I know its been mentioned before buuuut,

It would be nice if dropships could get WP's either,

1) Spawning at there fitted mobile

2) Per man dropped

either or would be cool

I've been a proponent of this myself.
For a short time, any WP-gaining action the passengers dropped perform, the pilot should get 1/5th the WP or something to that effect.

And spawn-in WP isn't given simply because it's bugged. This was stated long ago, during the Closed Beta that it should be given, but isn't for some reason.

If you check the weekly dev feedback you'll see that this has been planned from day 1, but simply hasn't been implemented yet. I'm a dropship pilot myself, so I understand your frustration, but I'm pretty sure dropships aren't a super high priority compared to all the other stuff they've got to get working.

War points aside let us look at what the dropship can do and the issues with each.

Remote Rep Vehicle Shield and Armor

Why they are not being used
- No war points
- Terrible interface where the DS is more likely to nose dive your HAV then rep it.
- DS can only perform a logistics roll out of combat not when the combat is happening due to a grossly inadequate tank for the roll. (If an HAV is at risk of being lost it too hot for a DS to linger above it)

What Might Fix it
-More people in match, so a we can have a afford spider tank scenario
-Give DS logistics incentives
-Return the DS PG and CPU to allow for a better tank


Personnel Logistics (Dropping People)

Why they are not being used
- No war points
- Randoms rarely spawn to your CRU due to the current high risk nature of Dropships, which is in turn due to their paper thin tank. (and the fact that most DS pilots are awful and non participant in on voice)

What Might Fix it
- CRU incentives (team respawn)
- A system that allows DS pilots to get a portion of WP gained from Merc's that drop from their ship (until they die or after, say 2 minutes)


High Speed Low Altitude Weapon Platform

Why they are not being used
-The Pilot gets no Kills
-The Pilot does not Warpoint well because the current weapons suit the DS very poorly

What Might Fix it
-Small Blaster- Increased range. Increased Damage or ROF.
-Small Rail- Increased Splash Radius
-Small Missile - Increased Splash Radius, Projectile speed & Accuracy. (Undo what they did mid December)

actually i can see the small artillery cannons being great DS weapons... once ya know CCP gets around to implementing them.

I think dropships should get something similar to the guardian points that reppers get - say for 30 seconds after dropping the pilot gets assist points for everything the dropped players do.

I totally agree with this post, thanks for the comment and feedback! hopefully the devs will look at this and take it into consideration. The splash damage on missiles are absolutely terrible, for a main line of defense, rails, blasters, missiles.....it's sure got terri bad defense and offense.

I don't mind not getting WP, I want a passenger eject button.

I get annoyed when people get in my DS and don't deploy over objectives. I understand that they are randoms, but have a little common sense grunts. If I'm hovering over an unguarded objective (I've even gone so far as to land) get out and do some work.

You can lead a horse to water.

I'm not sure what all the hub bub is about in here. I fly a drop ship A LOT of the time and I get around 1k war points just from the kills that my gunners get.

You need to ensure that the squad leader sets a defend objective on the drop ship.

If you have a CRU in your drop ship, then I definitely think you should go ahead and get wp when someone spawns there. I also think you should be able to eject those joyriders too.

Currently if some blue berry hops into a turret ahead of one my squad members I'm forced to hover at lot altitude with his side of the ship exposed to a bunch of reds, so they can shoot him out of my ship.

Even though I get plenty of warpoints, IMO, while flying a dropship, I'm not flying it for my own glorification. I spend time in the drop ship because I know that being a good pilot will be a valuable asset in the future to my Corp. I

High Speed Low Altitude Weapon Platform

Why they are not being used
-The Pilot gets no Kills
-The Pilot does not Warpoint well because the current weapons suit the DS very poorly

What Might Fix it
-Small Blaster- Increased range. Increased Damage or ROF.
-Small Rail- Increased Splash Radius
-Small Missile - Increased Splash Radius, Projectile speed & Accuracy. (Undo what they did mid December)

first lol just ran with a corpmate dropship and this is ok

pilot does not get kills.. yup no doubt about it
pilot does nt get a lot of war points- if you don't know what you are doing with bad gunners. we got 2 orbitals so that's about as good as a tank.

small blaster-short range switch to stabilized and you wont have much issue, damage/ROF.. lol no just get skills to support this tactic
small rail- actually dislike them but if any fix for them is less heat version that does less damage splash does not and would not make sense.
small missiles- i like these so i would say splash radius is to small but that's it, the only problem i have with them is flipping me around to stop my from getting kills which is the pilot not the missiles but this is with most DS pilots.

I think dropships should get something similar to the guardian points that reppers get - say for 30 seconds after dropping the pilot gets assist points for everything the dropped players do.

if you played skirmish 2 orbis are easy but if you did an ambush you did your work indeed. going in on a 5 point skirmish with a missle DS and destroying all the installations is AWSOME!

I'm the DS pilot from ladwar's corp, and we were using blasters. Stabilized blasters are absolutely amazing, and if I can get 2 gunners from my corp I've repetitively been getting 500+ WP (which is relatively hard for a DS) and occasionally over 1000. The problems start when the enemies begin to notice me. If they aren't firing on me, I can play gunship and we can all rack up WP. If they are firing, I will just pick up and hot drop my corp mates, which provides zero SP.