I'd rather just have LLAV's deploy a big nanohive like rep bubble around them, have it nerf movement while active. They'd get to keep their regular turret too.

Let's see:

• You say that some things ingame can't do all of its functions alone. That is false. Your example, DS's is made as a transport vehicle; it's purpose is not to slay everything it sees. The small turrets are for protection, most noteably infantry when you're dropping people off, not for just shooting people. You can do that, but that's not optimally using the vehicle. Yes, you do need gunners to get a solid amount of WP's, but that's due to DS's not being balanced to give it enough WP's.


• Remote reps on vehicles were fine, I used them all the time. The ones that sucked were infantry reps, and after speaking to people, I've concluded that a great solution would be to have a bubble rep, or some sort of fire and forget auto lock.


• I laugh when you suggest that LDS's as a repping platform, when that is just silly. Those videos that had them? Yea, don't look at that as a good idea. Remember, this is coming from CCP. Good fits and especially good tactics does not come out of them. Also, That breaks the concept of the Logistics triangle, which basically means if all logistics vehicles can do all logistic functions equally, the one that preforms all the best will be used, and for the most part will be only used. That is not balanced.


• Having a ADS as a repping platform makes even less sense as a DS or LDS being a repping platform.

Hey, thanks for the feedback!

1. Maybe. As you said though in their current form the mechanics in place do not support dedicated transport vehicles on the field so in their current state they're a bit role-less. I fondly remember the days in which having a good Dropship/gunner combination out on the field was the equivalent of calling down the hammer of thor on the enemy team though. Small turrets are there for kills, afterburners are there for protection. No one sticks around when the Forge starts charging.

2. Remote reps on vehicles were NOT fine. Literally the definition of a clunky mechanic channeling its EVE-isms vs. finding a way to make it work in a FPS environment. The delay needed for a target to lock was unncessary, the means of locking on to a target was unwieldy in a moving vehicle, and the moment you lost your lock you had to shut down the module, wait for the thing to cooldown, and then re-lock whenever they became available again. They were manageable under very specific conditions and with a lot of communication but were far from an intuitive or elegant solution.

3. Im not looking at any videos to form my ideas. I use my experience as an ADS pilot that can easily hover above enemy vehicles in order to take them out, there's no reason I couldn't also use this system in order to instatarget a friendly vehicle using the same mechanics. If given enough range they could be fine logistics platforms.

4. It's not about what makes the most amount of sense in any situation, its about giving players the OPTION to play the game in the way they see fit. If a repair/tool esque type turret was added to the game then the ADS could be a fast flying combined logistics and attack platform. It's a new remix to an old song.