Nah, better to just only allow a minimum active at one time and/or they can't be placed too close together.

Just thinking out loud:

Right now uplinks are pretty much magic teleports with no risk other than spawning near an enemy. It's essentially zero time travel that eliminates the risk of traversing the intervening area. Walking and taking a vehicle takes time and involves the risk of getting killed on the way.

As long as that's the case uplinks will trump vehicular travel because they are better in every way.

But what if teleporting carried a risk? What if there was a chance that you would die in the attempt? Yes it would suck to lose a suit, but it wouldn't have to be a high risk before it encouraged folks to walk, take the bus, or use a CRU.

People would still use uplinks for critical needs, but they wouldn't be used to simply deploy to the narrow front that they create.


Would adding an element of risk change how you use uplinks?

Really?
Can you imagine how **** it would be to spawn and then have the system go 'LOLNOPE YOU DIED'?

Not to seem like a troll, but doesn't that already happen? Especially when the enemy is camping your uplink, there is virtually ZERO way to see an enemy on the map anymore unless they are scanned out! So, you can just sit there and camp-instant kill the target when he spawns.

Basic uplink 25 percent chance of spawning alive.

Advanced 50 percent.

Proto 80 percent.

Throw in some uplinks that have a 100 percent chance but limit spawns to 4-6 per unit or a unit that has a even worst chance to spawn but the number is higher and you got a winner.

It even says the tech is dangerous in the description and the clone that uses it will die shortly after.

Drop links are fine since you need to put them down, the issue is Scouts are not running around and destroying them, I say scouts since A: Their the fastest and B: most likely to not be detected

I get no WP for destroying them, and also my mimitar assault fit I just got runs nearly as fast as my scout (been playing with a few scouts, not just keeping up with them but the scouts who didn't spec into kinkats I'm literally getting around faster!)


so in short, HIGH RISK, NO REWARD! (also, you'd have to sacrifice most of you're speed as a scout to be undetected by ADV scanners)

No, rather, it would spawn you in a random location around the uplink. A variant would get you closer, and the higher the tier, the better it is for getting close to the uplink.

this is the best idea ive seen so far, relating to how to give "downside" to uplinks.

I would actually see this as a plus side rather than a downside because then it makes it difficult for a spawn camper to accurately determine where exactly you'll spawn thus giving you a chance to line up your shot and then BOOOM HEADSHOT.

Just thinking out loud:

Right now uplinks are pretty much magic teleports with no risk other than spawning near an enemy. It's essentially zero time travel that eliminates the risk of traversing the intervening area. Walking and taking a vehicle takes time and involves the risk of getting killed on the way.

As long as that's the case uplinks will trump vehicular travel because they are better in every way.

But what if teleporting carried a risk? What if there was a chance that you would die in the attempt? Yes it would suck to lose a suit, but it wouldn't have to be a high risk before it encouraged folks to walk, take the bus, or use a CRU.

People would still use uplinks for critical needs, but they wouldn't be used to simply deploy to the narrow front that they create.


Would adding an element of risk change how you use uplinks?

And the award for worst idea of the week goes to...

If you don't like the death aspect(since that seems to be a major deal) how about a chance for the spawn to just not work, and the timer resets?

Look, I don't know about everyone else but I'm okay if some pudknocker gets the drop on me. I'm not okay with some random game mechanic f'ing me up just for giggles.

I should die when I screw up or someone else does something good -- a game isn't about just rolling dice. You might as well go run around in Kansas and play "which tornado will hit here" and see how long you last.

See, I'd agree with you pre 1.4 but the problem is they ate much harder to find and carry less risk.

You almost never get popped coming out of a well paced uplink.

Generally, in good game design, you want the players to always feel like bad things were "fair" to happen.
By this I mean that either the bad thing was caused by another player action, or that there exists a strategy
or method to avoid dying. For example, in other MMOs there exists boss fights with 1 hit kill abilities, however
these only happen due to some mistake (like hitting an enrage timer) or due to not dodging something that could be
avoided (Like a slow moving death beam)

What is "unfair" is things the players never have any control over, most of which generally fall under "RNG" (Random Number Generation) Very few players, if any, feel justified if they lose because of a random roll, and this is the reason why very few, if any shooters have "critical hit" chances.

In much the same way having a random chance to literally insta-kill a player is pretty much the height of unfair RNG chances, so nobody would ever find this a "fair" or "fun" method of gameplay. It would just be complained about and reviled.