Lately once I've hit my cap I've been testing out the drop ships, and I've come to a few conclusions.

1) Could we please get a variant with some type of peashooter blaster? Just so are can at least keep some heads down while our boys are capping the objective. That and once everyone's jumped out it would be nice to have some type of self defense. I propose a variant. Something along the lines of front facing gun at the penalty of only 4 passengers

2) some type of beacon to let your teammates know you're ready for pickup. I land a lot to pick people up but unfortunately a lot of people just won't jump in for whatever reason. This would be especially handy playing pub matches.

3) jettison all (I know... Its been covered)

4) the ability to mark targets a bit better, aerial recon type role

5) wp commission for objectives captured/kills within 45 seconds of leaving ship

The drop ships are really neat and once you've wasted a few mill isk learning em they're really fun. However, they're quite expensive for what you get wp wise... Let's give the mercs some incentive to fly em so we can see more in the sky (right now they're mostly just transports for snipers looking to get up top).

Maybe in the interim... I'd love to see a few of those trailer grade battles where drop ships are fighting drop ships and tanks are everywhere