A lot of people want dropship stuck in the support spawn role only. Why this is a bad Idea and not that useful even when we get big maps.

If dropships are going to be a viable part of PC matches, Corps vs Corps in the future. They need to have the fire power to be useful. Let alone defend themselves. They need to be able to kill a AV person as quick as AV can kill them.

Now why it is bad to make them support spawn systems only. Well Because we got drop uplinks. No matter what someone says drop uplinks trump dropships every time. Cost is alot cheaper. Spawning on uplinks is alot faster. and they are very spammable. You can have every part of the map covered without much effort.

With this possible why waste a valuable gun spot to fly a dropship. When any member can call in a free dropships get accross the map throw 4 or 5 Uplinks around the objective and near it. No more worry about AV chasing it away.

Dropships need to be a spawn unit that can come in on a hot spot drop it 5 guys off and then have the gunner give support.

A lot of people talk about how dropships are fine because they had there gunner get 20+ Kills. Problem is your in a pub game. Oh yes I agree you can pub stomp pretty easy in dropships against militant and standard gear. The thing is PC/Corp matches are all proto gear based. Only way people get kills in this with a dropship if someone already nocked the shields of the enemy. So they only have armor left.

If CCP wants Dropships ever to be a truely valuable corp tool. It needs to be able to dish out damage with small turrets and make its self a threat in the sky.

I do not want a oneshot miricle weapon. But a ship once maxed out is able to to deal with infantry faster then a pimped out infantry player can. It needs to be effective so you can provide quick support when landing in hotspots and relieve some of the infantry pressure on your infantry before you have to get out because of AV.

Tanking them out will just keep them in the useless category because AV will still be able to deal with you easily because you have no defense. And why waste a spot on your team with someone who can not kill and is just a flying AV target when you can bring a extra gun. And just use the easy to deploy drop uplinks to get what you want.