My Python costs 1.3M ISK. In order to gain money, I need to keep it around for 6 matches straight and average 250,000 ISK for those matches. I can pull off 3 matches, but 6 is asking a bit much. My cash supply is dwindling.

See here's the other thing. You don't always have to use that python. Why not get in a Myron with all your advanced, proto shield hardeners and stuff and that would lower the cost drastically.

And with all that maneuverability of the ADS, put boosters on it and that reduces the amount of time it takes to get away/hit flight ceiling.

I'm talking no lifers or people that just play alot (no offense intended)

Are dropships really that bad? It seems like if you were maxed out in dropships (say you're a armor assault ds pilot) and you had all your armor plates and PG and CPU armor hardeners, damage control. It would make some difference right?

I fly a Myron at the moment but will be respeccing completely into dropships, not even going to choose a base class to start as. And I can last an entire match even with forges/railguns on the map. Are dropships really that bad or are people just complaining to be complaining?

Proto dropship vs standard AV is balanced. Proto dropship vs advanced AV is possible if the pilot is very good. Proto dropship vs proto AV is a complete waste of isk.

See here's the other thing. You don't always have to use that python. Why not get in a Myron with all your advanced, proto shield hardeners and stuff and that would lower the cost drastically.

With the right speed boosters you can engage ground targets and gtfo rather quickly. The only problems I run into are the proto assault guns. They won't one shot me, but they can land a couple of hits on me even with my high speed. I am not complaining though, because if they weren't shooting at me, I would just park above them and faceroll their entire team for the duration of the match.

I finally got to fly the ADS yesterday an enemy called one in I killed him and hacked it, I was so excited I never saw that RDV about 7seconds after take off. Or maybe I didn't see it because the damn thing uncloaked at the exact moment of impact.

See, I don't get the surprise RDV's, I get the RDV's that gives you two seconds to let your fate sink but not quite enough tiger out the way.

This means you must constantly be at high speed to avoid death. However, a dropship at high speeds is useless. You can't pick people up at high speeds and can't act as a gunship at high speeds.

It's very difficult.

Missile Installations will shoot at you half a map a way. Railgun tanks will sit in the redline and snipe at you where you can do almost nothing about them. FGs will eat 2/3rds of even a well-fitted DS in 1 shot, or straight up 1-shot lesser-fitted ones. Swarms will chase you all over the map. People on your own team will shot at you from Rail Installations just to watch you bounce around.

If you support ground attacks though, you can be very useful. If you see a few guys attacking an objective, hover over them and support them. If the guys on the ground switch to AV, then they get killed quickly by your ground guys. If they don't, you rain death on them. Just like a tank, if you run solo, you're a much easier target.

You need absolute map awareness though. Know where enemy installations are. Learn what their AI targetting range is. Pay attention to when the enemy is stealing one of your installations. Do flybys to monitor common tank snipe spots. Check building tops for Swarm carriers. Learn to recognize the glow of a FG charging up. etc. etc.

And you can't be stubborn, you have to know when to put the DS away. I played one game, there were 2 well-fitted FGs sitting on a mountain top happily firing away at everything. My DS got recalled for that game, and I did something else.

DSs need a buff, no doubt. And they aren't economically sustainable. And you won't be getting much WP. And blueberries won't want to get a ride from them. And RDVs will insta-pop you any chance they get. And And And...

But they *can* be useful and fun....

Maxed out logistics ship with nothing but tank, costs like 1.3M, and still drops like a fly to all kinds of things, mostly forge guns and rail guns though.

Or me crashing into the ground trying to do some crazy maneuver trying to avoid said weapons

If you don't spec out of dropships with this respec, then you're doing it wrong.

No, you are just a fail dropship. If you want to do crazy maneuvers, go assault. If you have a squad who watches your back, go logistics. THINK.

but one less fail pilot gives me less competition for the ISKies. :)

Whatever you say buddy.

The last line of your post proves that I am right and you are painfully wrong.

My forge gun will be primed for your sad little coffin soon enough

That is if you can hit me. I have a very well fit gallente assault, and you will NOT one shot me. 3 shots, with a proto, more with lower tier. Consider that I am NOT running solo, and forge guns are easy to spot, my Assault groundpounding buddies will kill you, if I do not circle strafe pound you down to dust.

For every Swarm Launcher or Forge gunner, that is one less Tactical AR hitting my friends on the ground. Even dodging your fire helps my ground bound buddies.

)The last one does nothing of the sort. The weak pilots are getting filtered out, and the strong will be the only ones flying and being contracted into PC battles. You can call it a sad little coffin, but this 'sad little coffin' will be the last thing you see before I send you to hell.

Good luck avoiding my breach, you aren't the only one that rolls with a squad

Roll Assault FG if you want to take out a Dropship.

Higher ROF and good damage potential can really devastate us.

Thats just my perspective on it. I have never lost a DS to a Breach but I have lost them to Assaults FGs.

I've been flying and forge gunning for a year, Breach is where it's at. Surprise alpha with the follow up on the recovery.

I will make it rain dropships until CCP finally fixes forge guns and makes dropships worth flying again