While I do realize that this would mean the return of blackhawk whoring, I see more good in this than bad. My first point is the realism of a passenger capping the flag.
If you are driving the Vodnik and you pull up next to a flag, who has the more realistic shot of lowering and raising a flag from a flagpole?
A: The driver, with both hands on the wheel.
B: The passengers, sitting in the car picking their asses.
If you have guys with free hands, they need to get credit for the capping, not the pilot of the chopper who can fly with his feet while dodging rockets and machinegun rounds while still raising a flag.
Second, the practicality of my tank gunner staying with me...any gunner really. If you're flying or driving, your gunner is a key role. You don't want him to leave is 80mm cannon or his .50cal, leaving you exposed to c4/whatever else you can think of. You don't want your engineers in the back of the vodnik or blackhawk to not be able to repair you on a moments notice. Many's the time since 1.03 that I've been in the APC, without my side and back gunners (since they have to get out and cap), and gotten c4ed. Not only does that buy the enemy time away from a key armoured vehicle, but it leaves my squad vulnerable to things they can't protect themselves from.
Third, a result of number two. Since I am without a gunner, I sometimes switch to the gunner seat in order to provide myself with faster turning and better protection against the afforementioned c4. Not only by doing that do I risk being shot out and having my vehicle stolen, but I risk losing flag cap points because some moron can hop in the driver's seat, then hop back out, and I am stuck with assists. BULL SHIT.
If it wasn't 1:40 in the morning I'd have some other reasons and examples for you all to share in, but I'm sure you all have met a time when you wish there was one extra help protecting you a little more when capping that key control point.
And if you can't give them full cap points, at least give them assists...after all, they are ASSISTING you, the driver, in capping the flag...whether raising it or watching your back while you raise it.
If you are driving the Vodnik and you pull up next to a flag, who has the more realistic shot of lowering and raising a flag from a flagpole?
A: The driver, with both hands on the wheel.
B: The passengers, sitting in the car picking their asses.
If you have guys with free hands, they need to get credit for the capping, not the pilot of the chopper who can fly with his feet while dodging rockets and machinegun rounds while still raising a flag.
Second, the practicality of my tank gunner staying with me...any gunner really. If you're flying or driving, your gunner is a key role. You don't want him to leave is 80mm cannon or his .50cal, leaving you exposed to c4/whatever else you can think of. You don't want your engineers in the back of the vodnik or blackhawk to not be able to repair you on a moments notice. Many's the time since 1.03 that I've been in the APC, without my side and back gunners (since they have to get out and cap), and gotten c4ed. Not only does that buy the enemy time away from a key armoured vehicle, but it leaves my squad vulnerable to things they can't protect themselves from.
Third, a result of number two. Since I am without a gunner, I sometimes switch to the gunner seat in order to provide myself with faster turning and better protection against the afforementioned c4. Not only by doing that do I risk being shot out and having my vehicle stolen, but I risk losing flag cap points because some moron can hop in the driver's seat, then hop back out, and I am stuck with assists. BULL SHIT.
If it wasn't 1:40 in the morning I'd have some other reasons and examples for you all to share in, but I'm sure you all have met a time when you wish there was one extra help protecting you a little more when capping that key control point.
And if you can't give them full cap points, at least give them assists...after all, they are ASSISTING you, the driver, in capping the flag...whether raising it or watching your back while you raise it.