I think so. You have a limited window when your modules are up. You need to punch as hard as you can in that window if you plan on asualting rather than doing a transport drop. If i drop damage down a bit more then also only take the ADS to level 1...

The best deal I can do you is 5, 596, 500 Skill points, It's not great but she runs, it's round back though. Not one I keep in the showroom. That's my lowest offer mate.

Where did you pull those numbers from?

.. Next week on 'Dropship Dealers', Judge finds a rusty old Viper from the scrapyard and transformers her into a afterburnin' assault airdevil...

Just call me Judge Xzibit.

It'd be nice to see a video on gunning with the missile launcher in an ADS for both the pilot and gunners.

The vehicle DEV blog Module Changes.

I will be stacking 2 complex hardeners. WIth out the skill bonuses, the duration time is 24sec and the recharge is 60sec. By staggering them, I get 48sec on and because one of the modules is recharging while the other is on, the time I'm with out a hardener is cut to 36sec.

With lvl5 in both duration and recharge time, the duration is extended to 30sec on and a 45 sec cool down for each, granting me 1min of resistance with a 15sec cool down in between.\

The ehp values are from the fitting tool, but you can calculate it by the formula:

Total EHP= (Shield base/ 1-Shield resistance) + (Armor base/ 1-Armor resistance)

So if I have base 1548 shield and 960 armor with 60% shield resist and 0% armor resist, you get:

Total EHP = (1548/ 1-.6) + (960/1) = (3,870) + (960) = 4,830

Assuming I get all vehicle SP back plus what i have in reserve... I'll have 11.7 mil to play with... Hey judge, tell me what to spec into with that limit for a python. lol.

This is a good place to start :


Vehicle Command lvl 3
Dropship Command lvl 3
Caldari ADS lvl 1
Assault DS- 1


Turret Operation lvl 1
Small Turret Operation lvl 5
Small Missile Operation lelv 3 at least

Vehicle Upgrades lvl 3
Shield Upgrades- lvl 5
Shield Fitting Optimization about lvl 4
Core Upgrades to lvl 5

THen straight to max the skills to boost your active module run time and recharge. This is a good start. After getting to this base I would make sue you have the PG skills to equip the best shield mods and also up your Missile damage. Avoid the skills to boost amo count (base is 67 i think) and reload times. Those can wait till we have seen the real effects in battle.

Armor is the last thing i'm speccing into. The way I see it, ammo cap/reload are luxury skills, focus will be shields, missiles, and PG/CPU. Then probably resistance, shield recharge, and maybe other turrent types. we'll see.

Turrent.... Judge has a small seizure. Jokes aside, armor reps are passive only now. So can be of se to an class of ship.

IM thinking of having a booster too, but the CPU use effects other modules you woul.d normally fit to an Inki, I have decided to spec both to a high level rather than one to a max level. Gives me flexibility of builds