I have play a bit as a transport pilot yesterday, and here is my first game.
While the game itself is not really interesting and the map is my kryptonite, there are a few things interesting on the dropship itself.

First of all, I was impressed by the blaster turret ; it was hard for my gunners at the begenning, but once they have it in hand, it become effective. I didn't expected a single gunner to obtain six kills in the first test. But I guess that's because ducks are exceptionnals gamers .
The Grimsnes fitting capability is quite awesome now. It's a real pleasure to fly a tanky dropship that can survive WITHOUT afterburner (even if that damn thing is still too precious).

However, transport need some love on the WP side in order to make them more rewarding than logis full of uplinks in militia dropships.
I suggest to add at least these WP bonuses :
- Push the current 10% reward of the transport mechanic to 20% (but don't touch the current mechanic which is perfect, and one of the rare thing that work well in vehicles)
- Give WP to everyone in the dropship when a gunner do a kill assist, let's say 5 WP in normal time and 6 when the defense order is on the dropship.
- 25 WP when people spawn on your mobile CRU

Talking about witches, I have noticed that sometime people, including myself can't appear in the dropship ; the mCRU is not counted as a spawning point while it is present in the dropship and we are only 2 or 3 in it. This is an old bug, but now it is a real problem when your only job is the transport.

Transport is on a very good way now, keep the good job on it !


I will try to release a comparative video on the before/after Incubus, but I need more video sample to do so. So I guess it will be for this week-end.

Sounds great! Just the kind of playstyle we were hoping for with the normal Dropship, additional transport WP definitely on the table, but as I have explained, we can not due due restrictions give WP for mCRU spawns.

I have play a bit as a transport pilot yesterday, and here is my first game.
While the game itself is not really interesting and the map is my kryptonite, there are a few things interesting on the dropship itself.

First of all, I was impressed by the blaster turret ; it was hard for my gunners at the begenning, but once they have it in hand, it become effective. I didn't expected a single gunner to obtain six kills in the first test. But I guess that's because ducks are exceptionnals gamers .
The Grimsnes fitting capability is quite awesome now. It's a real pleasure to fly a tanky dropship that can survive WITHOUT afterburner (even if that damn thing is still too precious).

However, transport need some love on the WP side in order to make them more rewarding than logis full of uplinks in militia dropships.
I suggest to add at least these WP bonuses :
- Push the current 10% reward of the transport mechanic to 20% (but don't touch the current mechanic which is perfect, and one of the rare thing that work well in vehicles)
- Give WP to everyone in the dropship when a gunner do a kill assist, let's say 5 WP in normal time and 6 when the defense order is on the dropship.
- 25 WP when people spawn on your mobile CRU

Talking about witches, I have noticed that sometime people, including myself can't appear in the dropship ; the mCRU is not counted as a spawning point while it is present in the dropship and we are only 2 or 3 in it. This is an old bug, but now it is a real problem when your only job is the transport.

Transport is on a very good way now, keep the good job on it !


I will try to release a comparative video on the before/after Incubus, but I need more video sample to do so. So I guess it will be for this week-end.

The primary issue I see with this is the fact that I can't boot out people from my dropship, even when i hover over a hotspot or point to hack. This basically shuts down my idea as a roving platform

You know people would abuse this to boot blueberries deep into the redline, or into acid pits, etc...

Transporting and Immediate infantry-support cover are the sole reasons why I was enticed to the DS career (....plus the fact that I could manage it with a low death-rate than trying to walk on the ground, when I was a novice).

So I am always happy to see tweaks in the game that further sustain transport activities.
But I'd like to leave room for some progression in Dropships, and so NOT reward players TOO lovingly for simply having a player spawn in her vehicle, or for successfully killing reds from one of her small turrets, or for delivering a loose player who randomly hacks an asset.
Ewan you've given great ideas (and I'd be a fool to turn down gift WP)! But "transport" is already rewarded for most of what I've listed above, and I think it's right to keep those rewards at their current "tight-wad" amounts. At least for the STANDARD-dropship level of player use and SP.
This leaves room to create some sort of "Logistics-like" progression for players.

My original reasons for dumping so much of my SP into DS-related skills was to access the native Logi and add-on Logi devices that allowed my vehcile to do EVEN MORE than just transport and give covering-fire.
....Reward a player TOO lovingly for transporting, and there's little reason to ever help your team beyond harvesting transport points.

(Okay, YAAH, we have transport capability now,... but it's only the start of what some Dropships were capable of doing, back when we had Logistic modules and Logistic vehicles. I'd like to stay a little ambitious, believe in a future expansion or reintroduction of DS roles, and pay-out more WP rewards ONLY when the devs can attach them to some Logi tiers we can climb up to) .

But I still think that to push the transport from 10% to 20% is not going to give to much WP.

Random feature request:
When you enter a transport dropship your ammo is restocked. +10 ammo supply WP per customer.

Makes sense to me.

Who would ever climb into a dropship without knowing the pilot? I'm of the opinion that "eject passenger" buttons should be installed on all vehicles.

I jump into Dropships any time I get the chance, spare me the walking and then I just hotdrop whenever I see a red dot

Have you considered any form of special communication passengers can have with pilots? I'm pretty sure this stuff could only be for Legion, but it's worth considering now, I guess.