Make the reactive plates get 1 more armor repair rate per second and give 10 more HP to ferroscale plates. A complex shield extender should not be as strong as a complex armor plate that doesn't have a movement penalty.

Dropships?

Posting the following info on upcoming changes to vehicle skils, modules and balancing on behalf of CCP Blam! since he's knee deep in making these changes. He will also be answer questions and discussing this topic in this thread as well.

Hi, below are the changes that we are working on and a rough timeline for introducing them to TQ.

Vehicle Balance
In order to enable to vehicles to last longer in combat for more fun, enduring engagements weGÇÖve increased hit point values for LAVs and HAVs accordingly. These changes will go out next week.

Std & Militia HAVs - 25% more hp
Enforcer HAVs - 60% more hp
Militia LAVs - 60% more hp
Std & Scout LAVs - 50% more hp
Charybdis Logistics LAV - 70% more hp
Limbus Logistics LAV - 40% more hp

WeGÇÖve also resolved an issue where players were able to exploit Armored Assault Pack HAVs because of their large PG reserve to out-tank other players in battle. These fits have been changed to reduce PG and CPU, as well as swap out the Heavy Armor repair on the Creodron Breach HAV for a light Armor Repair unit. Planned for today's hotfix.

Skills
WeGÇÖve recognized some issues with skills not taking effect. Many of these problems have been resolved. Areas affected are: Engineering, mobile CRU operation, sensor upgrades, and armor plating. Planned for today's hotfix.

One of the skills we had was not updated with the new bonus specifications for it, causing players to believe that it was a powergrid bonus skill when it was intended to reduce the overall CPU usage of powergrid expansion modules instead. Planned for today's hotfix. Planned for today's hotfix.

Fixes have been made to the damage control and the shield extension skills to ensure that the pre-requisites stay within the vehicle skill tree path. This includes changes to pre-reqs on Damage Control Units, and Vehicle Shield Extenders. Planned for today's hotfix.

WeGÇÖve also fixed issues where skills applied to militia modules werenGÇÖt taking effect and this will be out in a hotfix next week.

Finally, weGÇÖve had to change shield core upgrades and armour core upgrades skills to resolve an exploit where players could get free bonus hp by entering and exiting a vehicle. Now these respective skills give an overall shield or armor resistance. Planned for next week.

For a list of changes planned for vehicle HP please download the spreadsheet here.

That's it for now, I look forward to hearing your comments and feedback. Thank you.

CCP Blam!

I have no time to look up all the stuff, neither the time to read all your posts, if I am redundant with my post I apologize but I have to get rid of my prewritten feedback:

Dropsuits

You created eve with 4 different races and got different ship types for each
Why haven't you implemented this for dust as well? (I know there is plenty of time for that.. and it will come.. I am sure.. consider this as a reminder :D)
And why arent there racespecific boni? For example, how come that amarr heavy dropsuits shoot with projectile weapons, instead of with lasers?
Another idea would be caldari boni for electronic warfare. For example an EW grenade that blocks the usage of all weapons for a certain amount of time. Or gallente that disturb your scan precision or something similar. Drones anyone?

Weapons

For instance I am not a fan of that Flaylock and Mass driver usage. In my opinion they are too simple to use. Of course people tend to utter the same about other weapons as well. But, and correct me if I am wrong, being shot by a mass driver and experiencing that splash effect which kinda blinds you for a short time, makes it almost impossible to counteract. Whereas being shot by other weapons there is no or less visual effect hindering you. I am not talking about the damage comparison, cause if my math is correct they go pretty much in line with other weapons. In other fps being shot even lets your precision go crazy.

LoL.
CCP have no idea what they're doing.

Just give drivers war points for spawning people into mobile CRU, I think it is not so hard to implement.

Whats the thinking with Limbus getting +40% and the Charybdis getting +70% is the Limbus's hp higher than the Char by quite a margin at the moment. Also can you confirm/deny weather the LLAV rep tool is fixed I know the hotfix the other day supposedly fixed this but i have seen people reporting it re-adds the module but the module doesn't work anyway.

Really you are decreasing the health on the enforcer hav, that is stupid. But u know what is good deascresing the health on some of those logi lavs.

Sorry bout that I'm happy that ur increasing the hp on enforcer tanks. I'm not happy that your increasing the hp on logo labs that is ridiculous they will be invincible with the high restince. I'm a 15mil sp tanker

I'm with you Ryno. As a dedicated vehicle guy, 1.4 has pretty much ruined the game for me. I also blame the whiny "I want this to be COD crowd". I tried running infantry but with 18M SP mostly in vehicles and vehicle specific skills, Scotty keeps putting me in meat grinders. The no Respec crowd likes it this way as it limits their competition. I was wondering what was going to break me of my DUST habit. Now I know.