DROPSHIPS

Lol at the people saying the ADS is made of glass. Let's ignore that you're able to fit a Complex 120mm Plate, Complex Light Armor Rep, Afterburner, and proto turret of your choice on any Incubus and have more eHP than a tank.

For the record, I think the combination ADS RoF nerf along with the nerf to the base RoF of the Small Rail is probably going to kill much of the incentive to use the Incubus as an anti-vehicle platform. Though I think the direction of the nerf is a positive one as it (and the eHP buff for Myron/Grimsnes) addresses the huge disparity between STD Dropships and ADS Dropships. We'll need to see how effective the Incubus is as an AV platform going into Delta before coming to any conclusions but I'm willing to bet that the days where an Incubus swoops in and takes out a Tank before it has enough time to find cover are probably over. I'd imagine that Skill Stacking is probably the real reason we're seeing the nerf as dramatic as it is as a stacked Rail Incubus was sort of absurd. And now there's something you actually sacrifice for going into ADS rather than the ADS being an almost objectively better choice given the extra mobility and not having to rely on gunners for kills. I can't deny however that by making the RoF 3% instead of 10% you've removed a hell of a lot of the reason people actually skill into the individual ADS skills instead of just leaving it with having unlocking the ability to use them. It may be prudent to add a secondary bonus (not ammo related) down the line to re-incentivize dumping points into them

I'm actually more worried about the Python pilots in this scenario as the 15% (at max) RoF to Missiles doesn't seem justified compared to how much more fragile they are compared to the Incubus. I hope that we'll be tracking the effect of these changes closely as even pre-Delta I thought the Python's usefulness compared to the Incubus was dubious given the significant hit in tank one takes as a result.

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Damage Profile stuff~

Probably means i'll be skilling into Shield Upgrades and Complex Shield Extenders to stick in the highs for my Gal. Heavy as having extra shields is going to be pretty important in HMG battles. May use some of my SP to max out HMG Proficiency while I'm at it.

nope
no, not right now, but 100% on the table
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What's that with max Core Grid skills?

And it still is a problem, exactly as you describe. The mCRU is not an uplink and has none of the programmable attributes uplinks have. It was a shortcut hackjob back then and the only remedy we have is the transport bonus WP. Is that WP system salvageable in your opinion, if we play with those parameters, distance traveled, duration, etc?

What makes you state that this is done on a whim, I have done my best to explain in detail and facts why we believe these changes are necessary?

Now it's, "it shouldn't be 3%, it should be 5% or even 7%". That 7% proposal never came from the pilots during the multiple Delta threads and discussions. Pretty sure, if the Delta proposal had been 5%, the ADS community would say it should be 7% or 9%. We were waiting for counter proposals and they never came, and I understand why, but that's siege mentality, that we as a community could do without.

Simply, the ADS community as a whole, refused completely to take part in the feedback discussions. No give and take.

I would much rather want veteran players come forward and admit that some things need balancing, and that they try to influence the smartest and best ways to do so instead of defending the status quo, tooth and nail.

Someone said, let's see how Delta goes, we will look at the numbers, you collect your feedback and let us know, a single ROF change can be done during any TQ downtime, any workday.

So how are you ADS pilots going to use the 15% savings on CPU/PG for small turrets?