Name one that is a pilot error. It's the general question of "are drop ships under-powered" 220k ISK says it all? 220k ISK says 220K ISK, I don't know what you're tripping on. Please just get out of my thread? Pretty plz? We don't take kindly to druggies.

The drop ships are seriously the weakest thing in the game right now and have so many bugs I don't even know where to begin.

1: Orbital Strikes can target a dropship inside the main spawn.
This is very annoying. As if getting lit up by swarms isn't enough, I go to my spawn, land, get out, start repairing with my buddies, orbital strike comes down and hits us IN OUR MAIN SPAWN. In the red zone. Not sure if stupid, or a glitch.

2: Spawning in a dropship, get in it, only to have it explode for absolutely no reason. Makes no sense. Happens at the start of the game.


3: Spawning in a dropship, get in it, take off, fly for about 3 seconds and expode for no reason. Happens to me pretty much every game now. Happens at the start of the game.

4: Repair tool hurting the drop ship instead of repairing it, and then punish me -75 points per repair. Seriously, destroy my dropship, and punish me? Repair tool is for repairing, not damaging.

5: Gunners able to shoot the side of my drop ship and tilt me 90 degrees while they jump out to safety. By far the most annoying thing about drop ships. Gunner shoots one rocket tilted all the way to the side of the ship, and it hits the dropship, plummeting me into the earth.

6: Swarm missiles vs. dropships are unbalanced. For higher level dropships with upgrades this doesn't matter as much. But one volley of missiles and a militia ship is dead. I think they should be a tad stronger or the militia modules for shield reducted damage should be higher in exchange for a higher use of CPU/GPU.

7: Punishing me for my ship being destroyed. This is also stupid. I never get any negative points when I destroy my LAV.

8: taking 95% damage from the worlds softest landing is the stupidest thing I've seen yet. Okay, maybe it's not 95% but when I watched the trailer, that guy landed the drop ship harder then I do and he didn't take damage. The only way to prevent this is to find a straight away and land it like a plane, which often isn't possible to find and increases the chance of running into something during the slide.

9: There is no reward for drop ship pilots. +35 or whatever you get per assist? Yeah, at the end of the game piloting my drop ship around, picking up and dropping off troops at my own risk, often taking heavy damage from everyone and their mother, and I only get 782 SP. I think when someone spawns on you you should get +25. And if someone drops out and takes an objective or installation say within, a minute, you should get the same amount of points that he does.

EDIT: Took out the insult to CCP, that wasn't very nice. Took out old number 7 completely. Placing a tank on a hill to hit me is valid I suppose. I still think it's kind of cheap though.

Nevermind what I wrote here previously, you're a dumbass because you don't know how to quote. Also, the only problems I've ever had are Bolas's decloaking in front of me, and my driver ramming into them. Apparently there's also a no-takeoff problem with the controller, but that's being worked on.
I've never heard of any bugs with them besides those.

Enjoy and let me answer your question, no they are not underpowered.


1: Just funny, its all fair with orbies. If your unlucky enough to get hit at the exact second your ship gets delivered and well your dumb enough to be standing in the light then you deserve to die. Read the first post again.


2: Ya, sounds like the same reason as number 1, your calling in a ship while be red lined, being forged, calling it in near red line or well maybe you found a glitch but if such a thing existed, there would be a lot of threads on such. Read the first post again.


3: See response two. See my first post again.


4: Another glitch? that is an interesting one, must be very unique or its just you. Actually someone else posted the same thing, only with a tank instead.


5: Annoying but any good pilot can easily recover. Do note that higher ships do seem to have better handling. Travel with an actual squad that knows that they are doing and you will be fine. Fair enough.


6: No they are not, ships are not ment to stand still vs swarms. Militia are miltia, stop expecting a flying tank. The dropships are for flying into hot zones, so yes it should be a flying tank.


7: Another rant? your good at that.


8: ROFLMFAO Really Ominous F*** Likes Making Obdurately Assinine Observations.


9: Yes it would be nice to get more assist stuff which I hear is coming but obviously you don't have good gunners. Sounds like you got so much bad luck.




How nice of you.

Gun for me and see how i fly

you have an STB tag, your an instant primary target lol.

You don't so i will make silure my gunners wreck you kd/war point intake

More HP would be nice, as a troop transport vehicle, the dropships are too fragile.
There should also be a turretless variant with even more HP.

Challenge accepted.

This is getting f***ing ********. I'm so sick of landing and dropship getting blown up. Dear CCP, Why the f*** does my dropship scrape and slide against the god damn ground and explode? WHY PUT A DROPSHIP IF YOU CANT EVEN LAND THE ******* THING

I hate bashing on CCP but damn, get your freaking act together.

Dropship = people DROP out of it

Oh yeah, how do you pick people up then? Hurr durr.

Hover inches above the ground

Hold it stable via a decent tank and skill amount

I have a heavy armor on the damn thing. Still gets flipped when I try and hover and get hit by swarm missiles. Even if I'm tilting the Stick in the same direction the missiles are coming in from.

And then you need to repair, you going to hover it in the air put it on auto--pilot, jump out, and repair it?

I never had a problem with anything but #9.

• Don't fly like an idiot
• Don't use dropships when they aren't necessary

Aww, you mean I should intentionally crash my ship into the mountain?

Yep

Yep

With you in it and bail out.

I whilst kill thee for thy sins noob!

Nope, i force you into the gunner seat at hmg point

You get more hp, more turrets, and a tank can't hit you unless you fly low