Brilliant early warning system. Its not unbalanced, and provides enough information so the pilot isn't always guessing, but can make educated guesses. This system would go quite a long way in keeping pilots in the sky and isk in their pockets. Good video judge I fully support this +1. We have needed this for a long time....

Well your dropship still turns to dust when a forgegunner appears. 2 hits and you hit the ground and your armor HP are nowhere near to survive a direct hit after your shields dropped. Even with both armor reps going. Cause my assault forgegun does a whopping 1900HP damage. Seriously ditch your shield tank on that thing. Get rid off the shield extenders, replace 1 off the power diagnostic systems with a 15% PG upgrade and get a plate on. You have amazing armor repair capability but you put a penalty on yourself with the shield extenders. And another fact has beeing proven in that vid that dropships take only 55% damage from swarms regardless if its shield or armor. Why? Well the guy in the vid had a advanced swarm launcher (5 missiles) so he would do 2145HP damage against armor (basically killing you with alpha damage). However when you where into armor you had around 200 shields and 1700 armor. All 5 missiles did hit and you dropped down to 1072HP armor. So the swarm did effectively "only" a whopping 900HP damage against you. The main thing that kills dropships are forgeguns which deal exactly 100% damage. Which makes it the only true choice to take dropships down. That beeing sayd your dropship pilots had still the easy mode on versus swarm launchers.
Oh and for the people who didnt noticed. He was fighting 2 swarm launchers not just 1 and he still survived.

Undo Judge Undo. Don't get this thread locked up or derailed. Please, I'm begging you undo.

But that's not fair! You can't expect infantry to actually live with being seen on the map because they're locking on to you, could you? How could you suggest actually giving pilots a buff!?

In all seriousness, this is a wonderful idea. I support it fully. Would help too when I don't have a scanner and someone is behind me.

I like this idea but how would it work if you aren't facing the swarmer? Would there be a warning lock sound? Or would an icon pop up on the side of the screen?

I like this idea but think it should be a passive skill attached to the vehicle skill tree. Possibly increasing the range and time on radar per level.

Well presented clever concept, OP. +1

My sole critique is that a "Swarm Solution" implies the existence of a "Swarm Problem" ... correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe Forge Gunners are more threatening to DS pilots (and everyone else) than Swarm Infantry.

Yeah, this is a great idea, but I also think with your idea they should maybe add a swarms symbol on your radar, you you know where the hell they are at, I mean our jets today have warning alarms and radars that see missiles, so why dont they have it in the future with blasters and lazers and **** lol!

proto swarms max damage mods, 3 salvos at a time, sometimes other people were firign swarms to, his ship never died, but after the first few salvos hope of killing it pretty much died, I just resolved myself to not letting him easily kill my team..

... we could at minimum drop a lunch site marker on the radar.

Would a Black Hawk pilot get a green chuffing dot on the target shooting his helicopter irl ?? even after he has fired and run to relative safety ?

Just trying to keep it real

Your videos are excellent btw. I just sent a little ISK in appreciation for your efforts.