Making the bang bus more popular

[kaffis]

Galaxies might be a little too durable, for starters. In Planetside, they were legitimately able to penetrate enemy lines pretty deeply and pretty reliably. I think I'd shy away from reducing armor, but there needs to be more evenly distributed anti-air, rather than just clusters of threatening anti-air around active engagements.

Making some automated (CE? Base defenses?) AA would work towards removing a Galaxy's carte blanche license to fly around behind enemy lines all it wants, without making a single user with an AA able to rip it apart in a single-pass flyby.

In addition, I think the way to more generally make ground transport useful is to make them the transport of choice for *loading* troops in hot zones. Make Galaxies very vulnerable during landing and take-off, and give people reasons to want to get in a transport in areas other than secure, friendly territory, and you're in business. Right now, the only time you get into a Galaxy (or most any transport) is when you spawn, and when you've cleared and captured a base.