Varjac Theobroma Montenegro wrote:Ghosts Chance wrote:the number one cause of ADS loss is using them for things they were never intended.
aka your not the assault suit of the sky, the ADS is for clearing out the high ground and then conquering it for yourself, if you own the high ground then theres no more need to be in the air... grab a RR or LR and enjoy your acomplishment and dont forget your uplinks.
if you get kicked off the high ground by a dropship squad or another ADS, then you can always pull your ship out again.
do this and you will lose 90% less dropships and suddenly its amazingly profitable. also you will enjoy lots of solo orbitals and the occasional solo 2 orbital game
Fair point. Maybe this is how I will treat mine. I do run transport with it occasionally. I just hate running Myron transport and half the time sitting in the air doing little gaining little wp. The ADS makes it possible to cover my troops.
my methods are simple, use a virper at the very start to claim the high ground, i deploy 4-6 strategic uplinks in my favorite high ground positions, sometimes with redundancy most of the time without. its very different to uplinks spam in that a single orbital is unlikly to take out more then 1 of my uplinks. :P
then after i claim the high ground if there was no resistance i recall the viper and start killing off the poor souls on the ground with my RR or LR neither of wich i have skilled particularly high, if at any point someone clears out any of my uplink spots i replace them with either a new viper or the python if they have uplinked it to high hell and are using the high ground.
really i only use the python for clearing out roof dweelers, the moment i face any real resistance i recall it to continue being a roof dweller myself.
i know this seems like a very different idea of what pythons are used for, but honestly as a new pilot this is the best way to not go bankrupt, if your good at providing uplinks that people WANT to spawn on then your going to have alot of 4000+WP games all of a sudden, and the rooftop advantage with a long range rifle and some ammo for your fellow roof dwellers gets you a decent amount of kills and an even greater number of assists (i love assists, more orbitals for teh team or squad as a whole that way wich is why the LR is awesome for this)
expecting to pull out a python and stay in the air all game is kinda pushing ti and evcen the best of us dropship pilots cant do that reliably so you new guys are nessesarily having a hard time trying to copy the kind of insane manuvers nessesary to say, face off against 2 forge gunners and kill them without any hardeners. this gives you a way to use the python and not break the bank while adding tremendous utility and help to your team.
since i started doing this (i call it Arial logistics) i have made profits hand over fist and even against some of the most pubstompy teams it gives your blues a reasonable foothold to actually fight back instead of ending up redlined.
arial logistics wins games, as a dropship pilot your job is to control that high ground and manage the logistics of the high ground. this is what i get paid to do in PC.