Technically you could say that you shouldn't revive until after the enemy is away from the area. However, this game being what it is there must be shorthand, makebelieve versions of that.

Hence, revive should spawn you a bit of a distance from where your body is. I mean come on! If you can spawn ammo out of a nanohive and spawn a drop out of a lilttle link then hell...

Here's my idea: Go with "only revive if you've called for help" because that makes sense.

Ok so just to make things clear I have a lot of time for healers and revivers. Having someone save me an expensive dropsuit is very pleasing and helps to make it feel like a team sport and not every man for himself, which I like.

However there have been many times when I have been revived in the middle of heavy crossfire and have been killed for a second (sometimes third) time before I've even figured out which way is up. I'm a pretty cynical guy by nature and it didn't take long before I suspected that some revivals were done exclusively to get the reviver WP and they didn't give a **** if I died immediately after, so long as they get their WP.

This, to me isn't cool. I don't know if this is a stupid question or not but wouldn't it make sense that you can only be revived if you actively call for help? I can't see any downsides to that solution but I'm prepared to be enlightened if there are.

I'm not criticising genuine revivers (I love you guys) just would like to avoid being revived when I really don't want to be.

That's what I think too, makes the most sense to me.

You're bitching about revivals? Man I guess we're picking up scraps from the bottom of the barrel, eh?

You have a chance to save a suit, second chance to kill a guy, so stop bitching about it. You don't lose anything from it.

Here's my idea: Go with "only revive if you've called for help" because that makes sense.

You're bitching about revivals? Man I guess we're picking up scraps from the bottom of the barrel, eh?

You have a chance to save a suit, second chance to kill a guy, so stop bitching about it. You don't lose anything from it.

You're bitching about revivals? Man I guess we're picking up scraps from the bottom of the barrel, eh?

You have a chance to save a suit, second chance to kill a guy, so stop bitching about it. You don't lose anything from it.

Well I think the best way to help this problem is to give a revived player invincibility for like 2 seconds..
I think that is reasonable

This! If the OPs idea took hold, I would never risk my neck for another revive again. Stop worrying about your KDR and be happy that revives exist at all.

You're bitching about revivals? Man I guess we're picking up scraps from the bottom of the barrel, eh?

You have a chance to save a suit, second chance to kill a guy, so stop bitching about it. You don't lose anything from it.

I don't know if this is a stupid question or not but wouldn't it make sense that you can only be revived if you actively call for help? I can't see any downsides to that solution but I'm prepared to be enlightened if there are.

you do lose, you lose the ability to change suit.

I've made suicide runs to take people out with me, instead of just suiciding in an ambush, usually because I'm in AV gear or want to change to AV gear.... getting an unwanted revive is annoying.

But what the OP is talking about, are the WP farming pseudo-logi's. Players that are not interested in your survival or ability to rejoin the fight, rather they only see a WP node with your name on it. They will continue to revive you as long as they can, sometimes even to the exclusion of maintaining their own clone.

Its a silly and short sighted method.

you do lose, you lose the ability to change suit.

I've made suicide runs to take people out with me, instead of just suiciding in an ambush, usually because I'm in AV gear or want to change to AV gear.... getting an unwanted revive is annoying.

But what the OP is talking about, are the WP farming pseudo-logi's. Players that are not interested in your survival or ability to rejoin the fight, rather they only see a WP node with your name on it. They will continue to revive you as long as they can, sometimes even to the exclusion of maintaining their own clone.

Its a silly and short sighted method.

There are no downsides to this. Make this happen CCP.

Sorry, but no. I don't agree with any mechanic that can be exploited to screw over legitimate support players. So many of you are citing preference to change suits, KDR, and other selfish factors for passing up a revive and that's really not what this mechanic is about. Revives save suits, promote support play, and give the game diversity. This idea that your dying clone should be able to make a conscious decision not to be picked is absurd and would devalue the logi class, the role of the nanite injector, and result in fast-acting support players getting themselves killed on your behalf.

Sorry, but no. I don't agree with any mechanic that can be exploited to screw over legitimate support players. So many of you are citing preference to change suits, KDR, and other selfish factors for passing up a revive and that's really not what this mechanic is about. Revives save suits, promote support play, and give the game diversity. This idea that your dying clone should be able to make a conscious decision not to be picked is absurd and would devalue the logi class, the role of the nanite injector, and result in fast-acting support players getting themselves killed on your behalf.

What about you only get WP for reviving people who actually called for help?
That would take care of the WP farming, but leave the rest of the mechanics untouched...

No one would put their own life at risk for 0WP, unless the goal is winning the game (as it should be).

ur fault for getting killed in the first place..