inb4 can i haz your isk

oh wait we dropship pilots are all broke anyway :(

Exactly.

Dropships are transport vehicles intended for large maps.

Since those large maps don't actually exist yet, everything to do with dropships is broken.

I've made a couple of idea on how Dropships could be rebalanced (This character being skilled into every type of dropship, I have plenty of time to think about it while respawning...).

1) Forge Guns. Fudge the Forge Guns. Keep them, but fudge them. I'd be happy with anything, as long as you made it so Forges can't destroy us. They would be able to knock us around, for sure, but maybe even the prototype does just over 100 damage? Those are the only things really keeping us from doing anything with dropships. One forge guns enters play, it's basically telling every dropship to break itself, and save itself from a painful demise.

2) Free Dropships. Having completely free dropships BPOs when you start the game will urge newer players and even vets to take out a dropship and have a blast in the sky, without needing to worry about ISK price. If I died in a free Gorgon, I wouldn't even care, I'd just enjoy being able to fly without my wallet being [killed]. Besides, it's pretty hard to murder taxi in a flying vehicle, and if you're accurate enough to ram a dropship into an infantry, you deserve that kill.

3) Price reduction. At the moment, dropships Risk/Reward is way more balanced towards Risk. The new WP bonuses in 1.5 sort of fixed it, but they still cost to much to make back in one match, making pilot-specific characters terribly scarce. Because like I said, one Forge Gun joins the match and every ship ever is obliterated.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but these changes will do a lot towards balancing Dropships, and stuff.

Your first suggestion is god awful. Prototype forge guns doing a hundred damage, really.

You have screwed with the dropship pilots for too long. If you remove them in the next patch, you will lose nearly all of us. You have ignored us, abused us, disregarded our plea for help and support, and frankly, I've had enough.

For over a year we have asked for a buff, and to no avail. and now you have ruined the camera settings on the dropships so we can't even see where we are flying anymore. You ARE killing the game for us, and you are making the game completely biased for infantry.

On top of your lack of support towards the pilot community, your lack of visible effort in almost every other part of the game is unacceptable. You refuse point blank to tell us what your updates are going to be until its too late to get any potential player saving feedback. One example is a post of 1.5 update notes written in a language designed to trick people into thinking it is readable?

All I can say, is that your game had immense potential, and was a baby that needed nurtured in every aspect. Its like never allowing a baby to learn to walk, you cripple it forever. I feel that Dust514 is in need of a better home, with more communication with its community.

If you ignore this post for over a week, I am quitting Dust. Your call.

all that is left to say is..
what have you got to say for yourselves?

2) Free Dropships. Having completely free dropships BPOs when you start the game will urge newer players and even vets to take out a dropship and have a blast in the sky, without needing to worry about ISK price.

3) Price reduction. At the moment, dropships Risk/Reward is way more balanced towards Risk. The new WP bonuses in 1.5 sort of fixed it, but they still cost to much to make back in one match, making pilot-specific characters terribly scarce.

NOTHING should one hit anything. CCP obviously agreed with that principal else they wouldn't have nerfed sniper rifles

slowly wasting away... can feel my dropsuit sifting to dust ..