Larger Crew Vehicles, Good or Bad?

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I looked through the forum to see if anyone had posted about this yet. Didn't look like it so i though i'd take a crack at it.

In planetside there were a number vehicles which took several people or more to man. These saw very little play towards the end of planetside here due to low pops.

You know what though? I thought they were fun as hell, i loved taking out a group of 2 raiders(5man) and3 deliverers(3man) out onto the rivers of cyssor and just mowing down vanu tanks and aircraft. And when we had more people that was an option. however now with the same amount of people you could get 5 tanks, and so the larger crew vehicles became kinda obsolete.

I would like to get the community's thoughts on this. I would love to see a number of large crew vehicles, however they are not always the most practical thing in the world. What would you all like to see for larger crew vehicles or do you think they're a bad idea?

Even if they're not always the most useful, there's the fun factor. The Marauder(Hillbilly Tank) was one of my all time favorite TR vehicles. Was basically a ford pickup with a machinegun on the front and an automatic grenade launcher mounted onto the bed. Wasn't the most useful vehicle, it's main role was anti-infantry and harassment, but MAN was it fun to drive and gun. Same with the Raider, a Hummer with 4 10mm chainguns wasn't always the most useful and you could get more firepower by getting those same people into a pair of tanks. However, they were fun as hell to run around in and they let you get at the enemy from an unexpected quarter, especially for TR.

Saw someone post a picture of the German Landkreuzer prototype for a TR tank suggestion, and yeah, i'd like to see something like that, taking a full dozen people to man effectively, with a bunch of turrets and stuff on it's deck to man.

And does anyone remember an xbox game called crimson skies? Friggin great arcade-style aircraft game. You were a sky-pirate with your own zeppelin and a bunch of cool prop aircraft. In one of the bigger fights you have to take out an army of aircraft and nearly a dozen huge zeps. It's still worth trying if you got a spare 10bucks for it in the marketplace. Anyways the zeppelins had up to 2 dozen turrets on their surface-top, bottom, and sides. I would love to see behemoths like that in game. Having 3 of those just float in ominously and open fire would be something to see. Of course, i would also love destroying something like that. qualify it as a superweapon and dont allow more than 5 on the battlefield at a time. I dont care, just give me a giant zeppelin to invade something somewhere with.