how can CCP justify making tanks, tankier, when dropships are really just flying LAV's with extra turrets and passengers.

i forgot to mention a myron dropship chassis costs 20,000 isk more than a gunnlogi tank chassis, and it's got less CPU/PG, less high slots, less damage output and less passive resistance rating than tanks do.

how does this make any sense when a dropship literally has no defensive countermeasures, and at the same time is much more visble as well as vulnerable, at the same time...

please someone explain.

Get your Dropship more than 10m from ground level. You should now be out of reach for the tank's Large Turret as long as it remains on level ground.

Also, yes, Dropships need improvements as well. Ideally, the same improvements tanks need - more PG so we can both actually fit things.

how can CCP justify making tanks, tankier, when dropships are really just flying LAV's with extra turrets and passengers.

i forgot to mention a myron dropship chassis costs 20,000 isk more than a gunnlogi tank chassis, and it's got less CPU/PG, less high slots, less damage output and less passive resistance rating than tanks do.

how does this make any sense when a dropship literally has no defensive countermeasures, and at the same time is much more visble as well as vulnerable, at the same time...

please someone explain.

how can CCP justify making tanks, tankier, when dropships are really just flying LAV's with extra turrets and passengers.

i forgot to mention a myron dropship chassis costs 20,000 isk more than a gunnlogi tank chassis, and it's got less CPU/PG, less high slots, less damage output and less passive resistance rating than tanks do.

how does this make any sense when a dropship literally has no defensive countermeasures, and at the same time is much more visble as well as vulnerable, at the same time...

please someone explain.

how can CCP justify making tanks, tankier, when dropships are really just flying LAV's with extra turrets and passengers.

We have Height, speed, and an awful lot of sky to work with. Ideally a dropship shouldn't hang around an area long enough to get hit by AV, but since this isn't always possible, I'd have no complaint with getting more PG toxic extenders with.

Forge guns and rail guns don't care how fast your going, they still shoot more than halfway across the map in half a second.

not if they are:

A.) too busy to bother looking UP

b.)you have another fellow dropship pilot to aid you in your domination of the skies

and C.) the fitting of said Dropships compared to railgun-Based weaponry.

turns out, Adding shield resistance modules go a long way when making a dropship shield tanky :D

Good luck and safe hunting.

Some people got the wrong idea, i wasn't comparing dropships and tanks in battle against each other.

I'm talking cost to usefulness/efficiency perspective. you can't pay less than 1 million isk for an assault dropship and go 24-0 with 2 auxilliary gunners, yet you can pay about 600k for a gunnlogi fully fitted, and go 24-0 in a game without any auxilliary gunners

and like i said the tank also has more shield/armor hp, cpu/pg, slots, and damage output.

Get your Dropship more than 10m from ground level. You should now be out of reach for the tank's Large Turret as long as it remains on level ground.

That's just a glitch though

Tanks are not even close to that cheap anymore. A good turret alone costs nearly a million isk, my tank fit costs me just under two million to run.

a 15% dmg resistance module with 3000hp to work with only saves you from a potential amount of 450 hp worth of damage, instead of wasting your high slot on that you could put a 748 hp shield extender in it's place.

calm down please. the idea is more tank less gank https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=74977&find=unread please read this it is not just for tanks its a scaleing over damage vs hp wouldnt it be nice if a have rail had to land like 6 or 7 shots to your durp ship just to down it with its current stats assuming pg were working

not if they are:

A.) too busy to bother looking UP

b.)you have another fellow dropship pilot to aid you in your domination of the skies

and C.) the fitting of said Dropships compared to railgun-Based weaponry.

turns out, Adding shield resistance modules go a long way when making a dropship shield tanky :D

Good luck and safe hunting.

how can CCP justify making tanks, tankier, when dropships are really just flying LAV's with extra turrets and passengers.

i forgot to mention a myron dropship chassis costs 20,000 isk more than a gunnlogi tank chassis, and it's got less CPU/PG, less high slots, less damage output and less passive resistance rating than tanks do.

how does this make any sense when a dropship literally has no defensive countermeasures, and at the same time is much more visble as well as vulnerable, at the same time...

please someone explain.