KEROSIINI-TERO
The Rainbow Effect
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Posted - 2014.09.07 11:30:00 -
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Whoaaa new cpm bros, please don't go work in total secrecy.
Consider the community.
I repeat my suggestion from earlier times:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1504433#post1504433
Even though I'm an advocate for uplink use in warfare, I too am in favor of uplink limitations.
Having each variation to have it's own maximum causes:
- Huge uplink spam as it's too easy for each player to set up some 5-7 links at ease
- Forces to have too many saved fittings as each link combo needs it's own
So need to limit uplinks exists. Critical change would be to have limitation which doesn't care about uplink variation. But just what to limit?
Team limitation is impractical and too confusing when implemented.
Squad limitation is easily circumvented.
Personal limitation remains, and is also okay to allow some specialization.
There needs to be an incentive to skill up to proto links like post-uprising (pre-uprising it did NOT really make sense!).
Medomai Grey's suggestion, which has been mentioned elsewhere as well, is a decent start:
Uplink skill level setting the active link maximum:
L1 - 1
L3 - 2
L5 - 3
But it is not quite enough, otherwise it would still be too easy to use several low level links.
So a small tuning is needed:
Skill Level:
L1 - max 1 link of STD level or higher
L3 - the above PLUS 1 link of ADV level or higher
L5 - the above PLUS 1 link of PRO level or higher
The maximum active per player would be three.
There would be a strong incentive to level up the uplink skill instead of spamming low level links variations.
In general the uplinks themselves could have slightly tuned down max active number, with maybe gauged versions having max two active but with severe limitations (care must be taken to get rid of gauded links superiority!).
If maximum of three links seems too small, there could be one level added to top:
L0 - Max 1 militia link
(So the level 5 maximum would be four links in this case)
Note: There are some other low level links in existence: for example, Amarr Drop Uplink BPO
Note2: The different equipment variation having their own limit really really has to go away!
People would enjoy Dust a lot more if they accepted the fact that EVERYTHING is subject to change
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