I support the idea of lowering ADS costs and I would like collision damage to be changed as well. Judge made an excellent video with some good points about swarm speed and the AB. It was a selective video though about one aspect and in the end we need to ask, do more Pythons die to AV'ers or more AV'ers to Pythons. We can remove the factor of player skill by asking Judge, or anyone playing both roles, this question. I am confident that the pilots are winning these engagements the majority of the time. I hear pilots complain about "almost being killed" by AV all the time. AV never complains about "almost" being killed by pilots.

The issue in my opinion is the difference in TTK between the two. Yes, the AV'er often has the first mover advantage but with a TTK approaching 15 seconds for the Python this means that even after being hit the pilot has 7-8 seconds to engage the AV'er and still leave a window for escape. With a 1-2 second TTK for the AV'er, this means the outcome is always in the pilot's hands, he either wins or escapes every time unless he chooses to overstay. So how do we make it so that the TTK is a little more even without tipping the scales entirely the other direction? How do we factor in the ridiculous regen the Python exhibits which negates all previous actions done by an AV'er in a matter of seconds?

Thankfully this is a confirmed bug, but since it requires a client side patch to fix, it won't get fixed for some time.

Unfortunately many pilots have grown so accustomed to this crutch that they defend it with everything they have. It's honestly just sad to see.

I'm not sure you understood my post. If Player A plays using a Python half the time and using AV half the time, in which does he die more often? In which does he kill more often? If money was on the line and they played against themselves would they choose to be a pilot or an AV'er? We have players that do both, so skill isn't the differentiating factor for them.

The difference in HP is about a single hit from some AV, and other AV the difference doesn't even exist. You're going down in the same amount of hits regardless. Also, you only need a single side gunner to abuse the bug, not two.

As I've stated countless times, peoples beef is with small turrets having obnoxious fitting requirements. It's just that bads have grown so accustomed to having bugged turrets that it's now a staple of their day to day, and they can't imagine life any other way.

It sounds like the removal of stacking ADS turret skills is a bad idea because:

• People dedicate themselves to this. They train with their pilots and gunners every day.
• It's not fair to someone who trained turret skill specifically for this to have their stacking bonuses removed. It should still be better to have turret skill as a gunner than not having any at all.d

Change it if you must, but don't remove it so that people have wasted SP.

I would love to see a speed buff to swarms so they could keep up with the AB speed boosts as well as range that swarms can travel so that ADS cant just fly to roof of map above MCC to hide.

This would force ADS pilots to learn evasive moves instead of just camp the map roof.