Fitting and Demonstation Video
Working as intended

Antics aside in my test, this appears to be a module fitting glitch that allows you to greatly modify the speed bonus of a dropship; a milita dropship that is in the video demonstration. The kicker is, it looks like it is going to be an essential glitch with the upcoming lock-on modifications to swarm launchers. Evasiveness and quick extractions are going to be key to staying alive and operational. This does not guarantee safety from AV attacks because the initial module activation time still leaves a pilot and crew open to a swarm volley or forge gun hit. While in radial switching some flight controls and view finding is locked.

Additionally important to note, the fitting costs of afterburners can be quite taxing with 38 cpu and 145 pg. This makes its fitting on a shield dropship much more difficult when accounting for adding upgrades to guns. However, the additional low slots and powergrid on a armor dropship allow for greater degrees of freedom in this regard--note armor dropships are slower and more vulnerable to swarm launchers. In these regards, things appear balanced.

I understand this topic may be more fitting under technical support and bug; however I want to put it forward for more field testing and discussion in the regards of dropship roles with upcoming changes in 1.4 to AV.

This fitting example, whether intended or not by the vehicle development team allows Dropship pilots to serve a viable and necessary role of troop deployment and extraction whilst remaining survivable in a highly dangerous environment.

Fitting and Demonstation Video
Working as intended

Antics aside in my test, this appears to be a module fitting glitch that allows you to greatly modify the speed bonus of a dropship; a milita dropship that is in the video demonstration. The kicker is, it looks like it is going to be an essential glitch with the upcoming lock-on modifications to swarm launchers. Evasiveness and quick extractions are going to be key to staying alive and operational. This does not guarantee safety from AV attacks because the initial module activation time still leaves a pilot and crew open to a swarm volley or forge gun hit. While in radial switching some flight controls and view finding is locked.

Additionally important to note, the fitting costs of afterburners can be quite taxing with 38 cpu and 145 pg. This makes its fitting on a shield dropship much more difficult when accounting for adding upgrades to guns. However, the additional low slots and powergrid on a armor dropship allow for greater degrees of freedom in this regard--note armor dropships are slower and more vulnerable to swarm launchers. In these regards, things appear balanced.

I understand this topic may be more fitting under technical support and bug; however I want to put it forward for more field testing and discussion in the regards of dropship roles with upcoming changes in 1.4 to AV.

This fitting example, whether intended or not by the vehicle development team allows Dropship pilots to serve a viable and necessary role of troop deployment and extraction whilst remaining survivable in a highly dangerous environment.

Yeah lol. Try surviving a single forge blast with 2 afterburners fitted.

Yeah lol. Try surviving a single forge blast with 2 afterburners fitted.

Yeah lol. Try surviving a single forge blast with 2 afterburners fitted.

Yeah, you try landing that one shot. that thing's faster than a scout lav, and moving in 3 dimensions, semi-randomly.

... You're telling me we had fighters all along?

300 meters on swarms, 600 on forges.

though, I like that dropship, goes from 0 to "I need new pants!" in nothing flat.

Yeah, you try landing that one shot. that thing's faster than a scout lav, and moving in 3 dimensions, semi-randomly.

Try doing any useful thing while flying around that fast and out of range of forge guns.

Fitting and Demonstation Video
Working as intended

Mr. Menaheim, I went and made a better video. Enjoy

Gallente Assault Dropship confirmed for being nigh invincible with 2 active. Plus you can outrun the swarms literally doing 2 backflips. Literally. Forgeguns have a significantly less chance to hit, and since an ADS has a naturally higher base speed (They're faster) it adds the effect almost again. I hope this doesn't get fixed nor do I hope it's a glitch because this will help Gallente pilots significantly. Sig-ni-fi-cant-ly.

Note: I ran 2 Fuel Inj, 1 Beta PG module, 1 Voltaic Energized Plating, 1 Light Efficient Armor Rep., 1 Light Payload Control System II, 2 ST Acell. And finally 1 XT-Cycled.

This fit proved very useful... Except for when I landed in my redzone to rep a small around of amor (Why waste the module?) a blueberry in a Charbydis purposely ran into my ship. Purposely. That was 801k down the drain.

Fitting and Demonstation Video
Verdict: working as intended

Antics aside in my test, this appears to be a module fitting glitch that allows you to greatly modify the speed bonus of a dropship; a milita dropship that is in the video demonstration. The kicker is, it looks like it is going to be an essential glitch with the upcoming lock-on modifications to swarm launchers. Evasiveness and quick extractions are going to be key to staying alive and operational. This does not guarantee safety from AV attacks because the initial module activation time still leaves a pilot and crew open to a swarm volley or forge gun hit. While in radial switching some flight controls and view finding is locked.

Additionally important to note, the fitting costs of afterburners can be quite taxing with 38 cpu and 145 pg. This makes its fitting on a shield dropship much more difficult when accounting for adding upgrades to guns. However, the additional low slots and powergrid on a armor dropship allow for greater degrees of freedom in this regard--note armor dropships are slower and more vulnerable to swarm launchers. In these regards, things appear balanced.

I understand this topic may be more fitting under technical support and bug; however I want to put it forward for more field testing and discussion in the regards of dropship roles with upcoming changes in 1.4 to AV.

This fitting example, whether intended or not by the vehicle development team allows Dropship pilots to serve a viable and necessary role of troop deployment and extraction whilst remaining survivable in a highly dangerous environment.

If it is infact a fitting gltich then expect a quick fix patch to stop it from being used because it means no skill crutch scrubs with swarms wont be getting easy kills from dropships and thus is unfair

Afterburners have always worked great for avoiding AV.

However, if you want your gunners to hit anything, or your passengers to not fly across the map when they jump out, you'll have to slow down.

Seeing as there is only a basic level aerial afterburner module to skill into; I'm curious if CCP was planing on releasing level 3 and 5 tier modules. There are level 5 modules for ground vehicles.

Fitting and Demonstation Video
Verdict: working as intended

Antics aside in my test, this appears to be a module fitting glitch that allows you to greatly modify the speed bonus of a dropship; a milita dropship that is in the video demonstration. The kicker is, it looks like it is going to be an essential glitch with the upcoming lock-on modifications to swarm launchers. Evasiveness and quick extractions are going to be key to staying alive and operational. This does not guarantee safety from AV attacks because the initial module activation time still leaves a pilot and crew open to a swarm volley or forge gun hit. While in radial switching some flight controls and view finding is locked.

Additionally important to note, the fitting costs of afterburners can be quite taxing with 38 cpu and 145 pg. This makes its fitting on a shield dropship much more difficult when accounting for adding upgrades to guns. However, the additional low slots and powergrid on a armor dropship allow for greater degrees of freedom in this regard--note armor dropships are slower and more vulnerable to swarm launchers. In these regards, things appear balanced.

I understand this topic may be more fitting under technical support and bug; however I want to put it forward for more field testing and discussion in the regards of dropship roles with upcoming changes in 1.4 to AV.

This fitting example, whether intended or not by the vehicle development team allows Dropship pilots to serve a viable and necessary role of troop deployment and extraction whilst remaining survivable in a highly dangerous environment.

Forge 600m???? More like 300m and swarms lock untill 400m but missiles dont fly that far.

Sure, in PUB matches you might find some fun uses for it (like in the video), but if you're up against a real team with real AV on it, no one is shooting at you while you're moving anyway. All that does is alert you to the AV's position. Real AV players let a dropship pilot slow down and try to do something useful, and then unload... and dual afterburners don't really help combat this. You'll be dead before the burners ever kick in.

Valid point. It may be too big of a trade-off for PG and space for resistance modules and heat sinks. In the case of finding AV players it would be nice to see Active scanner modules work more efficiently at scanning lower db readings.