What i'm getting at overall is.

Best air to ground: bombers
Best Air to Air: fighters
Best transport: dropships.

For bombers you can carry alot of people and they'll be on weapons but it'll be a slow ride and not one that will drop you where you need to be dropped off. Fighters will be the most useful in air to air combat and will be the most used to destroy HAVs/dropships. However to drop someone off using a fighter would mean to stop. Stopping would mean getting yourself killed by AV.

There's no point in flying anything other than an Assault Dropship since CCP thought it would be a good idea to butcher the handling on militia, standard, and logistics dropships in order to give the illusion that Assault Dropships had an upgrade in speed and handling, when in fact (or damn close to it) the other ships simply lost their grace. The handling of the ADS is only just a hair better than the handling of dropships in the before time.

God damn it this game pisses me off sometimes.

Increase HP,

Give ADS controls to all Dropships

Add new quality life controls (like auto level off/hover/retros)

Give WP for supporting and transporting the team.

Fix PG skill

Give real roles to all three variants.

Increase HP,

Give ADS controls to all Dropships

Add new quality life controls (like auto level off/hover/retros)

Give WP for supporting and transporting the team.

Fix PG skill

Give real roles to all three variants.

If I had to fix it that's what I do but alas I don't do that thing.

Against AV they're underpowered. But swarms are pretty useless against them tbh.
Tanks are only a threat if they are behind the redline. In other cases we have to hide from them now.

FGs are the only problem. They can fire at DS directly above them. Tanks can't/ Swarm will most likely only hit once/ plasma cannon.... lol.
DS needs a buff to they're controls, stability and HP. Swarms need to be visible. You can't tell where FGs are coming from to half the time too.
Also by saying swarms are useless against them now. You will most likely disagree with me, but if dropships can outrun swarms... whats going to happen to swarms when jets are introduced?
Maybe decrease their start up speed. They stay in the air for several seconds then launch faster.

First and foremost your grammar man it makes my eyes bleed. Of course I should mention I don't ride dropships AT ALL. Try to remember this is just a rough draft of a overall idea. One cannot simply buff dropships with no consideration for them being broken. Why spec into bombers if the previously weak dropships can start tanking shots and destroy infantry? Why spec into fighters when dropships start out lasting them and are even able to kill them?

Of course i'm not saying all dropships deserve the same treatment and that they should ALL get the same +/-s. What i'm saying is the intial dropships should be dedicated transport with high HP, how high is debatable. They should be able to move in and out of areas quickly or stay in one area for an extended amount of time if need be. The assault version is the one that'd be used as a infantry harassment and the one people would be spec into for killing and transporting(just not the latter as effectively anymore).

As for the turret issue. This is an idea for dropships not their weapons. The weapons are not my problem and i wouldn't know how to handle them to begin with. If you want feel free to toss ideas around other than criticizing mine.

i know im gonna get alot of hate for this, but im not sure dropships are overly terrible. yes they have issues with the controlls and module selection, and as a semi-compitent door gunner myself, the bloody magnet on the front nose of the ship needs to be removed. a slight pg increase would be nice but overall with a decent pilot (points to Nguruthos) and a doorgunner that knows how to kill targets and cordinate with the pilot, they can be super difficult to kill. i personally believe the main issue lies with the unbalance of AV vs. Vehicles. its not the the dropships arent strong enough (we dont want flying bricks) its more that AV (ie forge) is TO strong. the range on forge guns needs to be brought in, and the fire time between rounds increased. now, i know im gonna get flamed because im not actually a pilot, but thist is just what ive witnessed being in dropships alot. yes buff the ship, but not to much, just bring AV in line. and fix the bloody instakill MCC.

a note on forge guns,
Assault - keep a high ROF, but bring the range WAY in... it should be for clost range AV defense, it fires WAY to fast to have the same range as all the others
standard - mid range, drop the damage a wee bit and increase the cycle time by about a second
breach? (the one where you cant move) - im ok with the range on this beast because it requires some thought to your personal positioning to use properly, and because of the massive charge time on it, im ok with it being the "sniper" forge, it should reward good aim with solid hits. really, i think its ok where its at

again, the idea here isnt to to buff or nerf anything to much or to little, its about finding a balance


EDIT - NERF THE BOLAS