Alright guys, I'll ask some questions and get some answers on drop uplinks. Hang tight.

Now I'm confused again, what is wrong with your uplinks? I have tested/retested and all of mine work just like before.

All uplinks I use mlt through r-9, work team wide as they should. In squad, not in a squad, didn't matter at all. I still get plenty of points from them. If the spawn point is still valid, they still work as described.

I am getting the bug where it shows an uplink in the spawn screen that can't be selected. That is because the link is destroyed and it just has not updated yet.

Are your links disapeering when you squad hop or something?

If thy are gonna do that they are gonna do it with 500 views and 80 replies and in front of everybody wich woud be just fine by me, would prove my point that there is somthing sneaky going on.


Are uplinks for team or squad? i shouldnt need a Computer developer to answer that ... a customer service agent should be able to answer that question...thanks for the heads up thugh it is appreaciated....if they bump this thread watch how many Logi's hammer back with the same question..

The communitty knows somethngs up and they have to own it..bump me or not

+ gotta say that if i spent the whole day just trying to get a simpLe answer from CCP and get nothing ...WHATS THE POINT OF HAVING A FORUM ANYWAY? SO ILL GO IN PEACE;)

* Droplinks can be used by the whole team. No exceptions.
* Not atm.
* No, we've not made any changes to them in quite a while.
* I don't think they would be related.
* You should do because it isn't tied to the squad just to your team spawning there.
* Because right now it can only do team spawn.

We've been considering adding squad only versions or making droplinks exclusive to squads for a while now. Would like to hear your thoughts on that.

To be quite honest, i have no idea where the assumption it was squad based even came from.

Not like the dozen uplinks that appear on the map each game have anything to do with someone outside your squad.

No this basically boils down to zerg rush tactics..Died in combat near the objective? No problem, choose one of the 35 uplinks scattered around the map and throw yourself at the objective again!

There is no other game I can think of that allows deployment of infinite spawn points, and it's an obnoxious chore to run around shooting 350,000 uplinks during one PC match.

There needs to be a limit on uplinks so you actually need to use tactics and logic to place them, and not "LOL BLANKET THE ENTIRE MAP IN DROP UPLINKS"

Personally, as the usual link specialist for my squad, I think a personal limit of 3 is crazy talk. It is way too low and would kill an entire style of play - yes, mine, but beyond my selfish motivation it would more or less nerf the entire logi class pretty hard, we've taken a lot of hits recently as it is. Squad limits make some sense, and I used to be a fan of the team limit solution but your point about it being too random is well taken. The more I think about it, the more I actually like the personal cap better.

My proposals:

1) A cap on total links per squad or team is less desirable, but it should be liberal. I've seen people make suggestions like single-digit team limits, which just like a per-person limit of 3 is way too low. At minimum it should be 16, one per team member overall. Obviously a squad limit would be lower if you went that way, but then what do you do with non-squadded players?

2) A personal cap is probably a more controllable solution, but like everything else it should be skill-based, not just a blanket limit. You could do it one of two ways:

- Make it it's own skill, like the weapon proficiency skills, but you should unlock it at level 3, not 5 like weapons. If you did it that way then you should reduce the SP cost of the links themselves to offset the new requirement. Lets set it at everyone can drop 1 uplink to start. You get to ADV links and that opens up the proficiency skill. You go up to 2 links at level 1, and one more link for each level, with a bonus at ADV and PRO levels. So, uplink proficiency level 2 gets you 3 links, level 3 gets an additional 1+1 for 5 total, and so on until you get to level 5, you can drop 8 links at a time. Even as an admitted drop uplink WP *****(another word for prostitute), I see no legit reason to need to drop more than that at once.

- Base it on the existing skill, using more or less the same numbers. This is a simpler solution but would probably not reduce the spam all that much.


You could obviously also use both type of caps (personal and team/squad) but if you did both the exact numbers I'm using would probably need to be tweaked, primarily in that the team cap should definitely be higher than 16 if you also imposed personal caps. Also, while on the subject, can anyone confirm that there is in fact NO upper limit on the number of links that can be deployed at once?

I would say different people play different rolls and capping an individual s uplinks would be like saying only 4 AR's per match, or only 4 tanks a round ( I have been spammed by everything in this game...tanks...dopships,grenades... should we limit these items too because sometimes there is too many?....never gonna happen...

Allowing objective or mobile spawning AT ALL changes the game.

Don't bother quibbling about the specific numbers, they will be used in the quantity required to achieve the effect of creating an unbreakable supply chain for the defenders. Improve the two R's of repping and resurrection and you will require fewer, make them easier to find and you need a few more. The number will self adjust to get the desired effect.

You would have to totally eliminate drop uplinks if you want to be able to chip away at a defender's position. As long as you can tuck an uplink in a place inaccessible from the front door the defender will be able to spawn back into the fight.

If the uplinks are accessible you can always toss a flux to clear a huge swath of land. It matters not if there is one or five in the radius of the flux, all are gone.