I liked the tanks when I first started playing but now I find myself playing infantry even on the big tank maps. Main reason is too often my clanmates and I would be left standing at the spawn without a tank because the rest of the team had taken all the tanks solo. There we are with a full 3 man crew and no tank to work with.
At spawn everyone just seems to head to a tank alone, if they see someone in a tank they'll run to the next one, etc.
One fix I could see for that would be to make the delay for "waiting for other crew members" longer dependent on how many players are outside tanks, or based on how many seats are filled within the tank. Ie, you go solo then you wait 20-30 seconds to start moving, fill 2 seats you can move in 10-15, fill all 3 and you can move immediately. I think there is a rudimentary thing like that already in play but maybe it isn't a long enough delay to discourage the solo tankers.
Of course adding extra delay to switch from driver to gunner would also slow down the solo-tanking issue.
It would likely be a good idea to base the above delays on how many actual players in game, so if there are more tanks than players the delay isn't quite so bad or something.
At spawn everyone just seems to head to a tank alone, if they see someone in a tank they'll run to the next one, etc.
One fix I could see for that would be to make the delay for "waiting for other crew members" longer dependent on how many players are outside tanks, or based on how many seats are filled within the tank. Ie, you go solo then you wait 20-30 seconds to start moving, fill 2 seats you can move in 10-15, fill all 3 and you can move immediately. I think there is a rudimentary thing like that already in play but maybe it isn't a long enough delay to discourage the solo tankers.
Of course adding extra delay to switch from driver to gunner would also slow down the solo-tanking issue.
It would likely be a good idea to base the above delays on how many actual players in game, so if there are more tanks than players the delay isn't quite so bad or something.
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