1. Give it a 10 second cooldown time for each spawn, you will be placed in queue if others are trying to spawn on it and an indicator will display how many.
2. Each Uplink has a max of 1 placement (PRO giving 3 is silly).
3. Reduce Max Spawns per Uplink.
4. Max bonus for spawn timer reduction will be 35% and max for cooldown is 25%, current bonuses result in non-stop waves of enemies.

All the above changes should be mandatory, Team Fortress 2 got teleporting right so why can't Dust get good?

I might edit later, slightly rushed.

NO. This would only encourage even MORE uplink spam, because if you cannot spawn at one uplink due to a queue, then you will spawn at another. Uplink spamming is currently thought to be a culprit in lag. Doing this will kill the game.

While I agree they need changing, I do not think your suggested ideas will help the uplink problem.

The thing is uplinks are misused because the mechanics allow, its a form of tac insertion in COD
Its a way to get almost guaranteed revenge, easily campable and has far too many spawns.

The thing is, uplinks are more of a insertion device, not a spawn point.
Its allowing a squad to get behind the enemy line, where your dropships can't go.

However the game is still too small for that kind of meta, so its unlikely it will happen.

You didn't really understand the changes I mentioned did you?

Personally I'd be up for removing them entirely, but this sounds nice. They need to fix the current spam issues though, or else your #2 won't hold any water. They currently just spawn in, drop different kinds of links, swap suits, repeat with new links. It's cut down on the shear number of links, but not the spam itself.

Yes, I did, I did not provide feedback on your solution.
SOME of your changes are too much.

Mainly the one where you add a 10sec que.
Other, prehaps the spawn reduction timer restrictions.

However you could make all droplinks include a landing animation, as if it was a painful transition, like they claim.

Mercs are "supposedly" genetically modified to handle some inhuman conditions.

Also, the que is needed because being able to spawn at the same time as 5 five other people means objectives won't change sides.

How about this
-only one drop uplink placed per person
-when you spawn on one you tate damage since its supposed to be painful. So sapwn with 25% hp for std, 50% for adv, and 75% for proto
-only one uplink every 25x25 Meter area

How about this
-only one drop uplink placed per person
-when you spawn on one you tate damage since its supposed to be painful. So sapwn with 25% hp for std, 50% for adv, and 75% for proto
-only one uplink every 25x25 Meter area

1. Give it a 10 second cooldown time for each spawn, you will be placed in queue if others are trying to spawn on it and an indicator will display how many.
2. Each Uplink has a max of 1 placement (PRO giving 3 is silly).
3. Drastically reduce Max Spawns per Uplink (STD has 5 spawns, ADV has 7, PRO has 10).
4. Max bonus for spawn timer reduction will be 35% and max for cooldown is 25%, current bonuses result in non-stop waves of enemies.
5. Add restriction for equipment slot: "Can only equip 1 Uplink". This is to prevent spam from a single suit which would've allowed a team to always be close to objectives. In PC I've met multiple players using tanked Logi dropsuits with the sole purpose of spamming uplinks, death being irrelevant.

All the above changes should be mandatory (#3 may be tweaked as needed), Team Fortress 2 got teleporting right so why can't Dust get good?

Edit: Updated #3, added #5

Yes but in the lore about the article being "dropped" instantly gives the clone both an advanced and aggressive form of cancer, so much so the clone body has about 2days of life left.

While I see your point, whenever you take an objective the first thing you do is take care of the uplinks and cru's, so its not really a problem.

Instead you end up nerfing the uplinks infiltration abilities dramatically. Not only do you have to find somewhere safe enough for the uplink, the scout has defend it while the squad "drops" in.

You have the right mindset, but these changes are going about it the wrong way.

1. Your "queue" idea makes it impossible for players to overwhelm an opponent by all spawning in at once. It will also make uplink camping easier.

2. Having only one placement of uplinks is a good idea, but I'd rather have a max of 3 no matter what uplinks you use. For instance if you lay down 2 ADV and switch to get proto uplinks, the first proto one you thow down would work, but the second one would destroy the first ADV uplink you placed.

However, for the current mechanics, having only one per type of uplink is ONLY a good idea if uplinks were then harder to find based on tier (i.e. proto has lower profile than basic). I'll get to this more at the end of the post.

3. Reducing spawns is another nerf that doesn't need to happen. Uplinks should have the one vulnerability of being able to be found and destroyed...so if we were to reduce spawns, the uplinks should then be harder to destroy.

4. Do you remember the closed beta? The different uplink times barely had any effect on spawns, where prototype ones only reduced spawn time to 6-7 seconds from 10. In ambush, the 3 second spawn wasn't even affected. The large decrease in spawn times is a good thing because it encourages players to use better uplinks.
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Now, as for the biggest problem for uplinks...they are too easy to find and destroy, which means that players spam them to make sure all of them won't be destroyed (turtles and fish do the same thing when they lay eggs, it's only natural lol). Tacnet shows uplinks way too easily, and scanners can pick up on any type of uplink. If we are to fix uplinks in terms of availability (number of uplinks down at one time), we need to give them (and possibly nanohives/REs too) different profiles.

For instance, if you use ADV uplinks, a player would need to use an ADV scanner or precision modules in order to detect them. Proto uplinks will need to be detected using proto scanners, etc.

With these changes to prevent uplink spam, and the addition of equipment profiles, players will be rewarded with the PLACEMENT of uplinks instead of the spamming of them.
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Lastly, you posted about how what's left of the community is terrible...

Um, last I checked this is General Discussions. You are requesting a change in something and seem to want feedback on the subject...I'm assuming you now know where you should have posted this.

Also, with how fast the topics in GD come and go now, sometimes if you post at the wrong time they just get cycled to the second page and no one ever reads or bumps them.

When I first used an uplink I made sure that it was placed in a hidden spot and that it could be defended. The spawn time won't matter if I carefully placed it and it's still shorter than CRU/Objective spawn. If I'm unable to defend it when needed then it's then it's my fault for being careless with it.

So you didn't read change #2?

Simple add that health reduction when spawning in( the supposed drawback to uplinks) and a placement range. See no need for your CCP nerf bat Aladdin.