Just a thought:

I was thinking perhaps remove designation WP altogether, and increase the amount of WP gained from deployment and disruption.

Gaining WP for people spawning in, I feel, will encourage a pilot to fly extremely cautiously, bordering on the point of probably being considered cowardly, until the cap for designation WP is hit, then progress to accumulate deployment or disruption WP. This shouldn't be the case. I feel now that perhaps spawning into a dropship shouldn't be rewarded. It would detract from the element of surprise and speed that are a dropships most potent weapons. Fly in, leave burning flames and dead clones, then fly out. Hard and fast.
Also, I feel as if it's forcing people to spec into the Logistics dropships or buy a CRU, limiting their fitting capabilities, just for some extra points. I don't like that.

The reason I included it was because it seemed popular, but....
Warpoints from spawning, now that I think about it, doesn't exactly reward the more effective style of dropship usage.

Opinions on this?

"Condor's" Emergency Nanite- Capacitor Damage Control unit
Developed by a Union of Pilots after countless dropships lost by Anti Vehicle operatives, the Emergency N-C Damage Control unit is a hardware-Software Package was designed in the event a dropship would be shot down.

the Union of Pilots who designed it focused on the limiters on the Nanite production systems, for reproducing armor, and the Reserve Shield capacitors located in the rear f the dropship in times of emergency. the fundamental Design behind the ENCDCU lies in these limiters. upon activation, the ENCDCU overrides the limiters, allowing for near instant shield and Armor replenishment. however, the charge time for the ENCDCU is long, making it a difficult gamble for both of the Pilot and the troops in his command.
Higher-end models allow for lowered charging time.

because this particular module was designed by a union, the cost for obtaining a blueprint is relatively low, as well as CPU/PG requirements.

I run as a Logi a large percentage of the time. Which does color my thinking but the idea that DS pilots would get 600-1200 WP for transporting anyone that simply gets in their DS is ... exploit heaven.

A team of six, with a DS sitting on the ground, ensures that the DS pilot will get the maximum WP. With proper placement no threat will be possible. Now, put two of them close to each other. Just run between them and the squad has 1200-2400 WP. Toss down some Hives, have everybody shoot their weapons when moving between the two and top of the leader boards, orbital strikes are just the beginnings of the rewards. It would be a great solution for Squad AFK. Squad chat, joking, running, shooting with an occasional OB as a gift. The Squad Leader would be able to top the leader boards with commissions and good results from the OBs.

I am beginning to see why DS WP rewards are a problem for the designers of this game. As a programmer the level of complexity for these proposal has already gone beyond difficult to create a solution for them ... as proposed.

'now what if they hop out, do their thing and hop back in? wouldn't that be the same exploit?'

good question; under some circumstances, yes that would be exploiting. but this is a coordinated effort between the pilot and his cargo, using what they have to the best of their ability, and in essence what the game is about. plus, it'll be unlikely they'd want to try something like this again, unless their pilot is crazy and the cargo crazier , with the enemy knowing Dropships are there and pulling out the Cheap toys

]Thanks for clearing that up.

However, as a programmer I am saying this has a bucket of bugs just waiting to be coded. The current network/server architecture routinely loses track of who is doing what to whom so adding the requirement to Track Elapsed Time is a concern for an old coder like myself.

So, to clarify what I am saying here is this is Not Easy Coding 101. Conceptually I would say it is, but given the current condition of the code base ... not so much. If this was running on a PC than the answer would be different.

I Do like your ideas and updating the fact that WP amounts are just working numbers is appreciated.

Before they throttled WP for Logi functions I was consistently in the top 3-5. Personally I believe they throttled it too much but that is how they usually react. Overreaction is their first response, which is why Mobile CRUs give no WP today.

And Xaviah, I'll be linking your suggestion for first person view to my original post, 'cause I'm a believer of flying in first person view. So much more immersive, and if all the functionality you get from third-person was present in first-person, with added features like the ones you mentioned, I'd stay in first person permanently.