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Factional battles and spawning is why I'm writing this message.
This is the third time the same person has killed me at the beginning of battle while I wait for my tank. I spawned the wrong tank at the start and backed out of the spawn area to hop out and call in the proper tank. While I wait for the drop off I started to recall my the 1st tank I was in and this guy kills me from behind, so now I have 2 tanks sitting on the ground and I have been killed by my own team member to boot. The guy steals one of the tanks and runs into battle with my own tank.

All of the previous matches that he's done this in he's gotten my tank close to the end of battle and driven it into the redline somewhere as I have a missing tank at the end of battle. Knowing this I went about to destroy my own tank, tank down and still in the battle. He spawns on the map not in the redline and goes about to call in a new tank and parks it facing our redline to fire at me then ram my tank to death. I fire back and after a few shots and destroying my own tank I get kicked from battle for doing to much friendly damage. Rightly so.
The first 2 times he did this to me like I said I didn't retaliate. But still lost my assets, this is why I retaliated this time.
Something should be done about this tank stealing behaviour, some kind of punishment should be set up.
The other idea that might work is that during factional battles
1 Being beyond the red line turns friendly fire off so that tank stealing would no longer be an issue.
2 There is a thread about tank spawning that says that we should be able to drop in in the tank in our redline from the start menu instead of spawning then calling in, besides don't the assets and clones come from the mcc?
3 making the vehicles actually have a real working squad lock that your squad leader can switch off and on. In the case that your taking 2 squads in and you know every one on the team or for Planetary Conquest you could turn it off. The default squad setting should be locked doors by default for when people want to solo play.
4 a reporting system that checks battle reports and punishes the players committing these offences, after all there are not too many good tankers out there and even fewer people penniless enough to need steal tanks.

I don't know if its revenge that drives him to steal tanks or just to see what others use in them. A third thieft leads me to believe this person is butt hurt and wants to see what I run to ruin his proto tanks while I.m running a lowly basic tank not a militia, C=I class tank.
Either way tank stealing should be punished and not by me destroying my own stuff and getting kicked from battle.
Being killed at the beginning of battle by my own butt hurt teammate who then proceeds to directly steal my assets sucks and is very unsportsman like.
Maybe after reporting it and battle report confirmation his wallet would get deducted and I'd have my assets back in my inventory, Kind of like a payment he didn't agree to after all I didn't agree to give him a free tank?

Lol dont tank.

Actually... if you play EvE, they have ways implemented to avoid the theft of vehicles if you are just transferring between them.

Dust is the only place that doesn't.
Imagine if you could steal vehicles straight from the ports in highsec space. You park it, to do something, and it gets yanked while buying from a menu.

Even corps in EvE get special lockdown conditions for who can and cannot take ships from the docks, limited to same corp members.

They even have a "safe logoff" feature to protect your ship in the middle of a zone...

Simple locking would help.

The option to make the vehicle inoperable by anyone but you. They can still get in and ride as a gunner or passenger but they can't take command of your vehicle.

Unlocking could be done remotely through a d-pad menu. Select the vehicle and select Lock or Unlock(or possibly Recall as well).

I celebrate whenever a tank blows up. Red or blue.

Actually... if you play EvE, they have ways implemented to avoid the theft of vehicles if you are just transferring between them.

Dust is the only place that doesn't.
Imagine if you could steal vehicles straight from the ports in highsec space. You park it, to do something, and it gets yanked while buying from a menu.

Even corps in EvE get special lockdown conditions for who can and cannot take ships from the docks, limited to same corp members.

They even have a "safe logoff" feature to protect your ship in the middle of a zone...

Factional battles and spawning is why I'm writing this message.
This is the third time the same person has killed me at the beginning of battle while I wait for my tank. I spawned the wrong tank at the start and backed out of the spawn area to hop out and call in the proper tank. While I wait for the drop off I started to recall my the 1st tank I was in and this guy kills me from behind, so now I have 2 tanks sitting on the ground and I have been killed by my own team member to boot. The guy steals one of the tanks and runs into battle with my own tank.

All of the previous matches that he's done this in he's gotten my tank close to the end of battle and driven it into the redline somewhere as I have a missing tank at the end of battle. Knowing this I went about to destroy my own tank, tank down and still in the battle. He spawns on the map not in the redline and goes about to call in a new tank and parks it facing our redline to fire at me then ram my tank to death. I fire back and after a few shots and destroying my own tank I get kicked from battle for doing to much friendly damage. Rightly so.
The first 2 times he did this to me like I said I didn't retaliate. But still lost my assets, this is why I retaliated this time.
Something should be done about this tank stealing behaviour, some kind of punishment should be set up.
The other idea that might work is that during factional battles
1 Being beyond the red line turns friendly fire off so that tank stealing would no longer be an issue.
2 There is a thread about tank spawning that says that we should be able to drop in in the tank in our redline from the start menu instead of spawning then calling in, besides don't the assets and clones come from the mcc?
3 making the vehicles actually have a real working squad lock that your squad leader can switch off and on. In the case that your taking 2 squads in and you know every one on the team or for Planetary Conquest you could turn it off. The default squad setting should be locked doors by default for when people want to solo play.
4 a reporting system that checks battle reports and punishes the players committing these offences, after all there are not too many good tankers out there and even fewer people penniless enough to need steal tanks.

I don't know if its revenge that drives him to steal tanks or just to see what others use in them. A third thieft leads me to believe this person is butt hurt and wants to see what I run to ruin his proto tanks while I.m running a lowly basic tank not a militia, C=I class tank.
Either way tank stealing should be punished and not by me destroying my own stuff and getting kicked from battle.
Being killed at the beginning of battle by my own butt hurt teammate who then proceeds to directly steal my assets sucks and is very unsportsman like.
Maybe after reporting it and battle report confirmation his wallet would get deducted and I'd have my assets back in my inventory, Kind of like a payment he didn't agree to after all I didn't agree to give him a free tank?

Yeah, what he said. Why not just join the tryhard nunk heads and just keep spamming boring vanilla infantry FOTM? Stop with the interesting stuff that adds any flavor to the game. Why tank when your team needs that fifth heavy with an HMG or that umpteenth logi repping said heavy? Good lord how do you think your team will win if they don't have you firing on all four scrub cylinders?

Yeah, what he said. Why not just join the tryhard nunk heads and just keep spamming boring vanilla infantry FOTM? Stop with the interesting stuff that adds any flavor to the game. Why tank when your team needs that fifth heavy with an HMG or that umpteenth logi repping said heavy? Good lord how do you think your team will win if they don't have you firing on all four scrub cylinders?

You aren't doing jack sh*t sitting in a big metal box (in the redline), during a skirm, and shooting at red CRUs, Depots, and Blasters. You are as big a p*ssy as redline snipers. If you dont like FOTM, dont run it. Make an interesting drop suit fit. Those five heavies and 5 logis are doing more for the team than you are, I guarantee.

I am well aware of this. I just logged back into EvE today and my Mackinaw is still safe though when I disconnected last I was in low-sec. Thing is this is a QQ thread about what sounds like a sabatoge/betrayal which is one of the core elements of New Eden in general.

So OP needs to HTFU.