I have literally NO idea why, but apparently, (not sure exactly when) CCP changed the Dropship collision damage to make them even more sensitive to landing and collisions with objects. My only question is why the hell they would do such a thing, when just a few months before they had re-adjusted it to where it actually made sense and worked. Now, if I'm landing, I have to literally be as careful as possible, because if I go 3 mph faster than a near stand-still landing, I'll loose more than half of my shield.

Before, the bottom of your dropship was considered the "tough" side of it, since it needs to make quick landings and take-offs to ferry troops in distress or land to drop uplinks. I used to only loose around 200-500 shield HP when doing a "quick" landing, but that has since quadrupled since this change to collision damage.

And this isn't the worst part; now users are taking ramming as a serious tactic, since these dropships have become that much more sensitive to collisions. I have seen literally 4 pilots in 3 sessions all try to just ram my dropship in an incubus instead of shoot at it. Being a veteran pilot, these kids are seriously ruining the actual intention of what an Assault dropship is made to do, and they take advantage of their armor buff as a buffer to survive the collision (even though no incubus survived running into me).

CCP, what the hell were you thinking when you yet again changed the collision damage for dropships? I assumed you learned from your lesson when you tortured us pilots for over an entire year, making us pay 1.5 million ISK for every single glass-cage dropship you gave us, but now you decide to make them fragile yet again, without warranting a reason for doing so.