I don't know what exactly is the overall staffing expectancies and the sorts but one issue that slows the process down significantly is visa applications having to get approved then moving people to china.

Restrictor plates or rods or rails are peice of metal typically placed on mounted guns to control their area of weapons fire coverage. In other cases its to prevent damage to both gun and nearby equipment while being moved about.

For example on old canvas and wood planes of ww 1 the tail gun would often have a rod between the gunner and tail section to prevent gunners from shooting their parent craft's tail off.

The drop ship had to keep changing due to the earlier fact a turret shooting the parent craft would indeed get you killed (the hit registered and altered flight characteristics) This was the one thing I complained about the most when they threw the new controls in (that my own gunners were killing me)

While CCP may not talk to you guys about the small things and how they plan to fix many things they do talk to the CPM often. I have consistently expressed my issues with vehicle and turret controls frequently attempt to remind them of all the things that need address, just CCP can only fix so many things at a time. The reason why I haven't complained about the turret snap lately is because I haven't been given the chance to be a gunner in a wildly flying dropship to see if the case is still true (my last pilot was wonderfully stable and let me get about 7 kills / 10 assists before I got shot out of the gunner seat) and as bad as I remember it. You posting just confirms its still there to an extent.

You have my assurance I am not going to let CCP forget on how annoying this factor is and I do hope they will visit and fix it soon or they already fixed it and forgot to update the CPM on it.

Also for seeking public statements/responses:
Monday
Not Friday

This thread may be on page 10 come around monday.

A: Turrets shooting their own ships was a problem, but stemmed from blueberries. Any decent pilot would rather their gunners be both able to shoot enemies, and the ship knowing any decent gunner could easily avoid hitting the ship.

B: This needs done before 1.7, as we'll be reliant on gunners from that point and on indefinirly till assault DS is returned. After which point we'd still want out turrets to not be broken.

C: If CCP has had too much to do since introducing this bug in May, that for each month after that they couldn't spare the moment to comment on a vehicle role breaking bug then I'd say they're done for. That's not a legitimate excuse.

D: Wonder why so few people complain about this bug? Because all the DS gunners have literally QUIT THE FREAKING GAME. They're gone. Wonder why there are no new DS gunners to post about the bug? Becuase they all try it once, comment on mics about how ****ed turrets are and never give a damn to fly in a dropship or try turrets again.

That's why.

Nobody plays this anymore because its broken or they quit. GG CCP

This bug is infuriating whenever I try to gun in the rare dropship.

Obnoxious.

It took over a year though to fix logi dropship PG, so....

Well there is good news for dropships in 1.7,
Some noteworthy items I know people will be really really really really really really really happy with.

However... I have my fingers crossed that they don't get massively messed up like they did during through the entire beta and into uprising.

Well there is good news for dropships in 1.7,
Some noteworthy items I know people will be really really really really really really really happy with.

However... I have my fingers crossed that they don't get massively messed up like they did during through the entire beta and into uprising.

Does it really matter at all when the bugged turrets will render an entire roll useless?

If there isn't some kind of respec to make up for the addition of a massive turret tree, along with the complete gutting and rehauling of vehicles, I don't really care how balance plays out.

I'll see you all at some point in the future.

It's not even like my skills are badly placed, I can work with what I have. It's the principle of the thing.

If there isn't some kind of respec to make up for the addition of a massive turret tree, along with the complete gutting and rehauling of vehicles, I don't really care how balance plays out.

I'll see you all at some point in the future.

It's not even like my skills are badly placed, I can work with what I have. It's the principle of the thing.

Let me guess, DS will now just have a larger SP sink and be less effective.

Let me guess, DS will now just have a larger SP sink and be less effective.

Well the turret tree is massive. It alone should be warrant for a full respec, since this is a complete change to how vehicles operate on the field, and will require much more SP for maximum performance. Keeping in mind that these are changes to core gameplay and skills, not random additions like new weapons, modules, vehicles etc. So, these are things that you would have to be privy to upon initial investment of any SP for any skill, since these can drastically alter your SP allocation.

Too much bad juju.