We have more then enough people who can run assault drop ships. Its the cost that kept them from being spammed.

They have 1 effective counter as of right now, and that is rail tanks. Breach forge guns with dmg mods work, but only for pythons.

I have yet to see a Incubus be taken out of the sky by anything other then a rail tanks, and that is only extremely open maps with redlined that can overlook the entire map.

What level is your forge at? Because I've never had a dropship take one shot from me and stay anywhere near me...and live.

And as far as this "don't use what you can't afford to use" goes. You actually have to be able to use something. Call in a dropship with rails on the field. Feel the glorious power for the entire 3 seconds you're in the air. That's if it even makes off the RDV before it's railed to death.

Look at it in another way: Assault dropships price is FINE, Tanks price is way too low.
Otherwise why would people spam MLT tanks in every single f***** game?

MLT tank + MLT suit = a lot of kills and potentially little to none ISK loss.

MLT tank price GåÆ 250,000 ISK
BSC tank price GåÆ 350,000 ISK
MLT dropship price GåÆ 150,000 ISK
BSC dropship price GåÆ 200,000 ISK
BSC assault dropship price GåÆ 300,000 ISK

of course all the gear/weaponry should receive a massive ISK cost raise...

To be honest most to all mlt tanks are no match for my 680k isk tank and i've taken on more than 1 at a time so really mlt tanks ain't as bad as some say granted still op just not vs an actual tank fit

These changes where post patch, they were from the recent server side hotfix that happened today and yesterday.

Since hardeners were the major thing keeping dropships alive, assault dropships really need their price cut more than ever since it is so much easier to take them out now.

I can't believe I am only getting to this thread now. I have been flying since Chromosome. I remember it all. Dropships have never really had a buff. And you can't really count the ADS as a buff due to the sacrifice of eHP and PG/CPU for maneuverability and a pilot gun. I don't think a lot of the people here making comments have flown or tried to fly an ADS. They take work and skill to keep afloat and forgeguns/swarms with their ridiculous knockback keeps them detained fairly easily. Even with the railgun tank nerf, they still have no drop off. The small railgun turret (which I have seen for myself) has a damage dropoff. Why doesn't the large?

Anyways, to the point: my ADS costs 500k to run with 1 turret and all complex modules. With the armor hardener nerf, FGs are chipping my armor even harder and rail tanks just rip it apart. When I fight forgefunners, the only counter I have to them is pulling a Battlefield Bad Company/3/4 Apache maneuver and spin around them nearly vertically. That tactic in itself it entirely negated by a single swarm or rail tank.

I fail to see you people who claim the ADS should remain as it costs when losing one sends me red. The ADS with its ~300k hull is 80% of the cost. The XT-1 missile turret is 10% and the modules are that last 10&. As a pilot since closed beta I find it hard to scrape in money. I've pretty much been begging the rich for handouts because I can't keep up with the cost. (All these people with too much money and nothing to spend it on need to spend it somewhere, right?). I am completely in favor of reducing the price to ~150k. That would allow us to run into a match with ~300k fits and allow it to be more sustainable (in theory). Plus if ***** pilots tried spamming the ADS me and all the other actual pilots would be having field days.