I don't like it any more than you, but lets be real, if you roll out in a tank with no engineer supporting your repair, then you've wasted the tank. At best you'll make it to a middle cap, but you won't last long.
In fact, you need 2 engineers as a minimum if you want to survive in a tank and actually capture an objective.
Engineers who repair tanks should get more points because you end up at the bottom of ranking because your death count is high.
I understand why players want to sit at base. It's one of the few options available to them and I bet many who do it would rather be capping and not sitting at base.
I played with the mobile AA the other day and sat at base. I didn't like it, but moving anywhere else would have wasted the asset. At least I got to annoy the helos long enough for them to break off their engagements. That helped the team.
Was it fun? Not really. Was it necessary to help the team? Obsolutely.
Perhaps things will change as the game evolves, but so far there is no indication that game play is going back to classic BF, we are stuck with COD Arena game play.
