park a dropship of your own on a different tower and kill them.. or better .. swarm launchers do **** to infantry . just go cap the points and get the win. they wont be able to hurt you from up the top of the towers...

For starters, it would require a commitment to teamwork between the two instead of just letting everyone do it. And since there wouldn't be anything in it for the Pilot SP-wise...
And at the very least it gets one more person off the field of play for their side.
Of course, you would also have to be unable to spawn LAVs and Tanks up there too, or you're just trading the problem of one hard to reach turret for another that's an even smaller target.

I do fight back against tower gunners. I take my Forge Gun to them as best I can. But the ability to do this offers too many advantages due to the game's current limitations.
They can be quite difficult to see at all, let alone aim at, due to the bright lights on the tower fronts.
In the overview map they blend almost perfectly with the towers in the top down view, though this is somewhat countered because you can see a constant spray of missiles.
If parked sufficiently back can avoid being marked altogether.
Worst of all, if you're not close enough to the tower they're perched on they are completely invisible, as in do not load to be seen.

"Get your own and knock it down" isn't always viable either since they will generally have plenty of time to shoot you before you can get to them. If you want to fly up and shoot it down, then that requires a pilot and a gunner, two people to their one. And with the current state of communication being so hit or miss, simply communicating what needs done can be impossible.

In regards to there "not being power" when there's no pilot in an aircraft, that's just plain wrong. Today's aircraft have auxiliary power units that enable certain functions of an aircraft to be operated (hydraulics and electricity) WITHOUT the engine running. It doesn't take a pilot to turn on an APU. So, if this technology is available today, what might there be in future aircraft?

Another thing to take into consideration is this: are the weapons even electronically controlled? If not, you wouldn't even need an APU for that in the first place.

I know it's off topic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_power_unit

In regards to there "not being power" when there's no pilot in an aircraft, that's just plain wrong. Today's aircraft have auxiliary power units that enable certain functions of an aircraft to be operated (hydraulics and electricity) WITHOUT the engine running. It doesn't take a pilot to turn on an APU. So, if this technology is available today, what might there be in future aircraft?

Another thing to take into consideration is this: are the weapons even electronically controlled? If not, you wouldn't even need an APU for that in the first place.

I know it's off topic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_power_unit

Its not the infantry/dropships up there I take issue with but when some joker calls a tank up there

I actually made the first thread about getting on top of the mcc week or two ago

Its not the infantry/dropships up there I take issue with but when some joker calls a tank up there

good for you but i still have to understand what you want to say with it. . . is it some kind of hipster thing like "I mauled over getting on top of the mcc before it was cool"?

I do however give you props for pointing that out on the old canyon map, i never actually cared about the mcc on the old map (since i barely fly then)

Yep, forge gun deals with those pesky drops up on the towers.

Just make it 'Titan mode', add turrets on MCC and we're all cool.
Asides from the half-joke (I do want a Titan style game mode seriously though), as much as they are annoying, as long as there are counters (like flying up there or sniping), there's no problem with it.

DEAL WITH THE SITUATION AND ADAPT OR DIE.

never heard that before I should try it

Check out BF2142 'Titan mode'. You'll probably love it, and wonder why Dust can't do it.

Dust's skirmish is very akin to the 'Titan mode' in BF2142.
In 2142, while the ground troops held control of the missile silo that attacked the Titan = Duts't objective which attacks the MCC, you were also able to board the 'Titan' = MCC, and detonate the core directly to bring it down.

Attacking(defending) forces were able to choose whether they wanted to assault the titan to bring it down directly, or held control of the ground to slowly kill the titan, or any combination in between. This created battles all over the field. While assaulting the titan was a direct, fast way to victory, if that was not possible, you were still able to win if you managed the ground-bound missile silos. And vice versa to the defending team.

In my opinion, the 'Titan mode' was one of the most intense and fun game mode in an FPS.

was being sarcastic on the adapt or die

The flight ceiling is well above the tower roof level as well as the MCC level, You can camp from on top of the MCC if you wanted to but if the flight ceiling level is that high I would imagine that this is working as intended.

If there was anything I would alter would be the ability to call in vehicles to the roofs of buildings and the use of Uplinks on the roofs of buildings. If you get up there you should have to come down to get resupplied or just die!

I doubt this will be fixed as technically it isn't an exploit.

however, some sort of ceiling should be added to how high those lil bastards can go up.

It is certainly noobish to fly up there with a viper launcher and get 50 odd kills in a single game.

- cheers

They're basically exploiting the draw distance. If CCP can't improve their draw distance they'll have to restrict the flight ceiling. Simple as that.

Hahahahaha, 50 odd kills? Really? The most I've ever seen one of those nubcakes do is 10-15.
90% of the time the can't even keep anyone from taking the letters right out from under them.
If they weren't invisible due to draw-in they wouldn't even bother going up there because the forge guns would knock them off from across the map.

They're basically exploiting the draw distance. If CCP can't improve their draw distance they'll have to restrict the flight ceiling. Simple as that.

Well this is also of topic to a little but also about the dropships the thing is poeple just fly around in a dropship ramming poeple
who are walking on ground it like a little kamiekaze style so you walk around ore you are snyping out of nowhere boom dropships drops on you easy kill i know its realistic but i could just fly a dropship all the time in battle to get easy kill whats the fun in that

I created this thread a while back and kind of wish I hadn't. When I made this thread I had previously tried to fly a dropship up there to take care of the 'problem' and couldn't get enough altitude to get on top of the tower. Now that I have played more I realize that this isn't a glitch or exploit, just that for some reason, that ship didn't want to go high enough. I regularly fly up there now and have managed to take down entire squads camping up there. I think the addition of the towers is a great way to give your team a safe place to spawn.

If I could delete this thread I would.

No, don't feel regrets. If you figured out an effective counter in game without CCP's help, then the towers are fair game. So far, my effective counter is to snipe the crap out of them.

I have grown fond of just flying up there with a drop ship of my own and ramming it into theirs so it falls off. doesnt kill them but annoys them

the only problem i have is at a certain distance all enemies go invisible.