CELESTA AUNGM wrote:....Hmm
Yes, this request (or something like it) has been made before. I certain TYPE of FPS player tends to make requests like this, so I'm sure the request will be made again and again into next year. But fortunately it's kind of an, emm.. "anti-social" or "anti-coop" attitude, and since CCP seems dead-set on aiming Dust 514 towards "SOCIAL" coop work as the main tool for defeating the enemy... I (happily) suspect CCP will continue to refuse your request.
Reading this and similar posts that you and some other "pilots" make, I get the impression you're NOT talking about using the DS for transport or even assault... you're using it as a private cab to get you to the rooftop or tower ledge. In other words, you're a "Sniper" primarily, not a pilot primarily. (It's the first theory in my mind that would explain how just having a passenger "riding" on your DS would "cost you the loss of your ships"---you wanted to zip to the roof and 'recall' the DS before it was fired on, but the passenger didn't understand your motive and sat waited until the poor DS was targetted by an enemy.)
The passenger has no way of knowing that you're not planning to use this "support vehicle" to SUPPORT ANYBODY...(he's hoping to help you by trying to man one of your turrets---she's hoping you'll give her protective help across half the map before she gets killed--... but those are "social" assumptions, and you're not into "support" or "social" anything.)
I'd like to try to help you, because I am a training DS driver, and I AM "social" in this game. I can think of a dozen fixes here, but these are 3 instant solutions to your problem:
1- "Communicate" to players with a MIC (several of the BEST pilots I've ridden with do--it's needed for real coop piloting)--tell the unaware passengers you're on a suicide run, not transporting anybody on this trip. 8 out of 10 of your passengers will listen and helpfully get off the ship.
2- "BE TACTICAL" on the map, and pick a spot away from the initial staging area before you call in your RDV_DS delivery. This protects the wise pilots from getting railgunned before they can take off---but this will help YOU minimize "f-off" the fellow mercs who are trying to socially interact and coop with you.
3- Or try cultivating "SOCIALLY INTERACTION" yourself. With a MIC or buddy pilot, hitch a ride on a TRUE "support" dropship pilot and ask him to get you to the roof your seeking (...um, I think this is what the devs envisioned dropship operators would do, and are STILL hoping we will learn to do in the coming patches).
Yeah, I know... I'm trying to push "SOCIAL-work" on you like it's the 60's and I'm a flower-power hippie. And I know it's especially hard for "sniper" corp---you guys tend to be kinda introverted.
But really, "social" IS the challenge that Dust 514 is trying to be about. Some of us got the point really fast or brought it over with us from playing EVE, so we can potentially be your solution.
Some of the ace pilots tell me, unless it's doing practice flying, they hate to see a DS that's taking off empty.
I may not be an ace DS master yet, but if you see my character's name on the team list and hop a ride, I'll take you over to any freakin dangerous spot you want to try.
But you have to bridge that gap by finding us players and communicate/interact with us... cuz I seriously doubt that CCP will ever consider "auto-boot unwanted passenger" requests as a NEEDED feature.