Shots to kill python with IAFG: 3

Shots to kill Gunnlogi with IAFG: 3

ADS are not too squishy. They are harder to terminate than tanks are by being just as tough and moch faster and more maneuverable.

ADS need a resilience buff like the HMG needs to have its optimal changed to 200m.

The sky has no cover and it takes almost 5-6 shots from IAF to kill my 5300 shield with hardener gunnlogi, and that is if I dont 2 shot him with my missiles first.

You can go from "Hover" to "out of range" in less time than it takes to fire an assault forge with one module. Don't feed me that "Sky has no cover" crap.

Shots to kill python with IAFG: 3

Shots to kill Gunnlogi with IAFG: 3

ADS are not too squishy. They are harder to terminate than tanks are by being just as tough and moch faster and more maneuverable.

ADS need a resilience buff like the HMG needs to have its optimal changed to 200m.

This is over exaggerated.

First shot comes when hovering. During the time it takes to assess the situation and activate the afterburner and begin to retreat, you've probably moved all of 20m and are about to take the second shot. The forge has a range of 400m and the Python has a max speed of 125m/s (and don't forget acceleration time from hovering). It takes a FULL SPEED Python 3.2sec to out range a forge shot, plenty of time for another shot.

The only advantage an ADS has is maneuverability and being a difficult target at longer ranges, but that's against the forgers aim and not game mechanics.

Forge has 300m unless something changed in the last couple of months.
As far as the whole 'assess the situation' thing? That shouldn't take more than a second to do. You ought to be well on your way by the second shot - if you're not you're not paying attention or flying defensively.

Salutations, Gabriella.

There are a lot of DS players I studied up and followed when I was trying to un-puzzle this floating horse we call a Dropship---but there is only a short list of DS players I consider ACTUALLY SKILLED Dropship players (and long before anything such a type as ADS was introduced)--Gabriella you're one of the names on that list, and your Dropship ability is miles high (um... to a level some of us vets only boast and THINK we've acheived). "You're money's no good at this bar"

And you're point of view is right on the money about Hotfix Charlie.
Much as I hate for Dropships to return to becoming the hog of forum discussions (...what, again??), we do need to keep a player path open where people who choose to dabble in Dropships can see how vulnerable they are, and have a reason to skill up SOMEWAY that makes further use valuable to them.

Note, I am NOT quite ready to agree that the STANDARD DS needs improving. There's an argument to be made that WEAKNESS and LIMITATION is a wake-up message for the player to skill better modules for it, or graduate up into the better variants of the vehicle (the same argument made for limiting Public Matches to encourage migration into FW stuff).

I would prefer the STANDARD model stay disturbingly limited and squishy, as an obvious doorway towards immediately better variants (not just an ADS, but noticeably mid-PG/CPU variations in the transport models, leading up to Logi- types)

But if the PG/CPU differences between our models aren't widened, we won't perceive there are ANY true variants at all (besides nose-gun and non-nose)... In THIS situation, yes Gabriella, I reluctantly agree with your interest that STANDARD dropship model be improved a bit.