I've found that they've really made our dropships more durable. Properly fitted, you can survive militia forge guns like a boss. You may be mistaking Ishikone Assault Forge guns for the Militia variety. Those things hurt lol, but others are no probs.

id rather have them get an increase in combat effectiveness.

they r still flying coffins as far as im concerned...

maybe the abillity to mow down tanks....from above...

To me it just makes sense.

If you're going to increase the HP of a free vehicle because of changes made to damage output, why skip over dropships?

We already get hosed in every other department lol, even WP.

I can call in the free LAV and run over 10+ people a map now with 0 "risk" at all. The basic LAV's are beefy enough now take to alot of punishment and drive away to rep up.

My derpship is exspensive I tell you! :)

Or I can call in my assault dropship and maybe scoop 10 kills if I am lucky and get good gunners.

If you are looking for a group of experienced pilots, check out XERCORE. We have several dedicated pilots and turret specialists. We can help you turn that derpship to a pwnship.

I do agree with you on the WP thing. I still don't get why I don't get WP for spawn in on the CRU and oh how I wish I had an eject passenger button... lol

I might do that. Thanks!

I know what you mean about thr WP..

My ALT is a Logi and if I chose I could throw 2 spawns out in the middle of the woods and then walk away and let them build up the WP.

BUT

If I hover over an actual objective with a 2 miilion Dropship I get nothing.

Actually I do get -75 WP when someone takes me down LOL

The first time I saw that it was confusing.. Do tanks lose WP too after they pop?

Swarm Launchers are fine just as they are. They do moderate damage to a dropship, and force us to move after a few volleys. Multiple characters launching swarms at me will force me to react or die. They don't need a buff.

The fact that you can avoid missiles simply by moving a short distance away from the source is proof positive that swarm launchers are awful against their intended target.

Standard launchers and higher can hit me at a FAR distance. If I am moving around, I am spending less time providing ground fire or accurate drops. Standard and above rockets will hit me and force me to move. If I am lucky, I get out of the range. In Logistics, Standard, and Militia, one cannot easily outrun rockets without speed boosters. An assault dropship can avoid rockets when moving at speed. They are nimble craft.

One guy with a rocket should not be able to one hit kill a dropship. I am okay with them being able to hit me and doing moderate damage that cannot be ignored, which is how they are at the moment.

Militia Rockets are a joke by the way. Don't grade all rockets by their performance.

The fact that any dropships at all can outrun an anti-aircraft missile is bad enough.

I popped an Assault DS and forced another to recall his ship in the one match I ran on the ground yesterday.

That was solo with the starter AV fit CCP gives everyone (with stacked damage mods). I had the second flight of missiles on the way by the time the first wave hit because of the short 1.2 second lock-on time. I think the first one went down in four volleys while the second used structures and low flight to block my shots, but the starter fit proved to be too strong so he landed halfway into armor and was gone before I could hoof it over to finish him off.

I really should not have been able to do that.

Increase to hit points should also decrease maximum achievable altitude

Increase to hit points should also decrease maximum achievable altitude

Hell no. The increase in flight ceiling definitely helps us survive more encounters.

A drop ship is the Dust equivalent to a Helicopter, one man should be able to kill a dropship. Drop ships do not need a hp boos but if they do then i would want to see the flight ceiling lowered.

Dropship Pilots should be happy that they can not be killed by a hmg anymore.

Keep in mind that you are most likely going to be riding in one in the not too distant future. Don't be in such a hurry to turn them into pi+¦atas or you will find yourself dying in them and losing your expensive suits.