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Bojo The Mighty
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.02.15 03:27:00 -
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CaoticFox wrote:why would ANYBODY USE 1??? I put a 674,890ISK DropShip onto the field FIRST THING... ran a 37minute skirmish and survived!!! ship went 59-0... i went 0-0... 125000ISK... please CCP... nerfed missiles i understand... but, SERIOUSLY... make a HOTZONE that earns passive wp, dmg counter, ANYTHING is better than what we (pilots) have, "NOTHING" ... i LOVE the DropShip, but a DropShip pilot CANT earn enough to even break even... ESPECIALLY WITH DIRE SENTINELS AND MILITIA FORGES...
Dropships do need a little push towards the WP side for troop ferrying, as well as LAVs (but that would require removal of free LAV)
However, my squads and I have managed very well to keep my Dropships well and alive for the duration of the game. My gunners have received more kills and WP then 7/8 of the team and I earn Orbitals from my runs. You know how much my fitting costs? 378,000 ISK. That's damn cheap but I've made the most of it and because I rarely lose them now (when I do everything right) I'm getting purely profit because I only have between 0-2 deaths on the board from doing some ground thumping.
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Bojo The Mighty
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.02.16 00:08:00 -
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CaoticFox wrote:quick math
ship about 700k
60 kills earn the pilot 2100 wp
140000ISK 0-0.
700k / 140k is 5
230-1 ... 60 PER MATCH is 4 matches showing a SLIGHT profit RIGHT???
but its a DropShip NOT A GunShip... hence the missile nerf (which i agree with)
so if its AN UNREAL GUNSHIP it pays for itself... but what of the ACTUAL DropShips???
the Troop Ferriers... with MAGZ and KANE u can take "1" hit and live...
we NEED points for doing our job JUST SAFELY DELIVERING TROOPS INTO DROPLINKLESS HOSTILE AREAS...
we shouldnt have to build an Apache... its a BlackHawk... it needs to be able to pay for itself... when its fitted and flown properly ... NOT for the 10 second deaths...
Well all I can say is that your math is a factor basis of blueberries. If you ran a squad in a DS, and put a defense order on the DS, that's much more WP right there, especially if you drop off a squad mate to hack an objective you fly near. I've lost very few DS these a days in comparison to my earlier experiences, which brings me out to a near total profit in ISK. It's as if I had run the whole game in militia starter fits. And people emphasize the troop delivery but you have to understand it has guns for a reason. It's a support vehicle. Not a straight up attack vehicle, not a straight up defenseless vehicle. Again, we're also talking Public Instant battles, we're not talking about being hired by a legitimate PvP corporation and fighting some hot ****.
I feel like the DS does need some extra WP to be earned from piloting directly rather than the pure indirect system, but we can't go as liberal as to make it an absolute magnet of WP. I figure that once Team Leaders come into the game a DS will earn more WP from completing orders given to them. |
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