CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.19 04:09:00 -
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 You are becoming very clever, Private. Most players in Dust (GǪmost? , I don't know for sure) do not get into strategic thinking like that. Good for you!
As I understand it, bonuses you get for skills you build toward you vehicle, can only benefit your vehicle ONCE. You are the owner/operator of the Dropship (or Lav, etc), so you bring bonuses to it once, regardless of if you change seats, or even stand outside the dropship immediately after activating a module.
I've switched seats after activating hardeners, and been blinded by my own hardener glow while at the turrets. You can't turn the glow off until you swap back into the driver's spot. I've stepped off my DS, even in midair, while the module was activated, and watched my "mod-glowing" vehicle "glow on" without me in it.
If I skill my small turrets to a new level, I can get on my own turrets and enjoy that bonus (faster rotation, increased default ammo, quicker reload), but it's the same "ONCE" benefit.
Someone else can hop in your Dropship and temporarily bring his/her own turret bonuses to your vehicle as you drive it, and that's the only way your vehicle can benefit TWICE. Even if he has been skilling in DS longer than you, and has high module-active duration bonuses, or cooldown-cycle bonuses, his bonus skills will NOT stack onto your driver bonuses.
Same with "speed" related bonuses. He may have skilled his clone brain to completely counteract the speed penalty of having heavy armour plates on a vehicle. But climbing into YOUR vehicle won't suddenly make your DS move faster. Riding in a passenger seat won't add his skills to your bonus---his added bonus will only apply to the turret he operates. (So your Python chin turret won't benefit from having him onboard. The chin turret only benefits from the operator's bonuses--and benefits ONCE).
Any holes in my observations, will have to be filled by an ADS player. I don't know the full list of assault bonuses that you get to skill into.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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