Suggestion
Add in armor plate or shield generating side turrets, it would have essentially the same effect you are after

...shield generating side turrets? There are side turrets that affect your shield as well? Because in Dust there is no such thing at this point in time. And an armor plate would be irrelevant because i fly caldari which means i am a shield tanker.

dropship mistake #1

buy dropship

I mean instead of a turret you get something that adds shields or health, not something you need someone manning for the bonus

I have shield buffs in the shield slots, but the cpu and pg only goes so high and restricts me from fully buffing the shields to where i would like to have them in assault dropships, and i have done the math; if i were able to remove the side turrets which would elimate those PG and CPU requirements, i would have enough to support my front XT-Accelerate launcher and have 2 more supplemental shield extenders.

What Im suggesting seems to be flying over your head so I will try and break it down

Instead of the side turrets which you have no use for eating up PG and CPU instead you get a side turret that does nothing offensively and instead boosts your shields and armor
So this way instead of PG and CPU being used up by two things you have no use for you have it being used to boost your shields like you wanted

I really dont know how I can make this more clear

What Im suggesting seems to be flying over your head so I will try and break it down

Instead of the side turrets which you have no use for eating up PG and CPU instead you get a side turret that does nothing offensively and instead boosts your shields and armor
So this way instead of PG and CPU being used up by two things you have no use for you have it being used to boost your shields like you wanted

I really dont know how I can make this more clear

Yeah you still arent getting it, Im saying a small turret that acts like an extender while still being flagged as a turret

Can you please give me the name of such a turret? Because to my knowledge there is no such thing as a turret that gives you a boost to your shield or armor in existence in dust.

Can you please give me the name of such a turret? Because to my knowledge there is no such thing as a turret that gives you a boost to your shield or armor in existence in dust.

It doesnt exist, what I was suggesting is that they add something that does that

CCP demands that you shoot at things.
They don't want you playing support.

I don't know how they could be more clear about this:

WPs earned only by killing.
Mandatory turret placement.
Completly buggered support modules.

Then let Assault dropships have the ability to not include sideturrets at least, i get kills all the time by "shooting at things" and the entire statement that "CCP demands you shoot at things" is completely opinionated, in-fact their long term goal is to make vehicles an extremely integrated component into the game, not some run-n-gun call of duty copy that only encourages mindless killing, what are you, 4 years old?

The reading comprehension failure in this thread gives me no hope for humanity. You both have good ideas. I think that CCP needs to remove the weapon requirement for making a valid fit for all things, vehicles and dropsuits alike. But, having different tactical options to fit in turret slots is a great idea too.

Actually, it is a fairly accurate statement. Opinions aside, all fitting are invalid until you fit at least one weapon on everything. Even logistics suits require a weapon to be fit. How is that not "demanding that you shoot at things?"

What are you, 3 years old?

Then let Assault dropships have the ability to not include sideturrets at least, i get kills all the time by "shooting at things" and the entire statement that "CCP demands you shoot at things" is completely opinionated, in-fact their long term goal is to make vehicles an extremely integrated component into the game, not some run-n-gun call of duty copy that only encourages mindless killing, what are you, 4 years old? And WP is not only earned by killing, i am not sure if you have played dust before cooperatively or even playing skirmish. You can earn WP from capturing objectives, putting Drop Uplinks down, and hacking other units that are in enemy control, if anything i would say that Dust encourages support roles more than just shoot em up roles. I can't even believe someone with 1K likes on here would assert such blasphemy

No, I'm not four years old. I'm a bitter dropship pilot who lobbied for meaningful misions for nearly one year and witnessed CCP trash the dropship further with each release. My opinion is sarcastic but supported by the evidence. The only way to ern WPs with a dropship is to kill and blow stuff up. Now CCP Blam is working on a bomber variant rather than fix the shield transfer module or the aclive scanner for dropship use. Your suggestion was made months ago snd ignored by CCP. Stick around for another year and you too can become a bitter ex dropship pilot.

Comparing infantry to Dropships is where you lose your point in this argument. Don't debate dropship issues if you have no experience with them please. Also, i made this edit to that reply to better-forward my argument against yours that CCP only encourages killing and no support roles;

WP is not only earned by killing, i am not sure if you have played dust before cooperatively or even playing skirmish. You can earn WP from capturing objectives, putting Drop Uplinks down, and hacking other units that are in enemy control, if anything i would say that Dust encourages support roles more than just shoot em up roles. I can't even believe someone with 1K likes on here would assert such blasphemy

Ok. How many kills can you get before you stop earning WP? How much repping can you do before you stop earning WP? Is there a cool down timer that starts after you've done a certain level of killing in which you can no longer earn WP? How many WPs do you earn from deploying that squad from your DS? How many WPs do you earn picking up and redeploying that squad in your DS?

DS issues are many. But the fact that you can't fly your DS without turrets fit is parallel to the issue that you can't deploy a dropsuit without a weapon fit, regardless of the tactical role you'd like to play on the battlefield.

I'm not here to derail your thread, just to point out that you clearly don't have the mental capacity to communicate with other gamers on this board. If you are so knowledgeable of this game, then you'd clearly understand that no turret exists that performed the task that he was suggesting, and that he then must clearly be asking for something to potentially be added to the game that might solve your issue without breaking what CCP believes to be a requirement.

It's called reading comprehension. I suggest you practice it.

This has already been suggested in Feedback/Requests.

Dships yes this is a great idea, weapons being optional Really adds to customization.

Definitely a no on LAVs though. People need to learn how to use the turrets and not just run everything over.

agree on most vehicles turrets are a waste of pg and cpu and often pilots have to buy turrets that cost less cpu and pg which in terms is a waste of isk to the already expensive cost of top of the line vehicles we need to have a decant chance on the battlefield.

i remember back when squads were just 4 people. LAV drivers were asking to remove turrets for an extra seat so they wouldnt have to leave a man behind.