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Indy Strizer wrote:

As a former LAV driver, I would like to make a suggestion:

Remove FREE LAVs

Why?

This game should be about consequences and investment...

Players currently use the free LAV to get easy kills by running people over or as a transport without any investment. Heavies use the free LAV to negate their main weakness, their mobility and lack of speed, without any investment of ISK or SP at all.

Yes, these things are useful to infantry, but they are not necessary to play as infantry. These are extra advantages and because of that, they should have a cost.

The pervasiveness of the free LAV has also caused players in better LAV's to become ignored and irrelevant, nobody wants to gun in them because players assume that LAV's are ineffective at killing and fragile. Nobody has to depend on an LAV driver because everybody can get their own for free- it dilutes the teamwork of the game. Players in free LAV's also drive them like they don't care and they crash them into people who actually paid ISK for their own better LAV.

Thanks for reading.


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Felix Faraday Kirkinen Risk Control Caldari State 8	Posted - 2013.05.13 01:41:00 - [1] - Quote Friendly fire from turrets should not make a dropship jump around like hostile hits. I almost lost control of my ADS because some teammate thought it would be funny to tag me while I was flying low chasing after some LAV. RDVs should not be insta-death if they tap you. I've managed to avoid them the majority of the time I've played, and then 2 games in a row almost, one clipped me and the ADS went up like tissue paper soaked in gasoline. So many things needs to be fixed with dropships. 1) Drop their cost or come up with some way of pilots being compensated for contributing. 2) ADS pilot's turret controls are horrid. The camera shouldn't be constantly trying to reset to center. 3) Forge guns are crazy. All it takes is 1 forge gun on the map paying attention, and I just put the DS away for the rest of the game.
Felix Faraday Kirkinen Risk Control Caldari State 10	Posted - 2013.05.13 13:20:00 - [2] - Quote Indy Strizer wrote: As a former LAV driver, I would like to make a suggestion: Remove FREE LAVs Why? This game should be about consequences and investment... Players currently use the free LAV to get easy kills by running people over or as a transport without any investment. Heavies use the free LAV to negate their main weakness, their mobility and lack of speed, without any investment of ISK or SP at all. Yes, these things are useful to infantry, but they are not necessary to play as infantry. These are extra advantages and because of that, they should have a cost. The pervasiveness of the free LAV has also caused players in better LAV's to become ignored and irrelevant, nobody wants to gun in them because players assume that LAV's are ineffective at killing and fragile. Nobody has to depend on an LAV driver because everybody can get their own for free- it dilutes the teamwork of the game. Players in free LAV's also drive them like they don't care and they crash them into people who actually paid ISK for their own better LAV. Thanks for reading. As a Dropship pilot, I wouldn't be against this. I've sat at the starting spawn point in a Dropship, completely ignored as everyone either called down their own free LAV, or just hoofed it to the first objective /boggle.