Anyone who flies straight up (with or without afterburners) is just asking to be downed by a forge gunner (yes I am a forge gunner and a pilot among other things.) Before you go nerfing the already most skilled part of the game how about fixing the swarm launcher, currently nothing can save you from invisible and multishot swarms (yes it's glitched to hell.)

Other than that, what's the problem with going to the ceiling, you have problems with people moving behind cover when you shoot at them as well... Fact is you can't see or fire at jack **** from more than 100 meters away (at best) with a drop ship and well as overpowered as the Python missile bonus is against infantry they are so damn squishy against a railBus that it's your own fault that someone has dodged all those ground troops fire, learn to bring a friggin pilot with you, the more **** you got the more of an advantage you have in the match!

Doing so will most likely incline to the new FOTM
Pythons with XT1s spamming all across they sky!

I am getting tired on getting into matches where the enemy teams (Mostly 6 man scrub squads) use it as an easy way to get OBs since that thing can take down infantry to vehicles to turret installations (and yes, I read the upcomming patches for Charlie and I know the changes to the OB system and adding more eHP to turret installations)

What I am trying to prevent is a next FOTM.
If the price reduction comes into play I can assure you that the ADS will be spammed. And they will be more horrible than the tank spam back in 1.7

Currently taking one out is a challenge on its own. And I have been in countless matches where me and 3 or 4 other AV guys have been trying to take one down be couldn't. All thanks to the Afterburner module.

As soon as the ADS feels one shot it kicks in its afterburners and camps in the flight ceiling for until it's shields (or armor) is back up and comes back down. During the wait for their HP to come back, the Afterburner module has already cooled down and is ready for use very quick. So as soon as the ADS is threatened again it kicks again with its afterburners and making a few twists in the airto dodge the uncomming Forge rounds.

My only problem here is that they have an easy and fast get away to complete safety.
A cool down of 10 seconds for the 3 afterburner modules. That is a very fast cool down. You can go easily to the flight ceiling. And as you are coming back down from it, you already have your fast get-a-away to the flight ceiling again.

This can be prevented by increasing cooldown time with these afterburners. Make them 50 secs - 1 minute cool down.

This game should reward the skilled. Not the coward. While yes you may know how to fly and shoot with the ADS, dodging AV fire should be another skill. Not the cowardly tactic of activating your afterburner and camp on the ceiling.

Another counter to this tactic would be lowering the flight ceiling to MCC height. Or a little higher. You can keep your Afterburner cooldown, but the only place you'll have to hide now is outside of the map or inside your redline.

I am just trying to prevent the next FOTM from happening. And this one looks very nasty. And if(when) it happens. People are going to call for a ADS nerf. Which will anger old and dedicated ADS pilots (like myself)