They always do that.

It's the games way of trolling dropship users. "did you really think your flaming dropship had a shot at living? LOL" or "not only did you lose a dropship but now you'll watch it burn to the ground"

I use proto forge and can deal enough damage to 1 shot and then hit them again as they fall

...and then hit them again as they fall

Since 1.2 I've noticed that no matter what I do I can not kill dropships. I destroy them fine but I never get any kills. No matter how much damage I do they do not blow up in air and instead crash to the ground giving me 75 points for a destroy and maybe some kill assists if the pilots die on impact.

I use proto forge and can deal enough damage to 1 shot and then hit them again as they fall but they don't blow up until they crash. Is anyone else experiencing this? Like I've literally deseoyed at least 12 dropships this week with no kills.

CCP likes to disable my ability to jump out of a doomed dropship so I have to ride it flaming into the ground to prolong the agony.

You son of a- no, wait. I must remain calm. It's not like we pilots have been forced to remain calm for months. No, of course not. CCP have been slowly but surely fixing our ships, haven't they? Yes, yes... Of course, stay calm... Just shift the numerous shafts that CCP have stuck up between our second set of cheeks, make myself comfortable, breathe...

Do you understand the nature of my madness? No, of course you don't. It doesn't appear that you've ever flown a dropship before.

The fact that you actually seek those extra points by shooting again as we're burning to the ground.... It really grinds my gears. Sheesh. Some men just want to watch the world burn, hey?

The answer to your question though, is pretty simple. You kill a tank in two shots, you get 150 points. You kill a dropship in one shot, you get 75.

Be glad they haven't made the reward less than LAVs, even though LAVs live longer than us.

Watching it burn to the ground isnt so bad, watching a destroyed dropship regen enough hp to fly again before hitting the ground is the worst.

This never happens. Once a dropship hits 0 armour, it falls, and any regeneration doesn't get it back in the air again. I've been taken down countless times with my armour repper going and it doesn't help. Prior to Uprising, it did work. Now, once we're down, we're down.

It's frustrating watching my armour go back up but my engines are gone, and all I can do is get out before I hit the ground. There isn't even time to get out and repair with my repair tool anymore, which was also possible in Chromosome.