I think you're pissing into the wind

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

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...

War points Pilots Gain
Pilots gain virtuly no WP making them impossible to make a profit off.They get 35 for the standard vehicle kill assist but nothing for transport something they were made to do.
Method 1:
Award hack assist and kill assist for the pilot for 30 to 60 sec for the merc ho was in the dropship.
It would promote what dropships are made to do TRANSPORT.
Method 2
Award Spawn points for CRUs because why not ???? I have no idea it was not implemented before.
Method 3
Award points for the active scanners ' 10 - 15 points Spot assist ' and also for the infantry version because it helps everyone why don't they deserve points?
Also fix the range on them.

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 was hoping for an equipent slot for cloackes flares and dematerislers

I'm a proto swarmer.

You guys don't need more defense.
What dropships need are real air-to-ground weapons. Like unguided 1,000 pound bombs, and cluster bombs so that you can blister the surface.

I hope these are added to 1.4

Oh watt CCP blam never comes to the forums

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.

Part of the lack of parity with Dropships is the fact that just about anything that hits you will rock your ship, possibly sending you tumbling towards the ground regardless of your HP. An adjustment to total ship HP seems fair in this context as those sorts of control issues aren't things that HAVs or LAVs really have to deal with. If your car or tank is hit by swarms... it doesn't move. If your DS is hit... get ready for some course correction.

I would also like to see duel pilot controlled turrets on the front. I would however suggest that the be limited to being the same make and model.

Your mom is fat.


Objection: we are not talking about making dropships into bombers or a fighter jets - those are different types of aircrafts. We just want the dropships to be able to perform what they were designed for - transporting people in and out of the front lines providing tactical support.

Right now pilots stand zero chances of surviving if they suddenly caught into scope by a couple of decent swarmers or just one good forgeguner or a railgun tank. ZERO. They don't even have to be prototype, advanced is enough. If you are running best and most expensive vehicle gear on your ship all you'll get is two second of agony to see how your babybird will be seared through by the next round.

Dropships are not designed to fight back, but they deserve a chance to survive that kind of situations.

And we want our buffs ASAP. It's been a while since the uprising release - the last update that touched dropship theme.

I'm a proto swarmer.

I almost always land the first volley... but the good dropship pilots always kick in those pesky afterburners and they run away and escape my second volley.... which is guaranteed to kill them.

Good pilots always get away from my swarms, and they're not much good for anything else for the rest of the match, because i will gladly sit there and wait in a nice comfortable corner for them to come back. The moment they come within range thinking it's safe, another volley of proto swarms to whisk them away again.

FYI. 6 missiles coming at you hits a LOT harder than 4. If you see 4 missiles coming, that's MLT. You can choose to tolerate the hit depending on circumstances. If you see 5 or more missiles coming at you. Hide yo kidz, and book it.

You guys don't need more defense.
What dropships need are real air-to-ground weapons. Like unguided 1,000 pound bombs, and cluster bombs so that you can blister the surface.

Oh wait..... that's just content that CCP fears to release because of the whiney "I hate vehicle combat"-crowd.
lol we need to start getting people used to vehicle-domination, if Dust is EVER going to be what was envisioned.

Tanks, Bombers, Jets, MTACS... Vehicles DOMINATE warfare people... VEHICLES always fight first, in order to enable ground combat between infantry. What does/should infantry do? Handle CQC, and invasion of buildings, street fighting where vehicles are not permitted for whatever reason (with the exception of snipers).

Oh well, rant complete.

Dropships getting away from forge guns.... that's a different story all together.