Currently equipment has limits on how many of each kind can be deployed but these limits are easily circumvented by deploying different types of uplinks or nanohives.

So surely the simplest solution is to make those limits apply to all types for each player.

At the moment if you're using a nanohive that you can have 2 of active at once, if you put down a third nanohive of that type, the first placed one expires. The same should apply to nanohives with different limits; i.e. if you place a new nanohive, which you can have 3 of active, all three stay deployed but if you place 2 of these new nanohives, the first of the originally deployed ones expires - you can only have 3 nanohives active in total. However, if you then go to deploy a nanohive that can only have one active at a time, all other previous nanohives expire.

Simply put, you can only have active in total up to the limit of the last deployed piece of equipment, regardless of meta level or type or if you've changed suit. How is this complicated? Fix it like this now please.

Sure you could fix it but how would that change help gameplay?

They will just leave it as is, regardless of how you complain.