JimmyBotswana wrote:
People do not seem to understand that Engineers tend to drive tanks or APCs, and hence tend to have a high or the highest score in every round. Can you imagine how many gold medals armor whoring Engys would get in every round if the engineers got more points per repair? I AM an armor whoring Engy and I think this is a bad idea. Repair points are fine the way they are.
What map is that on? Usually the helo gunner or bomber LMG guy has the best overall total points on any map with them. Even on Karkand a good medic or support person has a better round in total points than a Eng using armor all round.
Armor is generally not good for capping flags. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between. Armor on Karkand is better used in a support role, killing people who spawan as infantry caps the flag.
When I got my 17 repair pts on Warlord, I wasn't trying to get the repair badge. I was in the tank killing everyone I could find and capping flags as well. I think 12 of repair pts were from going back to the SAS Uncap and repairing the sat, UAV, and Arty. Even then I didn't get a medal at the end of the round, and I had a total score of over 100.
One thing that would help without causing a major imbalance is to give a repair point for removing an AT mine. After all Eng's get 2 points per kill when someone runs over one. Eng's don't get out of their vehicle to remove them, they just find a different route.