You missed the most important part of the event rewards?

1. What do us ground Mercs get for shooting you down?

2. Can I get something extra special for shooting the gunners out of a Dropship?

With my alt, I'v discovered very quickly that being a specialized Pilot is not only very expensive in ISK, but in SP as well.

Unless you want to be stuck in one of the basic Militia fits whenever you're NOT in a vehicle, you're stuck having to "double-specialize" by splitting your Skill Points between BOTH Vehicles AND Dropsuits, just to have some basic survival if/when your vehicle is destroyed.

Screw that i stay with my derpship (viper). Seriously whats the point in dropships when i can do all tasks with a militia variant?

Screw that i stay with my derpship (viper). Seriously whats the point in dropships when i can do all tasks with a militia variant?

I've been fighting for this for ages; and to no avail.. oh, and BHD, ready for that duel yet?

im sorry but as a fellow dropship pilot i would love to see this happen but i would rather see a buff

but as of now this seems to be CCP's attitude toward vehicles in general

(if you don't get it the start is pretty much whats currently happening and around the end is this supposed 1.4 will be good for vehicle users)

was playing yesterday and didn`t see you, just Jesusluvseveron. then there was another battle where there were 2 Myrons, 1 Eryhx and a Python but I was saving ISK and couldn`t call in my A2A Python :( we might have to Q synce to do it considering pubs at random, also what region are you in?

the thought is to get CCP thinking that they are doing the right thing to allow us to use less ISK and in the long run gain some with WPs but they need to know they have to get us out of the pit they dug us into, its not like we don`t know what we are doing and giving bad feedback I honestly don`t know why it took them so long but they need to fix it, and if they can start thinking of a way to get us some ISK to start out the next bright day then that's good.

Because anyone can take out your dumb little derpship viper with literally 4 shots from a proto fit Python, and i do it every single time there's an enemy DS in the air, lol.

Then you get 1-shot by a FG, who lost more then?
See one can lose these "dumb little derpships" multiple times during a game and it would still cost less than one proto fit python.

So even if your one expensive ship can shoot down a cheap one, unless you can make each one last multiple matches, its not gonna be worth it.
MAYBE if you're an active PC player and only use them then, but outside of that, its probably best to go militia.

The problem is many pilots think they need to either ONLY be using the best more expensive fits, or only militia fits, when really they should be using both.

Just like infantry, unless you have the Isk to spare, you're not gonna spam proto fits every time in every single game, which altho yes, cheaper than vehicle fits, they can be lost a lot faster than a vehicle.
(Unless the pilot is REALLY bad of course.)

Most infantry (that I'm aware of) have a cheap fit they go to when they don't want to lose or waste their expensive fit(s), something many other vehicle users in general don't seem to like doing.
Its either use the top fit or not use a vehicle at all, which lets be honest, its just silly.

It's pretty clear that CCP actually does understand the pit they have put us in, all they have to do is analyze the statistics over DS pilots, and it's right there, and I'm sure they have. The only question is whether or not they will fix any of these issues soon, or far down the road, and that question is basically up in the air. And I am playing in the US so that's the region I'm in. And it's pretty hard to randomly find players in matches, I've done it around 3 times where i have found other members i recognize from the forums lol

Also, I'd be totally fine with dueling in like.... 3 hours from now? That's when I'll be online for a good while so any time after around 3 hours from now would work fine with me, One deal i make when i duel is whoever loses gets half of their DS cost payed for by the other participating pilot who won.

Screw that i stay with my derpship (viper). Seriously whats the point in dropships when i can do all tasks with a militia variant?

They just need to make tracking on the homeing weapons a little worse so they are dodge able. But not terrible to the point where shooting down a dropship seems like a dream.

Exactly. A militia fit Viper might stand a shot or two from a redline-sniping Raligun tank. Any other dropship better than that would crumble in 3 shots or less.

The difference between a Viper and any other dropship?

Hundreds of thousands of more isk for fit, and millions of SP to sink.

You are spending millions of SP and at least five times more isk on a dropship, just to have either a built-in CRU or about 3 to 5 seconds more time for your dropship to stay alive.

At this point, I think most dropship pilots can agree that CCP f**ked up pretty badly. My alt (which is only specced into ADS) agrees. Hell, I couldn't even fly anything on my alt until CCP introduced ISK transfers between people/characters.

Folks, I looked pretty hard for some indication that changes in dropships were in active development by CCP. I didn't find any.

A couple of people in this thread have suggested there is something definitely in the pipeline. Could you guys point me to the references?

CCP blam said (this is by memory, my apologies for not getting you the source) that CRU spawns will be getting WP, sensors will be getting WP but it might have to be a variant of them (that would be dumb, a variant to give you WP, really?) and triage (vehicle triage) is having trouble, they are trying to find a way to give WP without abusive/ exploitive mechanics and they are looking elsewhere rather then a cap since a cap is an issue.

idk the progress or the date that was posted or the source but it gives me hope.