No and no. Your fourth point is especially troubling because it's as if you aren't aware of the fact that the marketplace carries these variants for us to buy and use. Some of these variants are diverse (only ammo, only triage, a combo thereof) and some are statistically indistinguishable from one another (ie. multiple proto uplinks with exactly the same stats--spawn speed, number of spawns, etc.) and are only different in name. Why, then, would I purchase these variants, if I were capped on how many I could use overall? The max carry and deploy stat has clearly always been associated with each individual piece of equipment, not the equipment class. Your position is based on your own bias against aggressive logistics play and does not represent the reality associated how the equipment was designed and the many variants within a type that were designed. The current system encourages me to purchase and consume a variety of items because I benefit by doing so. You would have it so my demand for all these items would decrease as I'd now be choosing several variants only based on which brand name I prefer. It would no longer benefit me to purchase and consume a wide variety of equipment variants because you would limit my ability to utilize those variants at the same time. Lame.

Please stop trying to be the playstyle police.

Thanks Greyscale, for explaining the rationale and math behind the warpoint limiter.

The only thing I don't like is that the ceiling is scaled per minute from the very beginning of the match. In ambushes specifically, sometimes you spawn in within 50 meters of the reds, so you might end up scoring kills that are subsequently penalized within less than a minute of the start of the battle.

Maybe you should build incrementally from another fixed WP value other than zero - say 500 WP limit right at the beginning, then 400 WP per minute after that?

I am fine as long as this does not effect normal gameplay but when you say it clear that it is happening, are you giving the player any feedback when it is happening? This goes back to the reduced WP gain on rep tools. It looks like a bug because no feedback is given, just reduced number. How about some red letters or something beside the WP to let them know that WP is reduced that way we know that is not a bug or can clearly see this is happening.

Also, as others have said, this is the wrong way to implement something, you just did it and then asked for feedback, this is backwards and now we wait 1-2 weeks for a fix. These kinds of code pushes are what cause your player base to get mad and leave.

Flashbacks of dealing with Crimewatch, Greyscale?

Technically, this is functionally working as intended. However, this (and supply depot interaction in general) is something we would like to change (the exact details of what we will change it to are still being decided on).

This mechanic is not a bug or exploit. You guys are just a bunch of boring assault players who lack the creativity to think outside the box. You call it spam and WP farming, but all of my uplinks and hives are a massive advantage for my team and therefore my playstyle is as viable and legitimate as any other. Additionally, I get my fair share of kills, revives, and triage points from my rep tool. I'm not sitting at the edge of the map doing nothing and helping no one. Hell, I would rather have my WP throttled before having my playstyle banned. That's how much I enjoy it.

For the record, I feel like I should say that the CPM was told of this quite some time before deployment. We strongly cautioned them that it should never affect legit players, and there were a couple of us (Not all agreed) that this is not a good way to go about it. Not only did we get what felt like a patronizing pat on the head saying "Trust us, it will only affect the bad guys" but we tried to offer possible alternatives which were shrugged off.

While yes, this was the most efficient -stopgap- solution until a more robust one can be implemented, it is not ideal.

The ideal solution(s) once time allow are as follows :

(1) Absolute limit on points for a single action. IE: If you have five guys in a squad scanning and one guy kills a scanned victim, only one scan assist is given to the squad leader and the scan points are divided among those who earned them, with a bonus to the base value to the total points to keep them from earning +1's. There is no endless stream of +X's with this method, as multiple people trying to 'get in on the action' becomes moot and more time actually playing is the incentive. To this end, having multiple logi repping the same dude in order to farm guardian points would be moot, but multiple logi repping multiple different dudes would still get them all points. It encourages people to spread the love and work more as a team, rather than just everyone rallying around the 1-2 guys they know will crush everything.

(2) Re-assessment of squad bonus mechanics. (Will go into this later)

(3) When it comes to revives, the entire system needs to be revamped. I'll write a bigger post on how this should work, but essentially there should be persistent "overkill" HP. For example, A person is "Incapacitated" after being brought to 0 armor. if someone has 100 overkill HP, you would have to do more than 100 damage past their armor to "Kill" them, and they would not be able to be revived. If killed and dealt 48 of that overkill HP, they could be revived and survive another 52 overkill damage before being fully "dead". Players' not "dead" and incapacitated should be clearly visible as such and easily finished off. Revives should only be happening if a teammate saves someone just after they go down by killing their killer or forcing them to flee. No one should be getting "Kill" or "Death" stats unless the victim is down for good.

(4) Uplinks and Nanohives : Point accrual from these is mostly fine. The problem is people bypassing the "Max active" limit by using the same type of equipment but a different variant. This is unintended, and the only fix needed to stop "spam" is to fix this loophole.