it sort of shows people sitting around uplinks sometimes. i think it should have a proximity scan on the spawn screen.
like 15-20m around the uplink

I don't know why, but I've seen more Uplink/CRU camping in the last two weeks than I have in the past half year.

Some sort of mechanic against this would be great. an "Enemy Detected" warning would help, but it wouldn't fix the problem at it's core.

Perhaps if players are dying with 2-3m of the Uplink it would lock itself for 3-5 seconds, or until an allied player stays alive within it's range for more than 3 seconds.

Just throwing ideas out there no matter how many holes they have.

CRU and Drop Uplinks should have a huge scan range, with extremely high precision to prevent enemy scouts from waiting nearby with their CreoDron Shotgun...
CCP should totally change the CRU, turning it into something different which doesn't allow spawnkill... think them as they were placed underground and you can exit from different tunnels... yeah, something like that.

Get a mic.

Nope, forget it. If I have to pay 50Gé¼ to properly play the game, I'll just go back to playing on PC. I already got multiple mics there.

Also, I enjoy playing solo. I prefer to not trust random blueberries. My hardcore time ended six years ago - I don't intend to socialize in games anymore. I play one or two matches every one or two days to relax, not to spend half an hour setting up my microphone and then realizing that everyone else in my squad is thirteen years old.

Is it the only game you'd use it for? Yes, that's possible.

Yeah, the game cost so much already! {/sarc}
I don't know about the exchange, but my mic cost $15.

Yeah, the game cost so much already! {/sarc}
I don't know about the exchange, but my mic cost $15.
Is it the only game you'd use it for? Yes, that's possible. Or you can look at it from another perspective--it makes the game (which again, cost you $0) what it can be. So to play the game properly it takes....about 1/3 to 1/4 the cost of the average new game. Total, since again the game cost you nothing.


So don't trust random blueberries. (Your trust issues aside, you're missing the opportunity to meet some good folks and effective teammates who simply don't have full squads.) Get in a corp--then they won't be random! They'll be greenberries, woot!

The rest of your argument is illogical to a fault.
What kind of mic takes you any more time to set up than getting it off charger, turning it on, and putting it on your head?
There have been some really good teammates I've read about people encountering that are under 15. Don't assume.

In the end, no one is going to force you to play this game nor any other game. And no one is going to force you to play it in any particular way. However, the developers are totally free to have an idea of how the game works and forcing you to play it that way if you want to be effective. And I, for my little singular player voice, will always cheer 'required' teamwork and socialization in an MMO; it is that quality which separates it from any other single-player game.

Anyway, do you want the game to get more players or are you happy with a steadily shrinking community?

This is where I'm different from 99% of people out there, and I accept that. I don't give 1 rat's behind about $$. CCP has a vision. They should be doing quality work while striving to that goal. If that goal is unpopular, even to the point of becoming a non-viable business, I would not suggest nor support the compromising of the goal. If it can't get market support, then their dream is simply not viable and it "fails" (from a business perspective.) But they shouldn't compromise their dream. And I take the same approach when it means that I'll have to quit playing a game because the designer's goals and my fun don't line up.

Requiring a mic raises the barrier to entry in ridiculous ways.

Again, I do not play the game to socialize. I socialize if I want to socialize, because that's far more productive.

Anyway, this isn't even the topic. The topic is about spawn killing. Even with a mic you likely won't have the information required to avoid a spawn camped uplink.