DUST Search - Dropships air dropping! It makes perfect sense!

Asher Night wrote:

Everytime I hear someone say "It's war, kill them however" I just want to grab them by the throat and smack the crap out of them then force them to read the geneva convention. Not everything goes in war. You can't intentionally set someone on fire in war. You can not intentionally use a rocket launcher on soft targets (people) in war. If anything went in war, why not just drop a nuke and be done with it? I'm sure they have them for $10 a pop 21,000 from now. Anyone that says anything goes in war has no sense of honor, has never read the geneva convention, and clearly isn't in the military yet they think they know the rules of war. Even in undeclared war there are rules that can not be broken.

They are called dropships because they move into action, unload troops, do some light fighting, and then leave. Not because they drop on you. What a cute, childish thing to say. I feel like I just read a transcript from "Kids say the darndest things".

More importantly, IT'S A VIDEO GAME. This is not war. You aren't a hero. You are just some one, probably not even 18, who wants to play a beta rather than test it and clearly doesn't understand this balance issue that breaks the immersion process of this online world. Rather than understamd the lack of sportsmanship you'd rather have the most ridiculous methods of killing available because it satisfies you.

I promise if you had gun game you wouldn't use a drop ship on people. CCP knows there are a lot of scrubs online that can't compete with talented players. That's why there are so many one hit kill weapons in this game. Scrubs are the majority. Scrubs are where the money is at. Make them have fun and they will buy the add ons. No talent required.


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Bzeer MG GROUP 41	Posted - 2012.07.15 07:10:00 - [1] - Quote I admit to squishing lots of poeple in my day, but the kill-curve on the tatic has seriouslly gone down due to player awareness. I'm sure it will be even less a useful tatic when their are enemy fighters in the sky, and a pilot has to reserve his effective hitpoints for staying in the air. I will still drop my ship on people in order to keep them from killing me, if they are out in the open, especially if I have no gunners on board (because what other defense do I have when I'm a pilot providing a mobile spawn point.) But, I don't use it as frequently in combat as I did early on in this build. (It doesn't encourage me to persist as a dropship pilot whenI don't get an XP bonus when people spawn in my vehicle, when I know the mobil droplink people on the ground get that bonus, but if a team is communicating, and using my services, I'm willing to do it, but I'll usually score less xp and isk by dedicating myself to that function than when I'm on the ground.) I think I used it frequently early in this build because there were free versions of it, and because it was so much more effective than running people over with a lav... more than half the time, they just bounce off. That glitch happening in a dropship is a lot more rare.
Bzeer MG GROUP 41	Posted - 2012.07.15 07:31:00 - [2] - Quote Asher Night wrote: Everytime I hear someone say "It's war, kill them however" I just want to grab them by the throat and smack the crap out of them then force them to read the geneva convention. Not everything goes in war. You can't intentionally set someone on fire in war. You can not intentionally use a rocket launcher on soft targets (people) in war. If anything went in war, why not just drop a nuke and be done with it? I'm sure they have them for $10 a pop 21,000 from now. Anyone that says anything goes in war has no sense of honor, has never read the geneva convention, and clearly isn't in the military yet they think they know the rules of war. Even in undeclared war there are rules that can not be broken. They are called dropships because they move into action, unload troops, do some light fighting, and then leave. Not because they drop on you. What a cute, childish thing to say. I feel like I just read a transcript from "Kids say the darndest things". More importantly, IT'S A VIDEO GAME. This is not war. You aren't a hero. You are just some one, probably not even 18, who wants to play a beta rather than test it and clearly doesn't understand this balance issue that breaks the immersion process of this online world. Rather than understamd the lack of sportsmanship you'd rather have the most ridiculous methods of killing available because it satisfies you. I promise if you had gun game you wouldn't use a drop ship on people. CCP knows there are a lot of scrubs online that can't compete with talented players. That's why there are so many one hit kill weapons in this game. Scrubs are the majority. Scrubs are where the money is at. Make them have fun and they will buy the add ons. No talent required. After reading this post, I'm not sure what to think... Being an EVE player for years, I think I need to say, if you got a problem with dropships landing on you, you'll have a bigger problem when your team's space gun is disarmed, (Or worse, the company that hired you, doesn't even have one on the ground) and some other team has orbital bombardment support from an EVE alliance... In EVE, ccp provides the "potential for balance" but it's definitely not gauranteed. You might be the only dude on the ground, and you might only have a militia suit, if someone other team has the ability to call in an orbital strike on you, and even if it costs them more to call in that strike than you would have to spend for a gazilion lifetimes in a milita suit... it's likely someone would do it just for lols, because you're right, it's not war, but you're wrong, it's not a game, it's EVE.