The problem is the lack of communication between the pilot and the passenger. If you spawn in a random blueberry's dropship, you have no idea if he's going to take you where you want to go or anything. I'd personally spawn on a link and run to where I know I'm needed than in a random's dropship.

That said, even when I'm in a squad people rarely spawn in me or even call for me to pick them up. I feel like the standard DS is the most underutilized thing in Dust currently (that has the most potential).

I think it might be partially because that spawn point vanishes as soon as the driver gets out. No one wants to wait 9.99 seconds to spawn in, only to watch the point disappear from the map, leaving them to find another spawn point. Not to mention the fact that when you spawn in on a dropship and drop into the map, you're vulnerable after activating the inertia dampeners.

On a Shield HAV I would never consider it since it reduces my Primary Tank........though if I was doing something thematically like rolling a black ops/sunderer style vehicle yeah it could work....... issue with my HAV is I like small turrets for my squad and what MCRU idiots think I am doing is recruiting gunners.

Nope.....not you who spawned into my vehicle ass hole hat 20GJ is for Aero over there, or Thal, or Ceej.

1. The mcru vehicle could blow up the moment you spawn
2. For dropships, youre likely to have to inertia dampen your way out, which is suicidal
3. For ground vehicles, your location is made obvious to the enemy
4. Why would i trust a random blueberry with my safety when i cant even trust them not to shoot at the mcc?

You need to terminatd your clone for the mcru to appear on your map most ppl dont terminate their clone befpfe spawning.

The only issue you have with that is your blue dots...won't identify or understand what you are doing and will run off willy nilly to have their guts smeared across the ground.

One of the most enjoyable and memorable moments of my time as a tanker was when a couple of corpies got pinned down attacking an objective and couldn't take it. They couldn't run either as the site was crawling with reds in great spots.

I basically got to roll up under fire from a turret and a swarm launcher and slowly, punching all of my modules and praying to Amarrian God, roll out screening them from enemy fire.

Well, from my observation problem is lying in awareness of both sides.

1) Plot do not know when someone initiate spawn on his vehicle, what lead us to two options:
a) he can get out of it and then spawning countdown will be canceled.
b) he can be retrieving to redline for resupply or avoiding AV, with makes spawning on his vehicles pointless at the time.

2) If you are trying to spawn on vehicles, you have very low awareness on actions around vehicles:
a) you can spawn on vehicles that life cycles is at the end, and all you have left is to enjoy your 1-2 seconds before shutdown.
b) you have no idea where you gone end-up, at the middle of hot-zone, or maybe somewhere over enemy redline, there is no warranty that pilot will take you were you wanted to be before spawn.

Two and a half things would fix it: mic-chat across vehicles so you can talk with pilot, and Active MCRU so pilot can activate it when ever he think is safe(he should get iconic notification informing him that someone is initiate spawn, and he should be able to see countdown).

Uplinks and CRU's will have PASSIVE scan of 36db.

You know where you are going to spawn...

People don't fear MCRUs, it's just that there are two issues stopping (or discouraging) their use:

First, there is a glitch which prevents the spawn beacon on MCRUs from appearing until your clone is terminated. While this can be circumvented by terminating your clone, not many know that there is an MCRU on the friendly DS so they choose the most convent Drop Uplink.

The second, is the fact that their spawns are always 10s. Given how the best Uplink can be from anywhere between 3-5s most wouldn't bother using the MCRU as they need to spawn ASAP if they want to help hold/push an objective.

Advising pilots to hover still and high above objectives to avoid AV and to facilitate accurate deployment.

If they're taking evasive maneuvers (which can be observed from the map), then don't spawn on the MCRU if you need to spawn on the objective.

I foresee effective use in FW.

because most people are flying trash they probably dont want to spawn into a burning ship

On a more fundamental psychological level I imagine its because it requires AVer to reduce their potential efficiency and rely on Infantry....... the very same people who literally show vehicle users a great amount of disdain and disregard......

My dislike is from personal experience. Mostly, it is just straight up back luck. I have tried to spawn in on MCRU's twice recently. Both times, I spawned in and the vehicle was blown up before I had a chance to escape, resulting in a quick death and loss of a rather expensive fitting. I know this isn't really any worse than being spawn camped, but it just annoyed me that I had a 100% death ratio spawning in on them.