I agree, DRIVER SEAT should be locked and only accesible for the possessor of the vehicle, pilots should not call more than 1 vehicle at time.
I have never lent some dropsuit i've fitted to my team, neither i feel there is a need for it, vehicle should behave in the same way.

What if me and another squad mate are putting links on a roof, he called in the ship, then gets snipes and killed, and to top it off, it's getting hit by AV. I can't jump in and fly away to save the ship? If someone doesn't have the same level of vehicle operation, then they shouldn't be able to get in the driver seat.

What if me and another squad mate are putting links on a roof, he called in the ship, then gets snipes and killed, and to top it off, it's getting hit by AV. I can't jump in and fly away to save the ship? If someone doesn't have the same level of vehicle operation, then they shouldn't be able to get in the driver seat.

If they add vehicles locks how am I supposed to get an idiot blueberries vehicle destroyed? You know it works 2 ways.
I can have my proto suit only for some idiot blueberry in a vehicle come and run into me or block me and get me killed.
I hate vehicles so ANY chance I get to destroy friendly or enemy vehicles I will especially if it is a sentinel in a LAV.

I don't want blueberries following me in game because I play a scout. I can not stop them. I can not stop them from using my nanohive I droped to refill MY ammo. I can not stop them from using my dropped uplinks for my sniper location. I can not get them not to shot at the enemy I am sneaking up on. I can not get them to not stand by me when cloaked hiding from enemy causing me to get killed when enemy misses shooting at them.
Seems to be something wrong with the game because in pubs a lot of people play like noobs or just not playing like they are organized. I wonder if it is because it is the PUBLIC matches? You want organized with no idiot blueberries then play PC. You want idiot blueberries then play PUB. You want a little of both then you have FW.

I want no proto stomps in pubs but guess what that is not going to happen either.

This right here is why we need locks. We have solid proof that people steal proto tanks for fun and dont care about our complaints. Hey wise guy, PC isnt everyday every hour that I play this game. So there's your dumb argument. Next, Xaxier Zor even stated that in FW he knifed a friendly and stole their tank. Really? You expect to wait in 10 minute queres to drive my tank just so it can be frickin stolen and me griefed. GTFO. I play public contracts to make isk. I now like yanking and ADSing because after 2 years of infantry online, I want to see the fuss. I want to see what AV does to vehicles and contribute to discussions instead of being ignorant. I want to provide content for AVers, and have that escalation that is really fun. I get out of my tanks because Blaster Dispersion is terrible, and you truly cant kill a Proto Sentinel even if your tank is worth 5 of his suits. I jus recently got out of my rail tank to place down links and hives. Sure enough, a blueberry reverses direction, sprinting like crazy and hops in my tank before driving it into the enemy redline. He left and ran away, but by the time I got to it, and reversed, my proto suit and my tank died. As a noob vehicle pilot, add locks. Or add that dispersion skill to our blasters, or give me the UHAV with olf blaster dispersion so we actually have a reason to use them. Please Rattati. Are you seriously going to wait unyil people are losing 3 million ISK tanks to rag tag bands of smurfs?

I've had enough of stupid random blueberrys stealing my lavs and tanks. Please fix it. Its cost me alot of isk and gets me killed 9 times out of ten. I think there should be an option to lock or denie entrie of friendly players. Please don't just egnore this and actually do something about it

Why are you leaving your vehicle? Honest question? Why does your team not use an available asset, both in ISK and vehicle slots, if you are not using it?

If you played the game as much as the people who are asking for this (not saying that you should btw) you would know that competent players generally do not steal vehicles (unless trolling). As it stands, it is ALWAYS a stupid blueberry who just gets the vehicle blown up and/or himself killed without achieving anything that helps the team whatsoever, usually leaving me stranded in a danger zone.

If I leave my vehicle and one of my squad drives off with it it's not a problem as I can be sure they will use if effectively, and if not I can direct them via comms which I cannot do with random blues that are not in my squad. Not to mention the fact that squadmates always ask/warn before taking a squad LAV, and in the case of tanks and dropships, only take them to save them from getting destroyed.

If our suggestions are too much then just make all vehicles have squad-only access, I don't care if blues can't get in. Either that or make it so that only the owner can pilot the vehicle.

Maybe if we had meta-lockouts this would almost cease to be a problem, as we wouldn't be playing alongside noobs all the time. I say almost because there will always be trolls (and FW).

Honest question. Honest answer.

Why are you leaving your vehicle? Honest question? Why does your team not use an available asset, both in ISK and vehicle slots, if you are not using it?

Maybe because some people will get on your vehicle and stay in it until it explode because they can farm SP without doing anything ?

If you played the game as much as the people who are asking for this (not saying that you should btw) you would know that competent players generally do not steal vehicles. As it stands, it is ALWAYS a stupid blueberry who just gets the vehicle blown up and/or himself killed without achieving anything that helps the team whatsoever, usually leaving me stranded in a danger zone.

If I leave my vehicle and one of my squad drives off with it it's not a problem as I can be sure they will use if effectively, and if not I can direct them via comms which I cannot do with random blues that are not in my squad. Not to mention the fact that squadmates always ask/warn before taking a squad LAV, and in the case of tanks and dropships, only take them to save them from getting destroyed.

If our suggestions are too much then just make all vehicles have squad-only access, I don't care if blues can't get in. Either that or make it so that only the owner can pilot the vehicle.

Maybe if we had meta-lockouts this would almost cease to be a problem, as we wouldn't be playing alongside noobs all the time. I say almost because there will always be trolls (and FW).

Honest question. Honest answer.

Why are you leaving your vehicle? Honest question? Why does your team not use an available asset, both in ISK and vehicle slots, if you are not using it?

Why arent you playing that game then?

Tbh...you are making a big fuss over nothing.

Counterpoint...when some vehiclist dies while outside of his vehicle no one will be able to rescue it.

Why are you leaving your vehicle? Honest question? Why does your team not use an available asset, both in ISK and vehicle slots, if you are not using it?

Why are you leaving your vehicle? Honest question? Why does your team not use an available asset, both in ISK and vehicle slots, if you are not using it?

I lose far more vehicles to joyriders stealing my stuff than I gain from blueberries rescuing my vehicle randomly. Even if they do rescue it, it is almost never returned to my control, in fact I can only recall one single time when I saw a rescue/return of an asset, and that was me and my friend GJMad flew over with a grimsnes, killed a red guy who was hacking a blueberry's gunnlogi, and GJ jumped and, grabbed the tank, and drove it back to the pilot.

That is the only time, and Ive been playing this for over a year (two years? I cant even remember).

So yeah, Ill take the loss from not having my vehicle rescued that one time in 5000 if I can keep the 10-20 vehicles per week or whatever I lose to some kid or shitstain adult who has no concept of ownership.

Just to play the Devils advocate

If you had super secure vehicle locks, what would be the difference between the future S(olo)HAV and HAVs with "fixed" turrets?
Who would use the SHAV?

Why are you leaving your vehicle? Honest question? Why does your team not use an available asset, both in ISK and vehicle slots, if you are not using it?

Why are you leaving your vehicle? Honest question? Why does your team not use an available asset, both in ISK and vehicle slots, if you are not using it?

Why are you leaving your vehicle? Honest question? Why does your team not use an available asset, both in ISK and vehicle slots, if you are not using it?

Indeed. I often used to use Small Rail Turrets on my Missile Tank for those instances where I could not hit AV in cover however occasionally a Blue Dot would hop into the Driver's seat and attempt to move us or use my turret which would result in the destruction of my 500,000 ISK vehicle.

A couple of players can comment on a particularly great "rage filled spiel" of mine from one AFW match where a blue dot too my tank and died to a Blaster Installation. CeeJ above was there he knows.

Just to play the Devils advocate

If you had super secure vehicle locks, what would be the difference between the future S(olo)HAV and HAVs with "fixed" turrets?
Who would use the SHAV?

How do you die to a Blaster Installation in a rocket tank...