a city? How would AV heavies be relevant? Again I reiterate, your idea is biased to your play style and its not good.

Hiding the problem doesn't fix the problem.
This is just separating them.

Although I feel like the main problem is the player base. I feel that infantry should only be needed for covert ops, hacking, and fighting only where vehicles won't go.
The playerbase seems to believe that vehicles are some killstreak to rarely support infantry.

I like the idea of environmental OPness. Vehicles own this, infantry that, and everyone has SOMEWHERE they're good at. This guy needs as much attention as possible until CCP has this idea burned into their brains forever. +1

Also, I'd like to see destructability in these maps. Granted that a tank can't level a whole city in five minutes, but don't expect to have a whole team camp in one room. I just feel like tanks should be demolition, destroying installations, cover, everything. Not so much anti infantry.

Which, IRL, is how they're used. No military uses infantry where vehicles would better be utilized. Imagine this, there is a spawn point above the only entrance to an underground bunker with an objective beneath it. Holding the objective ABOVE GROUND would require vehicles, however, once underground, vehicles count for nothing. That would put infantry and vehicles to use very well and nobody would be UP, but everyone could still be OP in their own right.

Well, it's more or less close that that already, imo. The area around objectives aren't exactly easy to squeeze a vehicle into. And if you manage it, it's very dangerous.

bumping the crap out if this post

Alot of undercover/indoor areas means close quarters with tanking. From my experience CQC with tanks means tankie go bye bye

Ok kill all tanks immediatly?

Whats the point of tanking?

+1

Every weapon, dropsuit & vehicle needs to have at least 1 situation / environment where they are not matched by anything else. Except for ARs they ought to be the average at everything bad at nothing kind of deal.

The idea is certainly appealing but you would need genuinely large scale battles involving 100+ players on each side. Otherwise tank battles would quickly become boring with only the odd couple of tanks on each side until 1 side losses a couple and stops bringing them in.

You would need to have at least 20-40 people bringing in vehicles on each side to make it interesting. Then you would need to factor in the other vehicle types like jets, bombers, MTACs and tank buster airplanes. You can forget about dropships acting as taxi's as at some point they need to get close to the ground and a 10k dps rail gun tank would gut it in less than a couple of seconds, assuming they get a big buff. Dropships won't be viable until the enemy tanks and jets etc are destroyed or pushed out of range.

You would also need anti tank and anti air hard points attached to installations as well.

The battles would be glorious but you will need very large maps and a massive number of players in that battle to make it viable.

My thread has been revived!

I really want indoor spaces. Some of my favorite FPS experiences were the room by room fighting in Planetside One.

Thats last attempt to defend a control room before it was stormed. Or the tower fights on that last toehold on a continent.

Epic gaming.