Nope. Vehicle skills don't scale up as usefully as AV.

Now I get to be graped by all proto AV in a dropship with 10 million SP that can hardly fend off militia AV.

Oh what fun it is to fly in a flaming can of death. Match making is going to make this a living hell if they don't fix the &$*% out of dropships prior to it's implementation. 4 days? We're boned.

I've basically lost all faith that dropships will be touched this year. All we ever get is lip service.

I do my job as best I can, I get my teammates from objective to objective, pick them up when their under fire, distract enemy tanks and take them out along with installations, all while paying a boat load of SP and ISK to do so. And I get nothing. At all. Nothing but disappointment and aggravation.

And that's as a vet pilot with a rapidly dwindling supply of millions of ISK.

It's a joke that CCP does not care about, at all.

Period.

You will be matched by WP, you don't have to worry about proto AV

I'm going to do an experiment later today, once I calm down from raging over the bull kitten that is being a pilot.

I'm going to fly for 5 games of skirmish as best I can, trying not to die while doing my job. I'm going to add up my losses and stack them against my ISK gained, along with how much SP I gain.

Then, I am going to afk for the first time, for 5 games. I'll add up my losses and stack them against my ISK gained, along with how much SP I gain.

I'm curious to see what is more profitable; being a team player, or sitting in the MCC with a cup of joe.

I need to just leave the forums for right now, the rage is WAY too strong in this one.

Yeah, I can see the concern. I may hunt dropships for a living, but you guys have to actually find them worth flying or I have nothing to shoot at. -__-

If you fly dropships for your Dust living, or know some expert dropship pilots you can put me in touch with, feel free to contact me: Kain_Spero on Skype, in-game mail Kane Spero, and [email protected]

CCP does have a lot on their plate and as long as they continually make progress, communicate, and listen to quality feedback I think we will end up in a good place. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't make your concerns known.

CCP says they're fixing it like every month but they never do.

It's all double speak and no action.

have to agree with this, as a FGer, killing dropships has become a joke. what happened to the dance with the man in the sky? now i feel like i'm swatting flies for all the trouble derpships give me if it's not fun to kill you, i can't imagine what it's like to actually fly one

It's not QQ or HTFU either.

It's ridiculous and you're right. Since Assault and AV out number us 1000 to 1 we're just meant to be clay pidgins for everyone to enjoy blasting millions of ISK out of the sky with some free, zero SP militia forge guns.

Except this backfires when all DS pilots either go on strike or just quit the game. I think we've had enough patience. And most of that patience was based on promises and statements made about Uprising. Now after all this, they're on borrowed time. It's quickly depleting if not gone already.

Your 1 in 1000 comes out to a grand total of 5.

i would more focus on the Logistic dropships they really need the love the assault DS is nimble enough for the quick hit and runs

might be fun to take off the guns on the logi DS would free up the fitting they need and the mobile mobile cru would give them a niche as a mobile tactical insertion.

maybe not this but, they need some kinda love.

I'm torn, some stuff like the new flight mechanics and flight ceiling I absolutely love and have made flying more fun, but other **** that's been a problem foe ages and hadn't been fixed just pisses me off so much.