Only if every uplink can be used by everyone on the team (which is how it should be anyway).

The only thing that needs to be changed about uplinks is how they show up on the spawn screen. Currently the spawn circle and timers are too large and the text blends together/clutters up the map - shrinking them would make things a lot more clear. Additionally, color code uplinks that you and your squad drop - make them green. That way you can spawn in on your squad's links to earn WP.

Limiting what equipment you can use based on the actions/equipment used of other players is a slippery slope. As it stands the only limit of this kind is the vehicle limit and the reason for that is intuitive. With vehicles, at the very least you aren't able to call one in if the quota is reached, but with limits on equipment/weapons you'd be stuck in that you'd find out your stuff is useless only after you had equipped it, meaning lost ISK when you died.

My gripe isn't the enemy spamming but my own team spamming.
A teammate needed reps and I was on the spawn screen. I asked him where he was and when he told me I still couldn't find the right location to spawn as all I could see was blue pulses. I literally couldn't see were a single teammate was on the entire map!
There are many ways to utilize an uplink;

Offensive = 3-4 at the target area to ensure the enemy stays pressured.
Defensive = 1-2 on the way to the target area to ensure you have a fall back when the offensive uplinks are down. This keeps you from being redlined.
Tactical = 2-8 at hard-to-reach vantage points to give your teams a way to out maneuver the enemy. This allows you to more easily flank the enemy and disperse there attacking forces.

It annoys me when 100% of the uplinks are offensive as it becomes far to easy to be flanked. If the enemy does it then I just run in with fluxes and destroy all of them. Since they have no defensive uplinks, they are quickly forced off the target area and eventually redlined.

I plan to get proto uplinks that allow me to place 3 at once. This will allow me to set up an uplink for all 3 tactics mentioned above.

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`Sigh. Just another fun game of DUST.

The only thing that needs to be changed about uplinks is how they show up on the spawn screen. Currently the spawn circle and timers are too large and the text blends together/clutters up the map - shrinking them would make things a lot more clear. Additionally, color code uplinks that you and your squad drop - make them green. That way you can spawn in on your squad's links to earn WP.

Limiting what equipment you can use based on the actions/equipment used of other players is a slippery slope. As it stands the only limit of this kind is the vehicle limit and the reason for that is intuitive. With vehicles, at the very least you aren't able to call one in if the quota is reached, but with limits on equipment/weapons you'd be stuck in that you'd find out your stuff is useless only after you had equipped it, meaning lost ISK when you died.

I've got a very simple fix for blue team uplink spam, map zoom.


We've got now, but the max zoom is nearly the same as the default which makes it frustratingly useless.

Instead let us zoom way in and we can pick precisely the uplink we want to spawn on. Oh, and display the elevation so we know which one is on the tower top and which one is right next to it on the ground.



Don't like red team uplink spam? Go destroy them.

just had a thought for a new piece of equipment: uplink jammer
large AOE that prevents uplink spawns until destroyed or times out (which ever is more fun)
could be countered by M-CRUs since they don't rely on wormhole tech to function.
WP granted whenever tears are shed by WP whoreing logis/afkers.

ISK is always lost when you die? That's how this game works?

Yeah all of my thoughts are in the mindset that uplinks are for the whole team.

Which I feel strongly that they will change that back to what it used to be.

I honestly hope they don't.
Don't get me wrong, I get the value (more incentive to squad up) but I always place my uplinks with the whole team in mind.
If we are redlined then I like to be able to single-handedly bring my entire team back into the fight (which I have done on occasion). Not for the WP but for the good of the team. (Until I cap I really don't care about WPs)

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`Sigh. Just another fun game of DUST.

Read more carefully.
I said I hope they bring it back to team uplinks

Read more carefully.
I said I hope they bring it back to team uplinks

change the uplink from a tiny little box which is hard to see and kill to something a bit more obvious like a pillar/beacon of some sort. most of the spam isn't for usage purposes anyway but to confuse the enemy where they are and to make it impossible to kill them all before someone spawns in on another and drops more. if they were more obvious and can't be placed in tiny gaps etc then this allows enemy to kill them easier(when no one is about to stop them doing it that is) if they are not placed strategically

I feel the best solution to the uplink spam is to make it so only 1 uplink can be active per person, instead of the 8/merc as it is now. You can stack 4 different proto uplinks and all of them will be active. Even if only half of the team can do this at the start, that's 64 uplinks you have to deal with and it game breaking OP.

Uplinks win battles. Most times its a matter of whoever gets the most uplinks down the fastest who win.

I don't think the signal radius changes will help. Mostly because if one of the 10 uplinks that are in close radius get destroyed, you still have 9 more to get rid of before the spawns stop. Putting a cap on the total number that can be deployed will keep uplinks to a manageable level.

I do agree with the uplink jammer idea though. Would be nice.

I feel the best solution to the uplink spam is to make it so only 1 uplink can be active per person, instead of the 8/merc as it is now. You can stack 4 different proto uplinks and all of them will be active. Even if only half of the team can do this at the start, that's 64 uplinks you have to deal with and it game breaking OP.

Uplinks win battles. Most times its a matter of whoever gets the most uplinks down the fastest who win.

I don't think the signal radius changes will help. Mostly because if one of the 10 uplinks that are in close radius get destroyed, you still have 9 more to get rid of before the spawns stop. Putting a cap on the total number that can be deployed will keep uplinks to a manageable level.

I do agree with the uplink jammer idea though. Would be nice.

1 active per person? Not a logi, are you? What you're suggesting would destroy a class, an entire way of playing this game. Thanks to suit changes, I am able to aid my team by laying down 13 proto uplinks in a battle at one time. Why would you choose a system that arbitrarily limits a way of playing the game and replaces it with a restrictive 1 merc, 1 uplink policy? You're telling me that you'd rather have the game allow 16 players of whatever skill level to deploy uplinks of variable effectiveness over allowing experts like me to truly shine and help my team with multiple uplinks? You're killin' me, Smalls...