I don't know what made you think this would ever work with randoms. Of course that failed!

What I did was use some guys from ROFL chat. I had limited success with:

1. dropping troops off at a desired location. I actually landed a guy on a CRU once. With a bit more practice I should be able to improve my consistency.

2. Extracting troops. We never tried an actual hot extraction (they kept dying before I could get to them), but we were able to simulate them in the spawn area.

Outlook thus far: It's do-able, but it's not going to be easy. It involves actual piloting, not the lap-racing I've been relegated to most of this build. It's going to require solid understanding of the map you're on to know what approach paths are safe and feasible for pickup.

It's also worth noting that despite our success with rapid insertion we had minimal combat success. I feel like part of that is because we only got about three games in before connection issues split us up and in two of those games our team was completely red-lined.

What I feel would make this successful: corp battles. One or two dropships on a sixteen man team all on comms would, I think, make for a huge force multiplier. This would have advantages such as:

1. More than two people to drop. I was working with a three-man squad, and even dropped in the perfect place there's only so much you can do with two guys in starter assault suits.

2. Scouts watching your back. When I'm dropping I can't stop and support the people I just dropped because for all I know there's two volleys of swarms following me. Having someone in the hills who can say "Skies are all yours, drop those guys and stay so someone can man the door guns", not to mention to keep forge gunners under control would be insanely helpful.

3. No randoms means I can use an mCRU. I haven't decided yet if it would actually be worth sacrificing as much eHP as it would require, but I can definitely see how it might be helpful.

4. Someone might could actually use my door guns!