with pilots not getting anything for flying anyway it does seem like they don't want us out there.

I believe they are so fragile when landing now due to the excessive crushing of players from above in the E3 build.

I just crushed a redberry sniper (An endangered subspecies of the blueberry) that was on a building on my third or fourth try with a dropship.
They just sat there the whole time not even reacting while I repeatedly got near-misses with the dropship.

Dropships need a module that let players change their fittings while near/in the ship. This would allow them to swap out shotguns for sniper rifles, etc.

It is pretty obnoxious that the Myron (ADV) is pretty much all around better than the Eryx (PRO) for any pilot worth his salt. I don't need a CRU on board, I can just pick my guys up at a ground CRU, and the Eryx has less CPU/PG than the Myron.

It is pretty obnoxious that the Myron (ADV) is pretty much all around better than the Eryx (PRO) for any pilot worth his salt. I don't need a CRU on board, I can just pick my guys up at a ground CRU, and the Eryx has less CPU/PG than the Myron.

something to through into the pot for thoose who don`t know, Dropships are MAVs and are the logistics of the Air, they can repair freindly vehicles, spawn troops, evac and drop down troops, can fend for their own if there is a good enough pilot and a great gunenr like Z-Sanchez. Something to understand is that the pilot will only get assist points and heal points.

The reason why you must land slowly is becuse in earlier builds pilots would drag their dropship across the ground and get kills by crushing the enemy. i havnt had issues with landing, I guess I`m lucky with the speed but as of now I think the ground damage is fine, the strenght is fine since its a meduim AND an air but it seems sometimes like the Promithieuses are to weak, gruemnes and myrons are fine.

will there be more dropships for Gallante and caldari? or will it just be 2 per side? (inclueding Ammar and Minimatar).

I also tried an active scanner module, but couldn't get any feedback on if or how well it worked, and if so what degree of advantage it yielded. It would be really nice if we got a manual on these things so we knew how to use them and could judge if they are working as intended.

I am not a real dropship pilot, but I bought a bunch of militia vehicles the week CCP put them on discount. I pull on out on maps when my team is redlining the other and doesn't need my help (just to practice flying around).

The flight control/ maneuverability is so slow and unresponsive it feels like I'm drunk (and probably looks like that to anyone on the ground). About all I ever accomplish is staying out of the fight for a couple minutes and crashing a piece of expensive equipment.

For such an expensive, hard to fly piece of battlefield equipment there should be a real advantage, but I don't think it should be a direct offensive one.

Like others have mentioned, an eject passenger button would be great for pilots. Players should be a dropship's primary ammo/weapon. A CRU dropship that flew over the map dropping you onto objectives (you could always jump out before the pilot ejected you) would be a powerful tool in a lot of battles.