I'd like to see a skill requirement to get into the pilots set of a vehicle to reduce theft and make the skills worth more to your corporation. You could add skill requirements for individual modules or guns too.

Sounds to me like someone got their HAV stolen by a blueberry cos they were too slow getting in it or called it in a daft place and got killed before they could get in.

There's a vehicle limit for a reason and if a corp wanted to drop 5 proo HAVs on the field then there's far less infantry to support them meaning you can field way more AV and HAVs of your own.

Don't make like this is a 'future problem' of one merc calling 5 proto HAVs for his team to roll in ... just say what you mean that you don't want blueberries to be able to steal your ride. The previous versions of this thread didn't beat around the bush !

There's an easy fix to your suggested problem, be prepared to counter anything !

The fix to your actual problem is a period of time which only the owner can enter the vehicle ... which we have already !

Thing is let's say a player calls in a Gunloggi but gets shot by a sniper. If only that player, or another player with the same skills, can operate it then what if he can't get back to it because he spawns on the other side of the map? Or gets pinned down? Then people have to guard the thing so the enemy doesn't hack it and their tank driver go on a rampage. Or everyone has to invest at least a little bit in to tanks. You can't blow the thing up so you just have to wait.

And then even if someone has the required skills what if they can't use that proto mod yet? So it wouldn't work but the rest would, that's a quick death. Or what if they only have Circuitry IV? Then nothing would work, or the tank explodes and kills everyone.

Or what if it's a corp battle and it's a proto tank. Everything is groovy but suddenly the only player on the team with the exact skills required to drive it gets disconnected? Now the tank can't move and has to be guarded so someone on the other team doesn't hack it, plus no one knows what exactly the fitting is so they don't know if they can actually drive it or not. Even if the other team manages to hack the tank then none of them can drive it and they would have to guard it so the other team doesn't take it back. Only think they can do is kill it and now you've completely removed hacking vehicles from the game.

Sure, there are ways to deal with these issues. That's not my point. I'm just saying that while the current system is a bit silly I think any other option would just be a complete PITA.

This simple answer is to give the owner priority over switching into the driver seat.

Give him a 'Driver Seat' button when he's on a secondary turret ... hitting that will switch him with the driver

I agree with the above statement but you could expand it to say that the button gives automatic access even if the tank is full it will kick the player in the drivers seat out either into a free turret or if none are available then completely out of the tank. I believe vehicles should have the option to hack or jump in and drive but if the owner does get in then they should have the option to take control (drivers seat) of the vehicle. If you are going to call in a tank in a Ambush match without YOUR squad surrounding the drop point so even if you die one of your squad takes control of the HAV then you should accept us blueberries are not going to let it sit there.

If you play in Ambush as Lone Wolf and call in tanks or high end LAVs etc then you will need to plan carefully before calling your vehicle in. But with the owner priority button you should always have access and always given the driver seat.

As others have mentioned what is the point of having vehicles sitting around nobody else can use or even worse only someone on the other team can use. Particularly when there is a limit on the number of vehicles that a team can call in.

I assume that this is less of a problem in Skirmish and Corp battles where the more organised corps gather and dominate.

If it requires skills to drive then odds are the enemy hacking it wouldn't be a problem. They wouldn't be able to drive it either.

I like it - if you manage to steal an enemy vehicle, you get to keep it as salvage as long as you manage to call in the bolas to remove it safely from the battlefield.

To call the vehicle in, you need to have built it first. If you've DESIGNED it, but aren't capable of actually getting the design to work, you can't call it in because it only exists as an incomplete concept. Once you've put it together, it's reasonable to hand the keys to someone else... unless they're a terrible driver.

I like the idea of letting someone drive, but barring them from activating modules they aren't skilled into. That would be a good way to encourage someone to jump OUT of the driver's seat when they realise "but if I can't use that, I'm going to die!"

What if it was "Ohhh a shiny vehicle. Ooooh, modules.Why are they greyed out? Why can't I use this vehicle properly? It's stupid!" instead?

Being shown a toy and not given the option to play with it makes noobs move on surprisingly often. They may end up rage-quitting the tank instead of moving to a (slightly) more useful gunner position, but it's still an improvement.