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

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.

Fix the turret "snap" bug!

it is very frustrating when you just aim down and you are snapped back up. This is a serious problem.

-- snip quote of my post --
to counter your argument:
some of our WP concepts are made only as the idea, not by the numbers. as someone who is actively flying these "Metal Caskets" and as someone who has made my contributions to this thread, i can offer only my honest opinion:

"WP's, when implemented, should only be awarded in the sense that troops deployed from said Dropship are actively killing enemies, taking objectives and supporting their team within x amount of time they are given."

this means, once their boots hit the ground, the timer is ticking. when it runs out, it runs out; no deployment WP anymore for the pilots, except for his/her gunners. will there be a cooling phase? most likely, but as said before: its the idea that counts

Sorry, Bojo. I don't know this one.
Would you mind taking the time to explain it to me?
Thanks in Advance.

]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.

When you are the door gunner of a dropship, and you point your turret down and forward towards the nose, if the pilot turns upward at all the turret is "snapped" back upward towards the horizontal median instantly. Basically it means that the whole bottom left / right corner is unavailable to aim in. So many lost kills because of this bug.

They could even put a limit on there to the number of spawns. Like the droplinks.

I'm sorry but mCRUs are expensive CPU/PG hogs and to make them limited use would make them worthless. I do not believe that direct WP for mCRU spawns is proper either but they should have WP in one form or another.

First Person View: Should be edited to reflect the cockpit of any basic aircraft; surroundings should be visible, perhaps through screens around the pilot, simulator-like. Less tunnel vision, wider viewing area. Possibility of rotating camera without rotating the dropship?

There's a landing gear?

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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.