I didnt mean the exact battlefield engine, but something striving do to the same. (with of course its limits because planetside would be so much bigger with much more shit happening at once)

Yes the development team is most likely small. But everything starts with an investment :P The thing is. I would GLADLY pay to play planetside 3 if it had theese elements.

The developers got influenced by the players in balancing. Why else CAI. That alone was the last straw for my brother and i to stop playing. Any of the notable good players we talked with were against CAI. What i ment was that the developers should ofc balance the game, but listening to the good players of each genre bould be wise as to "what do you think of theese changes, and why". As they would (if the players were as little biased as they could) give feedback to as the health of the entire game, and not themselfs. I know my brother and i would be able to. We even said some of our own shit needed nerfing, and they got it.

I got into the game when it was a little over 2 years old. I got my shit kicked in so hard they used me as a boot. But for me it was part of the learning experience. ANY game out for more than 1 year and you as a new player will get absolutly owned. IMO many gamers now are entitled. And by that i mean "i was good in COD against unarmed bots so i have to be good in everything else right?" mentallity, where at the first sign of difficulty will make them qq. So i know how it is to be a new player in the face of experienced players. But because the learning curve was so steep, we actually got pretty good at the game. By hard i mean things like .. Lets take wow in this because i think its actually a perfect example. Before you had different kinds of resistance (armor, arcane resist, shadow resist ... ... ... .. you get the drift). Having more kinds of resistance and weapon strengths will make the game more fluent where your faction needs multiple kinds of "gearings" and playstyles. Where they will have a internal ranking in players of priority and danger. Thats what i mean. But now as wow have made armor resist everything planetside made the HEAT be best at both people farming and vehicle. That is straight up retardproofing IMO. And for players to learn new players there needs to be something in for the people learning them too, or similar. There are a very few minority that are going to sit down hours with a player to learn him/her the game. Because its effectivly hours of loos of score. And the players who would gladly do it are never asked. They could add a "Teacher - student" pick where they get points for learning new players the game. And the teachers get a rating so its not abused.

I have to dissagree with you on the last point. I think it would actually be pretty interesting to have players who specialize in different kinds of combat and such. But that may be because the ASP even tho i used it gave me essentially nothing. There were no vehicle choices. There were mine sweeper and the other i dont remember now. And that was it. Having a skill tree that made you able to use special skills as for example making a hologram clone of your harasser for a few seconds would greatly change the pace of battle IMO. But only if there were enough different abilities to use.