you know this sounds incredibly annoying and I love it

I do not see why cannisters would not deal damage, why do they exist? that's their only purpose, and they simply dont do it, they should straight out be made to kill people again.

if they kill people in 1 shot that means the defending side will always win from constantly getting kills whenever the attackers try to capture banner

Thats not true Gill and it has been confirmed by literally every siege before the nerf

Canister is easy to produce and spam. With the current state of cannons, buffing canister would only cause people return to the tactic of maximising their "cannons per second" firing rate. Would that help people eliminate PvPers? Probably. Would that be fun? Probably not for anyone except the people firing the cannons. At best, it would be annoying. So I don't want to touch canister until operating cannons can be changed to be more in-depth than aiming and spam-clicking.

As an aside, I don't buy the claim that there isn't a way to counter PvPers in the first place. A pair or group of IFVs seems sufficient to me.

IFVs are great for dealing canisters, but if you have 20 people on banner they will simply pot and not move, continuing to cap. Thats why I wanted to implement canisters that send you flying. Plus everything if done at scale can be abused

As of rn, canisters are more useless than corvettes as they neither deal damage nor do they move people