Say that to Halador, I was squadded up with him yesterday and he went 27-0 in an assault dropship as I only went 10-0. You can aim, it just takes practice.

Though I would like an option for the turret not remain aimed where you move it, currently it always wants to return to it's neutral position which can result in fighting the turret to keep a consistent aim on something.

Try using a fragmented missile turret, as long as you can lead your target then you're fine to kill people.
And try not to have gunners unless they are going to be the main shooters, trying to kill someone while keeping the DS in position for the gunner is not very easy.

Must have been a bad team, I had AV at all times.

But the point is that I shouldn't be limiting myself to just that one turret in a Assault Dropship.

But the point is that I shouldn't be limiting myself to just that one turret in a Assault Dropship.

So do I and every assault dropship pilot. The key is to identify them and kill them.

Ok ADS pilots run away from AV
Good ADS pilots run away from AV then return with fiery

Aside from the obvious problem of view being blocked, trying to keep my dropship steady only to barely hit someone with a blaster is too frustrating. Another major problem is that without proper turning of the front turret I was limited to these 2 options: keep hovering steadily so my gunner hit targets OR increase maneuverability at the cost of my gunner's accuracy so I could try to kill others with the front turret. In all, I have lost over 20,000,000 ISK in 5 hours (A few RDV/Environmental OHK) trying to pilot it even with the proper modules/turrets (damage is fine). SP cost of using the python ended up being a wasted 1.4 million (not counting skill previously leveled up).

With that said, CCP either needs to give me and all other pilots the SP reimbursed or somehow improve aiming with the Assault Dropship.

Too bad this never works vs Forge Gunners.

Aside from the obvious problem of view being blocked, trying to keep my dropship steady only to barely hit someone with a blaster is too frustrating. Another major problem is that without proper turning of the front turret I was limited to these 2 options: keep hovering steadily so my gunner hit targets OR increase maneuverability at the cost of my gunner's accuracy so I could try to kill others with the front turret. In all, I have lost over 20,000,000 ISK in 5 hours (A few RDV/Environmental OHK) trying to pilot it even with the proper modules/turrets (damage is fine). SP cost of using the python ended up being a wasted 1.4 million (not counting skill previously leveled up).

With that said, CCP either needs to give me and all other pilots the SP reimbursed or somehow improve aiming with the Assault Dropship.

Aside from the obvious problem of view being blocked, trying to keep my dropship steady only to barely hit someone with a blaster is too frustrating. Another major problem is that without proper turning of the front turret I was limited to these 2 options: keep hovering steadily so my gunner hit targets OR increase maneuverability at the cost of my gunner's accuracy so I could try to kill others with the front turret. In all, I have lost over 20,000,000 ISK in 5 hours (A few RDV/Environmental OHK) trying to pilot it even with the proper modules/turrets (damage is fine). SP cost of using the python ended up being a wasted 1.4 million (not counting skill previously leveled up).

With that said, CCP either needs to give me and all other pilots the SP reimbursed or somehow improve aiming with the Assault Dropship.

Say that to Halador, I was squadded up with him yesterday and he went 27-0 in an assault dropship as I only went 10-0. You can aim, it just takes practice.

Though I would like an option for the turret not remain aimed where you move it, currently it always wants to return to it's neutral position which can result in fighting the turret to keep a consistent aim on something.

Too bad this never works vs Forge Gunners.

Not trying to knock on you or anyone else, but have you ever considered that piloting a dropship should not be an easy task? I in no way expect as many people to be able to do well in a dropship than can do well as an infantry or tanker. That's how it should be IMO. Of course that said, I am very supportive of the upcoming buffs to dropship eHP and shield regen as it is much needed. Still, if you're getting shot down easily now more HP is only going to delay your inevitable destruction.

Try using a fragmented missile turret, as long as you can lead your target then you're fine to kill people.
And try not to have gunners unless they are going to be the main shooters, trying to kill someone while keeping the DS in position for the gunner is not very easy.

I am fully aware of the difficulties and requirements involved in handling the dropship, the only reason I skilled into it was because I had too much leftover SP. Maneuvering the dropship to avoid heavy fire can be done if skilled enough, trying to hit someone with anything that is not a Frag missile while being hit (or not) is downright annoying. I can get far more kills on ground in my Assault GK.0 and have a good impact on gameplay compared to the Dropship, even my terrible Commando AK.0 can do something on ground.

I am fully aware of the difficulties and requirements involved in handling the dropship, the only reason I skilled into it was because I had too much leftover SP. Maneuvering the dropship to avoid heavy fire can be done if skilled enough, trying to hit someone with anything that is not a Frag missile while being hit (or not) is downright annoying. I can get far more kills on ground in my Assault GK.0 and have a good impact on gameplay compared to the Dropship, even my terrible Commando AK.0 can do something on ground.

... I hate to say it but based on my experiences in stolen ADSs the rail gun turret was more successful in aiming than the blaster. The blaster is only good for raking large targets such as vehicles and turrets which unfortunately at the angel you normally engage in leaves you to getting shot down by said things.

... I hate to say it but based on my experiences in stolen ADSs the rail gun turret was more successful in aiming than the blaster. The blaster is only good for raking large targets such as vehicles and turrets which unfortunately at the angel you normally engage in leaves you to getting shot down by said things.

Respectfully disagree. The blaster is useless against vehicles, it's efficiency is too low, and at proto, with skills, you do about 50 dam per bullet. The efficiency on vehicles and installations is 10% and it is just awful

They just come back 3 seconds later, and with a vengeance. Or some more teammates to LOL-WTF-DOUBLE-FORGE-1-SHOT you