I can never get the third shot off on ADS because either.
A He jumped way above my elevation with his After burner or
B He flew past my 300m range and since elevation is crap I have to get to high ground and often get distance to place hits making it easy to escape
Solution increase range to 450
75% damage at 451-475
50% 476-500
insanely enormous fall off after that
max range 550
and/or
Increase elevation enough to get off that third shot.
I'd also like to see how needed this is after I see the impact of the DS touch up
Thoughts?

I have stated elsewhere and reaffirm here that large turrets need to be able to look higher than they currently do.

I would not mind is rail were given 400m to start and then let's see where it goes.

I can tell you where it would go... More rail tank spam.

The large-rail is still the best anti-vehicle turret, it can still snipe infantry, it can still pew pew a lot of maps from the redzone... Increasing it's range would be a very stupid move.

More elevation is not required for either large turret, I have no trouble pew pewing dropships out of the sky with both... If a dropship is in range of actually shooting anything on the ground you can hit it, if it isn't you can use a small bump in the ground to hit it...

If a dropship hovers over you, you run & it isn't that hard to find a place to hide on most maps, or to taunt them into flying stupidly low so you can pop them out of the sky.

I can never get the third shot off on ADS because either.
A He jumped way above my elevation with his After burner or
B He flew past my 300m range and since elevation is crap I have to get to high ground and often get distance to place hits making it easy to escape
Solution increase range to 450
75% damage at 451-475
50% 476-500
insanely enormous fall off after that
max range 550
and/or
Increase elevation enough to get off that third shot.
I'd also like to see how needed this is after I see the impact of the DS touch up
Thoughts?

I have stated elsewhere and reaffirm here that large turrets need to be able to look higher than they currently do.

I would not mind is rail were given 400m to start and then let's see where it goes.

I can never get the third shot off on ADS because either.
A He jumped way above my elevation with his After burner or
B He flew past my 300m range and since elevation is crap I have to get to high ground and often get distance to place hits making it easy to escape
Solution increase range to 450
75% damage at 451-475
50% 476-500
insanely enormous fall off after that
max range 550
and/or
Increase elevation enough to get off that third shot.
I'd also like to see how needed this is after I see the impact of the DS touch up
Thoughts?

Honestly, the elevation of both (1) 80GJ Railguns and (2) Large Missile Launchers need to be increased.

Until higher elevation becomes a thing put a small rail on the turret and bring a buddy who isn't utterly stupid.

(1) No
(2) Yes.

Large Missiles are supposed to have the best anti air functionality, it says so in theirs description (or used to at least) so a slightly greater elevation for them wouldn't be unreasonable.

Large Railguns? No. I can get behind a careful range reevaluation, but we don't want to make them The Go-To Turret...again.

The problem with missiles is that they have sucky damage for AA and the missiles are way to inaccurate, and increasing the damage would make them OP for tank v tank or tank v infantry. Now if you make them lock on only AA.... oh boy. .. oh boy...

Im a full time rail tanker and I say no. NO NO NO NO NO. get your ass out the redline. aint tryna have it. **** all that bullshit again got me all kinds a ****** up. (im a rail tanker btw)

Realize this an ads has to survive 3 rounds to make profit dont expect to kill him just because you see him and have av in your hands.