OP, are you talking about that stupid spawn grenade thing? That's a terrible idea. Let me fix this sh!t for you with some things I've suggested repeatedly for like a year now:

1) Can't drop equipment within 5m of each other or 10m of an installation. No more lag rooms, farming useless nanohive WP around supply depots, or camping 3 stacked repair hives. You're welcome.

2) Reduce the number of uplink variants. It's a bit much, particularly at proto. While I'm at it, why are there TWO DIFFERENT Imperial Viziam uplinks? Sooo annoying.

3) Drop uplink proficiency skill (separate from the current skill, make equipment spam an SP sink.) Personally I think the one proposed above is a little restrictive unless you give an additional bonus of some kind to the Amarr logi b/c it becomes a useless suit if you limit the number of uplinks too much. I propose one uplink per level, with one or two at level 0, so you get a total of 6 or 7 IF you invest a couple million SP into it.

Alternately you could go with the 3 total for everyone else like Medomai/kerosiini suggest, but the Amarr logi gets an additional link at odd-numbered levels, to get the same total. That might be even more effective in the reduce spam/reward specialization framework.

I am in no way surprised that my ideas are not easily done as a hotfix. So, I will once again shake my fist in the air impotently and shout "I told you to do this a year ago, now it's too late you bastards!"

Feels a little better. Now then, I will put forth a new proposal, which I would assume is hot-fixable. It's just not as good IMO:

Nerf the bejeezus out of uplinks so that they are all but useless on a lot of suits. I'm talking like back into the Stone Age, with 20-30 second spawns and 5 spawns max. Then give bonuses to all logi suits that bring them back to roughly current levels of utility. Maybe some lesser bonuses to some but not all of the scout suits, maybe Amarr and Minmatar or something.


Two other thngs:
1) if we can't do it right, please don't make any major changes to equipment that will make logis extinct. Half-assed "fixes" that made the overall experience worse is what got us here in the first place.

2) Honestly, I hate the spawn grenade idea as it has been outlined so far. It sounds incredibly tedious and annoying. How am I going to know if someone outside my squad needs a spawn? How am I going to help them spawn somewhere that's not 5-10 m from me if I'm pinned down? Tactical placement is out the window unless I want to try to make some bizarre little mini-uplink gardens in key areas. Bleh.