Are there any good reasons not to implement something along these lines?

This seems like a good idea but I feel like it could sort of fall victim to uplink spam and then just making a heavily fortified camp.

Fair if anyone could do it, I assume. You'd have to place the uplinks in key areas. Where you need defense faster, or where they won't be destroyed.

Of couse the enemy might give up and decide to capture their own socket just to hold that and have a range stand off.

But if there's always an odd number of socket, or a good mix of large/medium/low. So maybe holding the city alone does not benefit you as much as another team that captured 4 small sockets all around you.

This seems like a good idea but I feel like it could sort of fall victim to uplink spam and then just making a heavily fortified camp.

Holding 4 large sockets like that would do much benefit because they'd be spread too thin. Sorry for being too nitpicky. I like the idea I honestly do but it just seems like a very abusable mechanic. Maybe there should be a cool down where if you hold an area for 3 minutes and received a bonus for 3 minutes then the bonus goes down for 2 minutes and coolsdown. If you really wanted to reduce camping you could even have it destroy uplinks/equipment within a certain range of the center so that strategic uplinks at the edge of the socket would do better than to just throw a bunch in the center.

If they would remove the objective spawning, and limit total number of team uplinks available, then this would actually cut back on uplink spam because it would give teams more different areas of the map to control.

Right now, with objective spawning and teams only needing to care about 2 or 3 points on the entire map, you end up with 10 spawn points at each objective.

If there were 5 objectives (all needing to be uplinked like in Domination), and 5 sockets to control, you would have 10 different things that a team might want to uplink. If there's a cap of say, 16 uplinks per team, then that would be 1.6 uplinks per control point. Even if you split it in half (assuming each team owns half the control points), you're still left with just over 3 uplinks per control point.

I don't know about you, but to me that sounds infinitely more fun and interesting than the current uplink spamfest.

You mean holding 4 small sockets?


I was thinking this might happen, in response to what someone else said, if team A holds the city and spams uplinks all over it.

Then team B is not facing much offensive opposition against the holding of their several smaller sockets. Of course larger ones would be easier to defend and smaller ones are easier for anyone to capture or recover quickly. (Because of where the hackable point is placed inside, its more or less accessible)

You need to be careful, bonuses should apply only to the match not to you sp gain or anything, but prehaps ewar etc could work!!

Say you take control of the gallante comms outpost, you could get an improved radar so jamjing wont work and anyone within a certain radius get shared squad vision like we are loosing tommorow!!

An amarr outpost could include jumo gates, and then whatever else you could think of, its important they give powerful perks if you capture them but not anything that gives an unfair advantage!!