another rule. keep an eye on the dropships shields, when its gone, bail out

real men armor tank like I do. Thats the beauty of gallente, they're able to stay fast with armor plates on.

another rule. keep an eye on the dropships shields, when its gone, bail out

Great post.

I kinda raged on the mic to a voice-com-less gunner who I literally had him within spitting distance of a hacker at C and the guy still wouldn't shoot him.

Great gunners mixed with great dropship pilots are a team to behold.

For new pilots, practice with your freebie stuff and the skills will help you even more once you have the in-game skills and better ships.

Lesson one - learn when it's time to bail. :)
Lesson two - learn how to build a fit that can take a hit and get out alive.

Cheers

I am a dedicated dropship pilot, but is becoming a very expensive practice, as my fully maxed out Prometheus is 150,000 ISK each. If I lose one, I have to work hard to compensate for the losses.

My dropship is able to withstand quite a beating, I can take a shot from a prototype forge gun and still survive. I take prototype swarm missiles with no problem. But the only way I end up losing my drop ship is when I'm trying to get kills for my brain dead gunners.

I will often hover very nicely over obvious targets on the ground and tell my gunners on voice chat to take them out, but instead I see the missiles trying to hit some thing on the other side of the map. When they finally realize there is an easy target right under us, I have every AV weapon in the area trained on me, and getting out of those situations is difficult.

I spent millions of skill points into everything associated with piloting, it's a difficult job and I feel I am not rewarded enough.

I am a dedicated dropship pilot, but is becoming a very expensive practice, as my fully maxed out Prometheus is 150,000 ISK each. If I lose one, I have to work hard to compensate for the losses.

My dropship is able to withstand quite a beating, I can take a shot from a prototype forge gun and still survive. I take prototype swarm missiles with no problem. But the only way I end up losing my drop ship is when I'm trying to get kills for my brain dead gunners.

I will often hover very nicely over obvious targets on the ground and tell my gunners on voice chat to take them out, but instead I see the missiles trying to hit some thing on the other side of the map. When they finally realize there is an easy target right under us, I have every AV weapon in the area trained on me, and getting out of those situations is difficult.

I spent millions of skill points into everything associated with piloting, it's a difficult job and I feel I am not rewarded enough.

real men armor tank like I do. Thats the beauty of gallente, they're able to stay fast with armor plates on.

I am a dedicated dropship pilot, but is becoming a very expensive practice, as my fully maxed out Prometheus is 150,000 ISK each. If I lose one, I have to work hard to compensate for the losses.

My dropship is able to withstand quite a beating, I can take a shot from a prototype forge gun and still survive. I take prototype swarm missiles with no problem. But the only way I end up losing my drop ship is when I'm trying to get kills for my brain dead gunners.

I will often hover very nicely over obvious targets on the ground and tell my gunners on voice chat to take them out, but instead I see the missiles trying to hit some thing on the other side of the map. When they finally realize there is an easy target right under us, I have every AV weapon in the area trained on me, and getting out of those situations is difficult.

I spent millions of skill points into everything associated with piloting, it's a difficult job and I feel I am not rewarded enough.

If I find myself on your dropship or anyone elses for that matter i here pledge to honor this manual. But really this should also be read by any pilot out there i sometimes find myself wanting to go certain points of interests and they just don-¦t feel like it. I admit that sometimes i fail to realize there is an enemy exactly where you point it but i-¦m always looking for a the strongest enemy around and b the closest one always trying to make both points.

I spent millions of skill points into everything associated with piloting, it's a difficult job and I feel I am not rewarded enough.

another rule. keep an eye on the dropships shields, when its gone, bail out

Anyone have any new rules they'd like to add or reverse engineer it for a LAV/HAV?

You sir, are what we need more of in any online game.

Don't fit guns on a dropship, always fit rocket launchers. If no one wants to be a gunner on your ship, that might be why. Same applies to LAV and HAVs, btw.