slow em down give more armor and make them more stable

keep in mind dropships are light vehicles- so they should pretty much be flying LAVs

keep in mind dropships are light vehicles- so they should pretty much be flying LAVs

No, they're medium according to their icons.

What I find weird is that the popular suggestion for making dropships better transports is to SLOW THEM DOWN!?!?!?!? I sense a very slight lapse in logic...

I think the first problem here is that there aren't any other air vehicles to fly alongside the dropship as escorts - that's right, my first suggestion is for fighters. Once we have a bona fide assault vehicle, the enemy is far more likely to focus on them than the transports.

As for the ships themselves, they should be somewhat quick and somewhat agile, yet have some measure of defeating attacks. How about EVE's Electronic Warfare?

An ECM burst module would break missile locks immediately, yet mess up friendlies that are too close as a balancing device.

Target jammers would be controlled by the passengers (focus on flying!), and would jam (with diminishing returns) whatever enemy you point it at.

Lastly, there's the ECCM, which takes the form of a comms dish that interlinks with allies, boosting their resistance to offensive jamming. I envision this defense would be most useful as a series of communication installations, as vulnerable to attack and hacking as any other. As an EVE veteran would expect, these towers would be priority #1 in an assault.

What I find weird is that the popular suggestion for making dropships better transports is to SLOW THEM DOWN!?!?!?!? I sense a very slight lapse in logic...

Not really a "lapse in logic" but a different look at Dropships completely
Suggesting Fast ones means they shouldn't be that strong, considering they would be a lot harder to hit

Personally, I see Dropships as Heavy transport vehicles that move slowly through the air due to it being heavily armored (to protect passengers) and assure it gets there. I'd like to see a Dropship with more Armor and Shielding than an RDV (A lot more) but with less offensive capability. So, sure, my Ship will be very hard to kill but it won't be fire down at you and ohk you (Perhaps a Weaponless Variant?)

for those who don't know, we already have a large, slow, armored transport ship, and It is called a MCC.

blasters can defend when the ship touches down or provide crowd control as it evacs.

Bump armor enough to support a safe landing ------ reduce guns


Dropship =/= Gunship


96.7% of Dropships are being used as flying tanks. Remove missile turrets, blasters can defend when the ship touches down or provide crowd control as it evacs.

please explain the wp blaters are pretty hard to kill with while moving and if you arent moveing then your dead. people start thinking would you want to fly a ds if you got 200 wp in a match and even better question would you want to gun one?
until ccp finds a way to give wp to pilots and reduce the firepower they shouldnt make it fit only blasters.

it still doesnt matter if they have super armor and sheilds if it doesnt give you wp why would you want to fly it

i could see in a corp match but you should still make wp in any match no matter what you do i would like someone to come up with ideas for a way for ds pilots to make wp without killing people and a way to where it cant be exploited

I remember someone bring up the idea of Vehicles rearming and/or repping people riding inside them.

just a thought.

rearming?
as in giveing ammo

How about maps that promote a need to move infantry and demote bombing by having facilities that actually provide cover? On the same note, perhaps have landing pads that "snap" the ship onto the pad without damage turning them into strategic points?

rearming?
as in giveing ammo

How about maps that promote a need to move infantry and demote bombing by having facilities that actually provide cover? On the same note, perhaps have landing pads that "snap" the ship onto the pad without damage turning them into strategic points?

Drop ships can now touch the ground without taking dammage and you can be very surgical if you know how.



rearming: provide with new supplies of weapons.

ya, pretty much

Whats the issue with low-altitude drops? I'm asking honestly because I don't use or ride in dropships for the most part.

imo, as big as the maps are, they are still too small for dropships to be needed anyway.

that said, dropships should be able to rapidly descend to a very low altitude, while still hovering, drop troops off, and then rapidly ascend away from infantry fire.

and for pickups, obviously, Infantry's job is to ensure that the LZ is clear and dropships are not getting fired on when they drop in.

How about maps that promote a need to move infantry and demote bombing by having facilities that actually provide cover? On the same note, perhaps have landing pads that "snap" the ship onto the pad without damage turning them into strategic points?