P.S. we need to squad up sometime and swap some manuvering tricks

I am in support of auto hover on DSs.

I am assuming this is kinda asking for maintaining altitude when not holding down the throttle, combined with deceleration when not pushing the stick forward.

it already auto hovers without pressing r2..... dropships naturally maintain their altitude when your level they have a set amount of thrust pointed strait down at all times, its just that we also use this as our primary forward thrust by pointing our nose down.

it doesnt decelerate ill give you that, but thats because it functions like an aircraft in that it keeps and carrys its momentum, to correct you simply have to thurst oposite your momentum like a spacecraft would to slow down.

I haven't been playing all that much lately, but next time I'm on I'll toss you a message and add you to contacts. I like flying formation though it's tough for me to keep up with Pythons as an armored Incubus

a great way to learn to fly dropships is to go play kerbal space program

use the knowledge you gain from manuvering in space to improve your overall understanding of the physics invovled in manuvering in space to control your trajectory when your flying around in a dropship :P

also try building a V-TOL then take it to either minmus/mun or Duna (easyest to hardest) wich have lighter gravity then kerbal and you get closer to in game gravity effects on planet in dust.

if you can sucessfully launch a v-tol to duna, land, and return to kerbin you will instantly become a better dropship pilot.

Hovering was one of the first skills I learned, it just comes naturally to me now.

I can hover quite efficiently in my Myron, but I'm never perfectly stable while flying a python.

it comes with practice :P

i can be perfectly stable in my python with my nose pointed strait down at a forge gunner, its all about canceling out momentum.

your dropship always produces thrust pointed strait down, so just point that trust oposite to your momentum and you can stall out for a few seconds in the oddest positions, it works on every direction except up :P

you shouldnt be in a dead hover for longer then 5 seconds anyways

oh man i've wanted to play kerbal for ever. unfortunately my better PC is down.

how about instead of making the DS easier we focus on making the pilot suit effective.

yah im lucky enough that i can build a decent working computer out of random parts :P

what kind of hardware do you have to work with? becuase im only running an 8 year old dual core motherboard with 8 gigs or ram , an old $100 graphics card i got on clearance and a SSD. ive tweeked it all a little bit but its all pretty old hardware thats fairly cheap nowadays.

i can generally rebuild computers from whatever old parts people have laying around for about 300-400 bucks worth of new parts and they end up compairable in power to the 900-1200 dollar machines you can buy off the shelf.

with a little caution and some create use of google you can rebuild nearly any computer for very little cost and get quite alot of performance out of it.

half the parts in my amchine were traded for my tech servaces so i cheated :P my SSD and my ram were all traded parts so my computer cost me about 120 bucks since i used old scrap computers to fill everything but the graphics card (wich is the part thats hardest to get as scrap)

Oh geez.

I forgot to mention about a possible "hover mode" instead of just changing controls.

I don't want to completely change the dropships to the warhawk dropships if it wasn't a good idea, but having some sort of mode that completely leveled out your dropship and stablized thing when you got close to the ground or needing to move quickly and manuverably through small tight gaps.

This would be similar to the hover/flight mode of the warhawks themselves.

i had a dell xps 8100 but the motherboard fried. i kinda suspect it was from this one build in EVE the carbon engine was rumored to be frying machines and mine crashed around this time. i should really look into what you said , at the time around 2011 it was around $350 to fix but that was with labor. it was some kinda big deal to order that kinda motherboard back then. i keep coming back to dust because i'm hooked on the current flight but would rather be playing PC more especially planetside, kebal and world war II online.