thinking about my post some more, having the server calculate how much time you spend in a drop ship would be kinda lame, and limiting, what about that Pilot Dropsuit Idea, if you get the WP and lose your ride while wearing the Pilot Dropsuit (Which only has a Sidearm Slot and can only fit vehicle enhancing/interfacing mods) Then you get the BPC.


I don't know about increasing the ISK rewards to allow people to drive this stuff all the time. Because then you will just have people in HAVs at super long range bombing people to ISK farm, basically just like having sniper fights (Which are lame if its the whole conflict). Or you have a troll drop a uplink and then get in his HAV and just farm points from people spawning at his uplink. With my idea the balance is you have to lose the vehicle and you only get back what you lose so I didn't see a way to "farm" massive ISk with it that would break the standard ISK generation of other careers.

[Edit:] Or a troll in his DS parked in a safe high spot letting people spawn on him for free WP for massive ISK payouts.

The Dropship one is easy: don't let the uplink work unless the vehicle is active, so it stays on the radar. Also, with new attack oriented aircraft coming in, there won't be any such thing as a high safe spot anymore.

thinking about my post some more, having the server calculate how much time you spend in a drop ship would be kinda lame, and limiting, what about that Pilot Dropsuit Idea, if you get the WP and lose your ride while wearing the Pilot Dropsuit (Which only has a Sidearm Slot and can only fit vehicle enhancing/interfacing mods) Then you get the BPC.


I don't know about increasing the ISK rewards to allow people to drive this stuff all the time. Because then you will just have people in HAVs at super long range bombing people to ISK farm, basically just like having sniper fights (Which are lame if its the whole conflict). Or you have a troll drop a uplink and then get in his HAV and just farm points from people spawning at his uplink. With my idea the balance is you have to lose the vehicle and you only get back what you lose so I didn't see a way to "farm" massive ISk with it that would break the standard ISK generation of other careers.

[Edit:] Or a troll in his DS parked in a safe high spot letting people spawn on him for free WP for massive ISK payouts.

[ The problems you cite can and should be solved in other ways than trying to limit ISK rewards. It hasn't stopped redline sniping, so it isn't likely to stop vehicular farming either.

That translates directly to DUST. Hit the pubs with a cheap suit and build up your bank account right now. Try and have 30m ISK or more at the start. That way you don't have to fly scared and can sustain losses as you learn what the new ships can do and what dangers the new AV poses. You don't want to be grinding ISK 4-5 matches between each flight or you risk never getting good enough to sustain your career.

The other thing you can do is share expenses with other pilots. Start a flying club with other pilots in your corp or go looking for them in the public channels. I'm not sure if the old 0K0D channel is still operational, but if so it's a great place to look. Practice in groups of three. One flies while the other two gun and keep watch.

That does three things:
1) Splits the cost. You buy one third the ships you would otherwise.
2) Teaches you what sort of flying your gunners need from you. There's no better way to learn the many ways you can frustrate your gunners than to do it yourself.
3) Provide feedback. Debrief after the match and offer constructive criticism to each pilot. We could probably devote a whole thread to how to get the most out of this.