I spent a lot of time using tanks in FH2, and I have found an annoyance that would be great to solve. It goes like this: you take a shot at an enemy tank, severely damaging (but not killing it) and the tanker becomes aware of you. He does whatever he can to turn the tables but, if he knows you outsmarted him, he bails just as you make his tank explode, saving his life by appearing as infantry over an exploding wreck.

Experienced enemies can time more or less the ammount of time it would take you to load the next shot and fire it. Thus, they try to exit the tank a bit before you shot in order to maximize their possibilities to hit you while saving their own lives. I have seen this the most in maps like Op. Aberdeen, where allies have the Valentine that can't be oneshot under normal circumstances even from behind, but the same has happened to me on some Normandy map against some German behemot, robbing me of a well deserved kill against a superior opponent. Sometimes you don't even have a MG on your vehicle available to kill off the bailing tanker, so you just feel cheated.

So, I suggest any (or all) of the following alternatives:

1- A meaningful delay on exiting a tank.
2- Exploding tanks creating more splash damage around them.
3- Flames over the wreck of a tank causing instakill.

The first one I just don't know as I haven't ever seen anything like a delay for entering or exiting vehicles on BF2.
The second one I realize it might be a trade-off. I suppose that splash damage on exploding wrecks was lessened in order to avoid the "staying close to a flaming wreck that randomly decides to explode death" effect, and I dunno if you can change the ammount of splash damage a tank makes when becoming a wreck, while leaving alone the damage a wreck does when becoming nothing. But, if it isn't possible, maybe increasing the splash a little bit wouldn't hurt.
And the third one, I couldn't possibly know if the wrecks could carry a "damaging fire" parameter attached to them.

Of all the choices, only the first one will discourage bailing the tank while preserving the possibility to attain full score for the guy with the upper hand (as he will kill a tank, not an infantry). But all of them have a factor of discouragement of the "insta-bail" reflex that will eventually make it dissappear.

Currently the only ones that can see the time left for the round are the commanders of both teams, in the Commander's interface (and only when it can be access, ie if the map has any commander radio/vehicle). And it gets annoying not to know how much will the round take. I had seen rounds were your team should start taking some risks to win the map as the time runs out but no one does, and then the time ends with a defeat that could very easily had been a victory. Some new players, including myself in the past, don't even realize there was a time limit till later: I guessed that an admin got tired and ended rounds when they became tiresomely long 

If there's a deeper reason NOT to include a visual clock in the game, that's fine: state the reason so we can all understand it. But if there's none, then why hide it? You can make it not readily reachable, like showing it only when you bring the map up, but it would be cool for the common grunt to have SOME way to see the round's clock.

The Award system in place is great but I couldn't help to note a glaring absence: an award that rewards good AT accomplishments when acting as an infantry. The implementation is, of course, up to the devs: it could just grant according to the number of kills you do with a portable AT gun (rifle or HEAT based), or just vehicle kills, or just tank kills, or even include vehicle/tank kills achieved with engineer-class explosives. But I do think that some kind of rewards for this is warranted.

This is something that has been bothering me for a while in several games, not just this one, and might be an inherent problem of game engines with no fix, but I guessed it was worth being posted anyways.

Right now, in the game, you can see the fartest with the corner of your eyes. A simple explicative image here:


As you can see, when you look directly towards the tank in front of you, you can't see it, but when you look with "the corner of your eye", not looking directly at it, it appears in your vision (in the left side of your monitor, in this case) even when the distance between you and the tank hasn't changed at all. My suggestion is: would it be better if the point you can see the fartest was in front of you instead of in the sides of your monitor?