CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.04.22 19:42:00 -
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Ku Shala wrote:dont quote me on this but I believe its to give passengers fair time to bail since transport ships can have 6 passengers plus a pilot. instapop would be wp jackpot. dropships can be bounced and hit from alot more angles than a lav or hav.also remember tanks lavs and drop ships use to burn to death if you didnt have a decent repair mod.
You're a voice of sanity, Ku. 
It's probably the longest running Urban Myth that Dropships don't explode in midair from enemy fire.
They DO explode in midair if hit appropriately. "Appropriately" means (from what I have been able to witness firsthand):
--an ADDITIONAL shot from a Rail installation or Main Rail Turret, after the DS has reached burning/smoking animation
--an ADDITIONAL shot from an LP-skilled Forge carrier, after the DS has gone into "burn" animation.
--a mishap interception with a Ship-class Cannon round (the type of missile that is only fired from the MCC belly-turret or one of the Null Cannon nozzles) .
The little beehive fireworks from Swarms will never trigger it----it's the one-shot punch that does it.
 Because we TEND to overheat our Railgun Turrets before we can successfully "give em one last pulse with my name on it"GǪ
 Because worried DS operators TEND to ditch-n-abandon their vehicle on a roof before you can finish shooting (thus "locking" the vehicle into a weird burn-animation that has to blow out on its own)...
Because it's not too frequent that DS drivers linger in the path of the MCC-missiles (after the first time it happens to us, we learn fast)GǪ.
Because Large Rail Turrets have been "trimmed" by the Devs to make it really hard to hose a DS within the Railgun's limited RoFGǪ.
GǪ.you just don't witness the midair-pops of a DS too often. But that's all on the players, not on this "special privilege" that the DS-Urban Legend keeps foisting on the community.
I used to turret-gun for HAVs and Installations quite a bit in the past, so I've seen the "midairs". Most of you just won't notice them---you're busy, and there's just too much other stuff going on around you to waste watching dropships all day. LOL!
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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