This is about when, especially in maps like Arad and Orel, (if thats the huge tank map i'm thinking of) single players drive off in a tank and perform gunner, driver and even MG roles all on their own.
There usually isn't much disadvantage to this tactic, and it's annoying to have your whole tank team of two or three men killed by one guy.
So here's a poll for the devs to jot notes from.
I have to disagree with this, just because one person kills a multi-player tank (or SPG, etc.) the one person now has to be hindered as the other players do not like it?
Come on, thus, are we going to now hinder giving really good snipers with bolt rifles only, yeah he is to good a sniper so auto-rifles he can not have, please. What about the Machine Gunner (MG) class in RO hardly anyone gives him ammo in the games I have noticed, although I always try to give the MG person ammo, are we going to force all players to have to give ammo to the MG players? Why not, by do so it helps the team and helps the player who gives the ammo, as the MG guy is a very important part of the team.
I understand you mean well and I am not trying to be mean to your idea, but I think there is a different way than what you have purposed here.
As I do not mind sharing a tank with a player who knows something about the tanks and tank combat/tactics, and lord knows there are many on RO, and it's mods DH, MN, CC, and AB who know about tanks.
However, I always have people in the tank that I tried to share with, who shoot and kill team mates and/or do not want to listen or work with me and/or who seem to know very little about tanks. Thus, that is why I go alone in the tank when I play.
If in the new RO:HOS that players have to be trained (like in the real war) before going out in combat, and by trained I do mean they have to go for weeks to base or something, I mean if they can get certain easy Achievements regarding tanks. Then others and I would know that the other player(s) in the tank have some idea on how to use a tank and work in the tank. Maybe this obtaining the certain tank achievements could have there name in Red, blue, etc. or *** 3 stars in front of the name, or something to show for the persons efforts re tanks.
For example, if I am the commander of a tank in any RO game I tell the other player to get Hull Down, most do not understand this. This in the middle of a tank battle I having to trying to tell (or train if you will) them how to do this move, while trying shoot at the enemy and we get kill before we finishing the move maybe. We re-spawn they happen to get in another tank or someone else gets in the tank I have jump in.
Thus, I have wasted the time tell them about Hull Down, they most likely do not recall what I have told them and they get no practice to do this move. This leads me to want to play in a tank on my own.
If anyone knows of the Army that puts people in a tank with no training, love to know this and to this check it out.
Yes, this is a game and it is for fun, but it is no fun getting killed every time because others do not know what they are doing and you know if you used the tank on your own you would do a lot better.
Just like who wants to play a game if your team keep loosing each and every game. Frankly, I have been on teams in a RO like that, I always stay with such a team, but it is no fun loosing every game. And the teams I have been on at those times have been with a lot of new people and/or against really good players and/or the other teams had there act together. Why I have seen new and good players leave or switch sides from such a loosing team in RO, because the team was so bad and loosing all the games we played.
I want to play RO:HOS, but to be honest, if I am going to be force to share tank I might as well not play RO:HOS and I would tell others not to play it as well. The one good thing about RO is the tanks (which are not perfect by any means), but they are a lot better than tanks that are in COD:WAW (after buying this COD game, I will never buy another COD game as the tanks were way off and bad).
Best regards,
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