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Zumari Force Projection
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Posted - 2013.04.10 01:36:00 -
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Honestly dropships should be a 4th of their price , and on top of that, there should be a weak bpo dropship so that we can get some pilots in this game. |
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Posted - 2013.04.10 02:21:00 -
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Nguruthos IX wrote:copy left wrote:Honestly dropships should be a 4th of their price , and on top of that, there should be a weak bpo dropship so that we can get some pilots in this game. no bpo's ever. makes 2 million isk ds cannon fodder for one hit ko suicide air collisions. no. no. no. no. no.
I can take a free lav and ram a tank and blow it up, i can even divebomb a viper dropship into a friendly tank and blow it up. what is your point? |
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Posted - 2013.04.10 03:35:00 -
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Nguruthos IX wrote:copy left wrote:Nguruthos IX wrote:copy left wrote:Honestly dropships should be a 4th of their price , and on top of that, there should be a weak bpo dropship so that we can get some pilots in this game. no bpo's ever. makes 2 million isk ds cannon fodder for one hit ko suicide air collisions. no. no. no. no. no. I can take a free lav and ram a tank and blow it up, i can even divebomb a viper dropship into a friendly tank and blow it up. what is your point? Allow me to educate you. When you crash a Lav into a tank, it does a very minimal and finite amount of damage. A good tank could shrug off an entire team of constant lav battery. BUT A drop-ship colliding with a drop-ship is an instant 1 hit KO through all shields and armor for both parties. And not only does it bring the armor to zero but triggers the "death spiral" from which if you use a repair unit, no repair will happen. And full control is lost of the vehicle till it plummets to the earth for explosive impact. Do you now see the difference? The problem? Additionally a viper crashing into a tank does as much damage to the tank as a Lav. Except it cost 150k ISK and the viper will die instantly upon impact.
you are wrong, I do suicide dropship bombings all the time, hell I could face you right now and your tank has no chance.
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Posted - 2013.04.10 07:43:00 -
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Rusty Shallows wrote:DUST Fiend wrote:copy left wrote:you are wrong, I do suicide dropship bombings all the time, hell I could face you right now and your tank has no chance.
I've had significantly more credible sources tell me otherwise, video or I just don't believe you. Asking for proof while not showing any, nice.
LOL thats why he got no response from me |
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Posted - 2013.04.10 07:46:00 -
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Nguruthos IX wrote:Flux Raeder wrote:Nguruthos IX wrote:Flux Raeder wrote:If this were an isolated incident then I might tend to agree especially considering most bluedots performance.
However, as I mentioned earlier, I have done this multiple times. And there are still the other pilots I have watched that were about a hundred times better. A dropship doesn't need to OUTRUN a swarm shot, if the pilot knows the map well enough he/she has plenty of time to dodge around a tower or drop to ground level and have them explode harmlessly off hills. Dodging a forge gun is like dodging sniper fire, if you run in a predictable line or pattern for too long then yeah, you'll get shot down. Clearly you think very strongly that this is impossible while I have seen it not to be and I don't see any point in continuing this topic. The only point here is that I believe, for what it is CAPABLE of in the right hands, the dropship is not overpriced. Though now that I think of it, if you (not you specifically, just those that think it's op) can't fly it and think it is so weak then why on earth do you care about it's price? If anything you should be happy if you really believe they are all so easy to shoot down, more money for you. Really, with that logic this whole thread is rather pointless is it not? With any amount of willpower and several or more braincells on the opposing team that simply will not happen. If and when it does, is only a testament to apathy or failhards. Alright dude, that's your opinion, you clearly think a LOT of it and you're entitled to it, just don't act like it's some ultimate truth. I'm sure we could argue this all night but I'm done with this line of conversation As do you with yours : / That's fine. I'm no crack shot but when I'm playing and a ds comes out it lasts on average as long as it takes till I have line of sight for >3 seconds. Usually I'm the first or only one to try killing it but it's easy cheesey and I know if I can do it, virtually anyone who wants to can. Fully skilled and fitted DS (costing between 7-900k) can take some hits from a militia fg and bug out but they're toast to anything better. It is my strong opinion that it's nearly impossible to MISS with a fg given line of sight. And that it's easy to put yourself in a good vantage point if they person pilot is being more erratic. The ship is huge and the shot is near instant. Least it by nearly a reticule off from it's trajectory, and just let go of the trigger. It's harder to jump and miss the ground than fail a fg shot. That being said I wish you the best of luck, and hope it keeps up as well as it has been. Lastly, for you and anyone who hasn't tried it I'd highly suggest making a militia FG fit and just swapping right to it anytime you see a DS called in. It's both fun and will demonstrate through experience just how far a little determination and a forge gun can go against any DS.
See this guy that said "a pilot needs to know the map well enough" well what about when we have hundreds of maps to play on? You cant expect a pilot to know every spot to hide! AV vs Dropships is broken at the moment. The way to fix it is to implement those countermeasures |
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