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The responsibility lays inside the player himself, if players rather go solo in a tank or APC, it's the way they are. They will probably do the same or not follow simple rules when being infantry squad. One thing we should not do with PR is to set up to much rules that cuts the creativity of the play. Besides we have to straw for reality, 30 sec is somehow maybe what it takes for the driver to set up to the gunner position in reality.
Are we setting up to much rules will only head this game to a childish thing.

Then about dedicated player who "ask" for a teammate but nobody response even if they wait 5 min, and nobody joins. Best thing here is first and foremost before deciding to jump into a tank consult with your SL if he needs a tank in his squad then the SL is to set up a teammate that joins you. Other thing you want to drive set a TANK SQUAD or MECH SQUAD and people will join the squad knowing for what reason.

'[T wrote:Terranova7;694336']Another alternative solution might be (If possible) to have separate crewman driver & crewman gunner kits. The driver kit can only drive, while the gunner kit can only gun. You can still request both right off your own tank, but there can be a delay between requesting a new one (Like having to wait 3 to 5 minutes in between requests). This would making solo tanking an overall pain in the ***, and I think it would create a nice reduction as to how often it happens.

You also wouldn't be stuck in one of those scenarios where you're gunning and suddenly your driver disconnects, and you're left both immobile and defenseless. Because if you still hold the gunner kit you can at least remain capable of firing the turret. Or you can hop out and grab the driver kit, but the player would still have to wait quite some time before requesting the gunner kit back.

This is good idea indeed! And it shouldn't be that hard to implement either, as those kits could be (visually) similar with each other. Kit icons at squad screens and scoreboards might need to be changed, but rest of the modifications could be done at code-level.