It doesn't seem viable. Where would you use it? CRU? Hack it or blow it. Otherwise with spawn pads there are no ways of covering the whole map and the effect range would have to be huge to be usable and that would border on broken.

Just my .02 ISK

I would prefer that CCP would allow the player to join FRESH battles (like I've been asking ). That way, we won't need all this......

But I do have one question........would this item transport you to another beginning battle in the same area or a different place entirely? Would the team that won be able to step in and help the losing team?

Could be interesting.

I think you need to clarify your OP. The description sounded like the device would prevent players from joining the match(which would suck), but then in the details it starts to sound like a uplink/objective/cru spawn jammer(which would be awesome).

Love the idea, but I think preventing all spawns is a little OP. I'd rather see the device lengthen the timer on spawns.

Ideas similar to this have been proposed in the past and it's a solid idea. I think OP's goal is better achieved with more competent matchmaking but the idea is great for E-War.

I've always pictured a jammer that lengthens spawn timer on uplinks, CRU etc not just killing ability to spawn. Maybe like 2x,3x,5x as long for STD,ADV, PRO. I think the ranges proposed are too large but I like being able to combat uplink spam without destroying their usefulness entirely.

But a variant with a very tight range that locks an area down would be cool. Used more to lock down OBJs and CRUs rather than uplinks (because you probably close enough it's just easier to destroy them). This requires an active defense rather than merely the "spawn defense." Imagine overwhelming an OBJ and hacking without worrying about that lucky spawner who ends up right behind you.

If you have it blocking all uplinks except covert op uplinks. Create a special operations uplink that only special operation scouts can use, the uplink would only spawn 6 mercs but would work anywhere.

Make a special operations scout suit with a bonus that allows spec op uplinks. If we can ever get things worked out we can get down to actual suit specializations that perform one role well.

It only prevents spawns within the AOE, so with a scanner sized range it does not prevent all spawns, only all deployments from MQ, preventing Scotty from placing you in a battle already underway. When the device is killed, the effect is terminated. How many times have you spawned into a match to find your team down to 10 clones and the other team at 100+ clones. Basically the unwinable short match that won't even pay for you to spawn in anything other than a BPO suit? This situation has happened to me hundreds, possibly thousands of time over a two year period. Nothing has changed with the matchmaker that has lessened the number of late joins. This may help and it may not, if the enemy destroys your jammer then fresh spawns from MQ will come.

I don't mean to discourage someone who has obviously put a lot of thought into their suggestion, but...Scotty doesn't deploy you on the map, he locates battles you would fit in...that's it. So in order to jam all links on the map, a team would have to block the spawns in their own red-line, including their MCC. Why would a team not want reinforcements? The only practical application would seem to be defensive, not match-making related. I like the idea of a portable jammer, but this could get just as out of hand as droplink spamming unless really restricted, either with extremely high pg and cpu or limit of 1 carried and active, perhaps a combination of both. If a fix to poor match-making is what you seek, this would not fix the issue. It's a great idea nonetheless +1 for the effort.

bump for a dev response.