... and if the owner dies then the override code goes team-wide and anyone can take control of the vehicle.

(Conceivably your team could defend or relinquish it back to the owner when they respawn. The reclaim driver seat option could also continue regardless of death, as long as the vehicle is intact).

Sounds like a plan to me.


EDIT: the 5-10 second initial lockout should also be driver's position only, and although non-essential it would be good to hear say three bleeps to count down the end of your 10-20 second lockout period. Like I said, non-essential but fair warning.

It seems like a reasonable idea. Just one thing that needs to be clarified. This is gonna sound stupid but will you be able to do this on your veichle that YOU have ordered right?

That's a decent idea - there certainly needs to be some kind of measure to prevent your expensive ride being pinched. I was thinking along the lines of a 10-15 second delay from you getting out of the craft during which the pilot seat is locked, but an 'eject from drivers seat' button is pretty good too. After some of the matches I've had with dumb passengers/gunners recently I wouldn't mind an 'eject passenger from vehicle' button.

That's a decent idea - there certainly needs to be some kind of measure to prevent your expensive ride being pinched. I was thinking along the lines of a 10-15 second delay from you getting out of the craft during which the pilot seat is locked, but an 'eject from drivers seat' button is pretty good too. After some of the matches I've had with dumb passengers/gunners recently I wouldn't mind an 'eject passenger from vehicle' button.

dude happend to me last night lost at LEAST 1.1 million isk in one match. DUDE TOOK THE TANK TWICE!! we were about to get spawned owned. Thinking to myself, if i spawn my sagaris I can possibly take out the enemy tank. Spawned then immediatly spawned my tank walked away so I wouldnt get crushed by it then dude spawns right next to it jacks it then runs it into the other tank like it was a bumper car or something, its as though he went full ****** forgot tanks had guns and proceded to try to drive up to the guy and deliver him pizza. Why would you do that WHY!!!

This should only work like you said if there is no one in the driver seat . But if someone took your seat it's your problem it is nobodys fault but yours. You shouldn't be able to force someone out of a seat because you got out of it.

Of course you should be able to force someone out. If you bought the vehicle, it should be entirely under your control until it's destroyed. The vehicle's owner should be able to eject people from their vehicle's seats as they see fit. Stealing your team mate's expensive vehicles is not a gameplay feature that CCP should be supporting.

1)So if the enemy gets out of their vehicle we shouldn't be able to hack it then because it's theirs correct.

2)Or if there is no one in it it is fair game enemy or not.

^which statement sounds correct^

1. Enemy vehicles DON'T let you just hop in. They prevent you from doing so, which is WHY you have to hack them.

2. There's nobody there, or there's only a gunner, fair game to start driving, but if the owner finds it, he's going to ask for his stuff back. If he's not an enemy (i.e you didn't hack it), you're going to give it back, because he's not an enemy. And you didn't hack it, so he has override access and you don't.

tank drivers gonna agree with tank drivers, merks gonna agree with merks

next somone will say im a merk and support this

but what about that annoying guy on your team with the militia tank on the tower blasting away at the MCC with the Gunner turret??

your saying you wouldnt jump in that tank and roll it off the tower??

This should only work like you said if there is no one in the driver seat . But if someone took your seat it's your problem it is nobodys fault but yours. You shouldn't be able to force someone out of a seat because you got out of it.

Bull****, I'm 100% merc, but if and when I order a frigg'n piece of equipment to the battlefield, I damn well want interlocks on it so I can use it for the mission I intended it for, not so I can donate it to some noob who is too clueless to know bettter or some moron who works against his own teammates.

Great idea, OP, +1. Howeveeeeerrrr.......for consistency, if we can hack enemy ships and hop in and use them, then it kinda makes sense that we can hack freindly ships and hop in and use them. I really like your idea, it feels 'right', but I think we need to find a way to make it fit the game.

Maybe hacking and stealing a merc's deployables automatically deducts the isk/AUR from his pocket and puts it back in yours. If he doesn't have the isk/AUR to pay for it then he can hack it just to be a prick, but he can't use it. This is just my idea, I don't really like it tbqh, I'd like somebody to come up with a better one.

Also, I'd like the ability to order equipment to the field and GIVE it to a teammate.

+ 1 OP this needs to be in.
Might spend the coming weeks just stealing tanks and dieing like a bad noob. I'm a very very bad tank dirver.

Might get enuf to rage to get em in here

but what about that annoying guy on your team with the militia tank on the tower blasting away at the MCC with the Gunner turret??

your saying you wouldnt jump in that tank and roll it off the tower??

Seems like we have parallel threads discussing the same thing now. I added a few suggestions to Darky's other thread that might be worth others looking at on the same subject:

Force switching position on vehicles
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=27681&find=unread