I've had the opposite experience as you, my CRU dropship usually helps win matches. Of course I'm using my mic and switching to the team chat channel telling people to jump out.

dude i was playing an ambush match today sitting on the straight pipe and someone took down one of those cru dropships right..

the thing was shot down or hit something (probably this one) and hit the L pipe on that 5 point clustered map.. 5 kids crawled out of the wreckage onto that pipe man.

i was like what in the hell just happened, i got a triple kill tho.. dunno why people sit in those things, maybe they just like the view..

Also maybe that eve lady from the warbarge could just say " please exit dropship"

I never understood why people just sit in the dropship. Whats the fun in that. Maybe instead of GTFO pad there could be a jump light. Kinda the inside of the dropship would have red light flashing so all nongunners could see it. Then maybe they would get the hint. Also maybe that eve lady from the warbarge could just say " please exit dropship"

That isn't enough matches for the derpship to be considered a factor in the losses.
Could very easily be that 70% of the limited number of matches you played would have been lost with or without the ship, especially seeing as you had the type of team that doesn't know to get out over an objective.

Do you think they would have done any better on the ground?

How could they not do better?

In a DS all they can do is die.

On the ground at least they can maybe get kills. Or be a bullet sponge for other good players but more effectively than in one DS because they'd be spread out with separate HP pools.

On the ground they can die more than once. If you keep them in your derpship, they might only go down when you and your team is less likely to get cloned.

yea my random gunners are always so busy shooting at nothing they fail to shoot the infantry i line em up with

Would you consider supplying some more information?

Do you have a mic?

Did you enable Team Voice?

Did you use it?

Specifically did you instruct the Blues in what to do?

That isn't enough matches for the derpship to be considered a factor in the losses.
Could very easily be that 70% of the limited number of matches you played would have been lost with or without the ship, especially seeing as you had the type of team that doesn't know to get out over an objective.

Do you think they would have done any better on the ground?

(I did shout really loudly once so I could hear myself feedback through their mic, so I know at least sometimes I was heard)

That cracked me up, real dedication right there.

I actually think some players don't know how to exit vehicles. If I were a straight newbie in this game I surely wouldn't want to spend 5 minutes in a landed dropship shooting a wall. I'd like to get out so I can do something interesting. If I knew how to get out. Otherwise I'd be stuck with only a turret to shoot and no other form of interaction.

That's my theory.

I never understood why people just sit in the dropship. Whats the fun in that. Maybe instead of GTFO pad there could be a jump light. Kinda the inside of the dropship would have red light flashing so all nongunners could see it. Then maybe they would get the hint. Also maybe that eve lady from the warbarge could just say " please exit dropship"

Yeah but most of the time we want the gunners to leave the ship. I rarely fly any more, have proto turrets and all the good stuff...waste of sp, until i can kick out bad gunners and pick up someone that can prioritize between the enemy tank i am hovering over and that random red dot on the opposite side of the map that is even out of range for a Thale's sniper rifle.

On a side note, if you have a worthless gunner that is pissing you off, just go find an enemy sniper and hover in front of him. Either the gunner will die or maybe (just Maybe) he will kill the sniper....either way problem solved.

flying tank

Pilots need a chat where they can put together squads. I started a thread and got some good advice on what we should do when we spawn into a DS. Since then I've been in a dozen or so and only one pilot had a mic. When they do drop me its been someplace high and my AR is useless so I jump down, thats better than spawing into a bunch of red dots though. They fly someplace high and land that way most know to get out, sometime when you are just hovering I''m not sure if you want us to jump or not.

We are also going to need a way to find pilots for Planetary Conquest, good pilots will be a huge plus in those battles.

I feel your pain, but keep in mind the smart people who jump out also have problems.

Because of my position standing in a dropship, I couldn't see what it was hovering above (big thing to consider). Since it was hovering, I figured the pilot wanted me to jump out, so I did.
What happened? Well, I landed on top of a building, DIRECTLY in front of the barrel of an enemy blaster turret. Turns out the ship was shooting at the huge swarm of reds I jumped into, but I couldn't see them (even on radar)

If your pilots initials were BTM he needs to get a mic so he can tell people when to jump, and pilots really need to get a way of talking to our passengers assuming their not in our squad.

There's condor squad, the channels been open for months but our participation levels have dropped recently, its a good place to swing by to chat about dropships.

Tried it. Silence. Of course these are the results from 14 matches with a 70% loss ratio. By no means fully representative of gameplay as a whole. Also with people in squad chat, they often can't hear me anyway.

Truth.. Tried past two days to get DS squad going on condor and only one taker. I commend the organization of mercs rallying around the dropship dream on the forums but I'd be interested in seeing the fervor shift into the game. A good matchup channel is a must for developing gunner and pilot skills and a consistent following is going to spring from mercs that can count on a channel that makes squads. Not sure if most DS crews are internalized by corps already but even then to me the number of pilots/gunners interested in either the future of aerial combat or simply finding a crew outnumbers any DS action I've seen, even at peak hours.

I'm trying to get Condor Squad some more momentum now. My corporate management issues have been alleviated due to new mechanics so I want to get out and fly as much as possible!

I never understood why people just sit in the dropship. Whats the fun in that. Maybe instead of GTFO pad there could be a jump light. Kinda the inside of the dropship would have red light flashing so all nongunners could see it. Then maybe they would get the hint. Also maybe that eve lady from the warbarge could just say " please exit dropship"