CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.26 20:37:00 -
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Sinboto Simmons wrote:I may have some military training but at no point did I learn to fly a bloody helicopter, in the words of M.J.Caboose: "Why are there six pedals if there are only four directions!"
Up, down, left, right. Why's something with thrusters fly like a drunk blackhawk?
Greetings, Sinboto .
I won't spend much time extrapolating on this thing called the Dropship---the subject has been beaten like old laundry all over the Forums since the Beta phase of the game. The players today have two great luxuries that previous players never had:
1- They have the MLT version dropship (it tries to help lighten your workload by "auto-straighening" the vehicle each time after you release your controller---that's the ONLY assistance it gives you).
2- They have the ADS vehicle, which gives a terrific bonus of quick responsive propulsion, that leaves standard dropships in the dust, and easily pursues Transport-dropships if they try to flee.
... The combination of these two leads a lot of players to lampoon you and suggest that you're inadequate as a dropship student.
RUBBUSHGǪdon't let anyone convince you that dropships are easy to operate. They were always meant to be a less-important backstage player in the game, but got romantaized way too much by us (yep, me too) aerial dreamers.
If you only want to flit around quickly and attack ground targets, it's the least-demanding role of dropships--and the MLT and ADS craft will soon have you feeling you're tall---as many posters in this thread reveal in their "it's quite easy when you get used to it!" comments.
If you want to transport personnel and retrieve them, and coordinate with requests from your squad leader---it takes fine-touch knowhow, quick-reverse skills in tight spaces, and requires a TON of anti-colision and anti over-reaction when under fire, to keep a squad of players confident they can rely on you, and you won't bonk and cost them their clone lives.
 ADS is fun and cool, because you're solo and you can always "scram your copter out at the first sign of attack".
 "TRANSPORT" is the high-workload thing that prevents any Vet from ever telling you "a dropship is easy to fly once you know how".
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
423
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Posted - 2015.02.26 21:49:00 -
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True Adamance wrote:CELESTA AUNGM wrote: Dropship Pilots are scrubs Yup..... yup...... yes they are. It's not me its you guys Bloody Dropships won't stop exploding when I try to fly them.
Okay, True Adamance, you cracked me up!
It IS awful how a member can be "framed" like that. I want my Gallente legal staff to have a look at the recording of my statement.
And don't forget, we Gallente have the Black Eagles to help make "such unconfirmed documents" mysteriously disappear!
Thanks, True!
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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