I wish you all the best of luck with your careers. Troop transport in DUSTs current shape is not worth specializing as a pilot, and the Assault Dropship is too expensive and situational for the lack of rewards and very random deaths that dropships suffer from.

If you're keeping up the good fight, I'm rooting for you.

I'm just gonna go back to wasting fools on the ground (but this time, in proto gear, not militia and type 2 ). I can easily pull under 5 deaths in a match, so I will always come out significantly ahead in ISK than I ever could hope to as an effective DS pilot.

Free LAVs to get from A to B, I'm good.

Optional Respec: Selected.

I'm going for a respec so I can streamline my sp, got it all over the place, partly as a result of the cockup CCP made of the skill tree. Still going to fly though, only thing I really enjoy about dust, despite all the damn crap that comes with it.

I shall respec and go into assault dropship. lol. Im tired of relying on gunners and its not like I enjoy being on the ground. I shall not succumb.

Actually this does give me pause.

I've been trying to justify flying for the past few days but I can't. I tried the new ADS and found the gun camera is crap and missiles are only marginally better than they were. When I took blueberries up in my Logistics DS half couldn't get any kills. I tried the best active scanner only to find I had to drag the ship along at rooftop level to have any range at all.

The ADS is the only model that flies worth a damn. The others are absolute pigs.

There is no way to be useful in the game with the stupid things, and I don't see that changing even if CCP coughs up a few WP's for pilots. They are going to have to fundamentally alter the game before that happens.

I love flying and I've specialized in it since I started almost a year ago, but I believe it is time to move on myself.

I could go Caldari Proto Logi with my 10.6m SP and be useful to my corporation. If they want transport I can buy and fly the Viper to get us where we need to go with no waste of SP. The dropship is just a throwaway piece of equipment for the infantry player at this point and it makes just as much sense to skill deeply into it as to put all your points into LAVs.

I can max out the logistics class, then save up all the SP I get after that for the time "Soon(TM)" when dropships actually fill a needed role. I'll have another 10m SP by then and can skill back into piloting at that time.

I honestly wish it didn't even cross my mind, but there is no point to being a dedicated pilot in this game.

I'm forced to throw out DU's and hives at the start to make any points, and then my flying is pointless because a dropship is of no use other than to induce the enemy to bring out AV, and that only lasts for a short time. I hate the frustration of being useless to my team. I'm a support player at heart and it bothers me. I feel like I'm just flying a kite while others do the work.

I can still buy and fly a disposable Viper for the initial transport it's good for, but after that it's a liability. I'll never be invited to PC if I don't become useful.

It doesn't mean I will abandon flying forever. There is always a chance in a year or two that CCP will inject a real need for dedicated pilots into the game and I will have another 10m SP saved to reskill into them at that time. I really would like that.

I just can't fly a kite for that long waiting for it to happen.

I got pretty good at the Logi role to fund my flying hobby, so I'll take that as my profession for now.