Easily fixable by making it so dead teammate can't talk over comms.

I am totally for the ideas behind this post and some of the replys. However, some of what's been said here is just rubbish.
I'll summarise like this.

For starters, anything that works as a tactic is valid. If something is being used that is not supposed to be used, it's not balanced and of course it'll get abused. Look at real life choppers. They aren't used in battle to squish people. They don't run you over as a battle tactic.
Why? Many reasons.
For starters, killing a single soldier on the battlefield won't help anyone. Battles aren't about K/D. Battles are about objectives and the final outcome (usually leading to the next battle). Choppers are so busy carrying out objectives that they just don't have the time to deal with infantry work.
Now back to the game. Why is squishing a good tactic? Because it works.
Why does it work? Have you ever tried squishing someone with a real chopper? It's amazingly stupid. It would either be so slow (as to avoid self damage) that anyone with half a brain would actually move out of the way. Or it would be so destructive to the chopper that it wouldn't be able to take off again. I'm guessing the crew would even be tossed out of the vehicle upon impact.

So no. Dropship squishings don't need to be nerfed. They need to be balanced. A pilot needs to understand that hitting the ground fast has grave consequences.

Those are my 2 cents.

Some of you have gotten why I have done this post and others did not. If you actually spend the time to read my two previous posts I am attempting to NOT get stuffed nurfed. Using remote explosives as a pinch grenade is fine but I have seen people only use it because it is an easy kill. If this keeps up people will complain about it. The more people that complain about it will equal Nurf. I do not want to see the damage or the blast radius get nurfed because it was overused for easy kills.

As for Dropships, yes landing on someone in this game is easy to do and I have done it myself. But i also do not go around looking for people to squish. Either i do it when i am taking off, trying to sweep people off of a tower, or trying to get rid of a pesky guy on a tower shooting at me while i wait for people to gun for me. People getting Dropships and squishing people all the time will result in the crushing damage being nurfed. In the new Communications Map I see the drop ship being used like it should be as air support. Annoying as all hell when the Dropship is on the other team but ehh shoot it down... or try , and/or get your own. They still squish people but not very often.

no whining here as i can see you do not understand. things work but when people over use things because it makes it easy to win and generally pisses off the other people will get things nurfed. not whining at all just warning. if you like the RE and the Dropship squishing you with either agree that they are being overused and you do not want them nurfed, or you will say i am an idiot for warning you before the flood. As for the people that hate them either they will say they need to be nurfed or taken out because they are too powerful or if they were toned down a bit they really work well in the game.

All in all I think they work well, add in Friendly Fire and a Penalty though either ISK and or SP for killing your own people and that will make them more strategic.

Well Geirskoegul lets agree to disagree, yes I have found counters and i know adding friendly fire damage to the game will stop people from just throwing RE's willy nilly. I also know if they increase the Draw Distance for Dropships this will also keep people from just popping out of no where and squishing you. As for the penalty thing, yes I do get this is a game that supports a "I will do what I want when I want" mentality and I like that. Maybe when they add corporations into the game "player ones not the default ones" the people in charge of it will get an option to penalize members for killing people on their side as it hurts their bottom line. Just saying this is all Knee-Jerk reactions is not right. Yes I have played other games and while CCP owns this game they are partnered with SOE to bring you this game.

I get what you are saying and I understand and I am glad to know you trust CCP enough to see the next few squares ahead to get a broader picture of what is going on. I really do understand what you are saying and where you are coming from. I respect your opinion on the game as a whole and I hope you respect mine, because without respect I will just say, (to quote Adam Savage) "I reject your reality and substitute my own."

Squishing always exposes drop ships to alot of fire So I have viewed it as a valid risk reward trade off.

the tower thing is getting ludcirous though. Either they need to adjust the flight cieling of the drop ships, increase the inacuracy of launchers at extreme long range, or just limit there range, also with the safe unsafe zones they could use that to imply a flight cieling for zones.

Moral of the story is theres lots of mechanics to end tower sniping and the game was a lot more fun and balanced with out it.

Working closely with SOE is not the same as partnered. One of the reasons it became PS3 exclusive is that MSFT was unwilling to let CCP do things their way.

They have a business contract with them so that CCP has the use of the PS3 as a medium to get their game out, while they control the game they do not control the PS3 ie a partnership over rights. Also while CCP can control what they sell on the market, SOE gets a profit off of them using it. Now is it a 50/50 contract, no. CCP reserves the creative rights to Dust 514 while SOE reserves the rights of their programming. If you really want to get technical, Unreal owns the game seeing as they are using their engine to run it. If Unreal felt they were not getting the contract fulfilled with them they could kill Dust in two seconds.

They are contractual partners, Sony has giving Unreal the codes for the PS3 to adjust their engine to be usable on the PS3 and Unreal has allowed CCP to use their PS3 version of the Unreal Engine to make Dust. Sony has allowed CCP to use the PS3 as a platform and though contracts that both companies feel benefits both of them, Dust is a reality. All people that are working with CCP to make Dust are partners though contracts.

Now as to how much creative licence is given SOE in Dust, I do not know and i know "unless you have read the contract" do not know either. They may have control over parts or none at all. Yes EVE is a big success but so is WoW. OMG OMG Tabbie said WoW. EVE is for the more sophisticated and older player were as WoW is geared to the Younger crowd. Where Dust sits is to be determined at the moment.

Geirskoegul, were you on a debate team in High School/Grammar School/Collage because you sure can debate a point.
And if you are still in HS/GS/Collage then you should be. You would be good.