..... why not just make it to where each individual player can only have one uplink active at a time?

lets say all they have is a std uplink in their equipment slot.
they place one down.

then place another one down.
the previous one disappears.

expanding this effect across all uplinks on a fitting would be more effective..

1) The problem I have with the GÇ£reduce spawn time for stacked uplinksGÇ¥ solution is that people like the one described above donGÇÖt give a sh!t. They are not doing that for strategic reasons, they are farming WP. They will just keep on spamming uplinks all over the place, dropping their militia hives right on top of my ADV/PRO ones all day (or they may do it to awox, too). A stacking penalty wonGÇÖt even cross their minds.

2) Similarly the draconian hard caps that have been proposed will end up hurting strategically-minded players like Skihids (or myself) and our teams. I spend at least 30% of each battle running around like a madman trying to place uplinks where they either are or will soon be needed so that my squadmates can concentrate on killing. (Plus another 1 or 2 as fallback position(s) if we get overrun and need a rally point, but I digress). If I can only place 2 uplinks total, then suddenly everyone is going to have to carry them, and most of them have not invested the SP to get good ones nor will or should they invest the time and effort to put them in the best locations. ThatGÇÖs what a logistics player is for! (Or a good scout, IGÇÖd love to run some scout fits but damn they are made of paper and balsa wood.)

1) Making a radius for uplinks makes sense. You canGÇÖt drop them within, I dunno, letGÇÖs randomly pick 10-20m of eachother for the sake of argument. The way to implement this would either be:
- One of them pops (IGÇÖd vote that the lower tier link does)
- The new one sits there dead and maybe activates if the original one is destroyed or otherwise disappears.

2) If you instituted caps, it would have to be done in a way that does not penalize people who actually play logistics GÇ£properlyGÇ¥ (bad term, I know), meaning those who actually think about where they drop this stuff. This way, only those people who take the time and SP to really specialize would have the ability to drop a lot of links. The result would be probably a small decrease in the total number of uplinks dropped but a significant increase in the intelligence of their placement. I've proposed this before: A way to implement this would be making the equivalent of a weapon proficiency skill, but for equipment, so you could have, say, 1 link active total at level 0 proficiency, 2 at level one, and maybe 6 or so at level 5.

No limits on equipment. EVER!

Sandbox creativity ftw! Deal with it.

since there r really only a few individual players that drop 50 uplinks in a single match.

y not just limit the players abillty to drop them lets say cut them down to where only a single person with uplinks can only deploy 1 uplink.

this means that they couldnt run several different uplinks on a logi suit and drop them all in the same area.

if they tried they would all get insta destroyed.

some what like std uplinks where if u deploy one in one area and deploy another the previous deployed one will disappear.

so if a team wants spam uplinks the entire team would need to be carry an uplink.

which would make them difficult to spam as it would be a pain just to try. and thus hurt those uplink spammers and actually give the other team a chance at taking the objective.

right now the only way to deal with uplink spam would be a well placed orbital.


this would mean the player couldnt just run up to an objective drop 50 uplinks all around the place and hold it forever.

it would mean they would have to actually be careful about the placement of their uplinks.