CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.11.20 14:50:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:I personally think it sucks to go out of your way to place an uplink, and virtually anybody sees it by passing by, even if you hid it in a corner on the second floor.
Hello, and I am in disagreement about the physical "visibility" of a piece of equipment. Especially an uplink. 
It is a powerful controller of access and movement around the map. So destroying it should be essential to an opponent, and also be an electronic challenge to the opponent---but not naturally camouflaged or "cloaked", or minimized visibly from what they are now.
If the idea is to SKILL into using these powerful pieces, then there needs to be a challenge to placing them on the map. Being able to "shlop" it down and expect it to "not be detected" (just because I ran seven feet behind a big boulder) is not the best thinking. Part of the frustration expressed by players here is spamming, but part of the frustration is also that many of the uplink-carriers are sloppy or not as skillful as they think they are PLACING the uplink.
I wouldn't want to see the uplink made smaller or less visible in order to help poor placement. The result may accidentally encourage MORE "shlopping it down" without practice or enough skill----while at the opponent's end of things, we who have a hard enough time finding enemy uplink that ARE well-placed, will be distracted and fed up spending overtime to visually locate a "newer, even less see-able version".
I am all for reducing an epuipment piece's ELECTRONIC detection by an enemy (especially as a means of progressing to higher tier models), but I fear any thoughts of reducing the oppotunity to find it with the Mark-1 EYEBALL.
Really, Rattati, as long as the uplink is placed with enough "extra practice", it isn't detected by almost anybody (just those of us who deduce there must be an uplink planted here somewhere and scours around for it).
It's that "extra practice" that I'd like to see remain as a requirement for using uplinks.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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