idea: DS pilot equips CRU, once inside ship pilot begins to gain a set amount of wp per minute while in flight. This forces them to use a cru so troops can spawn and jump, and gives them wp without shooting a gun. Have a cap set for whatever the wp would be in 15 min. Reduce assist points gained for pilot from gunner.

I still prefer the idea of rewarding the vehicle's owner (whoever called it onto the battlefield, NOT necessarily the driver/pilot) for every player who spawns on the vehicle's CRU. It shouldn't be any different from using a Drop Uplink, really.

I still prefer the idea of rewarding the vehicle's owner (whoever called it onto the battlefield, NOT necessarily the driver/pilot) for every player who spawns on the vehicle's CRU. It shouldn't be any different from using a Drop Uplink, really.

On top of my idea with making the turrets only operable when the doors are open-
give dropships cloaking devices along with that.

If they go with this, they will need a limit to how often wp is awarded no matter the amount of spawns. Like how the nanohive only gives you points for one guy every 30 sec or whatever it is

No they won't.

The limited space in the vehicle and the limit on how many players can exist on your team and the time limit on respawning should be enough. And with Nanohives, if your entire team cram themselves into the space of one Nanohive, you still get an insane amount of WP really quickly.

Nano hives don't work that way anymore. You drop one and 10 guys run through it, you only get 1 ressuply wp bonus for a set time. Probably because people were doing exactly like what you just said.

Pretty sure I've had multiple ticks for multiple people running through a Nanohive before. It's possible I had another hive still active that I forgot about, but I had just put one down, still had one to deploy, and when two players rushed to it, I got 2 ticks for resupplying them.

yay to the door idea.
nay to Invisible DS idea.

Some Pilots don't think about themselves gaining WP in a match (especially corp matches and stuff), and are more focused on winning. We do our jobs by dropping people off at Objectives and giving good mobile spawn locations, If we had buffed HP it would be a lot nicer.

You are missing the big picture blasters aren't supposed to be weak it is the broken nature of balance that makes people (like me) QQ .
So far few of the things that are imbalanced are:
armor is broken but shields are OP hybrids are meh but missiles are OP

You are missing the big picture blasters aren't supposed to be weak it is the broken nature of balance that makes people (like me) QQ .
So far few of the things that are imbalanced are:
armor is broken but shields are OP hybrids are meh but missiles are OP

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

Because this is DUST. It's not always going to be about personal stats. Ask the logi's running around repping people why they do it. Because they're playing to win in a team game.

Interesting.. and this was more recently? When I drop one down I get the wp for first guy and watch the others run through it, and then 30 seconds or so later I get another if someone runs across it. It used to continuously give me wp per guy who ran in it and got ammo, I want to say just before or just after Codex they made the change. Maybe they upped it to 2 people every so often , I don't know.. but it certainly doesn't give what it used to, on top of the wp points being reduced ( which I think was a punishment because of the abusers)


Trying to find the notes where they made the change, all I can find is the initial Codex report :(

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

to the op have they joined up the maps yet?

Cloaked dropships with CRUs would be grat for transport, I imagine when cloaking is added that dropships would become much better transport vehicles.
I agree that they should have more durable, and less deadly.
There needs to be options to take off turrets for more PG/CPU which can then be used to improve durability.

not looking forward to cloaked kamikazes.

Less deadly? it's a brick with rockets strapped to the sides?! Now I'll be the first to point out that missile turrets need to be looked at, but if you ask me Hybrid turrets need to be amped up in a major way.

And enough of he "it's a transport" crap. give us weapons that can deal damage back (lazer turrets or calling in large installations) and it will work itself out.

All for being able to remove a turret(s). I like having options.