I'd honestly quite like some sort of AA variant tbh, it makes sense and would really help the whines against tanks. If people saw tank drivers pulling tanks to specifically take out the gunships, they might actually help support them instead of just ignoring them or complaining about them.

Might, being the key word there. With the current standard of blueberry play, I doubt they'd even realise.

Blueberry: "Haha that tank's such a noob! I'm down here! Why you shooting into the sky?"

*friendly dropship crash lands and kills Blueberry*

Blueberry: "Kittening OP Dropships squashing me! It's like the E3 build all over again! NERF DROPSHIPS!"

...

It's sad, because I can see that happening.

So your idea of a "quick fix" is introduce an entirely new item that is by design likely to be severely overpowered and takes no skill to use?

I'd love to see anti-air, turrets, but only as something that has to be purchased, if it just lands in the battle for free, then it should be weak to serve to only scare away dropships.
Something free should not be able to easily take out something as expensive as a dropship.

Sorry, but even jesus missiles require a modicum of skill to get in the vicinity. You want a ******* locking weapon that is stronger than any other AV weapon? You're out of your mind thinking that's balanced.

whine's the dropship pilot
in wat kind of war theme dont you have AA turet's? so they take your troop transport out cause its weak and a troop transport
your not a gunship pieced together whit premium armore or shield's like a gunship probaly will have so they make a AV turet specificly against vechical's sure itwl be less fun losing you stuf but you shud know you only take out what your wiling to lose if your not whiling to lose it dont take it out and stop whining about ppl wanting to add a realisticly usable game mechanic
so your woried theyl make the AA/AV turret overpowerd i only say look at misile launcher atm and expet the same for probaly the artilery turet its a beta theyl add alot of stuf and change stuf to balance it after a build or a few depending on the urgency

doesent give you dropship/tank pilots a reazon to deny a posible request
wanne give you opinoin good thats very good but dont give a baised opinoin cause it otherwise might afect your eazy 0hk

just buy a ton of dropship's at the 50% of event and get a fair opinoin that isent baised bye your use of vechical's

im just sad some new players quit cause there furst game is against 2-3 dropship's and a tank we want to atract more active player's not push them all away cause some ppl love being lame whit equipment and make it near imposible to kill

for one id love seeing the old wp system for vechicals return cause killing vechical's atm just isent worth it you get 150wp max if you destroy it you used to get wp for damaging it 1/3th sure it wasent much but i prefer geting 30wp for damaging a vechical then dieing like 10 time's and geting 0 wp then again it cuild be abused bye having a ally on oposing team leting you damage its vechical to farm wp so thats probaly why they removed the wp on damage (look's at you know who and hes gang)

You're an idiot putting your stupid words in my mouth. This is how vehicles should be https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=44816&find=unread. Autocannons (flak) are not yet in the game. Rails are brutal at anti-dropship already honestly. If people balance around pubs we might as well go buy black ops 2, because that game is fun as is while these proposed "fixes" that just traslate to "waaaaaa make vehicles cry too because I don't know how to aim without a lock function" would just leave a lot of militia shotguns running around an empty server.

Yes I'm very pissy today but I'm tired of defending this game from people who want to "balance" it into the ground. Fix the maps, fix the turrets, stop promoting "I win" mechanics.

+1 for recognizing the AV is thankless for the lack of WP and ISK. That does need fixed.

tl;dr

Basically, what you're looking for is a Railgun.

Actually, no. I'm not. Have you used a railgun turret recently? I've used railgun turrets quite a bit to give them a chance. Useless, utterly useless. I shot a tank with around 3000 shields 4 times with an advanced level rail gun (low ROF high damage one, I forget the name), I could barely see that the damage had registered on it's health bar. Also, no tracking. None. At. All. Also, no flight time to correct angle.

Large rail gun installations and large turrets are great, but also not AV ready. If they could see almost straight up and turn 10-20% faster, I'd give them a pass. These do great against vehicles, but somehow firing the small turret at a tank is like spitting on Brock Sampson and giving him the finger.

Yes, Yes I have. Hybrid Turrets are amazing, I 3shot RDVs with the large Railgun. Small Railguns are for hitting SMALL vehicles, they'll work fine against a lot of LAVs, even Dropships. Large Turrets are for Tanks, RDVs and installations.

Sorry to rain on your parade but I just wrote this thread
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=50183&find=unread
Which explains how the maps are very Dropship unfriendly via turret installations and supply depots.

If only xDD But AV turrets would allow you to sit a good distance from installations and fire semi-homing missiles at them. If it's a railgun turret, keep enough distance to make it hard to aim at you while you fly around letting your gunners lock on and take it out. Same with supply depots AND CRU's, you can take them out from the air. Of course there will always be some people who will drop you from time to time, but AV turrets would definitely work well for all vehicles. Dropships especially, but definitely the rest as well.

Edit: Also, small rails suck against any vehicle but DS's. I know from experience, they are virtually worthless unless your aim is good enough to snipe players with them.