I think you're pissing into the wind

all the dropship needs is a buff in damage output....

my damage is fine, If there is nobody trying to take me out, I can line up a shot and kill anything quickly. My main problem, however, is that when even a militia fit av class is in the field, I spend most of my time running away, and out of the action. with a buff to hp, I would be able to take slightly more damage before I have to leave the area...

I support this thread in general.
Some thoughts from a former pilot (used to be before the respec):



Method 1: Way too complex. It be fair enough if the pilot could get 10 WP for passenger pickup once per clone.
Method 2: Agreed
Method 3: Agreed

Automated turrets are just not going to happen.

I dream that dropships will get some exclusive defense modules as they are the most vulnerable and harmless vehicles. For example "Anti-rocket flares" as an active module for 10 seconds & "Anti-rail field" module that deflects one railgun or forgegun shot once activated with considerable recharge time.

I hope these are added to 1.4

Isn't Wolfman in charge of vehicles now?

Here is my take on fixing ADS's:

1: You need to be able to, i don't know..... LOOK DOWN!? In first person veiw you need to be able to moke the cammera independently up and down using the left stick just like in third person view.

2: Be able to look down and see whats below you! Right now when you are in third person view you can look down to aim but for some reason you can't see your target... OH YEAH! there's a big dropship in the way! There are many ways i can think to do this, one you could make the drop ship kind of go transparent when looking down, or two have a small view screen in the upper/lower left that shows what the turret sees.

3: Buff our health by at least 50%, i've seen LAVs that have more health than my ADS.. i mean come on.

4: Module slots, right now we have 4 primary slots (high for caldari, low for galenite) and two secondary (Low for caldari, high for galenite). that is the same as a basic tank. here are my suggestions on slots, i would like to see one extra high and one extra low (and CPU/PG to match) added to each races assault dropship, this may sound like im asking you to make dropships over powered and stronger than tanks but please remember that we are working with light armor and shield mod and light reps, light everything, we are basically flying LAVs except we cost about 6X as much as an LAV and 2 1/2X as much as a tank.

5: As the name implies the ADS is best suited for getting in and out of hot arias with your ground troops to both give some fire support and draw some fire off of them, so one thing i would like to see is the ability to have infantry shoot out of the side when the doors are up that way they can both lay more cover for the guys on the ground and help clear out their own LZ. I can understand why this is not a feature on every dropshit verant but this is one that i think could be done without being abused as ADS's only have to extra seats for non-turret operators.

CCP please don't take my sarcasm as disrespect i know you have a lot you are already working on to make the game better for the players, but i feel that dropships have been overlooked for quite some time (minus the introduction of the new variant in uprising 1.0). If the is a fix in the works it would be great if you would confirm it, even if you just say yes we are fixing dropships in 1.--- thats better than nothing and you don't even need to go into details.
Thank you for your time.