Ran a 6 man squad today. We had played skirmish.

Our strategy was to use the dropship as a squad and raid/blitz objectives. We would drop in to an empty hostile objective, attempt to destroy uplinks and hack everything before the enemy could spawn in and then leave for the next objective. It was an effective strategy for the pub matches we were playing in.

Here's the problem. With 5 other people using the dropship AND a defend order on the dropship, the dropship user could barely make it over 400 WP on our best games. This is true, even despite the fact we were earning 2-3 orbitals per match! Don't even consider that the dropship pilot wasn't doing their job properly, as this is not the case. The new WP system for dropships is nice, but is simply not enough.

I suggest increasing the duration of the timer for pilot WPs and the percentage, while adding in 5-15 WPs per mCRU spawn. It would likely make the playstyle worth the work.

If you doubled the percentage (30%) and extended the timer (2 minutes), I bet he would have gotten about 1000 WP instead. He would have earned it! We were coordinating and putting a lot of effort into this strategy.

If you are so worried about farming WPs via mCRU, just make it 10 WPs instead of the usual 15 (since a dropship is equivalent to a permanent and more reliable uplink).

On a final note, dropships are seemingly slightly more potent and balanced, now that we are being rewarded for playing them how they were designed (now, we just need a better incentive!). We still used the small turrets, but we only really relied on them when we were suppressing/taking tanks down. The turrets were used as more of a support tool, as intended (not because of the damage, but how vulnerable the dropship is. The turrets still need the accuracy fixed, sadly).

One problem is it takes a while for a point cap to award the points. By the time a passenger has taken out a the reds, hacked the point and then had the point flip it is much past the 1 minute marker.

Ran a 6 man squad today. We had played skirmish.

Our strategy was to use the dropship as a squad and raid/blitz objectives. We would drop in to an empty hostile objective, attempt to destroy uplinks and hack everything before the enemy could spawn in and then leave for the next objective. It was an effective strategy for the pub matches we were playing in.

Here's the problem. With 5 other people using the dropship AND a defend order on the dropship, the dropship user could barely make it over 400 WP on our best games. This is true, even despite the fact we were earning 2-3 orbitals per match! Don't even consider that the dropship pilot wasn't doing their job properly, as this is not the case. The new WP system for dropships is nice, but is simply not enough.

I suggest increasing the duration of the timer for pilot WPs and the percentage, while adding in 5-15 WPs per mCRU spawn. It would likely make the playstyle worth the work.

If you doubled the percentage (30%) and extended the timer (2 minutes), I bet he would have gotten about 1000 WP instead. He would have earned it! We were coordinating and putting a lot of effort into this strategy.

If you are so worried about farming WPs via mCRU, just make it 10 WPs instead of the usual 15 (since a dropship is equivalent to a permanent and more reliable uplink).

On a final note, dropships are seemingly slightly more potent and balanced, now that we are being rewarded for playing them how they were designed (now, we just need a better incentive!). We still used the small turrets, but we only really relied on them when we were suppressing/taking tanks down. The turrets were used as more of a support tool, as intended (not because of the damage, but how vulnerable the dropship is. The turrets still need the accuracy fixed, sadly).