I still think dropships should get a resistance to forge guns, but take increased knockback from them. This way, they are less likely to OHK, but it also requires the pilot to have a high level of control of their craft to not get knocked off off course and crash. The resistance being on the dropship would also mean forge gun vs. HAV balance wouldn't be affected.

30% resistance
150% knockback

Make that 70% resistance. Lore wise just say the shield warps the hit around the hull and being off the ground allows us to do this.

As for knock back. No. Why? because its already pretty bad. We get knocked so much that lining up another shot takes quite some time. The current knock back is enough to make shooting back almost impossible in the time a froge can shoot again. Increasing KB will make it impossible to do anything but flee.

By Dude you mean 3 pixel tall black dot that could be a scout, heavy or pile of bricks

First off, it's only a 1 shot if you're stupid enough to fit virtually no tank.

Second, if you're flying a highly maneuverable craft in a predictable flight pattern and you get hit, it's your fault.

Third, the craft you're flying has to be light enough to get off the ground by use of VTOL jets alone - it's not going to be a brick.
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First off, it's only a 1 shot if you're stupid enough to fit virtually no tank.

Second, if you're flying a highly maneuverable craft in a predictable flight pattern and you get hit, it's your fault.

Third, the craft you're flying has to be light enough to get off the ground by use of VTOL jets alone - it's not not going to be a brick.

And fourth, part of the reason people like me hunt down Dropships is because of how INSANELY ANNOYING THE SOUND IS! Especially when you have surround sound!! If you want people to hate you less, petition CCP to re-work the audio for dropship.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention. It's *really* hard to hit a dropship from long distance using a DS3 on a gun that has NO ZOOM and a fairly healthy lead time. All you're seeing is the projectile hitting you. You don't see that pulling that shot off requires a healthy amount of both patience and practice.

EDIT EDIT: I <3 Double Negatives

...take a 1.2 mill isk dropship, have any dude campering with an Ishukone FG....Its just one shot man, NO GOOD.

Dropships still have no way to earn sp doind what they are supposed to do, require a massive amount of sp, and have less hp than a lav even of dropships are medium aerial veichles.

This is why vehicles need better customization.

If you wanna tank vs forge guns, you should be able to do so at the expense of tanking swarms. Or vice versa.

I'm not a fan of the concept of being able to tank absolutely everything by just giving them more HP buffer, but I would like to see some very real choices a pilot can make when fitting out his dropship that allow him to somewhat passively deal with certain threat types.

...take a 1.2 mill isk dropship, have any dude campering with an Ishukone FG....Its just one shot man, NO GOOD.

...take a 1.2 mill isk dropship, have any dude campering with an Ishukone FG....Its just one shot man, NO GOOD.