..and there's a big part of my point.. you arent ineffective on foot as a tanker, you may be less effective because you arent surrounded by armor loaded down with heavy weapons, but you arent ineffective. You can still help to cap/stop a cap, and you can still kill. If you're a tank commander, you can still call arty!
Our point is, most of the time you aren't effective, and are much more effective in your tank. We can go on and on about this (I think we have). So once more it's a question of personal priorities. Is it more important to be able to occasionally save the day for your team as an unmounted tanker, or more important to provide your team with tank scale fire support?
Sometimes you'll win the match one way, sometimes the other. We think it's more likely (and hence more realistic) to keep you in the tank.
Another point is, if you sign up to be a tanker, you should tank. That is your role, that is your duty. You may not win every time doing it, but it "feels" more right that way to me and others who agree with me.
That's exactly where my arguments are based. They are based on how the capping system in RO plays right now, and how it seems to still play in HoS based on the videos we've seen. You guys act as though the capping system has changed to something else by giving these arguments of 'ineffectiveness' and whether or not a tanker has capping power or if a rifleman can weigh the same in a capzone as a tank etc, etc.. None of that means anything if the capping system is the same. So are you arguing for a different capping system at the same time as locking tankers in their tanks?
I'm of the opinion that an unmounted tanker shouldn't cap in ROOST, but at this point in the game's maturity, it would probably throw off the map balance to change it now. I think tankers capping was just grandfathered in as RO started infantry only, and Unreal Tournament didn't have dedicated classes, so everyone could role in the tank/vehicles and could cap.
With that in mind, I don't think an unmounted tanker in ROHOS (if they existed) should count for cap points. Since they don't exist, and hence don't count for cap points, then the capping system isn't exactly the same as ROOST, is it? We don't know if a tank has the same, more, or even any capping power on combined arms maps for ROHOS.
First, there's nothing gamey about being able to leave your tank, in fact it would be gamey if you were locked inside of it and your only option is to 'scuttle' aka suicide. Next, exiting tanks is already there, it wouldnt need to be 'coded'. They would only need to add an animation for exiting and entering, and yes, I think it would be worth it.
I guess one person's gaminess is another person's realism. I think it's gamey to have tankers on foot capping.
