Dropships are aerial vehicles that are in transporting troops around the battlefield, that's the first thing we need to remember, they are not gunships, they are not fighter craft nor are they bombers, they are troop transport vehicles. Where did CCP go wrong with Dropships? They treated them as a combat vehicle and always balanced them around that.

I believe they should only be two types of Dropship, a Heavy and a Light Variant. Forget the Logistics/Assault/Bomber variants, they're a waste of time. Not only should there be just two variants, but both of these should lose their weaponry, now before I hear "BUT IRL WE HAVE TRANSPORT VEHICLES WITH GUNS ON IT" I'm sorry, Mr Realism, we're capable of firing missiles at eachother from across the world, yet my missiles disappear after 200m, so forget your realism, it has no place here.

The variants

Light:

The Light Dropship is a fast moving vehicle. It loses a fair amount of Armor and Shield in exchange for being fast and maneuverable. For ideas about its speed and such, think a little bit faster than the Assault Dropship. It carries four passengers.

Heavy:

The Heavy Dropship is a slow moving vehicle, it sacrifices speed for heavy tank. It is very resilient and capable of tanking a large amount of damage (It has the PG/CPU of a HAV for example, so it can fit proper reps). It can carry 8 Passengers.



By creating weaponless Dropships, you create true transport vehicles and can be reasonably balanced against other vehicles and AV, because then we can buff them without worrying too much about Dropships becoming gamebreakingly overpowered.

I personally hate the Assault/Bomber variants of the Dropship, I feel angry at the fact CCP are just giving us these without any effort, rather than add a Gunship, they give us an Assault Dropship, rather than a Bomber aircraft, they give us a Bomber Dropship, and what's worse? Everyone thinks they've done something great, no, CCP haven't. Stop fooling yourselves into believing these are good things, they are merely a distraction so we don't ask about the proper vehicles.

If CCP had instead, created proper skills for them, but used a temporary Dropship model, I'd be alright with that, it would make sense to me. Skill into Gunships, get access to the "Modified Assault Dropship", a Level 1 Gunship that is explained to be a Dropship with guns attached. Same with Bombers, move them to the Bomber skills, name the type of ship a "Modified Bomber Dropship". Does that not make sense?

Anyways, here's my thoughts on the Dropships.

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