I'd like to see a cloaky dropship, but I don't really want it to be all ECM and whatnot. I just want it to fly in cloaked, drop the team (which forces uncloak), and then get the heck out.

If you have to double bump, the thread isn't that interesting. Take the hint and let it die.

Don't necro your own thread, please.

recon fighter craft could be handy.

one man craft. sucks at combat. has the 2 minute cloak. very light weapons. dies easily. only good relaying information and painting targets with an active scanner device. small as a motorcycle to maneuver in small areas.

but a cloaked dropship...? maybe when maps get bigger and their are more people playing.
that are bring them now, but make them very expensive.

Mo' fukcin Stealth Dropships! I love your idea, it will be the "eye in the sky." It can receive Scanned Kill assists pts. of 5. If cloaking is the main here, then of course there will be counter-measures. Oh yeah, bring on electronic warfare.

This is a really cool idea and id spec into them even if it were ridiculously SP/ISK expensive, give it 6 seats, 1 pillot, ECM/target painter and 4 passenger slots, no weapons, only squad members can spawn into it, and give people ejecting some sort of auto dampner (if youve seen FF spirits within soldiers deploy from a drop ship and shoot a sort of gas capsule which turns into a jelly like thing to break their fall), i also wouldnt mind getting practically no WP for piloting this, give the pilot some sort of auto hover mode which would allow them to change to ECM seat, also while completely still they are harder to scan or be detected, give them a warning system when they are locked by swarms and like a flare system that has a 30 sec or 1 minute cooldown.

but yea all that from my imagination, i think many of you wouldnt like this but many more would love it.

And a possible way to get WP is put a built in CRU on it, you cant really spam it since its for squad only

put cloak module/ability on Scout LAVs. Voila, there's your recon ship.

this is now the MLT dropship in areal pack

so yea no hope of this ever to come in the future..

1700 shields on a fast stealth aircraft? That's a bit much isn't it?

militia = MLT

Yeah 2 minutes is a little extreme. Then again, cloak can only interrupt lock on fire and scanners, not dummy fire, but nobody really uses dummy fire on a Dropship. If we implimented Swarm Interruptors (Similar to chaff which breaks a missiles lock on a target and sends it flying out of control) I could see Aerial recon as a viable element to add to the team. You'd probably have to wait for CCP to impliment an updated command structure so Dropships can actually get WP for taxi-ing squads to objectives

how about once the ship has taken shield damage past say 90%? it cannot cloak?

Sounds like a cool idea. But right now with warpoints the way they are there would be no way to earn warpoints in this ship.
Also i would like to see some counter measures for this ship. If equiped as described it could stay cloaked the entire match without a problem.

i kinda of like this idea...


this could be used to locate and destroy enemy snipers and more specifically the thale nubs....and charge nubs...


and all the little nubs who think sniping is a great idea in general...

i just hate snipers!..

...the only thing snipers do is snipe other snipers and when there no snipers to shoot they annoy the heel out of every1 else..all they do is find hiding spots i have never thought existed...on one map its possible to camp and snipe from the ENEMY MCC!